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1. Answer the following questions:

1. Where is the National Gallery?

2. When was it founded?

3. When was the National Gallery housed first?

4. When did the National Gallery move to home in Trafalgar Square?

5. Who constructed the present building of British museum?

6. What amazing items are in the National Gallery?

7. What is the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery?

2. Decide and match what these numbers and dates refer to according to the text.

1824

a. the year when Rembrandt painted his self portrait

1669

b. the sum of money which Parliament wanted to pay John Julius Angerstein to buy some pictures from his collection

38

c. The number of paintings which the National gallery contains

1821

d. the year when John Constable’s picture called The Hay Wain was painted

60.000

e. the period which covers every European school of painting

1508

f. the time when the gallery moved to its present home in Trafalgar Square

2.300

g. the beginning of the National gallery

1838

h. the year when the new Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery was opened by Queen Elizabeth II

1260-1900

i. the time when the famous masterpiece Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci was painted

1991

j. the number of paintings which British government wanted to buy from the collection of financier John Julius Angerstein

Text 4. Angel of the North

From computer animation to the visual arts, the outstanding quality of British

art and design is acknowledged around the world.

Take the amazing Angel of the North, which soars above the A1 road at Gateshead in the north-east England – the largest public sculpture ever erected in the UK. Its 54m wingspan is nearly as large as a jumbo jet’s. At 20m high and weighing 200 tones, it contains enough steel to make 16 double-decker buses. Each wing alone weighs 50 tones. Every day some 90.000 vehicles drive by this incredible sight.

The sculpture is the creation of Anthony Gormley (1950- ), one of the UK’s most innovative artists. He has exhibited work all around the world and his major public works can be seen in Japan and Australia, Norway and the USA. Anthony Gormley is perhaps best known for having pioneered the technique of using his own body as a ‘living mould’ for life-sized figures in bronze and other metals.

The Angel of the North was constructed on land where the bath houses of a former coal mine once stood. It dominates the countryside for kilometers around. While coal production in the UK is not the industry it was, coal still plays a part in the meeting the country’s energy needs. But it is to energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies that the UK now looks.

1. Answer the following questions:

1. What is Angel of the North?

2. Who created the sculpture?

3. What is the form of Angel of the North?

4. Why do people say that Anthony Gormley is innovative artist?

5. Can people say that Angel of the North is the symbol of coal industry?