Unit+1+Art+Reading+and+Thinking+知识点 高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第三册

ARTUnit1WhatisWesternart?Itishardtogiveaprecisedefinition.As

therehavebeensomanydifferentstylesofWesternart,itisimpossibletodescribethemallinashorttext.Perhapsthebestway

tounderstandWesternartistolookatthedevelopmentofWesternpaintingoverthecenturies.Para.1AShortHistoryofWesternPaintingItis+adj.+todosth.it作形式主语，真正主语是后面的todo不定式。“因为”；原因状语从句=becausetherebe句型的现在完成时！译为“有...”todo不定式为way的定语.在过去的几个世纪中waytodo/ofdoing做某事的方法TheMiddleAges(fromthe5thtothe15thcentury)(Para.2)DuringtheMiddleAges,thepurposeofWesternartwastoteachpeopleaboutChristianity.Thus,artistswerenotinterestedinpaintingrealisticscenes.Theirworkswereoftenprimitiveandtwo-dimensional,andthemaincharacterswereoftenmademuchlargerthaneveryoneelsetoshowtheirimportance.Thisbegantochangeinthe13thcenturywithGiottodiBondone(1267-1337).“对...感兴趣”“作品”adj.原始的；朴实无华的todo不定式作目的状语begintodosth.开始做某事当主语是抽象名词时，例如“aim、dream”等，用todo不定式作表语

Whilehispaintingsstillhadreligiousthemes,theyshowedrealpeopleinarealenvironment.Inparticular,hispaintingsaresetapartfrom

otherpaintingsbytheirrealistichumanfacesanddeepemotionalimpact.conj.“尽管”，让步状语从句beparticularabout/over...对……讲究；挑剔setsth.apartfrom使与众不同prep.凭借“尤其”TheRenaissance(fromthe14thtothe17thcentury)(Para.3)NewideasandvaluesgraduallyreplacedoldonesfromtheMiddleAges.Asaresult,paintersconcentratedlessonreligiousthemes.Theybegantoadoptamorehumanisticattitudetolife.AnimportantbreakthroughduringthisperiodwastheuseofperspectivebyMasaccio(1401-1428).InfluentialpainterssuchasLeonardodaVinci(1452-1519),Michelangelo(1475-1564),andRaphael(1483-1520)builtuponGiottoandMasaccio'sinnovationstoproducesomeofthegreatestartthatEuropehadeverseen.valuesn.价值观valuen.价值结果=focuson专注于attitudetowards/to......的态度依赖，依靠n.创新目的状语定语从句作宾语(Para.4)Anotherinnovationwastheuseofoilpaints.Withtheirdeepcoloursandrealism,someofthebestoilpaintingslooklikephotographs.WhilepaintersasearlyasDaVincihadusedoil,thistechniquereacheditsheightwithRembrandt(1606-1669),whogainedareputationasamasterofshadowandlight.看起来像...“尽管”作为…享有名望非限制性定语从句“光影大师”(Para.5)Insubjectmatter,theemphasisincreasingly

shiftedfromreligiousthemestopeopleandtheworldaroundus.Kings,nobles,andpeopleofhighrankwantedtopurchaseaccuratepicturesofthemselvesandthepeopletheyloved.Otherswantedpaintings

showingimportanthistoricaleventsorstoriesfrommythology.Finally,mostclientswantedpaintings

thatwerebeautifulandinterestingtolookat.adv.越来越多地

shiftfrom…to从…转为…定语，表主动

定语从句

先行词作主语

sth.+be+描绘性形容词+todo

某物...起来是什么样的Thecakeiseasytomake.蛋糕做起来是容易的。(Para.6)

Impressionism(late19thtoearly20thcentury)ThedevelopmentofWesternartsloweduntiltheinventionofphotographyinthemid-19thcentury.Afterthat,paintingswerenolongerneededtopreserve

whatpeopleandtheworldlookedlike.Hence,paintershadtofindanewwayoflookingattheirart.Fromthis,ImpressionismemergedinFrance.ThenameofthisnewmovementcamefromthepaintingbyClaudeMonet(1840-1926)calledImpression,Sunrise.

宾语从句，缺looklike的宾语，用“what”=therefore/thus因此做某事的办法=appear/comeout出现(Para.6)Inthiswork,Monet'saimwastoconveythelightandmovementinthescene—thesubjectiveimpression

thescenegavehim—butnotadetailedrecordofthesceneitself.Para.1翻译：在这幅作品里，莫奈的目的是传递场景中的光与运动—即场景给予他的主观印象，而非对场景本身的一种具体记录。

定语从句，缺give的宾语，用“that”，that可省略(Para.7)WhilemanyImpressionistspaintedscenesofnatureordailylife,others,suchasRenoir(1841-1919),focusedonpeople.Unlikethecold,black-and-whitephotographsofthattimeperiod,Renoir'spaintingsarefulloflight,shadow,colour,andlife.Hesoughttoshow

notjusttheouterimageofhissubjects,buttheirinnerwarmthandhumanity

aswell.“尽管，虽然”充满seek-sought-soughtseektodosth.试图做某事notjust...but...=notonly...but（also）

不仅...而且...“温暖和人性”=too也；还(Para.8)ModernArt(fromthe20thcenturytotoday)AfterImpressionism,subsequentartistsbegantoask,“Whatdowedonext?”PainterssuchasPicasso(1881-1973)triedtoanalysetheshapes

whichexistedinthenaturalworldbutinanewway,withCubism.Othersgavetheirpaintingsarealisticbutdream-likequality.Stillothersturnedtoabstractart.Whattheya