A1+ Towards CLIL ART

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Before reading 1 Abbina le forme d’arte (a-d) MoMA all’oggetto (1-4). MoMA is the Museum of Modern The Ladies Art in Manhattan, New York. It has a  drawing 1 camera Three women had the idea for the b  painting 2 pencil the world’s largest collection of museum in 1928. Their names were c  photography 3 marble modern painting and sculpture. , Lillie There are 3,600 works dating1 d  sculpture 4 watercolours, P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan. from the late 19th century to the oils People called them ‘the Ladies’. present. The museum is important They created a small museum, for collecting and developing which was a stop-over2 for some Modern art, which is art from of ’s finest Modern art – an the 1860s to 1970s. Modern art gallery where art comes and art begins with painters like goes, because, by nature, Modern , Paul Cézanne art is constantly changing. There and Toulouse-Lautrec. was also a permanent collection The museum has works from which was diverse and impressive. the early 20th century by Henri They opened their museum to the Matisse and . public nine days after the Wall There are also architecture and Street Crash of 1929. This was design, drawings, photography, the day when the New York Stock film and electronic media in the Exchange collapsed3. Despite4 this, Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889, MoMA museum. the museum was a success and

Comprehension Vocabulary 4 Completa il testo sul Cubismo con le seguenti parole. 2 Leggi i testi, poi rispondi alle 3 Abbina le parole (a-e) alla loro • portraits • browns • real domande. definizione (1-5). • colours • abstract • shapes 1 Where is MoMA?  a Abstract In Cubism, paintings are not 2 Why is the museum important?  1 b Expressionism supposed to look ...... 3 Which different types of art can c  The artist uses geometric you see in the museum? d  Pointillism 2...... to show what 4 When did the museum first e  Pop Art he is trying to paint. In Cubist open? 3...... the artist broke 5 What was on display in the 1935 1 inspired by comic strips up facial features. Picasso wanted exhibition? and advertising to show people from different points 6 What happened in New York 2 small dots make up the pictures of view and moments in time. Early nine days before the museum 3 not painted to look like something Cubists used earth tones; greys, opened? specific 4...... , greens and 7 When did MoMA acquire its first 4 scenes of everyday life yellows. After 1914, Cubists started Picasso? 5 art tries to express feelings to use brighter 5...... 8 What exhibition was held8 Cubism was the beginning of at MoMA in 2011? 6...... and non-objective 9 What did this exhibition explore? art styles. © Pearson Italia S.p.A. 114 one hundred and fourteen some of van Gogh’s letters from there was an exhibition of Picasso: the Netherlands. MoMA only had Guitars – 1912-1914. It explored the six gallery rooms to begin with, but artist’s breakthrough moment in in 1939, when Nelson Rockefeller Cubism. MoMA brought together7 became President, the gallery 65 collages and several drawings, obtained the money needed for a paintings, photographs and new location. constructions. Picasso at MoMA MoMA acquired their first Picasso in 1930, a year after the museum opened. Vincent van Gogh, Picasso liked to create different Irises, 1890, Van Gogh kinds of art. He explored sculpture Museum, Amsterdam and drawing, printmaking5 and ceramics. At MoMA you can see they had many famous exhibitions. Picasso’s diversity from the simple At the van Gogh exhibition on 4th sketch6 La Belle qui passe to Les Pablo Picasso, November 1935, there were sixty- Demoiselles d’Avignon. From 13th Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, six oil paintings, fifty drawings and February 2011 to 6th June 2011 1906-07, MoMA

CLIL Project 6 And in your country? 5 Fai una ricerca in Internet (http://primaryfacts.com/famous- • Who is a famous artists/) su un artista d’arte moderna a scelta tra Jackson modern artist in your Pollock, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh e Alberto Giacometti, country? poi completa la tabella. • Where did he/she study? Name • Which of his/her Nationality paintings do you like? Date of birth Why? Where he studied art

Famous paintings Words you need Influenced by 1. dating risalente 2. stop-over sosta, scalo What he used to paint 3. collapse crollare Died 4. despite nonostante 5. printmaking incisione 1 Scegli tra i dipinti dell’artista quello che preferisci. 6. sketch schizzo 7. bring (p.s. brought) raccogliere, 2 Stampa una copia del dipinto e scrivi un breve paragrafo in cui spieghi together riunire perché ti piace. 8. hold (p.s. held) tenere 3 Leggi il testo davanti alla classe. © Pearson Italia S.p.A. one hundred and fifteen 115