San FranciscoMuseum of Modern Art

Founded in 1935, SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted to modern and contemporary art. From the outset, the museum has championed the most innovative and challenging art of its time, and it continues to exhibit and collect work by both modern masters and younger, less-established artists.

The museum always have a dynamic schedule of thought-provoking exhibition on view, including special exhibitions and changing presentations from our collection of more than 27,000 artworks, photographs, and design objects. The internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art continues to grow. With strong holdings in photography, painting and sculpture, architecture and design, and media arts, the museum strive to present key examples of Modernism as well as more recent works that reflect a variety of artistic developments occurring regionally, nationally, and around the world. Each year, in addition to organizing ongoing installations of permanent collection works, curators develop a variety of collection-based presentations to complement the special traveling exhibitions hosted by the museum. Including both modern art masterworks and glimpses of contemporary art in the making, the permanent collection contributes to SFMOMA’s standing as a dynamic art center where visitors can learn, reflect, and be inspired.

New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts

The MetropolitanMuseum’s collection of American art, one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world, returns to view in expanded, reconceived, and dramatic new galleries on January 16, 2012, when the Museum inaugurates the New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts. The new installation will provide visitors with a rich and captivating experience of the history of American art from the 18th through the early 20th century. The suite of elegant new galleries encompasses 30,000 square feet for the display of the Museum’s superb collection.

The Museum’s holdings are particularly rich in the works of the great masters, including John Singleton Copley (Daniel Crommelin Verplanck), Gilbert Stuart (George Washington), Thomas Cole (The Oxbow), Church (The Heart of the Andes), Winslow Homer (Prisoners from the Front), Thomas Eakins (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull), and John Singer Sargent (Madame X).

The centerpiece of the new installation is one of the best-known works in all of American art, Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze’s 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. For the re-hanging of this magnificent work, a large and stately gilded frame has been painstakingly recreated by Eli Wilner & Company from a recently discovered photograph of the painting from 1864. The renovated galleries afford a dramatic vista toward this monumental canvas, which hangs in the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation Gallery. This double-sized gallery showcases Leutze’s iconic work alongside two other masterpieces—Church’s Heart of the Andes and Albert Bierstadt’s Rocky Mountains—just as they were displayed at the famous 1864 Metropolitan Sanitary Fair. These three paintings have been beautifully restored as part of the renovation project.

The Museum’s encyclopedic collection offers visitors the broad sweep of American history as told through great works of art. The aforementioned central gallery focuses on the themes of freedom, exploration, and expansion that pervaded America during the mid-19th century. Other subjects, themes, and periods presented in the new galleries include: Colonial Portraiture, the American Revolution, the YoungRepublic, the Civil War Era, Art in the Folk Tradition, the Hudson RiverSchool, the West, the Cosmopolitan Spirit, and American Impressionism.

2. You are the reporter of the CNN channel. You have to prepare a report devoted to the MetropolitanMuseum’s 150^th anniversary. Interview the authorities of the Museum about its history, departments, collections, exhibitions, events. Summarize the received information and highlight it in your prominent report.

3. You have some friends who are stopping in New York for 24 hours on their way to San Francisco. Since you are more familiar with New York, they ask you what museums and galleries they should visit there. Write a one-day itinerary for your friends. Trade itineraries with a partner. Take turns roleplaying the person going to New York and the person giving advice. Discuss and explain itinerary you have prepared.

   Part V. CONSOLIDATION

A. Choose the right answer:

1. Mr. Cheater made a living works by famous painters.

a) devising b) faking c) pretending d) shamming

2. A sculpture by Rodin fetched more than two million dollars at the last month.

a) auction b) gallery c) museum d) sale

3. The of Rembrandt's paintings finishes next week.

a) demonstration b) exhibition c) show d) spectacle

4. They thought the painting was genuine but it turned out to be

a) a facsimile b) an imitation c) a replica d) a reproduction

5. There was no difference between the original and the copy.

a) discernible b) discoverable c) knowable d) understandable

6. Mr. Adventurous has taken painting since he retired.

a) down b) in c) over d) up

7. A young art student acted as our when we visited the museum.

a) coach b) conductor c) guide d) lead

8. This self-portrait did not come to until after the artist's death.

a) light b) range c) sight d) view

9. Mr. Vernix is the greatest expert on techniques of painting.

a) alive b) live c) living d) nowadays

10 Children and pensioners are admitted to the museum at … prices.

a) decreased b) less c) reduced d) undercharged

11.On examination by experts, the picture turned out to be a …

a) fabrication b) fake c) fraud d) sham

12. In the right-hand corner of the portrait there is a flower.

a) front b) high c) top d) up

13He is sometimes considered to be an outstanding artist, but I consider his work to bequite…

a) common b) intermediate c) mediocre d) moderate

14.All visitors are requested to … with the regulations.

a) agree b) assent c) comply d) consent

15.He made some … sketches which would serve as guides when he painted the actuallandscape.

a) elementary b) introductory c) preliminary d) primary

16.Admission to the gallery is … except on Saturdays and Sundays when a charge of onedollar is made.

a) allowed b) free c) nothing d) paid

17.The paintings are hung in heavy gold … .

a) easels b) frames c) fringes d) rims

a) aim b) intention c) meaning d) purpose

B. Match the term on the left with its definition on the right

1.caricature a) a picture made with a pencil

2, cartoon b) a drawing showing the parts of something to explain how

it works

3. collage c) a drawing showing by a line the connection between two

qualities

4. diagram d) a rough drawing without many details

5. drawing e) a picture to go with the words of a book

6. fresco f) a picture in solid black

7. graph g) a picture painted in water color on a surface of fresh wet

plaster

8. illustration h) woven cloth hanging on a wall, with pictures woven from

colored wool or silk

9. mural i) a humorous drawing, often dealing with something of interest

In the new in an amusing way

10. silhouette j) a representation of a person made so that aspects of his /her

appearance appear more noticeable than they really are

11. sketch k) a picture made by an unusual combination of bits of paper,

cloth, metal etc.

12) tapestry l) a picture painted directly onto the wall

C. Translate the following using the topical vocabulary:

1. Я мушу визнати, що всі картини цього художника – неперевершені шедеври.

2. Яскрава палітра відомого художника-колориста точно передає мальовничий пейзаж.

3. Ця картина відрізняється надзвичайним почуттям кольору та композиції.

4. На відвідувачів виставки особливе враження справили м’які та ніжні кольори репродукцій.

5. Незважаючи на використання стриманої кольорової палітри, художнику вдалося точно передати відчуття простору.

6. Їй подобалося блукати залами виставки та роздивлятися ліричні та зворушливі композиції модного та дуже перспективного молодого художника.

7. Мені не подобається ця картина, вона тьмяна і незрозуміла.

8. Портрети Марі Кассатт ніби зливаються з пейзажами, на фоні яких вони намальовані.

9. У 18 столітті серед аристократів було модно замовляти свої скульптурні портрети у досвідчених митців.

10. Мені подобаються пейзажі та натюрморти, намальовані масляною фарбою.

D. Render the following article in English using the expressions from topical vocabulary:

Уістлер народився в Новій Англії, у штаті Массачусетс, в сім’ї інженера-залізничника. У віці восьми років батько відвіз його до Росії, куди той був запрошений для будівництва залізниці із Петербурга в Москву. У Петербурзі сім’я оселилася на Галерній вулиці, майже навпроти Академії мистецтв. Юний Уістлер часто ходив з матір’ю в Ермітаж, перші уроки малювання отримав там. Як виняток здібного хлопчика зарахували до “головного класу” Академії мистецтв. Проте він часто хворів, і, за існуючої версією, у той час з ним мистецтвом займався відомий російський митець Федотов, який у той час був молодим офіцером, що відвідував класи академії.

У Росії Уістлер прожив до 15 років, коли після смерті батька мати вирішила повернутися додому.Образ матері митець зберіг у своєму портреті, написаному в 1871 році. Це один з найвідоміших портретів не лише Уістлера, але й усього американського живопису другої половини дев’ятнадцятого сторіччя.

Повернувшись до Америки, Уістлер вступає до воєнного коледжу, але не закінчує його, і, вирішувши продовжити свою художню освіту, їде до Парижу. Там він знайомиться з Курбе, Мане і майбутніми художниками-імпрессіоністами. У кінці 50-х років Уістлер покидає французьку столицю, переїжджає до Лондону і остаточно там влаштовується, продовжуючи виявляти інтерес до різних явищ образотворчого мистецтва. Захоплюється стриманним колоритом Веласкеса, вишуканою грою лінійних ритмів і тонкою колористичною гамою японської гравюри. Його, як і французьких імпрессіоністів, цікавить проблема передачі кольорово-повітряного середовища. Однак, мистецтво Уістлера важко віднести до якої-небудь певної художньої школи. Він сприйняв і синтезував у своїй творчості найрізніші течії, не наслідуючи жодну з них.

Свої пейзажі і портрети митець часто називав «ноктюрнами» або «кольоровими гармоніями». Дійсно, картини Уістлера відрізняє віртуозність, тонкість і вишуканість колорита, побудованого, как правило, на поєднанні одного-двух головних кольорів.

E.Skim through the material in Parts 1 – 4 and answer the following questions:

1) What was the first American school of landscape?

2) Who were the leading painters of the last third of the nineteenth century?

3) What other American painters do you know?

4) What was Edward Hopper’s theme in art?

5) What is Winslow Homer famous for?

6) What was the subject matter of the painters of the Ash Can School?

7) What were the Ash Can School principles in art?

8) Who influenced Mary Cassatt’s art?

F. Connect the name of a painter with the picture:

Benjamin West	McSorley’s Bar
John Trumbull	Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
James Abbott McNeill Whistler	Penn’s Treaty with the Indians
Mary Cassatt	The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins	Miss Cecily Alexander
Edward Hopper	Prisoners from the Front
Winslow Homer	Woman at her Toilet
John Sloan	Lighthouse of Two Lights

G. Group work. Ask your partner about their tastes in painting. Let them explain why they favor them. Use the topical vocabulary.

H. Summarize the material obtained and compile the topic “Painting in the USA”.