- •Topical vocabulary
- •1. General terminology
- •2. Genres in painting
- •2.1. Landscape painting
- •3.3. Composition
- •3.4. Colour
- •3.5. Light and shade
- •3.6. Line(work)
- •3.8. Style and technique
- •5. Going round a museum or art gallery
- •6. Names of museums and galleries
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •X. Choose the right word:
- •Illustration and training
- •II. Make up statements choosing suitable words.
- •III. Make up statements.
- •IV. Make sentences using these patterns.
- •V. React to the following sentences as in the model below.
- •VI. Say you did not know about the facts your partner tells you.
- •VII. Tell what genres of painting would choose the following as their objects.
- •VIII. Object to the following statements.
- •IX. Memorize these short dialogues.
- •Glimpses of british art
- •I. An outline of english painting
- •Exercises
- •1. Read the text given above.
- •3. Find the English equivalents for:
- •4. Explain and expand on the following:
- •Portrait painting
- •I. Read the texts for obtaining information. Sir joshua reynolds
- •Thomas gainsborough
- •Exercises
- •1. Study the italicised phrases, translate the sentences with them, give a back translation without consulting the texts.
- •2. Explain or expand on the following:
- •II. Without translating the extracts give the English equivalents for the italicized words, groups of words or phrases and render the paragraphs.
- •III. Study and describe Thomas Gainsborough's famous picture Portrait of the Duchess of Beaufort. Make use of the text given below and the following vocabulary:
- •VI. Two portraits of sarah siddons
- •1. Study the text “Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse” in “In the World of Painting” ( p.P. 22-24). Summarize it. Use the following vocabulary:
- •2. Read the text of Ex. V in “Practical Course of English” (3d year) edited by Prof. Arakin, 1974, p. 145. Render it in English.
- •3. Pass your judgement on the opinion of an enthusiastic admirer who saw the “Mrs. Siddons” by Gainsborough in the Manchester exhibition of 1857.
- •4. Work in pairs. Compare the two portraits. Landscape painting
- •I. Give a brief talk about the outstanding English landscape painters Constable and Turner.
- •II. Read the following text and speak on the similarities and differences between Constable’s and Turner’s painting.
- •Exercises
- •1. Learn the italicized phrases and use them while speaking about the painters.
- •2. The following sentences may be used while speaking about the painters. Your task is to decide who they refer to:
- •III. Translate the following into English:
- •V. Act as interpreter in the following dialogue:
- •The tretyakov gallery
- •I. Describe the reproduction of Surikov's "Boyarina Morozova" using this text as a guide.
- •Exercises
- •1. Find in the text English equivalents for the following phrases and write them out:
- •2. Use the active vocabulary in sentences of your own.
- •3. Describe the “Boyarina Morozova” according to the following plan:
- •II. Act as interpreter in the following dialogue:
- •From "Christmas Holiday" by w. S. Maugham
- •1. Still Life with Soup Tureen by Paul Cezanne (1883 – 1885)
- •2. "Picnic" by Claude Monet (1866)
- •3. Portrait of Cardinal Bontivoglio by Antonis Van Dyck (after 1621)
- •Exercises
- •Free speech activity
- •Instructions
- •Reference literature
3.8. Style and technique
plein-air technique пленеpная живопись; in the open (air)
e. g. He paints all his pictures in the open. (b) There is an open-air feeling in his work.
effect
atmospheric effects; wonderful cloud effects; colour effects; effects of distance; light and shade effects; subtly painted moonlight effects; a night effect; perspective effects; sunshine effects
finish n законченность, отделка; v завеpшать, отделывать
exquisite finish; a work remarkable for a minute and detailed finish; finishing touches; finished technique
handle v
to handle the brush well
handling умение художника владеть кистью
deftness of handling
e. g. This particular portrait, for example, shows much greater freedom of handling.
skill
with infinite (remarkable) skill
to portray people / emotions with moving sincerity / with restraint
to depict a person / a scene of common life / the mood of ...
to render / interpret the personality of...
to reveal the person's nature
to capture the sitter's vitality / transient expression
to indicate the sitter's profession
to develop one's own style of painting
to conform to the taste of the period
to break with the tradition
to be in advance of one's time
to expose the dark sides of life
to become famous overnight
to die forgotten and penniless
4. IMPRESSION. JUDGEMENT: the picture may be life-like, moving, lyrical, romantic, original, poetic in tone and atmosphere, an exquisite piece of painting, an unsurpassed masterpiece, distinguished by a marvellous sense of colour and composition.
The picture may be dull, crude, chaotic, a colourless daub of paint, obscure and unintelligible, gaudy, depressing, disappointing, cheap and vulgar.
5. Going round a museum or art gallery
There are two ways of going round a museum or gallery:
with a guide, with/in a group, on a guided/conducted tour or on one’s own, by oneself.
6. Names of museums and galleries
London galleries:
The National Gallery (European art of all schools)
The National Portrait Gallery (portraits of notable people, from the Middle Ages to the present time)
The Tate Gallery (British paintings of all periods, modern foreign painting, modern sculpture)
Russian museums and galleries:
The Pushkin Fine Arts Museum/Museum of Fine Arts
The Tretyakov (Art) Gallery
The Hermitage (Museum)
The Russian Museum
7. NAMES OF ARTISTS
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael Santi
Michelangelo
Titian
Rembrandt van Rijn
Rubens
Velasquez
Chardin
Van Dyck
Hogarth
Joshua Reynolds
Thomas Gainsborough
John Constable
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Francisco Goya
Delacroix
Edouard Manet
Claude Monet
Camille Pissarro
Auguste Renoir
Paul Cezanne
Vincent van Gogh
Paul Gauguin
Henri Matisse
Pablo Picasso
Vocabulary exercises
I. Group the topical vocabulary into the following areas: names of people concerned with painting, various actions within this area, forms and kinds of Fine Arts productions, the inventory to be found in a painter’s studio, ways of exhibiting art works, world famous places.
II. Give English equivalents for the following words and phrases and use them in sentences of your own:
произведение искусства, изобразительное искусство, прикладное искусство, народное искусство, художественная школа, художественный вкус, малохудожественный, знаток, современные художники, старые мастера, направление в искусстве, делать набросок, набросок, мазня, последний штрих.
III. Translate the following words into English and use them in a situation:
цветной мелок, мольберт, этюдник, масляные краски, акварельные краски, уголь, пастель, кисть, палитра, студия.
IV. A. Use “piece” as a component to translate the following into English:
шедевр; батальная сцена; жанровая сценка; натюрморт, изображающий цветы.
B. Use the word “sense” to translate the following word combinations into English:
чувство цвета, композиции; тонкое чувство художественной формы; чувство формы в живописи; ощущение пространства, движения, расстояния.
C. Use the word “colour” to translate the following into English:
чувство цвета; основные цвета; дополнительный цвет; теплые (холодные) тона; богатство красок; игра красок; чистая краска; яркие пятна; колорит художника; сдержанный колорит; палитра, где доминирует голубой; темные (светлые) тона
V. Supply attributes for the following nouns:
art, artist, skill, taste, master, model, figure, subject, brush, painter, painting, picture, reproduction, sketch, study, trend, view, portrait, form, colour, colouring, tint, light, stroke, technique, effect, finish.
VI. Supply direct objects for the following verbs:
to depict, to paint, to portray, to render, to catch, to capture, to treat, to emphasize, to convey, to place, to accentuate, to handle, to reveal, to indicate, to develop, to expose.
VII. Supply prepositional objects for the following verbs:
to paint in, to draw in, to draw from, to paint from, to pose for, to merge into, to blend with, to conform to, to break with.
VIII. Supply nouns to go with the following adjectives:
antique, infinite, moving, dull, graphic, fashionable, artistic, nude, historical, mural, equestrian, ceremonial, depressing, colourless, gaudy, cheap, remarkable, lyrical, original, artistic, exquisite, delicate, marvellous, vulgar, atmospheric, mature, marine, intimate, vertical, single, primary, brilliant, subtle, fierce.
IX. Insert suitable words from the active vocabulary:
1. Titian had a marvellous ... ... ... .
2. A remarkable ... ... ... is conveyed in his landscapes.
3. He held the ... in his left hand.
4. Ivanov made a great number of ... of heads for his picture “Christ Appears before the People.”
5. Some very fine ... by Renaissance Florentine painters were brought to the exhibition.
6. He ... the scene before him truthfully.
7. The art class had several ... posing for them once a week.
8. He did the portrait in one ... .
9. In Serov’s famous portrait of Yermolova the actress is ... against a background of a grey wall.
10. The colours in this picture ... into one another.
11. He stood watching the ... ... ... upon the water.
12. He encouraged you to try your hand at brighter colour harmonies and to allow yourself greater freedom as a ... .
13. The silhouette is drawn in agitated, uneven lines, the ... is unbalanced, a violent contrast of ... ... ... is used.
14. The ... was far removed from the final work.
15. Turner used ... for immediate studies from nature, and ... for those pictures which he intended to exhibit.
16. The ... of the Impressionists differed from that of their predecessors in that they did not blend the colours together imperceptibly, but left the ... clearly visible all over their canvases.