Unit 3 The world of colours and light艺术是高尚情操的宣泄，艺术使自然更完美。生命短暂，艺术恒久。朋友们，热爱艺术吧！用你那双善于发现美的眼睛，在有限的生命中去欣赏无限之美！·Qi Baishi(1864 － 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.The delightful picture of the little shrimps(虾) is such a lovely example of his work.·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(模仿) it.Instead, a picture should try to show the “life” of its subject.He is most famous for his lively paintings of horses.·This painting is by the Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso(1881－1973) who is 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 showing at the same 1time.·This painting by contemporary(当代的) American artist Roy Lichtenstein(1923－1997) is a world famous 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.Section Ⅰ Welcome to the unit & Reading—Warming Up1．abstract adj. 抽象的 n. 摘要，概要2．architecture n. 建筑；...
