МИСТЕЦТВО. ЖАНРИ ЖИВОПИСУ
Match the words with similar meanings
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. | work of art painting artist depict art gallery paint type prominent | a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) | draw show museum outstanding masterpiece painter picture style |
Read and match the words with their definitions.
1. painting | a) a picture made using very small pieces of glass or stone |
2. drawing | b) a picture made using paint |
3. photograph | c) pots, bowls etc. made of clay |
4. mosaic | d) a work of art made of materials such as stone, metal, or wood |
5. collage | e) a picture drawn with pencils or pens |
6. sculpture | f) a picture made by sticking paper, cloth, or other pictures onto a surface |
7. ceramics | g) a picture made using a camera |
Complete the sentences using the words.
Portrait, painter, landscape, painters, majestic effect, marine, canvases, inner world,
romantic passion.
1. John Constable, the greatest of English _______, came from Suffolk .
2. Constable was an acute observer of nature and had a ________ for light.
3. Thomas Gainsborough succeeded brilliantly as a___________.
4. The painting which portrays the conflict of wind and tide created a___________
5. Turner’s ________ reveal the grand beauty of the sea.
6. Reynolds succeeded in ____ the sitters’ ____________________.
Find eight words connected with art and use some of them in plural to complete
the sentences below.
g | n | i | t | n | i | a | p | t | n |
b | o | a | m | o | n | p | l | j | o |
r | f | s | s | i | l | o | y | g | i |
z | p | i | c | t | u | r | e | n | t |
q | k | t | u | c | m | t | v | i | i |
o | v | t | l | e | g | r | d | w | b |
s | h | n | p | l | n | a | d | a | i |
r | b | i | t | l | r | i | a | r | h |
q | t | a | o | o | p | t | h | d | x |
p | j | p | r | c | b | x | c | e | e |
painting portrait exhibition collection paint picture drawing sculptor |
Read the text and circle the correct word.
Art museums preserve numerous masterpieces/landscapes which prove that art painting goes back thousands of years. Even now we admire the mosaic and fresco pictures/images, icons that have survived through hundreds of years. Among the best-known portraits /icons is The Trinity by Andriy Rublev, a portraitist/painter who opened a new era in world painting.
The works of painters, whether Italian, German, English, Dutch, Ukrainian, French or Spanish are always marked by a profound humanism and are reflected/ inspired by innovatory ideas.
The names of the greatest impressionists / specialist realists C. Monet, Renoir and Degas are well-known for their individual blossoming fields, so beloved by Claud Monet, the world seems to be constantly changing and shimmering.
Augusto Renoir’s favourite theme /topic is the bright crowd of a merry Parisian festival. Painters Cézanne and Van Gogh portrayed/expressed in their works the desire to return to an integrated perception of the world.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Ukrainian art found itself under the strong inspiration/influence of Taras Shevchenko’s art and verse. He created emotionally attractive still-life paintings/images and acquired his own vision of Ukrainian folk / rural life.
Lovely Ukrainian natural scenes/sceneries inspired many Ukrainian and other painters to create poetic landscapes/portraits. Nowadays, Ukrainian art probably develops every well-known genre/trend, ranging from Neorealism to post-modernism.