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CHINESE ART
The huge area of the country of China has also highly influenced the art and architecture of this country. The Chinese arts are also different because of the cultural influence, due to the rule of the different dynasties. There are various forms of art which are in practice in China like, fine arts, performance arts and folk arts.
Art in China began its journey from the Neolithic era. In the rule of the Shang Dynasty bronze was used to make many items. The Shang dynasty is not only famous for the beautiful bronze structure and also for the litera- ture, music and poetry. One most important aspect of Chinese art is porce- lain which gave China world wide fame.
In the 1st century AD with the coming of Buddhism in China, the art of calligraphy and painting flourished highly in China. Much calligraphy was done on the Chinese silks especially for royal courts. The sculpture and architecture which was influenced by Buddhism began in the Sui and Tang dynasty. There was also influence from India which was reflected in the art and architecture of the Tang dynasty.
FOLK ART OF CHINA
China has a very rich culture and heritage and these are depicted well in the folk arts of this Asian country. The art and craft of China are in har- mony with the everyday life of the people of China, their spirituality and aesthetic value. The value of the Chinese folk arts is still very much intact till date.
CHINESE PAINTING
Painting in China had evolved since the ancient era and it was first to evolve in China than the rest of the world. The first paintings in China can be seen since the Stone Age. The two main branch of Chinese painting are
‘meticulous’ and ‘freehand’. The era of drawing the human figures began in the Han dynasty and ended during the time of the Tangs. However, ac- cording to many the best Chinese paintings were the depiction of the land- scapes. Some of famous artists of China are Jing Hao, Guo Xi, Fan Kuan. With the new cultural movement the Chinese artists have adopted the west- ern techniques in their works. But the significant of old forms of Chinese painting are still very much alive and admired.
8. speaking
Do ex. 7, p. 191.
9. summary
Architecture, Ukrainian music, literature, dramatic art, pictorial art, films… What other forms of art do we have in our culture?
Have we got any special forms which characterized our country as unique?
10. Homework
Do ex. 9, p. 191.
Lesson 68
WrItIng reVIewS
Цілі:формувати навички письма; вдосконалювати навички усного мовлен- ня, читання; розвивати культуру спілкування й мовленнєву реакцію учнів; ви- ховувати зацікавленість у розширенні своїх знань.
Procedure
1. Warm-up
Клас
Дата
1) What is a review?
2) What purposes of writing reviews can be?
3) In your opinion, what should you do to start writing a review?
2. Reading and speaking
Do ex. 1, p. 193.
3. Reading
Do ex. 2, p. 193.
4. Vocabulary practice
Make sure that you know all necessary vocabulary for writing film re-
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5. Reading
Do ex. 3, p. 194.
6. Reading and writing
Read the synopsis of “Men in Black 3” and do ex. 4, p. 194.
The intergalactic criminal Boris the Animal (Jemaine Clement) is aid-
ed in escape by his girlfriend, Lily Poison (Nicole Scherzinger), from the LunarMax prison on Earth’s moon. He is intent on going back in time and
killing Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones), who on July 16, 1969, shot off his arm
and captured him. After investigating a spaceship crash in New York City,
and following a skirmish in a Chinese restaurant, Boris appears, and K and
J give chase. Boris reveals to K, “you are already dead, you just don’t know
it yet”, and then disappears in an explosion. K deduces that Boris has es-
caped, and K regrets not having killed him. He returns to his apartment,
where all traces of him disappear. Agent J (Will Smith), however, still re-
members K, though no one else at Men in Black headquarters does.
Agent O (Emma Thompson), the new Chief deduces from J’s statements
that a fracture has occurred in the space-time continuum. The two realize Boris
must have time-jumped to 1969 and killed K, resulting in an imminent inva- sion of Earth by his race, the Boglodites, due to the absence of the protective ArcNet shield around Earth, installed by K in 1969. Aided by electronic-shop owner Jeffrey Price, son of Boris’ fellow prisoner Obadiah Price, who created the time-travel device, J time-jumps off the Chrysler Building to reach time- travel velocity (Jeffrey also cryptically, though excitedly, informing J that the reason he remembers K where nobody else can is because he was ‘there’). With only 24 hours to stop Boris, J arrives a day before Boris kills K.
J follows a clue to Coney Island, where 29-year-old junior agent K (Josh Brolin) arrests him and then questions him at MIB headquarters, while a young Agent O (Alice Eve) and Chief X come by. Getting no answers, K de- cides to place J in a large, primitive Neuralyzer. At the last second, J says he’ll tell the truth of his mission and that he is from the future. As a team, they follow Boris’ trail to a bowling alley and then to The Factory, the stu- dio / party space of Andy Warhol’s (Bill Hader), who is actually the under- cover Agent W. The Agents meet the alien Griffin (Michael Stuhlbarg), an Arcadian who possesses the ArcNet and is able to see all possible futures. Griffin leaves before Boris arrives to snatch him. The Agents locate Grif- fin at Shea Stadium, where he gives them the ArcNet and instructs them to place it onto the Apollo 11 lunar rocket launch occurring in less than six hours. Boris then snatches Griffin, but the agents, on monocycles, give chase and recover Griffin.