2013牛津译林版选修8Unit 3“The world of colours and light”课件Ⅰ.pptVIP

painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.He created this work between 1503 and 1506.I was really impressed by this picture of a lady with a mysterious smile.By popular consensus，this is the most valuable painting in the world－it is impossible to calculate what price it would fetch if it ever came on the market.Besides being a painter， da Vinci was also an architect，scientist and engineer.He designed many new inventions，including a primitive form of a helicopter and a tank. Besides the works of da Vinci, the Louvre Museum has more than 6,000 other European paintings, ranging from the 13th century to the 19th century. It doesn’t have any modern paintings in it, however.Modern paintings are all kept at the Musée d’Orsay. We went there on our second day in Paris because my aunt was eager to see the works of Claude Monet. Monet was a French painter who lived between 1840 and 1926. His paintings were typical of a style called Impressionism. With Impressionism, the painter abandons the idea of representing things exactly as they look in a photograph, but seeks to show movement and the feelings of the moment, through the use of colours, light and shadows. Monet loved to paint outdoors, and almost never used a studio. Though when he was younger he painted a wide variety of subjects, when he was older he most often painted the water lilies floating on the surface of the pond in his garden. Yesterday, we went to the Van Gogh Museum, here in Amsterdam. Van Gogh was also a member of the Impressionist Movement. Altogether, he painted about 800 oil paintings and did 1,600 drawings. One of his most famous oil paintings is The Potato Eaters，which he painted in 1885.Among his works, my favourite is Starry Night, which he completed in 1889. Unfortunately，although van Gogh committed his whole being to painting, he received little reward for his effort. His younger brother, Theo, acting as his agent, tried hard to sell van Gogh’s paintings, but could only sell one painting,