- •Unit 1 The history of arts
- •I Listen and remember the following words
- •II Read and remember the following phrases
- •III Read and translate the following text: The history of arts. Brief overview Part I
- •IV Answer the questions:
- •V Complete the sentences with the words from the text:
- •X Speak on the topic using the following words and word-combinations:
- •I Read and remember:
- •II Read the text and define the main idea of it:
- •The History of Arts
- •III Make up a plan of the text.
- •IV Translate the paragraph in italics in a written form.
- •V Questions for discussion:
- •VI Render the text in brief in a written form
- •I Mind the following words and word-combinations:
- •II Listen to the text. Decide if the statements are true or false:
- •III Listen to the text again and be ready to answer the questions:
- •Unit 2 The history of arts
- •The history of arts. Brief overview Part II
- •IV Answer the questions:
- •V Complete the sentences with the words from the text:
- •X Speak on the topic using the following words and word-combinations:
- •I Read and remember:
- •II Read the text and define the main idea of it: The Fashion 1900-1909
- •III Make up a plan of the text.
- •IV Translate the paragraph in italics in a written form
- •V Questions for discussion:
- •Unit 3 fashion history part I
- •I Listen and remember the following words:
- •II Read and remember the following phrases:
- •III Read and translate the following text:
- •X Speak on the topic using the following words and word-combinations:
- •I Read and remember:
- •II Read the text and define the main idea of it: World War I and after the War
- •III Make up a plan of the text.
- •IV Translate the paragraphs in italics in a written form.
- •V Questions for discussion:
- •Unit 4 fasion history part II
- •I Listen and remember the following words:
- •II Read and remember the following phrases:
- •III Read and translate the following text: Fashion evolution
- •IV Answer the questions:
- •V Complete the sentences with the words from the text:
- •X Speak on the topic using the following words and word-combinations:
- •I Read and remember:
- •II Read the text and define the main idea of it: Charles Frederick Worth industrializes fashion
- •III Make up a plan of the text.
- •IV Translate the paragraphs in italics in a written form.
- •V Questions for discussion:
- •Unit 5 Principles and elements of design
- •I Listen and remember the following words:
- •II Read and remember the following phrases:
- •Principles and elements of design
- •III Answer the questions:
- •IV Complete the sentences with the words from the text:
- •IX Speak on the topic using the following words and word-combinations:
- •I Read and remember:
- •II Read the text and define the main idea: Paul Poiret: The first designer
- •III Make up a plan of the text.
- •IV Translate the paragraph in Italics in a written form.
- •V Questions for discussion:
- •Unit 6 costume design
- •I Listen and remember the following words:
- •II Read and remember the following phrases:
- •III Read and translate the following text: The work of a designer
- •X Speak on the topic using the following words and word-combinations:
- •I Read and remember:
- •II Read the text and define the main idea of it:
- •III Make up a plan of the text.
- •IV Translate the paragraphs in italics in a written form.
- •V Questions for discussion:
- •Unit 7 theatrical costume
- •III Read and translate the following text: Theatrical costume
- •IV Answer the questions
- •X Speak on the topic using the following words and word combinations:
- •I Read and remember:
- •II Read the text and define the main idea of it.
- •III Read and translate the following text. Dance costume
- •IV Make up a plan of the text.
- •V Translate the paragraph in italics in a written form.
- •VI Questions for discussion:
- •Unit 8 scenic design
- •III Read and translate the following text Scenic design
- •IV Answer the questions:
- •V Complete the sentences with the words from the text:
- •X Speak on the topic using the following words and word combinations:
- •I Read and remember
- •II Read the text and define the main idea of it. Scenic makeup
- •Texts for listening
- •Leonardo da Vinci
- •The painter
- •Factors influencing fashion in the 16th century
- •First fashion publications
- •The importance of colour
- •The appearance of a costume designer profession
- •Musical-dance costumes
- •Makeup Artists
II Read the text and define the main idea of it:
Text B
The History of Arts
The history of art usually refers to the history of the visual arts, such as painting, sculpture and architecture. The term also encompasses theory of the visual arts. It does not usually refer to the performing arts or literary arts. The history of art attempts an objective survey of art throughout human history, classifying cultures and periods and noting their distinguishing features and influences.
The field of "art history" was developed in the West, and originally dealt exclusively with Western painting, and Western art history, with the High Renaissance (and its Greek precedent) as the defining standard. Gradually, with the onset of Modernism, a wider vision of history has developed, seeking to place other societies in a global overview by analyzing their artifacts in terms of their own cultural values. Thus, the subject is now seen to encompass all visual art, from the megaliths of Western Europe to the paintings of the Tang Dynasty in China.
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that profoundly affected European intellectual life in the early modern period. Beginning in Italy, and spreading to the rest of Europe by the 16th century, its influence was felt in literature, philosophy, art, politics, science, religion, and other aspects of intellectual enquiry. Renaissance scholars employed the humanist method in study, and searched for realism and human emotion in art. Renaissance thinkers sought out learning from ancient texts, typically written in Latin or ancient Greek. Scholars scoured Europe's monastic libraries, searching for works of antiquity which had fallen into obscurity. In such texts they found a desire to improve and perfect their worldly knowledge; an entirely different sentiment to the spirituality stressed by medieval Christianity. They did not reject Christianity; quite the contrary, many of the Renaissance's greatest works were devoted to it, and the Church patronized many works of Renaissance art. However, a subtle shift took place in the way that intellectuals approached religion that was reflected in many other areas of cultural life. Artists strove to portray the human form realistically, developing techniques to render perspective and light more naturally. Political philosophers, most famously Niccolò Machiavelli, sought to describe political life as it really was, and to improve government on the basis of reason. In addition to studying classical Latin and Greek, authors also began increasingly to use national languages; combined with the invention of printing, this would allow many more people access to books, especially the Bible.
In all, the Renaissance could be viewed as an attempt of intellectuals to study and improve the secular and worldly, both through the revival of ideas from antiquity, and through novel approaches to thought.
III Make up a plan of the text.
IV Translate the paragraph in italics in a written form.