3.2. British landscape painters

1. pastoral

2. to sweep away

3. to be preserved

4. a squire

5. vanity

6. to immortalize

7. quintessential

8. a tug

9. extent

10. to romanticize

11. an affirmer

12. the elements

13. a sweep

1. to destroy or completely remove smth;

2. a small powerful boat used for pulling larger boats;

3. too much pride in yourself, so that you are always thinking about yourself and your appearance;

4. the size of smth.;

5. relating to the life in the countryside;

6. to think or say that smth. is more romantic, more exciting than they really are;

7. the man who in the past owned most of the land around a country village in England;

8. smb. who states that smth. is true or supports smth.;

9. to be prevented from being harmed or destroyed;

10. a long wide curved area of land or water;

11. to make smth. famous for a very long time;

12. perfect as an example of a type of person or thing;

13. the weather, especially bad weather.

Thomas Gainsborough. Mr and Mrs Andrews. 1750.

• Who is depicted in the painting?

• Where are they?

• How do they feel?

• Would you call the painting a portrait or a landscape?

• What do you feel and think when looking at the painting?

John Constable. The Hay Wagon (The Hay Wain). 1821.

• What is depicted in the painting?

• What does the painting make you think of?

Joseph Mallord William Turner. The Fighting Temeraire. 1838.

• What gave the painting its name?

• What is happening in the painting?

• What accounts for the use of such hot and agitated colours in the painting?

Part 1

1. What were the two dramatic events that greatly influenced British and French painting in the 18^th century?

2. Why did squires apply to the artists?

3. What was the name of the artist who was to be called to paint a wife? What was the name of the artist who was to be called to paint a horse?

4. What was Stabbs particularly interested in?

The world of pastoral idyll, to show off, a bloodstock mare, to be the apple of one’s eye, vanity, patrons, to immortalize quintessential Englishness, the joy of countryside

Part 2

1. Why does Sister Wendy call the portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews a comic one?

2. What is depicted in the picture?

3. Can you feel Gainsborough's attitude to the people in the picture? How does he show it?

Manipulator, to concentrate on portraits, the extent of the property, a golden sweep of Suffolk, a yobbo, to be naughty, uninteresting person, look shabby, greenhorn, to stare suspiciously, hardly talk to one another, marriage made in heaven.

Part 3

1. Why did Constable become a landscape painter? What did he paint?

2. Did he manage to capture the world that was doomed?

3. Can you prove from the episode that Constable felt deep love to his home countryside?

The countryside of home, to remind of what we've lost, innocent countryside, drowsy peace, to long for, to change from being a carefree boy to being a man, to feel tears coming to one's eyes, familiar beloved land, the secure happiness of the boyhood, to have the passion for the country, deep passionate love, when you love smth deeply enough it's never lost.

Part 4

1. What was changing the face of England in the 18^th and 19^th centuries?

2. What was the name of the artist who loved and was able to romanticize the new forces?

3. What movement did the artist belong to?

4. What are the ideas of that movement?

5. What is the idea of his painting «The Fighting "Temeraire"»?

Machinery; a splendid, luminous, extravagant, technicolour, over the top painting; to come natural to smb, completely convincing, Trafalgar battle, the glory days are over, to be towed away, to be broken up, a shapely bustling little tug, Vikings’ funeral fire, romance of the past, the days of fighting, heroism and welfare; the romance of science, of mercantile adventure; the affirmer of life.