3 Watch the episode again and fill in the gaps with the missing information. Write no more than three words. (00:00 – 00:46)

Why do people love this image so much? It’s very ________ to me, I mean, it’s _____________. It’s a __________________. And yet people love the damn thing.

It’s an image that is ___________. I think that’s what _______ people.

The Scream, by Edward Munch, one of the world’s _____________. Even, it’s said, ________________ around the world, than The Mona Lisa. This is not just a painting anymore; it’s _________, an idea that has entered our psyche and spread ___________ through popular culture.

4 Listen to a short paragraph of the Episode and write it down (classwork).

5 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:

1. Edward Munch’s obsession.

the bare fact of by definition conceptual idea in anguish

paradoxical idea to emit a sound to transcend into

2. Interpreting The Scream.

to emanate from the intensity of to come from

the enormity of the sound of a real-life experience

3. Munch’s background

to vibrate with memories an asylum for to recall sounds

a scruffy spot manic depression to overwhelm

dizzy and frightful to be burdened with literal truth

to condemn smb to to lay in store to deteriorate

bouts of sickness

4. Munch’s social and artistic environment.

a bourgeois town a puritanical society Lutheran

a bohemian group to proclaim a commandment as gospel

the dissolute life to join in with the anguish of

the swarming Oslo bourgeoisie heartbroken to face the trauma of

to pertify smb to deplore smth

5. Writing his own manifesto.

abundant material a conscious decision to take shape

in a vast landscape to lean over railings at face value

in a state of seizure to resound to the foreground

vicious yellow sky

6. From The Despair to The Scream. Munch’s Expressionism.

the terrible shriek a mood painting further versions

a pastel drawing to look outwards to twist like

a connoisseur of a spiritual experience a sort of

a universe image a Peruvian mummy a fetal position

a fascinating exhibit a psychic self-portrait to distort

6 Speaking points. Comment on the following quotations.

1. “Hans Jaeger was saying ‘write your own life, this is the material,’- Munch had abundant material for an art that was emotionally charged.”

2. “Art should be emotionally charged, otherwise it is a photography. An artist’s spiritual experience is doomed to be shared by a viewer.”

3. "Great poets and painters are seldom understood at first, seldom honoured. They can be glad if they are not shown the door and politely thrown out, like Mr. Munch..."

4. “The art market nowadays is considered to be a good investment with possible earnings far in excess of usual financial instruments with modernistic art being the most expensive. But its attraction is purely financial.”

5. “What appeals to us in modernistic art? Well … it is a fashion nowadays, isn’t it?”

Superstitions - Part 1

1 Look through the NOTES and watch the Episode “Superstitions - Part 1”. (Мультимедийный каталог 1556→Unit 10)

The Last Supper - the meal eaten by Christ with his disciples on the night before his Crucifixion; Тайная вечеря (последняя совместная трапеза Христа и апостолов)

Absenteeism – the high rate of absence where regular attendance is expected

Incantation – the speaking or singing of certain words for the purpose of raising spirits or performing magical actions.

‘Mojo’ - magical power with its magical spell, acts, or charm. Widely believed in among sportsmen.

Thespian – (of or pertaining to Thespis, a Greek tragic poet and the traditional founder of Greek tragedy) a tragedian, an actor or actress.

a coven - a group or meeting of witches

Pandora - the first woman, made out of earth by the gods. Given a box (Pandora’s box) that she was forbidden to open, she disobeyed out of curiosity and released from it all the ills;