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4.2. Use of english

Ex.1. Match the following words with appropriate definitions (1-15).

1. canvas a. a stick of soft coloured chalk used for drawing

2. cast b. a statue of a person on a horse

3. collage c. a picture to go with the words of a book

4. colour-blind d. the art of carving designs on metal, stone

5. connoisseur e. a form of art in which pieces of paper, cloth, etc.

are stuck to a surface

6. curator f. a person whose portrait is being painted

7. engraving g. a keeper of a museum or other collection

8. equestrian statue h. a strong rough type of cloth for painting on

9. easel i. the art of drawing objects on a flat surface so as

to give the right impression of the height,

width and position in relation to each other

10.illustration j. unable to see difference between certain colours

11. mediocre k. the representation of objects which are not

living

12. pastel l. an object made by pressing soft material into a

mould

13. perspective m. a wooden frame for holding a picture while it is

painted

14. still-life n. a person with good judgment on matters in taste

15. sitter o. not very good, of fairly low quality

Ex. 2. Fill in the blanks (1 – 21) with the correct particle or preposition where necessary.

1.In the 19th century, easels were moved out-of-doors and colour was broken (1) … minute areas. 2. Another friend has just changed careers and taken (2) … painting. 3. His earth-bound scenes teem (3) …life, every one of the actors is engaged (4) …a special plot of his own. 4. He was entirely (5) … key (6) … the moral mood of his age. 5. The quality of Hogarth as an artist is seen (7) … advantage (8) … his sketches. 6. A few painters resisted attempts (9) ….. art experts to draw them (10) … in the discussion of the new art trend. 7. For this painting he was awarded (11) … the golden medal. 8. He had gone a bit too far (12) … … his time. 9. We can see Turner’s realization of an interplay (13) … dark and light, warm and cold masses. 10. Very often the public didn’t approve (14) … this style of painting. 11.Consequently all colours act and react (15) … one another. 12. The Impressionists refrained (16) … mixing colours (17) … their palettes and applied them (18) … minute touches (19) … the canvas. 13. There was a picture (20) … her on page three, which made her unique combination of rare features more picturesque than (21) … flesh .

Ex. 3. Read the text below. Use the word given at the end of the lines to form a word that fits in the space in the same line (1-10).

A MODERN ITALIAN ARTIST

Amedeo Modigliani (1884 – 1920) was an Italian painter and

Sculptor whose (1)…….. paintings, which were characterized ORIGIN

by asymmetry of composition, (2) .………… of figure, and LONG

simple but monumental use of line, are among the best of the

20th century.

They have also gained (3) ……… for the entirely POPULAR

personal atmosphere with which they are invested: a kind of

mute (4) …. between the artist and sitter that implicates RELATION

the spectator in a truly (5) ……. way. REMARK

After suffering from serious illnesses as a child, he was forced

To give up (6) ……… education, and it was then that CONVENTION

he began to study painting.

After his studies in Italy, Modigliani left for Paris. There he

Was overwhelmed by the painting of Paul Cezanne, which

exerted an (7) ………… influence on the earliest phase of QUESTION

his work.

Furthermore, his (8) …….. study of African sculpture made EXTEND

a profound impression on his painting style.

Modigliani was not a professional portraitist in the strict sense

of the word. His paintings are almost always portraits of relatives,

(9) …… of the Parisian literary scene of his times and the PERSON

contemporary artistic world, along with many portraits of

(10) ……. persons. IDENTIFY

Ex. 4. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space (1- 14).

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