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The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.
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Robert Brault
You are going to watch a story of the Impressionists by Sister Wendy Beckett, an art expert. Before you watch it, do Tasks 1-3.
Task 1. Discuss the following questions with the group:
· Can you name any famous Impressionist painters? Whose paintings do you enjoy most?
· In what ways is the Impressionist movement different from other art movements?
· How would you characterize their manner of painting?
Task 2. Here are some words and expressions that you’ll come across while watching the video. Match them with their definitions.
| 1. a water-shed 2. hypocrisy 3. with aplomb 4. a fallen woman 5. to be not on 6. puny 7. pathos 8. vulnerable 9. an easel 10. a snapshot 11. to take smth in | a) BrE infml: used for saying that something cannot be allowed or that it is impossible; b) a photograph taken very quickly; c) in a confident and skilful way, especially when you have to deal with difficult problems or a difficult situation; d) small, thin, and weak; e) an event or time when important changes happen in history or in your life (= turning point); f) understand and remember smth (that you hear, read or see); g) a wooden frame that you put a painting on while you paint it; h) pretending to have certain beliefs or opinions that one does not really have; i) easy to harm or hurt; j) old-fashioned: a woman who has had a sexual relationship with someone she is not married to; k) the quality that a person, situation, film, or play has that makes you feel pity and sadness. |
Task 3. Look at two paintings Sister Wendy is going to talk about in the video. Work with a partner. Describe the paintings and answer the questions below. Then discuss your answers with the whole group.
Edouard Manet. Olympia. 1863.
| · Whom do you see in the painting? · What does the woman feel or think, judging by her face expression, the gaze of eyes and the whole situation? · What do you feel when looking at the painting? |
Claude Monet. The Water Lilies (Nympheas). 1908.
| · What is depicted in the picture? · What do you feel like doing when you look at it? · What piece of music would be in harmony with this painting? |
Now watch the video once and do Tasks 4 and 5.
Task 4. Watch the video and turn back to the questions in Task 3. Will you change any of your answers?
Task 5. Are the following statements true or false? Correct false statements.
1) The first impressionist paintings were painted in Rome. T / F
2) Edouard Manet came from the higher stratum of society. T / F
3) In his painting Olympia, Manet depicted a fallen woman. T / F
4) Olympia got to be appreciated by Parisians as soon as it was exhibited. T / F
5) Claude Monet became the centre of a group of young artists who got to be known as the Impressionists. T / F
6) The Impressionist movement got its name from a painting. T / F
7) Many paintings by the Impressionists look spontaneous and unpolished. T / F
8) Many Impressionists painted their pictures en plein air. T / F
9) Many paintings by Claude Monet show views of his garden. T / F
10) The Water Lilies is a series of paintings. T / F
Watch the video again and do Tasks 6 and 7.
Task 6. Study the vocabulary in the right column. Then watch the video taking notes. Use your notes and the vocabulary to answer the questions in the left column.
| A. The rise of the Impressionist Movement. Olympia by Edouard Manet. 1. Why do so many people love the Impressionists? 2. When did the Impressionism emerge as a genre? 3. Where does it originate from? 4. What was Edouard Manet like? 5. Why did Olympia scandalize Paris and cause hysterical cries? 6. What did the artist show in the picture? 7. How different was the painting from what the audience got used to? 8. How is pathos revealed in the painting? | To be a water-shed, an art revolution, to start accidentally, to cause offence, to have a raw power, to seem shocking in an overcivilized age, to scandalize, hysterical cries, a (puny) prostitute, hypocrisy was exploded, to look out with great aplomb, to look with a measuring glance at, not to be on, pathos, to be self-assured, to be vulnerable |
| B. The Impressionists. 1. Did Manet have any lasting influence? 2. The public knew them as….. 3. What gave the art movement its name? 4. What was the important feature of the new art movement? | To become the centre of, to catch fire from, portable easels, ready-mixed tubes of paint, to abandon one's studio for the open air, a snapshot approach, to be all dashes and inspiration, spontaneous but unpolished, to take the ball and run with it, to begin a long and lucrative love affair with. |
| C. Claude Monet. “He was only an eye, but what an eye! ”, said Cezanne. 1. What were the favourite views for Monet to paint? Why? 2. “Monet was only an eye, but what an eye! ”, said Cezanne. Comment on the quotation. 3. What kind of feeling does the series of water lilies awaken in the viewers? Why do you think such feelings arise? 4. What would you feel if you could see the original of “Water lilies”? | A revolutionary, Giverny, to plan the garden, to capture every flickering change of light and every fleeting moment, to feel disoriented, to take smth in, to look at/in a painting, a beloved pond, to build big sheds, to reflect, the foliage, the water lilies, to be set free, to be liberated, to be set at peace. |
Task 7. Tell the story of the Impressionist movement. Use the chart from Task 6 as a plan.
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