Prime Time 7, Coursebook plus Semester Self-checks

Goals • Comment on various forms of art and their value. • Summarise texts. • Compare and contrast pieces of art. • Discuss the form and function of architecture. Your own drawing a) Produce your own drawing and give it a title. Use the empty frame above. b) Then talk about your own drawing or about the drawing of a classmate, using the style in which we talk about pieces of art. Good art? Bad art? a) Find out more about the Museum of Bad Art briefly described above. b) With a partner, discuss what is “good” art and what is “bad” art in your view. c) Make a list of features that characterise them both. 2  3  The Museum of Bad Art was founded in 1993. It aims to bring “the worst of art to the widest of audiences” and already has become a Boston-area landmark. Its collections, while small, are a powerful testament to the sincerity of even the most talentless among us. The shriek-inducing galleries display several dozen paintings at any one time, including a number of unique works of art on permanent exhibition: Lucy in the Field with Flowers , the gallery’s first painting (a portrait of a one-breasted grandmother running through a field of flowers with a red chair affixed to her rear), the pointillist study Sunday on the Pot with George and the arresting Jerez the Clown are but a few. Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy , a painting by David Hockney Venus of Willendorf (22,000 B.C.)   , a drawing by  109 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv