Speak on:

1. The history of the Gallery.

2. The architecture of the Gallery.

3. World famous museums and galleries in the world and in your own country.

Speaking

Do you know how to appreciate a painting? One needs the ability to appreciate and share the vision of artists, lacking such ability one may develop it. The best way to get understanding and greater enjoyment of art is to view many paintings, looking at them thoughtfully, honestly. Do you agree that great works of art seem to look different every time you see them?

Speak about English artists’ influence on world painting. Make use of the following word combinations: expressiveness, emotional impact, spirituality, harmony of colors, magnificent features, elegancy, and individual traits.

Describe different pictures. Use the following words and word combinations:

to evoke, intense, to capture the sitter's vitality, to paint from life, penetrating studies of a character, special insight into the psychology, immediacy, spontaniety; conception, brilliant, to portray ...with moving sincerity, poetic in tone and atmosphere, to anticipate, investigation of colour, range of colours, coloured patches; vivid, life-like, supreme mastery of technique, to achieve lightness of tone, high artistic quality, to be impressed by, to retain freshness, to be fascinated by the subject; pure, vivid, to break with the tradition, to place the figure against the landscape background, to look natural, intensity, to emphasize; appeal, brilliance, primary colours, to convey, to produce impression, to acquire, to affect, to glorify, to render; to render, soft, delicate colours, elegant gesture, spiritual face, a brilliant colourist, the impression of, airness and lightness; to radiate, spirituality, to combine form and colour, harmonious unity, romantic, poetic in tone and atmosphere, to ignore the rules, the purest lyricist; emotion, natural and characteristic pose, sharp psychological expressiveness, feeling of air, to convey, finished technique, to produce impression, to penetrate.

Discuss a portrait painting according to the following plan:

1. THE GENERAL EFFECT: the title and the name of the artist; the period or trend represented. Does it appear natural and spontaneous or contrived and artificial?

2. THE CONTENTS OF THE PICTURE: place, time and setting; the accessories, the dress and environment; any attempt to render the emotions of the model. What does the artist accentuate in his subject?

3. THE COMPOSITION AND COLOURING: How is the sitter represented? What background? Any prevailing format? Is the picture bold or rigid? Do the hands (head, body) look natural and informal? How do the eyes gaze? Does the painter concentrate on the analysis of details? What tints predominate in the colour scheme? Do the colours blend imperceptible? Are the brushstrokes left visible?

4. INTERPRETATION AND EVALUATION: Does it exemplify a high degree of artistic skill? What feelings or ideas does it evoke in the viewer?