Incredible English 5 Extended Reading and Writing
Incredible English 5 Extended Reading and Writing
Incredible English 5 Extended Reading and Writing
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1 Read the text quickly and label the pictures A, B and C.
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The history
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Pop art is a style of art from the 1950s and Andy Warhol was born in the USA in 1928.
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1960s. In many parts of the world life was He is famous for his prints. He used a special
changing fast at that time. For the first time, process to make prints from photos. He loved
people were driving fast cars, eating fast food, films, and liked making pictures of famous
watching colour television and listening to film actors. Picture B is made of four prints
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pop music. There were lots of new things in
the shops, and there were lots of adverts. The
adverts were bright and colourful, and they
of the actor Marilyn Monroe. It has got lots
of different colours. Andy Warhol’s pictures
of Marilyn Monroe are very famous. He
attracted people’s attention. also made lots of paintings and prints of
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Campbell’s soup tins. Campbell’s was his
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Pop artists were interested in modern things
like adverts and television. They wanted to
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make art that was popular and fun. They Claes Oldenburg was another American
made pictures and sculptures of ordinary Pop artist. He was born in 1929. He made
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4 very big = g __ __ __ __
his pictures.
4 Patrick Caulfield often painted the insides
of ___.
5 Claes Oldenburg made lots of big ___. 2 3
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7 Andy Warhol made prints from ___. 4
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