英语演讲毕加索的介绍

Preview statement
Title-Rare talent in art—Picasso
General purpose To inform my audience about Pablo Ruiz Picasso.
Specific purpose To introducehis some influence works in paintings.
Central idea Picasso is one of the main representatives of modern art in twentieth Century.
Main points
1. A revolutionary achievement-Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
2.Significant painting- Guernica
3.Most expensive paintings- Garçon à la pipe
Introduction
1-Tell story
Picasso’s paintings are recognized by people. In his lifetime, his paintings always make collectors to buy in very high price. One day, some friends came to Picasso’s house to visit him.
And they found that in the walls there are all the paintings of other painters, no one is Picasso’s painting. “Why?”Someone asked,” Don’t you like your picture?” “No, just the opposite,” the artist said,” I reallylike, but they are too expensive, I can’t afford.
2question audience, use quotation, or Relate topic to audience -- hook the audience
Which picture do you think is the most famous work of Picasso? And how much do you know about it?
2-Reinforce central idea & establish main points(preview the body)
Picasso is the most creative and influential artist in Contemporary Western. And his works have made a great contribution to the development of modern art.
Preparation outline
Ⅰ. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
A-It is created in 1907, is the first painting of cubist tendencies. Now hidden in the New York Museum of Modern Art.
B-By pai nting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Picasso provoked Cubism. It was the spontaneous and, as always, primitive insurrection out of which, for good historical reasons, the revolution of Cubism developed.
Ⅱ. Guernica
A-This painting shows the bombing of Guernica by the German during the Spanish Civil War.
B-Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly innocent civilians. This work has gained a monumental status, becoming a perpetual reminder of the tragedies of war, an anti-war symbol, and an embodiment of peace. Guernica has become a universal and powerful symbol warning humanity against the suffering and devastation of war.
C-Little story- During World War II, German generals and soldiers frequently go to visit Picasso Museum of Art in Paris. Once, at the exit of the Museum of Art, Picasso sent to every German soldier one of his famous painting "Guernica". A German Gestapo leader asked, pointing to the painting of Picasso: "Is this your masterpiece?” "No," Picasso s aid, with grim look, "This is your masterpiece!"
Ⅲ. Garçon à la pipe
A-It was painted in 1905. The oil on canvas painting depicts a Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a garland or wreath of flowers.
B-"Boy with a Pipe," hailed by critics: a Leonardo da Vinci "Mona Lisa" like a mystery, Van Gogh, "Dr Gachet" like melancholy aesthetic work.
The painting was sold for US$104,168,000 at Sotheby's auction in New York City On May 5, 2004. It broke the record for the amount paid for an auctioned painting (when inflation is ignored).
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