6.2.3 Identify these terms: plaster, Grecian vases, Egyptian antiquities, prints, Renaissance, the Impressionists, open air, pastel.

6.2.4 What do you remember about the creation of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts?

1 When was the Fine Arts Room founded?

2 What did the collection of the Fine Arts Room consist of by 1869?

3 Who designed the Museum of Fine Arts?

4 Who was the founder and the first director of the Museum of Fine Arts?

6.2.5 Recalling the facts

1 What did a well-known Egyptologist, Vladimir Golenishchev, present to the museum in 1909?

2 What collections did the Museum of Fine Arts acquire in 1924?

3 Some masterpieces from the Hermitage were added to the picture collection, weren’t they?

4 Was the museum enlarged in 1948? What are the names of the collectors of French paintings?

5 Can you enumerate the treasures the Museum of Fine Arts comprises?

6.2.6 Thinking about the main idea

1 Say when and where a group of young painters organized its own exhibition?

2 Explain why this group of painters was called the Impressionists?

3 Enumerate the painters who belonged to the Impressionists?

6.2.7 Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

1 The Impressionists were the first revolutionaries in modern art.

2 They showed in black and dark colours the daily life of people.

3 They painted only in their studios and never in the open air.

4 The colours were pure, airy and bright.

5 The main thing for them was to watch how the subject changed under various light conditions.

6.2.8 What do you know about

1 the paintings “Rouen Cathedral at Noon” and “Rouen Cathedral at Sunset”?

2 the painting “The Nude”?

3 the pastel “Blue Dancers”?

6.2.9 Imagine that you are a guide in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Speak about

1 the foundation of the Museum of Fine Arts;

2 the expansion of the museum’s collection;

3 the Impressionists;

4 any of the canvases painted by the Impressionists;

5 any portrait or landscape painting except the Impressionists`;

6 the Museum of Fine Arts as a remarkable depository of world art.

6.2.10 Speak in general about the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts to a group of English tourists

Список использованных источников

1 Сборник тематических текстов для изучающих английский язык.- М.: Академия Наук, 1965. 134 стр.

2 Текст «The Face and the Spirit of Moscow» \\ Hello .-1997.-№2.-С.4

3 Текст «Great Muscovites» \\ Иностранные языки в школе.-1997.-№5.-С.38-39

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