Упражнения к тексту.

I. Прочитайте текст и ответьте на следующие вопросы:

1.What are the main five genres of painting?

2.Why were paintings ranked?

3.How did the traditions and methods of painting of Italian and Northern Renaissance differ from each other?

4. What paintings does the term “historical genre” refer to?

5. What types of portraits do you know?

6. What is the characteristic feature of genre painting?

7.Where did the worldwide famous school of genre painting develop?

8.Why was landscape the most popular genre with the painters of the 19^th century, especially with the French Impressionist School?

9. When did still life become the main subject and a field for experimentation with colour, form and composition in painting?

II. Переведите и запомните следующие словосочетания из текста:

to be divided into

to reflect Renaissance values

to commission a work of art

fresco painting

large-scale painting / small scale portable painting

to exploit the medium of oil-painting

to specialize in easel-painting

exemplary deeds and struggles of moral figures

the latter / the former

group portrait / individual portrait

self-portrait

head-portrait

shoulder-length portrait

half-length portrait

full-length portrait

supreme exponents

to portray in a non-idealized way

to be endowed with heroic attributes

Dutch Realist School

the Wanderers Art Movement

arrangement of objects

to contain ethical message

varieties of treatment of the subject

III. Согласитесь или опровергните утверждения, используя следующие выражения. Если вы согласны с утверждением, повторите предложение; если не согласны — исправьте его:

Согласие: Несогласие:

I quite agree with you. I disagree with you on that point.

Naturally. I object to it.

Of course. Far from it.

I won’t deny. Certainly not.

Yes, indeed. On the contrary.

Yes, you are right. I’m afraid you are wrong.

1. Landscape painting was the most-respected of all genres.

2. Fresco painting was developed more in Northern Europe than in Italy.

3. Portraits can represent both real-life people and mythological figures in human form.

4. The foremost example of genre painting was the French Impressionist School.

5. “Death of Marat” by Jacques-Louis David is a portrait.

6. One of the leading genres of the Wanderers Art Movement in Russia was landscape.

7. Still lifes of the 17 ^th-18^th centuries often contain moral messages concerning human behaviour.

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