西方文化导论Unit.ppt

U12_main,Get Started,Text Study,Supplementary Resources,Unit 12,Artistic Development in the 20th Century,Text Study _2_2222,Text Study,Interpretation of Cultural Terms,Interpretation of Cultural Terms,performance art 行为艺术:A term referring to a kind of usually avant-garde or conceptual art which grew out of the visual arts and began to be identified in the 1960s.Performance art is unconventional and often challenges the audience to think in new and unconventional ways.,Text Study _I_3.1,Text Study,Comprehension Exercises,True or false questions.,Comprehension Exercises,1.The end of the two world wars brought real sense of security and stability to the West.2.In the midst of the 1950s and 1960s,Western society was on the threshold of drastic transformation from the phase of post-war recovery to an industrial and commercial boom.3.Postmodernism is both an reaction against modernism and a successor to modernism.4.Existentialism had widespread dissemination and acclaim after WWII.5.In the post-war period,Protestantism has become more open and more popular to the public,while Catholicism has stuck to conventions.,F,_,T,_,T,_,T,_,F,_,Text Study _2.3333,Text Study,Comprehension Exercises,Comprehension Exercises,(1)Impressionism got its name from _famous painting Impression:Sunrise.,Pissarros B.Monets C.van Goghs D.Paul Gauguins,Multiple choice.,Text Study _2_3,Text Study,Comprehension Exercises,2._is called“the father of the modern painting”.,A.Paul Gauguin B.Paul Cezanne C.van Gogh D.Degas,Comprehension Exercises,Multiple choice.,Text Study _2_3,Text Study,Comprehension Exercises,3._refers to a kind of usually avant-garde or conceptual art as early as in the 1960s,which often challenges the audience to think in new and unconventional ways.,Performance art B.ImpressionismC.Photo-realism D.Futurism,Comprehension Exercises,Multiple choice.,Text Study _2_3,Text Study,Comprehension Exercises,4.Which of the following artists does not belong to the school of Impressionism in painting?,Manet.B.Monet.C.Cezanne.D.Piccasso.,Comprehension Exercises,Multiple choice.,Text Study _2_3,Text Study,Comprehension Exercises,5.Who initiated the ideals of the expressionist movement in modern music?,Arnold Schoenberg.B.Igor Stravinsky.C.Claude Debussy.D.Paul Hindemith.,Comprehension Exercises,Multiple choice.,Text Study _3_3333,Comprehension Exercises,Text Study,Comprehension Exercises,1.Cinema has greatly changed the ways of living in the West since its invention by Thomas Edison in 1894.2.Hollywood consolidated and expanded its position by producing more popular films after the 1970s,which was called its“Golden Age”.3.The role of TV is an important link between the individual and the public or social side of life.4.The major four Western agencies are:Associated Press,BBC,Reuters and Press de France Nouvelle.5.Jazz was initially influenced by two kinds of Negro music:ragtime and blues.,True or false questions.,T,_,F,_,T,_,F,_,T,_,abstract expressionism,Text Study _4_3333,Comprehension Exercises,Text Study,Comprehension Exercises,Fill in the blanks.,1.became a new centre of world art during and after the WWII,taking over from Paris.2.One of the representative of abstract expressionism is Hans Hofmann,who benefited from the movements like cubism,and expressionism.3.Action painting is a branch of.4.is an art form which purports to pursue a completely pure and perfect quality of art by reducing its art creation to its mere natural attributes.5.intends to set up a style of impersonality by employing the imagery of commercialized art or other art forms of the mass media.,New York,fauvism,Minimal art,Pop art,_,_,_,_,_,