1、Unit 4 Amazing art导读话题妙切入 返首页2 Behind a remarkable scholar one finds，not infrequently，a mediocre man，and behind a mediocre artist quite often a very remarkable man.Nietzsche 在一个杰出的学者背后，往往是一个平庸的人，而在一个平庸的艺术家的背后，往往是一个非常杰出的人。尼采 返首页3 Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.Aristotle 艺术是比经验更高形态的
2、知识。亚里士多德 返首页4 Art may be called complete and perfect when it seems to be nature.Longinus 艺术接近自然时，就称得上是圆满完美了。龙基纳 返首页5 Art is the right hand of nature.The latter has only given us being；the former has made us men.Schiller 艺术是自然的得力助手。后者仅赋予我们生命，但前者却丰富了我们的人生。席勒 返首页6 A poor artist wanted to enter an impor
3、tant painting competition.One day he took his paints and brushes to a local caf to drink his coffee and get inspiration.The districtwhere he lived was full of trees which formed a leafy avenue.As he looked around him，he noticed how theshadows of the trees were growing longer as time passed.He decide
4、d to paint them in the style of the Impressionists.Takingthe brushes from 返首页7 his bag，he chose one suitable for painting and began.The painting was completed soon.It looked so real that one could almost smell the flowers that hung from the branches of the trees.Happily he wrote his name at the bott
5、om of the painting and sent it to the competition committee.His painting was given high marks by the judges and he won the admiration of many people as a famous Impressionist painter.返首页8 Some people like modern art，while others say that is rubbish.But a cleaner who works in the Tate Gallery in Lond
6、on isnt able to tell the difference.The woman，whose name isnt known，mistook a work of art by the German painter Gustav Metzger as a bag of rubbish，and threw it out with other bags.Embarrassed officials at the museum had to call a meeting with cleaners to explain which things should not be touched.Ho
7、wever，to make sure of not happening again，they covered Mr.Metzgers work with a coloured cloth every evening.In this way the cleaners would realize they should not touch it.返首页9 This is not the first time that museum cleaners have had trouble distinguishing exhibits from rubbish.In 2001，in another Lo
8、ndon gallery，a cleaner threw away a work by the wellknown British artist Damien Hirst.It was an arrangement of empty beer bottles，coffee cups，and overflowing ashtrays，which was meant to indicate the chaos in the life of an artist.However，cleaners dont always throw things awaysometimes they clean the
9、m！This was the case with a dirty bathtub which was on show in a gallery in Germany.Without asking what the bathtub was doing in the gallery，the cleaners simply washed it clean.返首页10 探索发现 1What kind of modern art do you like best？Give an example._ 2How do you find art attracts you？List out your reasons._ 3What do you know about Chinese Art and what do you want to learn more?_ 返首页11 答案 1.略 2略 3As far as I know，Chinese Art includes paper cutting，embroidery，seal cutting，calligraphy，Chinese painting，porcelain and so on.Id like to learn calligraphy.Thank you for watching!
