- •Навчально-методичний посібник
- •З дисципліни «практика англійської мови»
- •Introduction
- •Part I. The history of american painting
- •New Deal Art
- •Read the article about the development of art in the usa. Say whether the following statements are true (t) or false (f):
- •Choose the sentences from the text to illustrate the main stages of the development of the American pictorial art (make up the outline of the text).
- •Finish the sentences:
- •Summarize the text, using the outline from task b. Part II. Legends of american painting Benjamin West (1738-1820)
- •John Trumbull (1756-1843)
- •The Hudson RiverSchool1
- •James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
- •Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
- •The Ash Can School2
- •Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (1844—1916)
- •Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926)
- •John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
- •George Bellows (1882-1925)
- •Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
- •Legends of American Painting
- •I. The adjectives in the left-hand column can be used to describe painters. Match each adjective with the best phrase from the right-hand column. People who are:
- •Part III. Genres of painting
- •What genres of painting do you know? Try to fill in the chart. The topical vocabulary may be helpful to you.
- •Topical Vocabulary Paintings.Genres.
- •Match the definition of the painting genre with the notion:
- •Part III. Picture de topical vocabulary
- •Painting Description
- •Part IV. Art galleries. Museums.
- •What American museums and art galleries do you know? Read the text to obtain some information about some of them. The National Gallery of Art
- •The SmithsonianAmericanArt Museum
- •The GuggenheimMuseum
- •The de Young’s American Art Department
- •San FranciscoMuseum of Modern Art
- •Appendix
- •References
Part III. Picture de topical vocabulary
Read and learn the topical vocabulary
1. s
2. r__________ar
3. c ar
4. t ar
5. o
F. Study the idioms with the word “paint” and use them in your own sentences:
1) as close as two coats of paint – to be close and intimate: All their lives, the cousins were close as two coats of paint;
2) paint the town (red) – (sl) to go out and celebrate; I feel like celebrating my promotion. Let's go out and paint the town. They were out painting the town red last night;
3) to be as interesting as watching paint dry (humorous) – very boring: To me, watching golf on television is about as interesting as watching paint dry;
4) paint yourself into a corner – to do something which puts you in a very difficult situationto do something that takes away all of your choices: I’ve painted myself into a corner here;
5) to paint a bleak/rosy etc. picture of something – to describe a situation in a particular way: The article paints a bleak (= hopeless) picture of the future. He painted a rosy (= happy) picture of family life;
6) to paint / tart somebody/something with the same brush – to say that someone or something has the same bad qualities as someone or something else: When one swimmer uses banned substances, you feel sorry for the others because they are all tarred with the same brush.
G. Learn the topical vocabulary:
moving sincerity/with restraint
life/the mood of…
transient expression
in a pyramid/in a vertical format
landscape background
/talking
sky/a classic pillar/the snow
into harmonious unity
reproduction
colorand composition
|
на натюрморті
зворушливою щирістю/стримано
життя/ настрій
пірамідально/вертикально
/під час розмови
|
H. Read the text and write out the expressions which may be used for picture description. Add them to the list of topical vocabulary and learn.