Donatella Bottero

Viola Invernizzi

Veronica Polichetti

Nadia Sanità

L’argomento
 Shades and Shapes è rivolto agli studenti del 2° Biennio e del 5° anno del Liceo Artistico.
 I contenuti sono stati ordinati secondo criteri di graduale complessità concettuale e linguistica e vengono esplorati utilizzando le quattro abilità in modo omogeneo ed integrato.
 I brani offrono un assortimento di stili, registri e livelli di difficoltà e sono tratti da fonti diverse: giornali, riviste e manuali specialistici, materiale promozionale e siti Internet.
 
 La struttura
 Shades and Shapes è diviso in sei Moduli, ognuno dei quali è ripartito in due sezioni:
 
 1 – Content Section – Divisa in Unità, contiene testi e attività che riguardano i contenuti specifici della specializzazione già affrontati in L1.
 Ogni Unità è suddivisa in brevi Capitoli per favorire non solo uno studio più parcellizzato, ma anche la scelta antologica da parte dell’insegnante.
 I testi vengono affrontati in modo graduale, attraverso esercizi di Before Reading, While Reading, esplorazione del lessico specialistico, comprensione scritta e/o orale, globale e specifica. Brevi schede di approfondimento, denominate Moving Deeper, permettono di ampliare le conoscenze sull’argomento.
 Un ricco apparato iconografico correda i brani di lettura, per ognuno dei quali è previsto un esauriente glossario.
 
 2 – Revision and Practice – Si occupa di contenuti inerenti alla disciplina ponendo particolare attenzione all’arricchimento lessicale, strutturale e allo sviluppo delle quattro abilità linguistiche. Presenta le seguenti ripartizioni:
 • Vocabulary. Comprende specifiche attività per il conseguimento del lessico specialistico più importante del Modulo.
 Costituisce anche uno strumento che può essere utilizzato come rinforzo e ripasso degli argomenti del Modulo.
 • Grammar. Propone il ripasso e il rinforzo delle strutture morfosintattiche più ricorrenti nel linguaggio settoriale.
 • Communication. Offre testi e attività di consolidamento dei contenuti appresi per sviluppare le quattro abilità linguistiche: Reading – Listening – Speaking – Writing.
 • CLIL. Alla fine di ogni Modulo è presente un CLIL CORNER che si collega alle tematiche presentate in alcune delle discipline curriculari (Letteratura, Storia, Filosofia, Chimica, Fisica, Matematica), ognuna delle quali viene collegata con uno o più argomenti del Modulo.

MODULE 1 - HISTORY OF ART

Unit 0 - Tools and rules

Unit 1 - The Ancient World

Unit 2 - Medieval Art

Unit 3 - Renaissance and Baroque

Unit 4 - From Neoclassicism to Post-Impressionism

Unit 5 - The Twentieth Century Art

VOCABULARY

GRAMMAR (Main verb tenses)

COMMUNICATION

CLIL

MODULE 2 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Unit 1 - Landscape and the Environment

Unit 2 - Architecture of the 19th Century

Unit 3 - The Masters of Modern Architecture

Unit 4 - Contemporary Architecture

GRAMMAR (Connectors))

MODULE 3 - DESIGN

Unit 1 - Design is History

Unit 2 - Design is Technology

Unit 3 - Design is Life

Unit 4 - Design is Fashion

GRAMMAR (Prefixes and Suffixes))

MODULE 4 - GRAPHIC ARTS

Unit 1 - A New Style for a New Culture

Unit 2 - Choosing and Using Type

Unit 3 - Graphic Design Practice

GRAMMAR (Articles – Indefinite adjectives and Pronouns – Comparatives and Superlatives)

MODULE 5 - AUDIOVISUAL AND MULTIMEDIA

Unit 1 - The History Behind the Pictures

Unit 2 - The Seventh Art

GRAMMAR (Compounds)

MODULE 6 - SCENOGRAPHY

Unit 1 - Looking at the Stage Throughout the Centuries

Unit 2 - Theatre, Performance and Technology

GRAMMAR (The Passive Voice)

CLIL CLIL CLIL PHILOSOPHY WHAT IS BEAUTY? Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and appreciation of art, beauty and good taste. It has also been defined as  critical reflection on art, culture and nature . The word  aesthetics  derives from the Greek  aisthetikos , meaning  of sense perception . In ancient Greece, Plato felt that beautiful objects incorporated proportion, harmony and unity among their parts, whilst Aristotle found that the universal elements of beauty were order, symmetry and definiteness. Western Medieval art   at least until the revival of classical ideals during the Renaissance   was highly religious. A religious message was considered more important than figurative accuracy or inspired composition. The skill of an artisan was considered a gift from God for the only purpose of disclosing God to mankind. In practice, we distinguish between judgments related to beauty in general (the appreciation of an object, not necessarily an art object) and artistic judgments (the appreciation or criticism of a work of art). Therefore, aesthetics is broader in scope than the philosophy of art. It is also broader than the philosophy of beauty, because it applies to any of the responses we might expect works of art or entertainment to elicit, whether positive or negative. Aestheticians ask questions like  What is a work of art? ,  What makes a work of art successful? ,  Why do we find certain things beautiful? ,  How can things of very different categories be considered equally beautiful? ,  Is there a connection between art and morality? ,  Can art be a vehicle of truth? ,  Are aesthetic judgments objective statements or purely subjective expressions of personal attitudes? ,  Can aesthetic judgments be improved or trained? . In very general terms, aesthetics examines what makes something beautiful, sublime, disgusting, fun, cute, silly, entertaining, pretentious, discordant, harmonious, boring, humorous or tragic. Raffaello Sanzio, School of Athens, 1509-1511, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City (With Plato and Aristotle in the middle). GLOSSARY to argue: to give the reasons for your opinion, idea, belief, etc. branch: a part of something larger 286 broad: large, extensive cute: pleasant and attractive to elicit: to provoke, to arouse to question: to ask scope: range, extent therefore: consequently 

CLIL According to Immanuel Kant, beauty is objective and universal (i.e. certain things are beautiful to everyone). But there is a second concept involved in a viewer s interpretation of beauty, that of taste, which is subjective and varies according to class, cultural background and education. In fact, it can be argued that all aesthetic judgments are culturally conditioned to some extent, and can change over time, e.g. Victorians in Britain often saw African sculpture as ugly, but just a few decades later, Edwardian audiences saw the same sculptures as being beautiful. Judgments of aesthetic value can also become linked to judgments of economic, political or moral value (e.g. we might judge an expensive car to be beautiful partly because it is desirable as a status symbol, or we might judge it to be repulsive partly because it signifies for us overconsumption and offends our political or moral values.) Aestheticians question how aesthetic judgments can be unified across art forms, e.g. we can call a person, a house, a symphony, a fragrance and a mathematical proof beautiful, but what characteristics do they share which give them that status? 1 Which of the following opinions concerning aesthetics do you share? Justify your answer. a.  Art  is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. ( ) What we call art is a game. Octavio Paz b.  Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, drawn from the stars and filtered through the skies, without which life would be extremely dull. Lord Byron c.  Form follows profit  is the aesthetic principle of our times. Richard Rogers Theodoros P. Vryzakis, The Reception of Lord Byron at Missolonghi, 1861, National Art Gallery, Athens. 2 Find the odd one out. 1. a. fun; b. cute; c. harmonious; d. broad. 2. a. moral; b. immoral; c. right; d. ugly. 3. a. philosopher; b. thinker; c. scholar; d. beautician. 4. a. Shakespeare; b. Plato; c. Kant; d. Aristotle. 5. a. Victorians; b. Sophists; c. Elizabethans; d. Edwardians. 287 

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