9.Picasso and His Pictures
9. Picasso and His Pictures
Contents *Warm-up Activity Analysis and Explanation Exercises Questions for Consideration
Contents Warm-up Activity Analysis and Explanation Exercises Questions for Consideration
TEXT Attitudes towards life vary from person to person. Artists show their feelings about life by different means---musicians through music,painters through pictures.What are Picasso's views towards life? How are his views shown through his pictures? 1.Picasso was born in Malaga,Spain,a pleasant, quiet town.His father was a painter and art teacher who gave his son his first lessons in drawing
TEXT Attitudes towards life vary from person to person. Artists show their feelings about life by different means---musicians through music, painters through pictures. What are Picasso’s views towards life? How are his views shown through his pictures? 1. Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain, a pleasant, quiet town. His father was a painter and art teacher who gave his son his first lessons in drawing
2.Young Pablo did badly at school.He was lazy and didn't listen to what the teachers were saying.He refused to accept criticism from anyone.He had confidence in himself from the beginning.But it was soon clear that the boy was an artist and deserved the best training he could get.Not even his earliest drawings look like the work of a child. 3.There was never any doubt about what he would do in life.If ever anyone was born to be a painter. Picasso was.He won a prize for his first important painting,Science and Charity,when he was only fifteen.He studied art in several cities in Spain.But there was no one to teach him all he wanted to know. When he was nineteen he visited Paris
2. Young Pablo did badly at school. He was lazy and didn’t listen to what the teachers were saying. He refused to accept criticism from anyone. He had confidence in himself from the beginning. But it was soon clear that the boy was an artist and deserved the best training he could get. Not even his earliest drawings look like the work of a child. 3. There was never any doubt about what he would do in life. If ever anyone was born to be a painter, Picasso was. He won a prize for his first important painting, Science and Charity, when he was only fifteen. He studied art in several cities in Spain. But there was no one to teach him all he wanted to know. When he was nineteen he visited Paris
4.Paris was then the centre of the world for artists. Most painters went there sooner or later to study,to see pictures and to make friends with other painters. Everything that was new and exciting in the world of painting seemed to happen there.When he was twenty-three Picasso returned there to live and stayed in France for the rest of his life. 5.He was already a fine painter.He painted scenes of town life---people in the streets and in restaurants, at horse races,bull fights and circuses.They were painted in bright colours,lovely to look at
4. Paris was then the centre of the world for artists. Most painters went there sooner or later to study, to see pictures and to make friends with other painters. Everything that was new and exciting in the world of painting seemed to happen there. When he was twenty-three Picasso returned there to live and stayed in France for the rest of his life. 5. He was already a fine painter. He painted scenes of town life---people in the streets and in restaurants, at horse races, bull fights and circuses. They were painted in bright colours, lovely to look at