Art & Literature Presentation was made for the 9th form

Art & Literature Made by the first category teacher: Lonshchikova Larisa Viktorovna Stolypin School №21, Russia, Saratov Presentation was made for the 9th form Based on Spotlight (Module 5)

What is art? It is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.

Painting styles A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind. Surrealism Salvador Dali (1904 -1989) Spanish painter

Rene Magritte 1898 – 1967 Brussels, Belgium The son of the man

Cubism Cubism was a popular painting style from around the 1900s. Pablo Picasso and George Braque were two famous Cubist painters. They used Cubism to show people a new way of seeing the world. They looked at an object or person and broke it down into shapes. Then they put these shapes together to make a picture which represented the original object even though it make it may not look very much like it anymore. They used shapes such as rectangles, cylinders and cubes. Most of their paintings were dark and used dull colors like grey and brown. This makes the paintings seem to have many layers and so it can be seen from a number of different viewpoints

George Braque Man with guitar

Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement

Portrait, landscape, sculpture, abstract, still life

Let’s compare

woman sitting on an armchair

What famous writers do you know?

Questions: What is your favorite painter? Do you often go to museums? Where did you go last time? What was the last book that you have read? Describe your favorite book. Why do you like it? What was the most interesting in it?

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