Match the words with translation.
A
B
masterpieces
мольберт
application
шедеври
vehicle
рідкісний
representative
заява
rare
засіб пересування, провідник
easel
представник
to exist
розширювати, збільшувати
expand
існувати
Translate into English. Make up sentences.
Розвиток
Розвиток мистецтва
Іноземні експозиції
Асортимент
Найбагатші колекції
Особливий
Акварель
Гуаш
засновник
Put in the right order. Learn the dialogue.
That’s a lovely picture?
Yes, that is lovely, isn’t it?
Beautiful.
It’s a Constable, isn’t it?
Well it looks like Constable.
I suppose so.
The last great English painter, wasn’t he?
.But they are only minor ones, aren’t they?
One can always tell a Constable, can’t one?
Well we have had some quite good painters since then
I don’t know. Sutherland’s quite famous.
But that isn’t everything, is it?
No, but it’s something.
It’s quality that counts, isn’t it?
Well, yes.
And English painters aren’t good enough, are they?
Well….um…
You know I’m right, don’t you?
I suppose so.
Yes it is, isn’t it?
And I like that one over there too.
Describe the paintings.
Think about:
Main subject
Setting
Background
Your feelings
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)8. Read and translate the article Some little known facts about famous paintings
T
he
original painting by Rembrandt which is now titled “Self
Portrait as the Apostle Paul”
was originally 160 cm wide, but unfortunately the only frame that
the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam had at the time, was 93 cm wide so the
curators trimmed off the right-hand side which had a portrait of
Rembrandt’s favourite llama which he had named “Umber”.
Another little known fact is that Rembrandt made his own brushes using llama hair from Umber.
This watercolour version of “Coming Down from Mont Blanc” was painted by John Singer Sargent around 1909 and shows a couple of friends bringing Sargent’s pack llamas down the mountain. Sargent was one of the first to use pack llamas to carry his easel and supplies.
If you
ever get a chance to see the “Oyster
Gatherers of Cancale”
by John Singer Sargent in The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington,
DC, look very carefully at the left-hand side and you may be able to
see where s
ome
llama-hating restorer has carefully painted out the llama.
Claude Monet’s painting of “Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden”, done in 1866, shows one of Claude’s favourite llamas. Very few people know that he kept a few llamas to keep the grass in his garden trimmed.
Salvador Dali painted many versions of “Persistence of Memory” around 1931 and our favourite one naturally is this one which shows Salvador Dali’s pet llama which he obviously called “DaliLlama”.
It is displayed in the Museum of Llama Art in Mount Lehman, British Columbia.
T
homas
Eakins’ painting of “The
Courtship”,
done in 1878, obviously doesn’t have a llama in it.
However, as shown below, recent x-rays clearly proved that the current painting covered an earlier composition which included two llamas. This would suggest that the girl is probably spinning llama wool.
There is an on-going controversy now between Eakins scholars and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco whether or not to scrape off the top layer and reveal the original llama p ainting.
Whistler’s
famous portrait of his mother shows a painting on the wall. Few
people realize that it is one of his mother’s favourite paintings.
It was done by Whistler three years earlier when he took a trip to
N
epal.
On the close-up you can see that the smaller painting has a figure
with a pack llama hiking on a ridge with Mount Everest in the
background.
On close inspection of this Vincent Van Gogh painting of a llama in a wheat field, you will notice that Mr. Van Gogh has cut off one of the llama’s ears.
In this Monet painting a curious llama is checking out the magpie on the gate. As you can see in the detail below, the llama has snow on its face from leaning through the snow on the fence.