Art Movements

Choose the painting that expresses best how you're feeling now.

What can you say about the painting styles of these pictures?

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Match the following paintings to their names and artists.

• "The Weeping Woman". Pablo Picasso

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• "Portrait of Pablo Picasso", Juan Gris

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• "The Round Table", Georges Braque

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• "Girl Before a Mirror", Pablo Picasso

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• "I and the Village", Marc Chagall

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Match the following paintings to their authors and names.

• "Metamorphosis of Narcissus", Dali

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• "The Son of Man", Rene Magritte

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• "Golconda", Rene Magritte

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• "The Persistence of Memory", Dali

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How do these cubism and surrealism paintings make yoou feel?

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One of the important characteristics of cubism is the use of geometrical shapes.

Label the geometrical shapes.

c

b

d

e

a

f

square

rectangle

polygon

triangle

oval

circle

Label the 3D shapes.

b

c

d

a

cylinder

cube

cone

sphere

Listen, read and complete the gaps.

CUBISM

Cubism was а popular painting style from around ​ (a)   . Pablo Picasso and Georges 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 back together to make a picture which represented the original object even though it may not look very much like it anymore. They used shapes such as ​ (b)   , cylinders and cubes. Most of their paintings were dark and used ​ (c)   colours like grey and brown. This makes the painting seem to have many layers and so it can be seen from a number of different ​ (d)   .

• the 1990
• triangles
• bright
• standpoints
• the 1900s
• rectangles
• dull
• viewpoints

Cubism was а popular painting style from around the 1900s. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were two ​ (a)   Cubist ​ (b)   . 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 back together to make a picture which represented the ​ (c)   object even though it may not look very much like it anymore. They used shapes such as rectangles, cylinders and cubes. Most of their ​ (d)   were dark and used dull colours like grey and brown. This makes the painting seem to have many layers and so it can be seen from a number of ​ (e)   viewpoints.

• famous
• fame
• original
• origin
• different
• differ
• painters
• paint
• paintings

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SURREALISM

Artists such as Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte painted in the Surrealist style that was at its most popular from the 1920s to ​ (a)   . Surrealist paintings always have an element of surprise in them. They put strange images and ideas together to create ​ (b)   representations of things. The Surrealists painted images and ideas from their dreams and their imaginations. They often used ​ (c)   colours to create an even bigger ​ (d)   and always showed people and objects in new and ​ (e)   ways.

• the 1960s
• the 1930s
• impact
• effect
• bright
• dull
• strange
• strength
• unusual
• usual

​ (a)   such as Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte painted in the Surrealist style that was at its most popular from the 1920s to the 1960s. Surrealist ​ (b)   always have an element of surprise in them. They put strange images and ideas together to create strange ​ (c)   of things. The Surrealists painted images and ideas from their dreams and their ​ (d)   . They often used bright colours to create an even bigger impact and always showed people and objects in new and​ (e)   ways.

• artists
• paintings
• representations
• imaginations
• unusual
• art
• paint
• represent
• image
• usual