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Apparato Didattico
Reading and Comprehension
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definition
for every painting
thinking about what
the painter wanted
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This painting
is titled “Potato Eaters”.
The painting shows in the foreground five peasants sitting
around a table.
They are eating potatoes.
The peasants’ faces are serious and sad
because they are very poor people.
In the background the painting shows
the humble peasants’ home.
It’s a dark painting with a very strong light
in the middle.
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This is one of Van Gogh Self-Portraits.
He’s wearing a grey felt hat and a blue jacket.
It was painted in Paris in 1887.
In this painting the brushstrokes, typical of the
impressionist Art, are quite visible. |
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“The Starry Night”
There is the
night sky filled with swirling
clouds, shiny stars, planets and
a bright moon.
In the foreground the Cypresses
look like flames;
in the background you can see a small village
among the hills
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“Miners’
wives carrying sacks of coal”
This
watercolour is one of the images
about human condition.
They are women working in a coal mine.
In the foreground there are women
bent under the heavy weight; a snowy
landscape in the background
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In “The
Bedroom at Arles” Van Gogh
painted his own room in Arles (where for
some time he lived with Gauguin,
another famous impressionist painter).
A big wood bed is on the right, next to the
door.
Another door is opposite the bed.
Behind the bed there’s a window.
In the bedroom there are two chairs:
one under the window and one in front of
the door.
The perspective of this painting
is notable (e.g. look at the floor, and at the paintings on
the wall).
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