- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions:
- •2. Comment on the quotations. Do you agree with them? Explain your answers.
- •3. Read and translate the text. The Birth of Art
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Answer the questions to the text.
- •2. Look at the picture of «Venus of Willendorf». Describe it and answer the questions, use the cloud of clues or click on the link to read the Wikipedia article.
- •3. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •4. Retell the text according to the plan:
- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions:
- •2. Mark the periods of Greek art and Roman art on the timeline.
- •3. Read and translate the text. Greece: they invented a lot more than the Olympics
- •Rome: the organizers
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Answer the questions to the texts.
- •Начало формы
- •5. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •6. Retell the text according to the plan:
- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions:
- •2. Fill in the gaps in the chart below.
- •3. Read and translate the text. Medieval art
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Answer the questions to the texts.
- •2. Read the sentences about medieval art and fill in the gaps with the appropriate words or phrases.
- •3. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •4. Retell the text according to the plan:
- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions:
- •2. Look at the map and describe the countries where the Renaissance started and took place, main artists and their masterpieces.
- •3. Read and translate the text. The Renaissance
- •The Early Renaissance
- •The Italian Renaissance
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Answer the questions to the texts.
- •2. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •3 . Look at the two paintings. Compare them, use the words and phrases from the text.
- •4. Retell the text according to the plan:
- •5. Find the answer to the crossword puzzle.
- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions.
- •2. Comment on the quotations. Do you agree with them? Explain your answers.
- •3. Read and translate the text. The Northern Renaissance
- •The German Renaissance
- •Mannerism and the late Renaissance
- •T he Spanish Renaissance
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Answer the questions to the texts.
- •2. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •3. Look at the pictures. Discuss the following questions.
- •5. Retell the text according to the plan:
- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions:
- •3. Read and translate the text. Baroque art
- •Italian Baroque
- •Flemish Baroque
- •Dutch Baroque
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Answer the questions to the texts.
- •2. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •4. These sentences summarize the distinctive features of Baroque style. Decide which of them are true or false.
- •5. Retell the text according to the plan:
- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions:
- •2. Look at the chart and describe the difference between in Baroque style in these countries. Add your own examples of artists, sculptors and architects and their artworks.
- •3. Read and translate the text. English Baroque
- •Spanish Baroque
- •French Baroque
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Answer the questions to the texts.
- •2. Look at the picture. Whose artwork is it? Discuss these questions.
- •5. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •3. The diagram below asks you to connect each genre of painting (center) with its correct description and example. An example has been provided.
- •5. Retell the text according to the plan:
- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions:
- •2. Look at the chart and make up your own sentences to describe the period of Neoclassicism. Give the examples of artists and their paintings.
- •3. Read and translate the text. Neoclassicism
- •American Neoclassicism
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Retell the text according to the plan:
Activities
1. Answer the questions to the texts.
Why did the Northern Renaissance happen later than in Italy?
How did the northern Renaissance differ from the Italian Renaissance?
What are the main features of the German Renaissance?
What new techniques were invented in German?
Who are the most famous German artists?
What are the distinctive features of El Greko masterpieces?
How did Mannerism differ from the Renaissance?
What is the difference between engraving and woodcut?
Why did graphic arts become so popular?
2. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
1. While the Italians looked to Classical antiquity for inspiration, northern Europeans looked to nature.
2. One of the first masters of the new art of portrait painting, van Eyck included extreme details like the beginning of stubble on his subject's chin.
3. Hans Holbein is known as one of the greatest portraitists ever.
4. Durer was the first to use printmaking as a major medium for art.
5. Mannerist paintings are identifiable because their style is predictable.
3. Look at the pictures. Discuss the following questions.
Color
1. Which painting is very light?
2. When an artist mixes white with colors, the artist makes a tint. Can you show me some places in these paintings where there are tints?
3. When an artist mixes black with a color, a shade is created. Can you show me some places in this painting where there are shades?
4. Can you show me some places where tints and shades are used right next to each other? Artists call this positioning contrast.
5. Which artwork has bright colors on one side and dark colors on the other?
Value
1. Can you show me some tints in some of the artworks?
2. Can you show me some shades in some of the artworks?
3. Is there a person (or other object) in a dark room or place? Where is the light coming from in the picture?
4. Help me find some big, dark shapes that are around some objects. Can you trace in the dark shapes with your finger?
5. Which artwork uses light and dark shapes of color that look very flat?
5. Retell the text according to the plan:
The Northern Renaissance.
The German Renaissance.
The Late Renaissance.
The famous artists and the new technologies.
Unit6
Baroque: the ornate age
Before you read
1. Discuss the following questions:
What do you know about this period?
What examples of Baroque style in architecture do you know?
Was this style popular in Russia?
Who are the prominent artists of the period?
Where did it start?
2. During the baroque period, Europe produced a multitude of painters, architects, sculptors, landscape architects, and composers, some of whom are listed below. Choose five of the people listed below, identify each of them, and cite at least two examples of their work that people still enjoy today. What generalizations can be made, if any, regarding who set the standards of artistic taste during the baroque period?
Meindert Hobbema
Pieter de Hooch
Jacques Lemercier
André Lenôtre
Louis Le Vau
J. B. Lully
François Mansart
Bartolomé Murillo
Jean–Marc Nattier
Balthasar Neumann
Claude Perrault
Giovanni Piazetta
Matthäus Pöppelmann
Jusepe de Ribera
Jan van Ruisdael
Andreas Schlüter
Antonio Scarlatti
Heinrich Schütz
Johann Wenzel Stamitz
Georg Philipp Telemann
Giovanni Tiepolo
Georges de la Tour
Sir John Vanbrugh
Anthony Vandyke
Diego Velázquez
Jan Vermeer
Antoine Watteau