Thomas gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough (1727—1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century in Britain.

Gainsborough was born in Suffolk, England. He was the youngest of the nine children in the family. He went to school in his native town. When a boy he was very good at drawing, and according to a story about him, he made such a good portrait from memory of a thief whom he had seen robbing a garden that the thief was caught.

His father was a weaver involved with the wool trade. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with his penciling skills so that he let him go to London to study art.

Gainsborough painted portraits and landscapes and is often compared with Reynolds; his style is also influenced by the Dutch masters and Van Dyck. Despite these influences he worked out his personal style.

His portraits are painted in clear tones. His colour is always tender and soft. Light tone scheme and use of light blues and yellows belong essentially to his earlier period. Later, when he came into the contact with the Van Dyck pictures he enriched his palette but he always tended to cool scheme and blues predominated in his paintings.

He succeeded as a portrait painter. Among his famous portraits are the portrait of Mrs. Siddon, a famous actress in a blue dress, and the picture known as “Blue Boy” – a boy in a blue costume. In his portrait of Mrs. Sheridan we see a woman in a light blue. A definite artificiality in Gainsborough's painting constitutes his own style.

Gainsborough was fond of painting landscapes. Even in the portrait painting he is an out-of-door painter. If you think of his finest portraits you will immediately remember that the backgrounds are well-observed country scenes. The famous “Blue Boy” is placed against an open sky and a back­ground of brown and green landscape. In Mrs. Sheridan's portrait the background is the wide sky and broad view into the valley.

He loved the country-side of his childhood and often said that the Suffolk country-side had made him a painter.

Gainsborough painted more from his observations of nature (and human nature) than from any application of formal academic rules. The poetic sensibility of his paintings caused Constable to say, "On looking at them, we find tears in our eyes and know not what brings them."

He lived in that period when landscape painting was not in fashion. Rich people did not spend mo­ney on landscapes. So, it's really remarkable that there were more than 40 unsold landscapes in his studio at the time of his death.

a) Підкреслити дієслова у Past Simple.

b) Підкреслити усі прийменники.

с) Скласти план тексту англійською мовою.

d) What was this man? What is he famous for? – Дайте письмову відповідь на ці питання англійською мовою (3-5 реченнь)

ВАРІАНТ III

1. Вставте конструкцію there is, there are, there was або there were. Деякі речення питальні (is/was there..? are/were there…?) та заперечні (there isn’t/aren’t, there wasn’t/weren’t). Перекладіть речення рідною мовою:

1. ___________ many people at the meeting?

2. ___________no sound to be heard, was there?

3. ___________ dark clouds in the sky. It is going to rain.

4. I wanted to visit the museum but ____________enough time.

5. ___________ nothing more tragic in life than the impossibility of changing what you have done. (J. Galsworthy)

2. Вставте займенники a lot of, much, many, little, a little, few, a few та перекладіть речення рідною мовою:

1. Jack has got ________ comics. Ha buys one every week.

2. Have you got many friends? – Yes, _______.

3. We can't play because we have very ______ time.

4. There is _______snow on the ground. Let’s make a snowman.

5. Is there _______ tea in the cup?

3. Поставте дієслова у дужках у Past Simple або Present Perfect Tenses:

1. They ________(have) bacon and eggs for breakfast yesterday morning.

2. Claire ________ (not/come) to my party last night.

3. John Miller __________ (publish) three books so far.

4. _________ (you/ever/be) to Poland? – Yes, I ________ (go) there in 1992.

5. There is nothing in the box. I __________ (just/empty) it.

4. Використайте потрібний прийменник:

1. The father drinks coffee ___ the morning.

2. They often listen ___ the radio ___ the weekends .

3. His mother teaches Geography ___ school.

4. Come ___ the concert ___ your friends.

5. Her mother’s worked ___ a textile factory ___ twenty years.

5. Оберіть правильне модальне дієслово та перекладіть речення рідною мовою:

1. Alice _______ draw very well when she was seven years old. (can/could)

2. ________ I use your telephone, please? (must/may)

3. It's already six o'clock. We ________ hurry if we don't want to be late. (must/needn’t).

4. You ________ play with matches. It’s dangerous. (can/mustn’t)

5. __________ Susan come and play with me? (can/must)

6. Прочитайте та перекладіть текст письмово рідною мовою: