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When first see this painting they may think that the child in it is a girl.
1) sewing
a) the act of creating a work of art
2) background
b) the process of arranging to join a school,
university, course etc:
3) plain
c) an important part or aspect of something
4) highlight
d) a constituent part or aspect of something more
complex
5) fabric
e) total loss of hope
6) component
f) the texture of a cloth
7) despair
g) an area of the lightest tone in a painting, drawing,
photograph etc
8) shape
h) flat or smooth
9) feature
i) the area in the picture that is behind the main
thing that you are looking at
10) enrollment
j) the activity or skill of making or repairing clothes
or decorating cloth with a needle and thread
The reason that Jean does not look like a boy is that in Renoir’s time, it was
traditional for little boys’ hair to be kept long until they started school at age
5 or 6. Jean was supposed to start at College de Sainte-Croix, but to his
despair, his father repeatedly postponed his enrollment in order to put off
cutting his son’s hair that he loved to paint so much.
A major component of this painting is the emphasis on light and
shadow, which is one of the key features of Impressionist paintings.
Impressionist painters changed the rules of portraits, in that they did not
paint their subjects in stiff, formal, and planned out poses. In this painting,
Jean is sitting down sewing looking very upset. Before Impressionism, a
portrait like this, depicting a person going about their everyday life, would
never have been painted [14].
Ex. 1. Choosing a Title
Which of the following titles would be the best for the text that
you have just read?
A Child in the Portrait by Renoir
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir. Knitting
Ex. 2. 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. 3. Study the portrait of Renoir’s son on page 70. Think about
5-8 sentences containing the construction “seem to be” and “seem +
Adj”. In these sentences, you are to express your personal subjective
evaluation of the portrait.
Sample Sentence: A child in the portrait seems to be very nice.
Ex. 4. Read the following fragment of the text about
Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Insert an appropriate preposition where it is
needed. Translate it into Russian:
Renoir was one … the first Impressionists, but soon developed an
individual and un-Impressionist style. He is most remembered … his lyrical
paintings of pink, buxom young girls. He is very prolific. He is the greatest
ever master … dappled light, which pervades all his work, giving it a
seductive, sensual, and soft-focus quality.
His early works have bite and observation; the late works become
rather repetitive … times.
The sensuality … his technique marries … the subject matter: long,
free brushstrokes … warm color, which caress the canvas. Note the blushes
… the cheeks girls that he portrayed .. his paintings. The early works have
cooler colors, more black, and less mush.
Ex. 5. Write your impression about this picture. Here is an
example:
After having carefully examined this portrait, I understood that it is a great
example if Impressionist art. I loved everything about it (the colours, the child, the
brushstrokes etc.). The boy portrayed in the painting left an indelible impression on
me. The story behind the painting helped me reveal Jean’s inner world ...
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Moulin de la Galette. 1876
Oil on canvas
H. 131; W. 175 cm. Musée d'Orsay
Ex. 6. Translate the text into Russian.
TEXT 4
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR AND HIS FAMOUS PICTURE
“MOULIN DE LA GALETTE”
“There is something in painting
which cannot be explained,
and that something is essential.
You come to nature with your theories,
and nature knocks them all flat.”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
When Renoir met Monet at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1862, he was in
fact working as a figure painter. Monet encouraged him to lighten his palette
and to paint outdoors. By the mid-1870s, Renoir was combining a spontaneous
handling of natural light with animated figural compositions.
In his MOULIN DE LA GALETTE, for example, Renoir depicts crowds
dancing in dappled sunlight that falls through the trees. The Moulin de la Galette
(the Pancake Mill), in the Montmartre section of Paris, was an old-fashioned
Sunday afternoon dance hall. It opened its outdoor courtyard during good weather.
In this painting, Renoir has glamorized the working-class clientele of the dance
hall by placing his artist friends and their models in their midst. These attractive
people are shown in attitudes of relaxed congeniality, smiling, dancing, and
chatting. He underscores the innocence of their flirtations by including children in
the painting in the lower left. He
emphasized the ease of their
relations through the relaxed
informality of the scene. The
overall mood is knit together by
sunlight falling through the
trees.
This idyllic image of a
carefree time and place
encapsulates Renoir’s idea of
the essence of art: “For me a
picture should be a pleasant
thing, joyful and pretty – yes,
pretty! There are quite enough
unpleasant things in life
without the need for us to
manufacture more” [9].
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Ex. 1. Coping with Art Terms
1) encourage
a) make lighter
2) lighten
b) total
3) dappled
c) inspire
4) innocence
d) mottled
5) congeniality
e) stress
6) underscore
f) careless
7) overall
g) express
8) essence
h) ingenuousness
9) carefree
i) cordiality
10) encapsulate
j) quintessence
This text uses a great number of art terms, your best strategy is to skim
it; skipping over any words, you don’t understand. Then read it a second
time and pay more attention to some of the terms – the ones that are used
several times or that seem important for understanding the main ideas. Often
you can figure these out from the context. Practice this skill with the
following words taken from the reading:
1. Palette. This term is very important in the sphere of art. The
following context can explicate its meaning His minimalist style of drawing
and limited palette of colours are far from painterly, however. Write a
definition in your own words:
Palette is the range of …
2. The word Model is one of the key terms of art. In this text this word
was used in the sentence Renoir has glamorized the working-class clientele
of the dance hall by placing his artist friends and their models in their midst.
Write a definition in your own words:
Model is …
3. Outdoors (en plein air). It is an important term for the sphere of art
and especially for Impressionism. Explain the meaning of this word in your
own words:
Outdoors (en plein air) is …
Ex. 2. Match the English words in the left-hand column with their
synonyms in the right-hand column:
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Ex. 3. Say whether the following statements are true (T) or false
1. Monet encouraged Renoir to darken his palette and to
paint indoors.
T F 2. In his Mouline de la Galette Renoir depicts crowds
dancing in dappled sunlight that falls through the trees.
T
F
3. The Moulin de la Galette (the Pancake Mill) was a
famous restaurant.
T
F
4. Renoir has glamorized the working-class clientele of
the dance hall by placing his artist friends and their
models in their midst of his painting.
T
F
5. He underscores the innocence of their flirtations by
including children in the painting in the lower right.
T
F
6. The overall mood is knit together by sunlight falling
through the trees.
T
F
(F), and if they are false, say why:
Ex. 4. Translate the following sentences containing the
construction “to look like.” Comment on the peculiarities of its
translation:
1. She looks like an angel.
2. The woman portrayed in the painting looks like a French
bourgeois lady.
3. The woman on the canvas looks like a real Parisian lady.
4. This still life looks like a real masterpiece.
5. This woman looks like a Queen of England.
6. The man in this oil painting looks like a real gentleman.
7. The apparently casual composition looks like a spontaneous
snapshot.
8. His images look like pure abstraction.
9. The scene looks like a faithful representation of Parisian modern
life.
10. This painting looks like a hermetically sealed world.
11. This oil painting looks like a harmonious whole.
12. The Moulin de la Galette looks like a marvelous tissue of
interwoven sunlight and soft hazy blue.
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Ex. 5. Read the following fragment of the text about Renoir’s
painting Mouline de la Galette. Insert an appropriate preposition where
it is needed. Translate it into Russian:
This painting is doubtless Renoir's most important work … the mid
1870's and was shown … the Impressionist exhibition in 1877. Though
some … his friends appear … the picture, Renoir's main aim was to convey
the vivacious and joyful atmosphere … this popular dance garden … the
Butte Montmartre. The study … the moving crowd, bathed … natural and
artificial light, is handled using vibrant, brightly coloured brushstrokes. The
somewhat blurred impression … the scene prompted negative reactions …
contemporary critics.
This portrayal … popular Parisian life, … its innovative style and
imposing format, a sign … Renoir's artistic ambition, is one … the
masterpieces … early Impressionism.
Ex. 6. Answer the following questions:
1. When did Renoir meet Monet at the École des Beaux-Arts?
2. What was Renoir combining by the mid-1870s?
3. What is Moulin de la Galette?
4. Whom did Renoir depict in his picture Moulin de la Galette?
5. With the help of what, does the artist underscore the innocence of
people’s flirtations?
6. How does he emphasize the ease of their relations?
7. What exactly encapsulates Renoir’s idea of the essence of art?
Ex. 7. Summarizing Paragraphs
Summarize three paragraphs of the text. Use as few words as
possible.
Paragraph: Many of Monet’s early works include shimmering
expanses of water, such as ON THE BANK OF THE SEINE,
BENNECOURT. It is a scene of a young woman in summer, sitting under
trees on a riverbank, a small row boat on the river in front of her.
Sample Summary: The painting the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt by
Monet portrays a young woman in summer.
Ex. 8. Were you asked to depict any scene of modern life, what
exactly would you like to paint? Write in your own words at least 6-9
sentences.
Example: Were I asked to paint a scene of modern life, I would like to
depict …
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Ex. 9. Select any of the two presented below paintings
reproductions and discuss it in a group according to the points that are
given on page 38:
a)
The Boating Party Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881,
51 x 68 in (129.5 x 173 cm), oil on canvas, Washington, DC:
b)
Phillips Collection.
The Boating Party by Mary Cassatt, 1893–94, oil on canvas,
35½ × 46 I n., National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Mary Cassatt, Mother and Child
1890; 64.262 x 89.662 cm
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Before You Read
Have you heard of Mary Cassatt?
What words come into your mind when you hear her name?
Read the following text carefully but without trying to check every
unfamiliar word; try to guess the meaning from the context.
Identify the main ideas and do the exercises given after the text:
MOTHER AND CHILD BY MARRY CASSATT
TEXT 5
The American expatriate Mary
Cassatt also exhibited her work with the
Impressionists. Like Renoir, she became
highly skilled in compositions that focused
on the figure. Born near Pittsburgh to a
well-to-do family, Cassatt studied at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in
Philadelphia between 1861 and 1865.
Then she moved to Paris for further
academic training, eventually settling in
France. The realism of the figure paintings
she exhibited at the Salons of the early and
mid-1870s attracted the attention of
Degas. He invited her to participate in the
fourth Impressionist exhibition in 1879.
Like Degas, she remained a studio painter
and printmaker. However, her distaste for
what she called the tyranny of the Salon
jury system made her one of the group’s
staunchest supporters.
Cassatt focused her artistic career on
the world she knew best: the domestic and
social life of upper-middle-class women.
Around 1890 she painted MOTHER AND
CHILD, one of many representations of
the theme in her career. The painting shows
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the intimate contact between a mother and child after a bath and just before
1) expatriate
a) a sign, symbol, or picture of something
2) composition
b) a short description in a book or play showing the
typical features of a person or situation
3) realism
c) a feeling of dislike for someone or something that
you do not approve of
4) drowsy
d) a way of showing respect to an artist, writer,
musician etc, by using their style or ideas in your
own work
5) limb
e) fully grown and developed
6) distaste
f) an arm, or a leg
7) representation
g) tired and almost asleep
8) homage
h) the quality of being or seeming real
9) vignette
i) the way in which the different parts that make up a
photograph or picture are arranged
10) exhibit
j) a person who lives in a foreign country
the child falls asleep. The drowsy face and flushed cheeks of the child and
the weight of its limbs have a natural quality to them. The solidly modeled
forms of the hands and faces contrast with the strong, broad, and unfinished
quality of the brushstrokes of the lower part of the mother’s dress and the
background. Cassatt elevates this small vignette of modern life into a
homage to motherhood. Though she lived as an expatriate, Cassatt retained
her connections in the United States. Her friends and relatives came to visit
her. Cassatt encouraged them to buy art by the Impressionists, thus creating
a market for their work in the United States even before one developed in
France [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. Fill in the columns with the proper derivatives of the
Verb
Noun
Adjective
focus
training
move
social
attract
modeled
representation
artistic
connection
contrast
the American expatriate
американская эмигрантка
(экспатриантка)
to become highly skilled in
compositions
профессионально овладеть навыками
построения композиции
a well-to-do family
состоятельная (обеспеченная) семья
to move to Paris for further
academic training
переехать в Париж для получения
дальнейшего академического образования
to eventually settle in France
окончательно обосноваться в Париже
to attract smb’s attention
привлекать чье-либо внимание
to participate in the fourth
Impressionist exhibition
принимать участие в четвертой
выставке Импрессионистов
to remain a studio painter and
printmaker
оставаться студийным художником и
гравёром
to show the intimate contact
between a mother and child
показать близкий контакт между
матерью и ребенком
the drowsy face and flushed
cheeks of the child
сонное лицо и румяные щеки ребенка
unfinished quality of the
brushstrokes
незавершенный вид мазков
to elevate this small vignette
of modern life into a homage
to motherhood
превознести этот короткий эпизод из
современной жизни в дань
материнству
to retain one’s connections in
the United States
сохранить связи в Соединенных
Штатах
following words whenever possible:
Ex. 3. Study the following word combinations and memorize them:
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