Read the passage carefully and complete the following sentences. 1．The Cubist art movement showed_________________. 【答案】different sides of an object in the same picture 2．Pop art tried to show ___________________. 【答案】ordinary city life in the 20th century 3．Qi Baishi was ________________________. 【答案】a very traditional Chinese artist 4．Xu Beihong wanted to do more than_____________. 【答案】imitate reality Unit 1 Art
Xu Beihong(1895－1953) was one of China's bestknown twentiethcentury artists.Like Qi Baishi，Xu painted in the traditional Chinese style.Both painters have a beautiful brush line.Xu Beihong believed that artists should show reality，but not just imitate it.Instead，a picture should try to show the “life” of its subject.He is most famous for his lively paintings of horses. Fine arts—Western，Chinese and pop arts
This is a painting by the Spanish artist，Pablo Picasso，considered to be the greatest western artist of the twentieth century.Picasso and another painter，George Braque，started cubism(立体派)，one of the most important of all modern art movements.Cubist artists painted objects and people，with different aspects of the object or person shown at the same time.
This painting by contemporary American artist Roy Lichtenstein(1923－1997)is a worldfamous example of pop art.Pop art(from the word “popular”)was an important modern art movement that aimed to show ordinary twentiethcentury city life.For example，it shows things such as soup cans and advertisements.
Qi Baishi(1863－1957)，one of China's greatest painters，followed the traditional Chinese style of painting.Chinese painting is known for its brush
drawings in black inks and natural colours.Qi Baishi observed the world of nature very carefully，and his paintings are special because of this.