- •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:
4. Retell the text according to the plan:
The birth of art.
Mesopotamian art.
Egypt art.
Unit 2
Ancient ART: Greek and roman
Before you read
1. Discuss the following questions:
What famous pieces of ancient art do you know?
When did the Classical period in Greece start?
Why are Greek sculptures naked?
Who influenced the Roman art?
What are the main features of Greek and Roman art?
2. Mark the periods of Greek art and Roman art on the timeline.
800 BC Period of Classical Antiquity 400
246 BC 208 323
3. Read and translate the text. Greece: they invented a lot more than the Olympics
The history of Western civilization began in ancient Greece. An explosion of creativity resulted in an unparalleled level of excellence in art, architecture, poetry, drama, philosophy, government, law, logic, history, and mathematics. Man's dignity and worth were central Greek concepts, the human figure was the principal motif of Greek art. Where Greek philosophy stressed harmony, order, and clarity of thought, Greek art and architecture reflected a similar respect for balance.
Painting. The Greeks were skilled painters. They achieved a breakthrough in realistic trompe l'oeil effects. Their paintings were so lifelike that birds pecked murals of painted fruit. Unfortunately, none of these works survive, but we canjudge the realistic detail of Greek painting by the figures that adorn their everyday pottery.
V ase painting. Vase painting told stories about gods and heroes of Greek myths as well as such contemporary subjects as warfare and drinking parties. The earliest (800 B.C.) vase design was called the Geometric Style, because the figures and ornaments were primarily geometric shapes. The later Archaic Period was the great age of vase painting. In the black–figured style at the outset of this period, black forms stood out against a reddish clay background. The artist scratched in details with a needle, to expose the red beneath. The red-figured style, starting around 530 B.C., reversed this color scheme. The figures, on a black background, were composed of natural red clay with details painted in black.
Sculpture: the body beautiful. The Greeks invented the nude in art. The ideal proportions of their statues represented the perfection of both body (through athletic endeavor) and mind (through intellectual debate). The Greeks sought a synthesis of the two poles of human behavior – passion and reason – and, through their artistic portrayal of the human form (often in motion).They came close to achieving it.
Greek statues were not the bleached white marble we associate with Classical sculpture today. The marble was embellished with colored encaustic, a mixture of powdered pigment and hot wax applied to hair, lips, eyes, and nails of the figure. Although male nudity was always acceptable in sculpture, the representation of female images evolved from fully clothed to sensually nude. In earlier statues, clinging folds of drapery united the figure in a swirling rhythm of movement. Another innovation was the discovery of the principle of weight shift, or contrapposto, in which the weight of the body rested on one leg with the body realigned accordingly, giving the illusion of a figure in arrested motion.
GREEK ART STYLES |
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GEOMETRIC ART (9th—8th century B.C.), pottery ornamented with geometric banding and friezes of simplified animals, humans. |
SEVERE STYLE, early phase of Classical sculpture characterized by reserved, remote expressions. |
ARCHAIC ART (600–480 B.C.), period includes kourosstone figures and vase painting. |
CLASSICAL ART (480–323 B.C.), peak of Greek art and architecture, idealized figures exemplify order and harmony. |
KOUROS (nude male youth) / K0RE (clorhed maiden), earliest (625–480 B.C.) free-standing statues of human figures; frontal stance, left foot forward, clenched fists, and grimace known as «Archaic smile». |
HELLENISTIC ART (323–31 B.C.), Greek–derived style, found in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt; more melodramatic (as in «Laocoon» 50 B.C.) than Classical style. |