Презентация к уроку по теме "Экология" "Роберт Бейтман"

Robert Bateman

Рунько Л.Е.

Учитель английского языка

МБОУ СОШ № 68

г.Тула

• Robert Bateman is a leading contemporary artist, naturalist and environmentalist. He is without a doubt the most recognized and celebrated wildlife painter today.
• His works make up a special world, a more lyrical one than a rational imagery of hypperrealism .

• Bateman paintings are simply not an admiration of a beauty of birds, animals or unique relationship among species and their surrounded world.

• In his scenic stories about nature Bateman also relates dramas of nature – fates of disappearing species, storms and hurricanes, which may complicate their lives.

• Fox Tracks 1969

• Canada Geese Nesting 1978

• Great Blue Heron 1978

Gentoo Penguins and Whalebones 1979

The Antarctic waters were the harvesting ground for the great age of whaling in the 19th and early 20th centuries, which helped to build commercial empires, in America and Europe.

The largest creatures to inhabit the Earth and also among the most intelligent, were cruelly slaughtered and brought to the brink of extinction.

In the cold, dry mausoleum of Antarctica, decomposition is slow. The former whaling station stand abandoned with great wrecks of these whales scattered on

the beaches.

The penguins here give a sense of continuing life. They will soon swim away but the great bones stay as a testimony through the years.

• High Kingdom- Snow Leopard 1986

• Carmanah Contrast 1989

• The aftermath of clear-cutting is an ecological horror story. The Carmanah Valley is one of the last areas of old-growth forest left on Vancouver Island and is home to a spectacular stand of Sitka spruce. But it is also threatened by big interests, which have already clear-cut much of surrounding rain forest. To help publicize this, the groups working to preserve the valley invited Bateman and a number of other artists to go there and record their impressions of the forest.

The view of the valley was shocking- nothing was left but stumps.

• Vancouver Island Elegy 1989

Vancouver Island Elegy is another cry of protest about the state of environment. The top image displays an old totem - it resembles the coffin of a dying culture. In the middle you see an Indian elder, a representative of the old way of life. You see the cut trees and an abandoned Indian fishing boat. Traditionally, the Indian tribes along the west coast depended upon fish for survival, but today commercial fishing is so sophisticated that the Indians can’t compete. Besides industrial fishing methods have left their traditional fishing grounds depleted.

• On the Brink - River Otters 1991

• Driftnet 1993

During the 1980s it was estimated that 31,000 miles of driftnets were set each night in the Pacific Ocean. These drifting “walls of death” captured untold number of dolphins, whales, birds, sharks and turtles.

Thanks to a recent United Nations moratorium of driftnet fishing this highly destructive activity has been sharply curtailed in the Pacific.

But the problem of wasteful overfishing remains. In every sea and ocean of the world, the commercial fisheries are either at or over their sustainable limit.

• Elephant Skull and Kittliz’s Plover

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• Beaver 2003

• Beavers are a good symbol for Canada as they have good family values and they care industrious, talented engineers.

• Sleeping – Snow Leopard 2007

• Brown Bear 2009

• If the bald eagle is the symbol of the USA and a beaver is the symbol of Canada, Bateman has always thought of a bear as the symbol of Russia. So the picture was especially painted for this exhibition.