MONA LISA SMILE
1. Watch this scene and complete the script..
PW: Thank you. This is “_________________100”. We’ll be ________________Doctor Staunton’s syllabus.
_____ ______________ so far?
St 1: _________________???!!!
PW: Why don’t you go first?
St 1: Connie Baker.
PW: Kaherine Watson, _________________.
St 2: Doctor Watson I _________________..
PW: _________________... And you are...
St 2:Giselle Levi.
PW: Giselle. If someone could get the...
St 3: Susan Delacourt...
PW: Thank you, Susan Delacourt. From the _________________, man has always had the
________________to ________________ _________________. Could anyone tell me what this is?
2. Watch the scene and put the pieces of art in the correct order. Then, match them to the correct picture.
1. Herd of Horses, 1879, Lascaux, France, dates back to 10,000 BC.
2. Micerino and his Queen, 247 BC, it’s a funerary statue.
3. Wounded Bison, Altamira, Spain, about 15,000 BC.
How does the teacher describe the first painting:
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What does the student add?
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According to the student why was the second painting singled out?
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3. Watch this scene and complete.
Betty: What is that?
PW: You tell me... Carcass, by Soutine, _________________.
Susy: It’s not on the _________________.
PW: No, it’s not. Is it any _________________? Mmm??? Come on, ladies, there’s no “wrong answer”, there’s
also no _________________, telling you what to ______________. It’s not that easy, is it?
Betty: Alright, no, it’s not good. In fact, I wouldn’t even ____________ it art, it’s _________________.
Connie: Is there a ____________ against art being _____________?
Giselle: I think there’s something ____________ about it, and ____________(...)
Susan: Arent' there ______________?
Betty: Of course there are. ________________ a _______________ _______________ painting could be
_______________ to a Rembrandt.(...)
Betty: There are standards, _________________, composition, ___________________ _____________, even
_________________. So, if you’re suggesting that _______________ side of meat is _______________, much
less good art, then, what are we going to _______________?
PW: Just that, you have _______________ our new syllabus, Betty, thank you.
______________________________? ____________________________________________ and
________________________________________? Next slide, please. _________________ years ago,
someone thought this was __________________________.
Connie: I can see that, who?
PW: _________________, I painted it for her birthday. Next slide, this is my mom. Is it art?
Susy: It’s a ______________________________!
PW:If I told you Ansel Adams had taken it _______________________________________________________?
Betty: Art isn’t art ___________________________________________________________________________.
PW: It’s Art!
Betty: The right _________________
PW: Who are they? (...) Could you go back to the Soutine, please? Just _____________ ______ it again, look
__________________ the paint, let us _________________ to ____________________ our
____________________ to a new _____________________.
4. Answer these questions.
What does Professor Watson do to surprise her students? Why?
5. Watch this scene and put Professor Watson’s description of Van Gogh and his life in the correct order.
Sunflowers, Vincent Van Gogh, 1888.
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Ironic, isn’t it? Look at what we have done to the man who refused to conform his ideals to
popular tastes, who refused to compromised his integrity, we have put him in an tiny box and ask
you to copy him.
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People didn’t understand, to them, he seemed too childlike and crude
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Now, 60 years later, where is he? (...)
He painted what he felt, not what he saw.
to see the way his brushstroke seems to make the night sky move.
This is his self-portrait. There’s no camouflage, no romance. Honesty.
It took them years to recognize his actual technique.
So famous in fact, that everybody has a reproduction, there are postcards (...) with the ability
to reproduce art, it is available to the masses. No one needs to own a Van Gogh original (...)
They can paint their own. Van Gogh in a box, ladies, the newest form of mass distributed art.
“Paint by numbers” (...)Yet, he never sold a painting in his lifetime.