22. General English skills – an idea for general discussion: “The Red China”, - political regimes of the world.
23. Have fun!
Fig. 6 Red lines are straight, although they seem to be curves.
Fig. 7 Are there circles or spirals?
Fig. 8 The same letter is perceived as H or A depending on the context.
Selfridge illusion, 1955
UNIT 3
1. Warm-up:
a) Is it difficult to draw?
b) What should painters study?
2. Text for oral translation and brief retelling.
In painting, there are three colours that cannot be made by mixing other colours together. These three - red, blue, and yellow - are known as the primary colours. The complementary colour of a primary colour (red, blue, or yellow) is the colour you get by mixing the other two primary colours. So the complementary colour of red is green, of blue is orange, and of yellow is purple.
Secondary colours are made by mixing two primary colours together: red and yellow to get orange, yellow and blue to get green, or red and blue to get purple. The secondary colour you get depends on the proportions in which you mix the two primaries. If you mix three primary colours together, you get a tertiary colour.
Neutral colours, such as browns and greys, contain all three primary colours. They're created by mixing either all three primary colours or a primary and secondary colour (secondary colours of course being made from two primaries). By varying the proportions of the colours you're mixing, you create the different tertiary colours.
Black and white can also not be made by mixing together other colours, but as they aren't used in colour mixing to create colours, they get excluded from colour mixing or theory. If you add white to a colour you lighten it and if you add black you darken it (though some painters don't use black at all.
3. Correct the jumbled sentences:
a) primary A be is any of from mixing.which colour all others colours can obtained three by
b) The colour secondary get depends you on proportions the in you which mix two the primaries.
c) primary such browns colours, greys, contain and all three Neutral colours as.
d) and White be made by mixing colours. together black can’t other
4. Summarize the received information in 3-5 sentences.
5. Read the following text. Yellow
I was pleased with myself when I discovered that sunlight, for example, could not be reproduced, but that I had to represent it by some other means… by color. (Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
For most cultures, the sun is linked to yellow, which evokes its brilliance and its warmth. The color yellow denotes abundance. Its luminosity suggests the color of flowers reborn in spring, the color of harvest, and the color of gold. Its sense of profusion id expressed even in the wide variety of substances that can create the color: the earth provides numerous yellow pigments, and the plant world teems with them.
But yellow may also be the most paradoxical of colors. When slightly faded, it symbolizes the desert’s dryness, the withered autumn, demoniacal sulfur, and bitter bile. And, depending on the people and the times, the color yellow can be an attribute of the gods or a sign of exclusion.
Hope and Happiness: Yellow is sunshine. It is a warm color that, like red, has conflicting symbolism. On the one hand it denotes happiness and joy but on the other hand yellow is the color of cowardice and deceit.
Nature of Yellow: Yellow is one of the warm colors. Because of the high visibility of bright yellow, it is often used for hazard signs and some emergency vehicles. Yellow is cheerful.
Culture of Yellow: For years yellow ribbons were worn as a sign of hope as women waited from their men to come marching home from war. Today, they are still used to welcome home loved ones. Its use for hazard signs creates an association between yellow and danger, although not quite as dangerous as red. If someone is yellow it means they are a coward so yellow can have a negative meaning in some cultures. Yellow is for mourning in Egypt and actors of the Middle Ages wore yellow to signify the dead. Yet yellow has also represented courage (Japan), merchants (India), and peace.
Good yellow
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Yellow ribbon - hope, support, remembrance
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Mellow yellow - laid back, relaxation
Bad yellow
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Yellow or Yellow streak or Yellow-bellied - cowardice or coward
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Yellow journalism - irresponsible reporting
6. Find the following synonyms of “yellow”: Lemon, yellow ocher, golden, saffron, cream, topaz, mellow yellow, amber, corn, mustard, selective yellow, school bus yellow, tangerine yellow.
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