3. Say true or false.

1. Painting has been freely combined with many other arts, including easel, architecture, and, in the modern era, photography.

2. Among the various media used by artists are vine, watercolour , the pigments ,oil, gouache, tempera , and encaustic.

3. From the age of the baroco, painting tended in the direction of greater intimacy.

4. The greatest masterpieces of Raphael and Michelangelo and of the Florentine masters are generally public works of this character.

5. The same period saw the rise of the large public museums with both temporary and permanent exhibitions, an institution greatly expanded in the 19th cent.

6. People can’t reflect their lives in art.

7. The art of painting in China was linked from the 1st cent.

8. In the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow the art of the Ancient East and Western Europe is represented.

4. Match the words with translation.

   A	B
   Masterpieces	Мольберт
   Application	шедеври
   Vehicle	Рідкісний
   Representative	Заява
   Rare	Засіб пересування, провідник
   Easel	Представник
   To exist	Розширювати, збільшувати
   Expand	Існувати

5. Translate into English. Make up sentences.

Розвиток	Розвиток мистецтва	Іноземні експозиції
Асортимент	Найбагатші колекції	Особливий
Акварель	Гуаш	засновник

6. Put in the right order. Learn the dialogue.

• That’s a lovely picture?

• Yes, that is lovely, isn’t it?

• Beautiful.

• It’s a Constable, isn’t it?

• Well it looks like Constable.

• I suppose so.

• The last great English painter, wasn’t he?

• .But they are only minor ones, aren’t they?

• One can always tell a Constable, can’t one?

• Well we have had some quite good painters since then

• I don’t know. Sutherland’s quite famous.

• But that isn’t everything, is it?

• No, but it’s something.

• It’s quality that counts, isn’t it?

• Well, yes.

• And English painters aren’t good enough, are they?

• Well….um…

• You know I’m right, don’t you?

• I suppose so.

• Yes it is, isn’t it?

• And I like that one over there too.

Describe the paintings.

Think about:

1. Main subject

2. Setting

3. Background

4. Your feelings

Describe
1)	2)	3)

8. Read and translate the article Some little known facts about famous paintings

The original painting by Rembrandt which is now titled “Self Portrait as the Apostle Paul” was originally 160 cm wide, but unfortunately the only frame that the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam had at the time, was 93 cm wide so the curators trimmed off the right-hand side which had a portrait of Rembrandt’s favourite llama which he had named “Umber”.

Another little known fact is that Rembrandt made his own brushes using llama hair from Umber.

This watercolour version of “Coming Down from Mont Blanc” was painted by John Singer Sargent around 1909 and shows a couple of friends bringing Sargent’s pack llamas down the mountain. Sargent was one of the first to use pack llamas to carry his easel and supplies.

If you ever get a chance to see the “Oyster Gatherers of Cancale” by John Singer Sargent in The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, look very carefully at the left-hand side and you may be able to see where some llama-hating restorer has carefully painted out the llama.

Claude Monet’s painting of “Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden”, done in 1866, shows one of Claude’s favourite llamas. Very few people know that he kept a few llamas to keep the grass in his garden trimmed.

Salvador Dali painted many versions of “Persistence of Memory” around 1931 and our favourite one naturally is this one which shows Salvador Dali’s pet llama which he obviously called “DaliLlama”. It is displayed in the Museum of Llama Art in Mount Lehman, British Columbia.

Thomas Eakins’ painting of “The Courtship”, done in 1878, obviously doesn’t have a llama in it. However, as shown below, recent x-rays clearly proved that the current painting covered an earlier composition which included two llamas. This would suggest that the girl is probably spinning llama wool.

There is an on-going controversy now between Eakins scholars and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco whether or not to scrape off the top layer and reveal the original llama painting.

Whistler’s famous portrait of his mother shows a painting on the wall. Few people realize that it is one of his mother’s favourite paintings. It was done by Whistler three years earlier when he took a trip to Nepal.

On the close-up you can see that the smaller painting has a figure with a pack llama hiking on a ridge with Mount Everest in the background.

On close inspection of this Vincent Van Gogh painting of a llama in a wheat field, you will notice that Mr. Van Gogh has cut off one of the llama’s ears.

In this Monet painting a curious llama is checking out the magpie on the gate. As you can see in the detail below, the llama has snow on its face from leaning through the snow on the fence.