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1、Visiting the mastersHi Yang YanHere I am in Amsterdan . This trip has been fantastic! As you know , I am with my aunt and grandmother. They are both good artists, and I am thinking about starting painting myself after I get back .Let me tell you all about our trip.My gradmother really likes Picassos
2、 paintings and thinks he is the greatest artist ever, so we started in Spain and went to the city of Malaga, the birthplace of Picasso. Near the house where Picasso was born is a museum full of his art. Malaga is a lovely city and the architecture is beautiful.I was amazed to learn that Picasso had
3、an output of more than 20,000 pieces of art . He did not just paint , but made sculptures and worked with all kinds of media. He experimented with different styles of painting , but was most famous for his work in Cubism ,which often uses acute angles and where the world is represented as being cons
4、tructed of cubes and rectangles.Of course ,even though Picasso was Spainish , he left Spain while he was still a young and struggling artist , and settled in Paris , France. So ,after visiting Spain , we went to Pairs . During our four days in Paris we spent one whole day at the Louvre Museum, where
5、 we saw the Mona Lisa, painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. He created this work between 1503and 1506. I was really impressed by this picture of a lady with a mysterious smile . By popular consensus , this is the most valuable painting in the world -it is impossible to calculate what pri
6、ce it would fetch if it ever came on the market. Besides being a painter , da Vinci was also an architect , scientist and engineer. He designed many new inventions , including a primitive form of a helicopter and a tank.Besides the works of da Vinci, the Louvre Museum has more than 6,000 other Europ
7、ean paintings ,ranging from the 13th century to the 19th century . It doesnt have any modern paintings in it , however,. Modern paintings are all kept at the Musee dOrsay. We went there on our second day in Paris because my aunt was eager to see the works if Claude Monet.Monet was a French painter w
8、ho lived between 1840 and 1926. His paintings were typical of a style called Impreeionism, the painter abandons the idea of representing things exactly as they look in a photograph, but seeks to show movement and the feelings of the moment, through the use of colours, light and shadows . Monet loved
9、 to paint outdoors, and almost never used a studio. Though when he was young he painted a wide variety of subjects, when he was older he most often painted the water lilies floating on the surface of the pond in his garden.Yesterday , we went to the Van Gogh Museum, here in Amsterdam. Van Gogh was a
10、lso a member for the Impreeionist movement. Altogether , he painted about 800oil paintings and did 1,600drawings. One of his most famous oil paintings is The Potato Eaters, which he painted in 1885. Among his works , my favourite is Starry Night , which he completed in 1889. Unfortunately , although
11、 van Gogh committed his whole being to painting , he received little reward for his effort. His younger brother , Theo , acting as his fancs, before van Gogh died in 1890. Today ,van Goghs paintings are worth upwards of millions of dollars each.Tommorrow we are off to another museum in Amsterdam. Th
12、e most famous paintings there are by Rembrandt. He lived from 1606until 1669. My aunt really wants to see painting of his called The night Watch, which was painted in 1642.Ill tell you more about my trip when I get back.Project Unusual picturesSomeone once said that anything and everything could be
13、used to make art. A few years ago , a picture of Mona Lisa was made out of slices of bread toasted to different colours. It probably smelled good ,but it look a long time to do . this web page gives you some ideas that you could use to make unusual pictures.Put your apron on and get ready to make a
14、pizza face. Now you can be a chef and an artist. You can use a variety of different foods to help you make a face. Here are a few ideas.Use small slices of carrot or pieces of seaweed as hair, and arrange it in the style that you want. Cut up some tomatoes for eyes, pieces of cheese for ears, and a
15、mushroom for a nose. Next , you need to think about the mouth-you could make a smile from a slice of bacon. Other foods you could use to create pizza faces include onion, pineapple, eggplant and ham. Most of these foods are available at your local grocery.When you have made the face , you can take a
16、 photo of it, so that you can keep your unusual picture forever . Once you have taken the photo , you can then cook and eat the pizza face.An artist in the USA once made pizza faces from fruit and vegetables. He took photos of each one and then used these photographs to make birthday cards. Since then he has sold over two million cards.To make string pictures ,you need some card, thin string and glue. Think about what picture you want to make . Will
