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Ex. 3. Study the following word combinations and memorize them:
the culminating achievement of
one’s career
кульминационное (высшее)
достижение в карьере
to translate the moods and
reflections of the beloved pond
передавать настроения и
отражения любимого пруда
to create a garden entirely to one’s
own taste
создать сад исключительно по
своему собственному вкусу
a series of beds ablaze with
colorful blooms
несколько клумб, пестрящих
яркими бутонами
to be produced shortly after the
death of his stepdaughter
быть завершенным
(написанным) вскоре после
смерти своей падчерицы
to represent a peaceful paradise
изображать тихий
(безмятежный) райский уголок
a hermetically sealed world
изолированный мир
in the face of desolation
перед лицом отчаяния (уныния)
horizontal brushstrokes delineating
the waterlilies
горизонтальные мазки,
очерчивающие (окаймляющие)
кувшинки
to show the reflected vegetation
above the pond
изображать отраженную над
прудом растительность
Ex. 4. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English
using different syntactical patterns where it is possible:
Example: На картине изображена жена художника.
a) There is an artist’s wife in the painting.
b) An artist’s wife is portrayed in the painting.
c) The painting portrays an artist’s wife.
1. На полотне изображены кувшинки.
2. На картине, выполненной маслом, изображён старый сад.
3. На этом рисунке, выполненном карандашом, представлен план
дома художника.
4. На этом натюрморте изображена красивая ваза с цветами.
5. Это полотно изображает звездное небо.
6. Их полотна изображают конкретные пейзажные мотивы.
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7. Моне изобразил на большом полотне в полный рост двенадцать
фигур.
8. Произошедшая перемена изображена на картине Ренуара
«Зонтики» (1881-1885).
9. На картине представлен не просто завтрак на траве, а целостный
пейзаж.
10. Быстротечность, неуловимость движения искусно переданы на
картине «Бульвар капуцинок».
11. Эмоции на холсте профессионально переданы.
12. Эта картина демонстрирует зримое воплощение мастерства
Ренуара-рисовальщика.
Ex. 5. Understanding the Text
Answer as many questions as you can without looking at the text.
Discuss your answers with a partner:
1. C. Monet bought the house he was renting in Giverny in
a) 1890
b) 1891
c) 1888
d) 1887
2. He filled the pond with
a) special hybrid waterlilies
b) pure water
c) bright waterlilies
d) different flowers
3. Monet visited his water garden at least three times a day to study
a) the waterlilies
b) the color of water
c) the changing light
d) an arched bridge
4. The picture presents a hermetically sealed world in which there is
barely any suggestion of
a) the sun
b) sky
c) the moon
d) stars
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5. The entire subject of his abstract canvases is
a) bridge
b) his beloved pond
c) the surface of the water
d) sky
Ex. 6. Answer the following questions:
1. What did Claude Monet devote himself to for much of the last 33 years
of his life?
2. When did he buy the house he was renting in Giverny?
3. How did he lay out the garden?
4. What for C. Monet visit his garden three times a day?
5. How many canvases were painted from the same vantage point during
the same year?
6. When were these canvases produced?
7. What do they represent?
8. What kind of canvases did the artist eventually create?
Ex. 7. Paraphrasing
“Paraphrase can serve as a form of note taking,
allowing you to preserve the writer’s
exact meaning in those terms
you understand best.”
Charles Bazerman, The Informed Writer
Show that you have grasped the following ideas by restating them in
your own words. Try to express each idea as clearly and concisely as
possible:
Original: It is a hermetically sealed world in which there is barely any
suggestion of sky.
Sample Paraphrasing: It is an isolated world where even the sky is
not depicted.
1. He installed an arched wooden bridge, inspired by those he had
admired in Japanese prints.
2. Horizontal brushstrokes delineating the waterlilies are interrupted
by the vertical strokes of lighter green, showing the reflected vegetation
above the pond.
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3. When he bought the house he was renting in Giverny in 1890, he
finally had the chance to create a garden entirely to his own taste.
4. The eye is drawn to the mirrorlike surface of the pond and the way
the plants and bridge are reflected in the water.
5. This is one of 12 canvases painted from the same vantage point
during the same year.
TEXT 4
Before You Read
Look at the photograph of C. Pissarro. What kind of a person do you
think he was according to this photo? What are your personal
impressions about this great artist?
LANDSCAPE IN CAMILLE PISSARO’S WORKS
“Everything is beautiful,
all that matters is to be able to interpret.”
C. Pissarro
Monet’s friend and fellow artist Camille
Pissarro (1830-1903) offered a new image of
the landscape in a style similar to Monet’s. He
painted scenes where the urban meets the rural.
Some of his paintings portray the rural
landscape alone. However, many show urban
visitors to the countryside or small towns or
factories. He was born in the Dutch West
Indies into French parents and raised near
Paris. Pissarro studied art in Paris during the
1850s and early 1860s. In 1870, while he and Monet lived in London,
Pissarro embraced the ideas that would later become known as
Impressionism. The two artists worked together in England, trying to
capture what Pissarro described as plein air light and fugitive effects. The
impact on both painters was a lightening of color intensity and hue, and a
loosening of brushstroke.
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Following his return to
Camille Pissarro Wooded Landscape at
L’Hermitage, Pontoise 1879 (27x35.6 cm);
plate: 8 11/16x10 9/16 in. (22x26.9 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1921
His WOODED LANDSCAPE
AT L’HERMITAGE, PONTOISE,
for instance, has a foreground
composition of trees. It screens the
1) image
a) relating to the countryside, or in the countryside
2) rural
b) to succeed in representing or describing
(something elusive)
3) brushstroke
c) to represent in a painting, drawing, sculpture etc;
make a portrait of
4) capture
d) a road or way, especially a narrow trodden track
5) portray
e)a picture or idea of something in your mind
6) high-keyed
f) a mark left on a surface by the movement of a brush
7) fugitive
g) a distinctive, formal, or characteristic manner of
expression in words, music, painting etc
8) path
h) having a predominance of light or bright tones
9) loosening
i) not permanent; fleeting; transient
10) style
j) a relaxing of something
France, Pissarro settled in Pontoise.
He used high-keyed color and short
brushstrokes to capture fleeting
qualities of light and atmosphere. In
the late 1870s, his painting
became more visually complex
and the colors darkened again.
view of a rural path and village behind. Pissarro applies his paint thickly here,
with a multitude of short, multi-directional brushstrokes [9].
Ex. 1. Matching Words and Definitions
Check your understanding of words used in the text by matching
each word with the letter of its definition. Use each choice only once:
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Ex. 2. Find the equivalents to the following word combinations in
the text:
1) изображать только сельский пейзаж;
2) ослабление интенсивности цвета;
3) ослабление (смягчение) мазков;
4) использовать напряженные цвета;
5) уловить мимолетные состояния атмосферы и света;
6) плотно наносить краски;
7) стать более сложным визуально (зрительно);
8) композиция деревьев, расположенных на переднем плане.
Ex. 3. Translate the sentences given below taken into account the
peculiarities of the Degrees of Comparison:
1. Of all the Impressionist painters, Camille Pissarro was the most
consistently devoted to printmaking, thanks in no small part to the
encouragement of Degas.
2. Next to the French, the Americans were the best and largest group
of Impressionists.
3. Degas was one of the greatest draftsmen of all time.
4. Afred Sisley is the most underrated of the group, then and now.
5. Renoir’s most enduring achievement was to combine the visual
imperatives of Impressionism with the traditions of European figure
painting.
6. E. Degas worked and reworked the same subject or theme to
achieve ever greater understanding and perfection.
7. Monet was the most convinced and consistent Impressionist of
them all.
8. The Portrait of Jeanne Samary may well be the most impressionist
of Renoir’s portraits.
9. The great composition of The Moulin de la Galette is one most
smiling of the artist’s masterpieces.
10. Manet’s most important work of 1866 is The Fifer.
Ex. 4. Each of the following sentences contains an error of a
preposition usage. Find the errors, underline and correct them:
1. He was born in the Dutch West Indies in French parents and raised
near Paris.
2. Pissarro studied art at Paris during the 1850s and early 1860s.
3. It screens the view of a rural path and village above.
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4. The impact for both painters was a lightening of color intensity and hue.
1. Camille Pissarro offered a new image of the
landscape in a style similar to Renoir’s.
T
F
2. Pissarro painted scenes where the urban meets the
rural.
T
F
3. Some of his paintings portray ballet alone.
T
F
4. Pissarro studied art in Paris during the 1860s and
early 1870s.
T
F
5. The impact on Monet and Pissarro was a lightening of
color intensity and hue, and a loosening of brushstroke.
T F 6. C. Pissarro used high-keyed color and short brushstrokes
to capture fleeting qualities of light and atmosphere.
T
F
5. Camille Pissarro offered a new image of the landscape on a style
similar to Monet’s.
Ex. 5. Say whether the following statements are true (T) or false
(F), and if they are false, say why:
Ex. 6. Answer the following questions:
1. With a style of what artist, can we compare Pissarro’s one?
2. What scenes did C. Pissarro paint?
3. What colour and brushstrokes did the artist use to capture fleeting
qualities of light and atmosphere?
4. When did his painting become more visually complex and the
colors darken?
5. In what way did Pissarro apply his paint in his Wooded Landscape
at L’Hermitage, Pontoise?
Ex. 7. Write a small abstract to the text using the following
phrases that are commonly used for its analysis.
PHRASES USED FOR THE ANALYSIS OF A TEXT
1. To present the text:
The text is headlined “…”
The title of the text under consideration is “…”
The title of the text is….
The text is published in…
The text is taken from ….
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2. To express the main idea of the text:
The main idea of the text is …
The text is devoted to …
The text gives information about …
The text provides ample food for thought for the readers
3. To speak about the author’s technique:
The content of the text – developing of the main idea (names, dates,
facts, examples etc. supporting the main idea):
(1) A) At the beginning of
the text the author …
dwells on …
explains …
mentions …
points out …
touches upon …
introduces …
comments on …
reports about …
B) The text begins with …
mentioning …
a comment on …
the description of …
(2) Then (after that, further on, next) the author passes to …
The author brings to light / highlights / stresses / lays stress on
/ draws the readers’ attention to / points out / puts emphasis on
/ emphasizes / focuses on / comments on…
(3) At the end of the text the author sums up by saying
In conclusion the author ….
The text ends with …
4. To make a conclusion:
In conclusion / Taking everything into account / On the whole
/ as it was previously stated
I’d like to finish by saying that
To conclude I’d like to say that
To reach one’s own conclusion
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TEXT 5
Before You Read
Anticipating the Reading
1. What idea do you get from the title of the text?
2. If you were writing a report about Camille Pissarro, which
information would you include in it? Why?
3. Have you ever seen the picture Landscape near Louveciennes by
C. Pissarro?
Find evidence in the following text to support the following idea:
C. Pissarro had a somewhat more traditional view of landscape
painting than other Impressionists:
LANDSCAPE NEAR LOUVECIENNES BY C. PISSARO
Pissarro moved to the town of Louveciennes in late 1868 or early
1869. It was a time when his friends Renoir and Monet were working in
nearby Bougival. These two peaceful villages on the Seine have since come
to be jointly known as the cradle of Impressionism.
French, 1831–1903 Landscape near Louveciennes (Autumn), 1870.
Oil on canvas 89 x 116 cm (35 x 455/s in.)
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Pissarro had a somewhat more traditional view of landscape painting
than other Impressionists. He retained a more conventional spatial and
geometric structure in his compositions. Under the influence of Monet,
however, his style gradually relaxed and became freer. The present painting
is a particularly good example of this transition. It is in fact one of the most
"Impressionistic" works the artist ever created. Pissarro placed the road in
the foreground parallel to the painting's edge. He broke up the surface with
trees and a pattern of foliage. Thus, he denied himself the usual spatial
reference points. The vegetable gardens along the side of the road have
become daubs of color. The brushwork throughout is relatively unrestrained.
The artist chose as his site a small village path fronted with modest
rural homes. The few figures in the painting are local residents. In spite of
their rather summary depiction, they could not be mistaken for the Parisians
who frequently flocked to Louveciennes for a pleasant weekend. Pissarro
lived in a house just a short walk down this same path. Not far away was the
Seine and the swimming place near La Grenouillere, the restaurant made
famous by Renoir and Monet. Pissarro was more of a pure landscapist than
either of these artists and was inclined to avoid crowds. He also used a more
restricted palette than his companions. The artist concentrated on variations
of green and brown to render what he saw. Unlike other Impressionists, who
experimented with color and tended to purify it whenever they could,
Pissarro's colors reveal his more "realistic" outlook. In addition to being one
of Pissarro's more adventurous canvases, Landscape near Louveciennes is
one of the largest he ever executed [7].
Ex. 1. Putting Words into Sentences
Fill in the blanks with one of the words from the list below:
cradle
composition
figures
outlook
transition
palette
variations
landscapist
1. This masterful, luminous image places him in the august company
of the renowned ________ John Knox.
2. He choreographed the solo _________ for the last act of a new
production of Napoli.
3. In this, the colour _______ is darker and the drawings simpler and
more stylized.
4. The Middle East is generally held to be the ______ of agriculture.
5. It is what one might expect of an artist experimenting with the
__________ of a companion picture.
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