Vocabulary
Learn new words.
to practice an art - заниматься искусством;
painting – живопись
caricature - карикатура
collage - коллаж
drawing - рисунок
easel painting - станковая живопись
engraving – гравюра, эстамп
landscape - пейзаж
marine / seascape – морской пейзаж
miniature - миниатюра
mosaics – мозаика
mural – фреска, настенная живопись
oil painting – картина маслом
pastel picture – рисунок пастелью
self-portrait – автопортрет
sketch – набросок, этюд
still life – натюрморт
tapestry – гобелен
water-colour – живопись акварелью
master – великий художник, мастер
painter – живописец, художник; artist – художник (в широком смысле слова)
portrait painter (portraitist) – портретист
painter of sea-scapes – маринист
still life painter – художник, пишущий натюрморты
dauber – плохой художник
draughtsman (draftsman) – рисовальщик
art dealer маршан; тот, кто продает и покупает картины; торговец произведениями искусства
art-lover – любитель искусства
avant-garde – авангард
canvas – картина, полотно
depict a person, a scene of common life, the mood of... – изображать человека, бытовую сцену, настроение
do a painting – написать картину
fashionable artist – модный художник
mature artist – зрелый художник
nude model – обнаженная модель
painting – 1) живопись, 2) картина
picture – 1) картина, 2) фотография
paint shop – изостудия
studio – мастерская художника
art exhibition - художественная выставка
exhibition - экспонат; выставлять, экспонировать
show – выставка
display – выставка; выставлять, показывать
opening day – вернисаж
brush – кисть
chalk – мел
charcoal – угольный карандаш
colour box / palette – палитра
crayon – цветной карандаш, мелок
drapery – драпировка
frame – рама
gouache – гуашь
ink – чернила
lacquer – лак, глазурь
tempera – темпера
water colour – акварель
sketch-book альбом, тетрадь для рисования
easel – мольберт
to paint from life – писать с натуры
to draw from nature – рисовать с натуры
to load – класть густо краску
to prime – грунтовать холст
to varnish – лакировать, покрывать лаком
visual art – визуальное искусство
creation - создание
image - образ
sculpture - скульптура
printmaking - печатание
decorative art – декоративное искусство
skill - умение
mastery - мастерство
paramount - верховный; высший
mimesis - мимикрия
stemming - забойка
interpretation - интерпретация
branch - направление
aesthetic - эстетический
artistic work – художественная работа
dimension - измерение
gravity - серьёзность, важность; тяжесть, опасность
constraint - принуждение; давление
non-linearity - нелинейные
whatsoever - какой бы ни; любой; какой бы то ни было, любой
genre - жанр
convention - собрание, съезд
hop - одпрыгивать; двигаться подпрыгивая
pastoral - пасторальный
recognizable - легко узнаваемый; распознаваемый
brushy - косматый, волосатый; покрытый щетиной, щетинистый
drip - стекать
poured - залитый
pointillism - пуантилизм
dot - точка
salient - заметный; яркий, бросающийся в глаза
exhausted - истощённый, изнурённый
engender - возбуждать, вызывать, порождать, рождать
Read the dialogue filling the missing words. In pairs, use your names to act out similar dialogues.
Leisure Activities
A: Tell 1) _____, what do you enjoy doing in your spare time? B: 2) _____ enjoy drawing and painting. A: You know how to draw and paint? B: Yes, I do. A: When did you learn how to do that? B: I learned back in high school. A: Oh, so you took an art class? B: Yeah, I loved that class. A: I see that you 3) _____ pretty talented. B: Thank you very 4) _____. A: I wish I had a talent like that. B: I 5) _____ sure you have a talent. It's just hidden.
Listening
Listen to the song “The Starry night” filling in the missing words.
The Starry Night by Anne Sexton, read by Anne Sexton
Starry, starry night. 1) _____ your palette 2) _____ and 3) _____, Look out on a summer's day, With eyes that know the darkness in my soul. Shadows on the hills, 4) _____ the trees and the 5) _____, 6) _____ the breeze and the winter chills, In 7) _____ on the snowy linen land.
Now I understand what you tried to say to me, How you suffered for your sanity, How you tried to set them 8) _____. They would not listen, they did not know how. Perhaps they'll listen now.
Starry, starry night. Flaming 9) _____ that brightly blaze, Swirling clouds in violet haze, Reflect in Vincent's 10) _____ of china blue. Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain, Weathered 11) _____ lined in pain, Are soothed beneath the artist's loving 12) _____.
Now I understand what you tried to say to me, How you suffered for your sanity, How you tried to set them 13) _____. They would not listen, they did not know how. Perhaps they'll listen now.
For they could not love you, But still your love was 14) _____. And when no hope was left in sight On that starry, starry night, You took your life, as lovers often 15) _____. But I could have told you, Vincent, This world was 16) _____ meant for one As 17) _____ as you.
Starry, starry night. 18) _____ hung in empty halls, Frameless head on nameless 19) ______, With 20) _____ that watch the world and can't forget. Like the strangers that 21) _____'ve met, The ragged men in the ragged 22) _____, The 23)_____ thorn of bloody rose, Lie crushed and broken on the virgin 24) _____.
Now I think I know what you tried to say to me, How you suffered for your sanity, How you tried to set them 25) _____. They would not listen, they're not listening still. Perhaps they never will...