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C.B. Systems Madrid Art-ish

Homework. The BIG questions!
Option 1. present 4 new phrasal verbs/common expressions. Do you consider ‘Away from the Flock’ art?
Option 2. read your 150-200 word presentation on any topic. Who is your favorite English artist? And Spanish? Why?
Option 3. speak for 2 mins without interruption on any topic. If you were a curator, what would be you perfect Spanish collection?
How do you define art in your opinion?
Vocabulary. Did you like art at school? Do you still do anything creative?
Take some time to read and understand the following: What style of art most suits your home decoration?
When was the last time you went to an art exhibition? Describe.
Flock – A group of sheep
Is some art lost on you? What pieces/style?
Appears to be – Seems to be
If you could meet/could have met any artist, who would it be?
Thick – Viscous or wide
Is architecture art? Why/why not?
Immersed – Within/under/totally covered in liquid
Entirely – Totally
Arrested – Detained/captured
Pose – A stance or prepared position
C.B. Systems Madrid..notes go here!

Reading and Pronunciation.

Away from the Flock is a floor-based sculpture consisting of a
glass-walled tank filled with formaldehyde solution in which a dead
sheep is fixed so that it appears to be alive and caught in move-
ment. Thick white frames surround and support the tank, setting in
brilliant relief the transparent turquoise of the solution in which the
Scenario.
You have been invited to a gallery on modern art and need to seem as though
sheep is immersed. Away from the Flock is unusual for a Hirst sculp-
you know a lot about art and in particular all the art displayed in the gallery.
ture in that it exists in three versions, all created the same year, of
The trouble is maybe you don’t. You meet the artist (teacher). Your teacher will
which ARTIST ROOM’s is the third. The principal difference between
describe several pieces of art to you eg. It’s a canvas with 3 small green
the three versions is that the sheep in the first version has an entirely
dots… it’s a kebab on a table. Tell the artist what you think it
black head and its forelegs are raised further off the floor of the tank,
means/represents. Don’t forget to use the words playful, depict, ambiguous
so that it appears to be arrested mid-jump. The sheep in versions
…
two and three are more similar in appearance and in pose; ARTIST
Quote of the week!
ROOM’s sheep has less black on its head and a pinker tinge in the So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually
rest of its wool than the others. dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
- Damien Hirst

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