Upper Intermediate Portfolio - Straightforward

5a Performance art
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Can do (tick ✓)
I can discuss and compare opinions about art and artists.
I can understand descriptions of artistic events and creations.
I can understand a sequence of events in a text.
I can use different narrative tenses to tell an anecdote.
Art
Do you ever visit art galleries or art exhibitions What sort of art do or don’t you like What’s your
opinion of modern art over the last 30 years
My contemporary art exhibition
• Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap up buildings (such as the Reichstag in Berlin) so that
they look like a parcel. Which famous building, monument, etc. would you like to wrap up, and
why
• Artist Orlan films operations on herself. What event affecting you would you film to show in
your next art exhibition
• Artist Tracey Emin made an exhibit out of her unmade bed filled with her possessions and
leftovers. Which everyday object from your own life would you exhibit
Reichstag, Berlin
Self portrait
Imagine someone is painting your portrait. Write the accompanying text for an art gallery. Think
about these questions: What are you doing Where are you What are you wearing How do you
look What expression do you have
In this portrait of . . .
‘
Art produces ugly things which frequently
become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the
other hand, produces beautiful
’
things which
always become ugly with time.
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Jean Cocteau (French writer & film director, 1889–1963)
Girl: Wow – look! They’ve
got a portrait of me!
Mother: I think that’s a
mirror, dear.