電気通信大学 AWE II: Gustave Courbet・ギュスターヴ・クールベ

Hello!

How are you? Today I have given you a handout - a reading about the 19th-century French artist Gustave Courbet. This is his picture above.

This painting is one of his greatest works, The Stone-Breakers. It was first exhibited in 1850 in Paris, and it caused shock and outrage over its unsentimental depiction of peasant life.

This is another of the paintings he exhibited that year and that also caused a deep and negative reaction - A Burial At Ornans:

Activity
Read the handout with your classmates and look at the paintings as you read. Both of these paintings are mentioned in the handout as key to understanding Courbet and his work. You can click on the images to make them larger. 

What do you think of these paintings? He supported workers' rights and allied himself with social causes. Do you believe that he was able to effectively tell the kind of story he wanted in them? 

I hope you find these interesting. 

See you next time! 

Images: Top - By ナダール - The photo can be found at http://www.stellaweb.ch/nadar/pg/courbet.htm. The portrait was taken by Nadar. Spots in the image have been retouched., パブリック・ドメイン, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51505/The Stone-Breakers - By Gustave Courbet - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=149656/

A Burial At Ornans - By Gustave Courbet - Google Art Project: Home - pic Maximum resolution., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20250332

東京理科大学 B英1: Realism & Cubism・写実主義とキュービズム

Hello!

How are you? Today I will show you here two very different paintings. 

The one at the top is by the 19th-century French artist Gustave Courbet. The painting below it is by Henri Le Fauconnier, an early 20th-century painter also from France. 

Courbet's painting is an example of a style called realism (写実主義). It tried to show life the way it was lived by everyday people, almost in a documentary style. But Fauconnier's painting is very different - it is an example of a style called cubism (キュービズム). It tried to show people, objects, and nature from different angles and directions all at once - for example, showing a 3-D object like a table at every possible angle on a flat, 2-D surface.  

The most famous Realist artist was Gustave Courbet, while the most famous Cubist artist was Pablo Picasso. 

Activity/pre-class preparation (for next class)

Let's look at these paintings. Which ones do you like? What kind of feeling do you get from each one? Talk about these with your classmates!

(Is it possible that cubism is realistic, in the way it tries to show people and things as they are in physical space and time? Maybe we can't see things in every way at one time, but we experience them in 3-D space and time. This is just an idea!)

Breakfast in the Studio (the Black Jacket) (Edouard Manet)

La sonate (The Sonata) (Marcel Duchamp)

Young Girl Reading (Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot)

La Femme aux Phlox (Woman with Phlox) (Albert Gleizes)

Have fun with these! 

Here is one more for you - one of Pablo Picasso's most famous works - Three Musicians:

See you next time! 

Images: Top - The Stonebreakers by Gustave Courbet - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=149656/L’Abondance (Abundance) by Henri Le Fauconnier - PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41618843/Breakfast in the Studio (the Black Jacket) by Edouard Manet - By Unknown - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=154408/La sonate (The Sonata) by Marcel Duchamp - PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39690832/Young Girl Reading by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - National Gallery of Art, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11497975/La Femme aux Phlox (Woman with Phlox) by Albert Gleizes - http://armory.nyhistory.org/woman-with-phlox/PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40048817/Bottom - Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso - By MoMA, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4072766

週1~5 - ECA (英語基礎表現) II (Super A): writing about places (Part 2)

Hello,

How are you? Do you remember the pictures I showed you in Part 1? I will now show you these pictures again, but with some links to background information about them.

Look at the picture above again. It looks like an ordinary country house or barn on the outside, but it has a unique story to it. Click on this link for more, and on this link here about the picture. 

Look at this next picture. It looks like a quiet beach now, but it was once a place where great history was made. Click on this link to find out more about this place.

Now look at this next picture again. This was the birthplace of a famous person from the 20th century. Click on this link here to find out about who the person was. 

Finally, while this final place has people in the picture, the place is very important. Click on the link here to find out more, and click on this link about the two people in the picture. 

I hope these are interesting for you. 

See you next time!

Images: Top photo - "Arromanches" by Bulo78 - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arromanches.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Arromanches.jpg/Barn - "Pollock-barn" by Dmadeo - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pollock-barn.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Pollock-barn.jpg/Building - Picasso’s birthplace - By Dominik (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Pablo-Picasso-Birthplace.jpg/

Couple - Woodstock couple by Burk Uzzle/image reproduced from file courtesy of Laurence Miller Gallery/laurencemillergallery.com

All images from except Woodstock couple from Wikimedia Commons. All rights reserved. I do not own the rights to these images. All images uploaded for educational purposes only.

週12・13リーポスト- ECA (Survival English) II & (英語基礎表現) II (Super A): 観光

Hello to all my students,

Image "Take Off At Sunset" courtesy of Time Beach/FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Happy New Year! How are you in our new year 2014? 

This is a repost of a post I made before our holiday - but I got too sick to come to the university for us to do this. 

So let's try this post again on sightseeing (観光). Where would you like to go and what would you like to see? 

Activity
Look at these pictures. What are these places and what countries are they in? Take some guesses!

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Homework

Find 1-3 pictures of a place you would like to go to and bring it to the next class. Talk about the place you would like to go to and why you want to go there. 

Have fun!

Photo credits: A. "Business Meeting" (courtesy of Ambro) B. "Adorable Couple Watching TV" (courtesy of imagerymajestic) C. "Woman Asleep" 

Photo credits: 1. "Vintage Eiffel Tower" (courtesy of chrisroll) 2. "Machu Picchu" (courtesy of Arvind Balaraman) 3. "New York Times" (courtesy of Antoine Henrich) 4. "Angkor Wat Sunrise" (courtesy of J Frasse) 5. "Sydney Opera House At Night" (courtesy of Susie B) 6. "Great Wall Of China" (courtesy of cescassawin) 7. "Ancient Ruins In Delphi" (courtesy of thephotoholic)/All pictures from FreeDigitalPhotos.net

週12・13 - ECA (英語基礎表現) II (Super A) & (Survival English) II: 観光

Hello students,

Image "Travel The World, Concept" courtesy of potowizard/FreeDigitalPhotos.net

How are you? Let's look at sightseeing (観光). Where would you like to go and what would you like to see? 

Activity
Look at these pictures. What are these places and what countries are they in? Take some guesses!

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Homework

Find 1-3 pictures of a place you would like to go to and bring it to the next class. Talk about the place you would like to go to and why you want to go there. 

Have fun!

Photo credits: A. "Business Meeting" (courtesy of Ambro) B. "Adorable Couple Watching TV" (courtesy of imagerymajestic) C. "Woman Asleep" 

Photo credits: 1. "Vintage Eiffel Tower" (courtesy of chrisroll) 2. "Machu Picchu" (courtesy of Arvind Balaraman) 3. "New York Times" (courtesy of Antoine Henrich) 4. "Angkor Wat Sunrise" (courtesy of J Frasse) 5. "Sydney Opera House At Night" (courtesy of Susie B) 6. "Great Wall Of China" (courtesy of cescassawin) 7. "Ancient Ruins In Delphi" (courtesy of thephotoholic)/All pictures from FreeDigitalPhotos.net

KIFL WIT Discussion I (1st period) - 2/6 - some open class short presentation images

Hello to all my 1st period discussion students (and anyone else who reads this!),

How are you? Today we had a period of short open class presentations on topics of
How are you? Yesterday we had a period of short open class presentations on topics of student choice. Above is one of the pictures of Tomoe Haga's talk on alcoholic drinks in various countries and areas. Good job Tomoe!

I am posting these to show what students like yourselves are capable of doing, and as a "thank-you" to all of you for your effort - especially in the terrible weather we had yesterday morning that made coming to KIFL difficult for many students. 
that made coming to KIFL difficult for many students. 

This next shot above is of Mana Inoue's talk on American-style diners. Very good - and it
This next shot above is of Mana Inoue's talk on American-style diners. Very good - and it makes me hungry! Here's another shot:
makes me hungry! Here's another shot:

Below is Shiori Nonaka's poster on Valentine's day customs in various countries and
Below is Shiori Nonaka's poster on Valentine's day customs in various countries and areas. Good job Shiori!
areas. Good job Shiori!

 

Finally - while I wasn't able to get any shots of it as it was Internet-based - thank you to
Finally - while I wasn't able to get any shots of it as it was Internet-based - thank you to Natsuki Sakurai for her talk on Japanese-influenced American animation. It was very entertaining!

Good job to all of you! See you next class! 
Good job to all of you! See you next class!

Cheers!

Cheers!