Lesson 5
Task 21. Now your teacher will hand out the distribution scheme and lists of distribution problems solutions written by you as a home assignment for the previous class, checked and commented on. After you look through the comments made by the teacher on your press releases, questionnaires and market researches, ask him/her questions if you do not quite understand or have doubts about some comments.
Task 22. Tell about your interview results as to the cause of delays while delivering the printing product to the class. Presenters should be asked additional questions by the students and the teacher when their presentations are over.
Task 23. Now we will check Tasks 1-5 from the Workbook.
Task 24. Module Assessment. Your teacher will give your Module Assessment paper (You have 60 minutes for all the tasks).
MODULE 3
UNIT 5. ART HISTORY
STUDENT’S BOOK
LESSON 1
Task 1. Art has always played the most important role in the development of the mankind. Everyone is familiar with art. Art is all around us in one form or another. It helps us to understand people who lived hundred years ago and to learn the history of the mankind. Art makes us realise beauty and harmony and helps people to understand outside world and each other. Art develops our good qualities and also has a great educational significance. Art brings people up – makes them more humane and kind.
On the pictures given below you can see 5 artworks from different centuries. Most of them are well-known. Try to name the pictures, say who painted them and in which century.
After that answer the following questions:
Which painting do you prefer and why?
Do you know anything about these artworks and their creators?
Do the authors’ techniques differ? (You have 15 minutes for this task)
A B C
D E
Task 2. Read the text and give definitions of the underlined words (You have 15 minutes for this task).
History of Art
Art history spans the entire history of humankind, from prehistoric times to the twenty-first century. Whether you like to observe caveman paintings or Botticelli angels, you can find visual arts that challenge your creative side and inspire you to find beauty in manmade forms.
In modern times, art history has emerged as a discipline that specializes in teaching people how to evaluate and interpret works of art based on their own perspective. Art history has frequently been criticized for its subjectivity because the definition of what is beautiful varies from individual to individual. Learning to evaluate what you see by building on the art forms you already know can develop your aesthetic understanding.
Claude Monet once said, “It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.”
In keeping with Monet, consider how to observe as many works of art as possible. You will develop a sense of your favourite styles and time periods, and you will be able to use the vocabulary of art to discuss your appreciation of art with others. If you love Botticelli, you will be able to recognize the theme he chooses for each painting and which symbols and figures he uses most often during the Renaissance.
Art history requires you to study and describe what you see in terms of the design elements of line, shape, colour, value, and texture. Once you write a response to one work of art, you can compare it to another work of art. An alternative is to make comparisons and contrasts between artists and their artistic works with the mind’s eye. As you explore the fascinating world of art, a beautiful collection of thousands of years of human experience, you will want to travel farther from your home to see works of art in person.
The great thing about the Internet is that the world’s art repositories bring famous works of visual art to you through online exhibitions and virtual tours. However you decide to develop your sense of art history and appreciation, look for every opportunity to enrich your life with paintings, prints, mixed media, sculpture, and drawings.
Don’t forget to share your art appreciation with others because art makes every ordinary life just a little bit more exquisite!
(The text is borrowed and modified from http://www.arthistory.net/: as of 27 February 2012)
Task 3. It is important to understand the meaning of the words connected with art. Below there are definitions of the words connected with art. Find these words in the text (You have 5 minutes for this task).
Paintings on cave walls and ceilings, the term is used especially for those dating to prehistoric times.
Art work, such as painting, photography, or sculpture that appeals primarily to the visual sense and typically exists in permanent form.
The art or process of making a drawing of something to show how you will make it or what it will look like.
A place or container in which large quantities of something are stored.
A show of paintings, photographs, or other objects that people can go to see.
Task 4. Match the words with their definitions (You have 5 minutes for this task).
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Task 5. Explain the following phrases that appeared in the text (You have 5 minutes for this task).
Art history spans the entire history of humankind….
… you can find visual arts that challenge your creative side…
…art makes every ordinary life just a little bit more exquisite.
Task 6. It is important not only to know the names of some artworks, but also know how to describe them.
Below you can see two sculptures.
A. The Nike of Samothrace (winged Victory), 190 BC;
B. Building VI sculpture outside the “Musee des Beaux-Arts” in Montreal, Canada, Designed by Antony Gormley.
Describe these sculptures using the following adjectives: marble, metallic, magnificent, stunning, comforting, relaxing, vibrant, mystical, abstract, original, unique, intuitive, vibrant, primitive, strong (You have 10 minutes for this task).
A B
Task 7. As you know, there are warm and cool colours. They differently affect people and their perception. Psychologically, warm colours tend to be exciting, emphatic, and affirmative; optically, warm colours seem to advance or to project forward to the viewer. Cool colours are calming, unemphatic, depressive; optically, they generally appear to recede.
Your task is to name which colours are warm and which are cool. Which colours do you like best? Which colours do artists use more often in their paintings? (You have 10 minutes for this task).
Task 8. Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. The knowledge of the famous composers’ lives (biographies) helps to fully understand their music. Today we are going to read the text about Vivaldi. Read the text below (You have 10 minutes for this task).
V
ivaldi
was very much a baroque composer. He loved to create music with
brilliant effects: wide leaps from one register to another; attempts
to describe natural phenomena such as storms, wind, and rain;
simulated bird calls; dramatic contrasts of loud and soft, or of full
ensemble versus a solo instrument; and scales that zoomed up and down
like a rollercoaster. He lived in an age when people wanted to hear
only the latest music, much like we do with pop music today.
Composers were kept busy, furiously turning out new pieces. Vivaldi
composed a tremendous amount of music – over a thousand pieces. He
even claimed that he could compose faster than a person could copy
it! He wrote as much as Bach and Handel put together.
Today, Vivaldi is remembered mostly for the large number of violin concertos he wrote – over 200. Vivaldi obviously had music not only in his head but in his fingers, bones, and heart as well. Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons violin concertos are without doubt his most famous.
The Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi composed in 1723. The texture of each concerto is varied, each resembling its respective season. The concertos were first published in 1725 as part of a set of twelve concerts. The four concertos were written to accompany four sonnets. Though it is not known who wrote these sonnets, there is a theory that Vivaldi wrote them himself, given that each sonnet is broken down into three sections, neatly corresponding to a movement in the concerto. If Vivaldi in fact wrote the sonnets, The Four Seasons may be classified as program music, music that intends to evoke something extra-musical.
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is so popular today that it is used in TV advertisements, as background music in restaurants and in films.
(The text is borrowed and modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The_Four_Seasons_(Vivaldi): as of 29January 2012)
Task 9. Musical terms are sometimes hard to understand. Most of them are Italian, in accordance with the Italian origins of many European musical conventions.
Match the words with their explanations (You have 5 minutes for this task).
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Task 10. Now you are going to listen to the part of the Four Seasons’ concerto called “Spring”. Your task is to listen attentively and tell which feeling and emotions this music evokes in you (You have 10 minutes for this task).
"La primavera" (Spring) – Movement 1: Allegro from The Four Seasons
Hometask
Do Tasks 1-4 from the Workbook.
As Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons violin concertos are without doubt his most famous, there exist a lot of pictures which serve as disks covers. Your task is to look at the picture below and find your own picture that you associate with the piece of music you have listened to in Task 10. You can use the Internet, newspapers, magazines and any other materials. Bring this picture to the next class. Be ready to explain your choice.
Imagine you work as a consultant at the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Ukraine. Today you had a visitor and he asked your advice about the painting purchase. This visitor wanted to buy a painting for his daughter and was wondering what would be better: to buy the painting by Yevgenia Gapchunska or Laurie Justus Pace. Below you can see both paintings. Your task is to consult him, advising the one that would be better. The price of these paintings is the same. So, express your opinion to the buyer. Give him some information about both artists and about the paintings, you may express your own opinion, but do not persuade him too much. It is his choice and he should make the decision, not you.
Yevgenia
Gapchunska
Ukrainian Contemporary artist
Laurie Justus Pace
Texas Contemporary artist