Unit+3+The+Art+of+Painting+Reading++课文挖空 牛津译林版选择性必修第一册+.docx

Unit 3 Reading The art of painting Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. First impressions As a huge art fan, I knew exactly _________ I was looking forward to most about my trip _______ Paris: visiting the Musee d’Orsay. ____________(house) in an old railway building, this world-famous art museum _____________(feature) some of the best-known paintings from the Impressionist movement of the 19th century. As I wandered through the Impressionist gallery, I appreciated masterpieces like The Ballet Class and The Card Players. Even though I had admired them hundreds of times on my computer screen, nothing could ___________ (prepare) me for the wonder I felt when I finally _______(lay) eyes on the real thing. While it was hard to pick a favourite painting out of so many amazing _______(work), the artists who made the deepest impression _________ me were two of the greatest Impressionist painters, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. I could see from Monet’s works that he was greatly inspired by nature. In the last three decades of his life he painted mostly scenes from his garden. One of these___________ (scene) is shown in the famous piece Blue Water Lilies, which I studied for quite a while in the gallery. I couldn’t believe _______ when I heard he did around 250 paintings of the same lily water pond, all in different colours and styles. It is amazing that every time Monet studied this simple scene, he brought the pond’s beauty to the canvas _______ a unique way. Renoir, I noticed, __________(prefer) to paint scenes of everyday life. For me, the most interesting of his paintings is his 1876 masterpiece Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, which shows life in a busy neighbourbood of Paris _______ a Sunday afternoon. When I saw it up close, I was __________(strike) by the small areas of light across the painting, and the way the soft edges of the figures seemed to mix together. There’s so much going on, but so little clear detail. This effect mak