Lesson 3. Contemporary Art
1. Do you know the elements of a photograph? Read them in the box. Then, look at these examples of contemporary art and imagine you are going to participate in a debate about it.
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Statement 1: in my opinion the first picture is not art, it is only a piece of metal
Statement 2: the second picture does not belong to any conception of art because it is going to disappear
Statement 3: the third one is only an eye
2. Work in pairs. Read the text about contemporary art and pay attention to the details given in the text.
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a. What costs $120,000? A banana stuck on the wall
b. What are some key words in the text? Boundary, frugal, academicism, minimalism, performance
c. What’s the general idea about contemporary art? Contemporary art is superficial
d. Look at the sentences in blue. What do “its” and “it” refer to? “its” is a possessive adjective, we use it to express the characteristics inside something. “it” is a personal pronoun