Step 3: Punctuation and Logic

Exercise 1: Put capitals, hyphens, full stops and commas as needed in the following extracts; the number of sentences is indicated in brackets. In each extract, identify and single out with the quotation marks quotes or bits with a transferred meaning.

1. DALI salvador (1904-89) the spanish sur­realist artist was born in a village near barcelona he entered the fine art school of madrid in 1921 but benefited little from his formal education he dressed eccentrically behaved badly and was expelled after failing his examinations in 1925 in madrid he met the film maker luis bunuel with whom he produced the film an andalusian og in 1928 (4)

2. dali went to paris in 1929 where he joined andre bretons surrealist movement which included the artists rene magritte giorgio de chirico and yves tanguy his earlier paint­ing resembled the work of Picasso, the other great spanish artist of the 20th century but in his surrealist phase dali became a meticulous draftsman and applied his paint in such a way that it was perfectly smooth and silklike dali himself compared his work to handpainted dream dali atomicus a surrealistic photograph of Dali, cats, water, and furniture suspended in mid-air photographs it was this new style that made him famous (5)

3. dalis paintings are filled with visions from dreams and fantasies, and they invent a world which steps outside the real one and is therefore called surreal ordinary objects such as telephones crutches draw­ers limbs are painted as though they are soft and malleable as in the persistence of mem­ory its popular name is soft watches 1931 in the museum of modern art new york where a watch hangs limply over a wall much of his work is quite startling a painting in the tate gallery london shows a hand trans­formed into the mythological figure of nar­cissus in love with his own reflection and among the objects portrayed in the paint­ing are a sofa in the shape of mае wests lips and a telephone with a lobster as the receiver (5)

4. dali also wrote and illustrated books, made films, and designed stage sets, jewelry and murals his reputation as an eccentric is due in part to his eccentric image his appearance being almost a work of art in itself at the international exhibition of surrealism of 1936 in london dali lectured in a diving suit com­plete with helmet which nearly suffocated him in his autobiography diary of a genius (1965) he said the only difference between me and a madman is that i am not mad (3)

Exercise 2: Build up effective sentences to name the main characteristic features of the Enlightenment artistic style. Arrange the statements in the order of their significance. (Learn the information in Reference Section, p. ).

Exercise 3: Compile a stretch of text of your own: dwell upon a characteristic feature or two of the art of the Pre-Modern Era as different from similar aspects in the period of the Twentieth Century. Support your statements with bits of description and opinions of experts.