- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions:
- •2. Comment on the quotations. Do you agree with them? Explain your answers.
- •3. Read and translate the text. The Birth of Art
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Answer the questions to the text.
- •2. Look at the picture of «Venus of Willendorf». Describe it and answer the questions, use the cloud of clues or click on the link to read the Wikipedia article.
- •3. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •4. Retell the text according to the plan:
- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions:
- •2. Mark the periods of Greek art and Roman art on the timeline.
- •3. Read and translate the text. Greece: they invented a lot more than the Olympics
- •Rome: the organizers
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Answer the questions to the texts.
- •Начало формы
- •5. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •6. Retell the text according to the plan:
- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions:
- •2. Fill in the gaps in the chart below.
- •3. Read and translate the text. Medieval art
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Answer the questions to the texts.
- •2. Read the sentences about medieval art and fill in the gaps with the appropriate words or phrases.
- •3. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •4. Retell the text according to the plan:
- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions:
- •2. Look at the map and describe the countries where the Renaissance started and took place, main artists and their masterpieces.
- •3. Read and translate the text. The Renaissance
- •The Early Renaissance
- •The Italian Renaissance
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Answer the questions to the texts.
- •2. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •3 . Look at the two paintings. Compare them, use the words and phrases from the text.
- •4. Retell the text according to the plan:
- •5. Find the answer to the crossword puzzle.
- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions.
- •2. Comment on the quotations. Do you agree with them? Explain your answers.
- •3. Read and translate the text. The Northern Renaissance
- •The German Renaissance
- •Mannerism and the late Renaissance
- •T he Spanish Renaissance
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Answer the questions to the texts.
- •2. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •3. Look at the pictures. Discuss the following questions.
- •5. Retell the text according to the plan:
- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions:
- •3. Read and translate the text. Baroque art
- •Italian Baroque
- •Flemish Baroque
- •Dutch Baroque
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Answer the questions to the texts.
- •2. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •4. These sentences summarize the distinctive features of Baroque style. Decide which of them are true or false.
- •5. Retell the text according to the plan:
- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions:
- •2. Look at the chart and describe the difference between in Baroque style in these countries. Add your own examples of artists, sculptors and architects and their artworks.
- •3. Read and translate the text. English Baroque
- •Spanish Baroque
- •French Baroque
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Answer the questions to the texts.
- •2. Look at the picture. Whose artwork is it? Discuss these questions.
- •5. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •3. The diagram below asks you to connect each genre of painting (center) with its correct description and example. An example has been provided.
- •5. Retell the text according to the plan:
- •Before you read
- •1. Discuss the following questions:
- •2. Look at the chart and make up your own sentences to describe the period of Neoclassicism. Give the examples of artists and their paintings.
- •3. Read and translate the text. Neoclassicism
- •American Neoclassicism
- •Glossary
- •Activities
- •1. Retell the text according to the plan:
Glossary
surreal – something surreal is so strange that you cannot believe it is real.
cornerstone – the basic part of something, on which everything depends.
throwback – someone or something that seems to belong to an earlier period of time or that makes you think of an earlier period of time.
stiff – if you are stiff, or if a part of your body is stiff, you feel pain in your muscles and cannot move easily.
chiaroscuro – the way that light and dark areas create a pattern, especially in drawings and paintings.
solemnity – the seriousness of someone’s behaviour or attitude.
jesters – someone in the past whose job was to entertain an important person by saying and doing funny things.
unerring – always right or accurate.
shading – lines or colours that represent areasof shadow in a drawing or painting.
Activities
1. Answer the questions to the texts.
Why did the Renaissance first begin in Italy?
What are the characteristics of humanism?
How did the Italian Renaissance differ from the Renaissance of the 12c?
What were the distinctive characteristics of Renaissance art and architecture? How were they different from medieval art and Gothic architecture?
Who were the major artists of the High Renaissance period?
What new artistic techniques were introduced by Renaissance artists?
What were the main inventions of Leonardo?
2. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
1. The founder of Early Renaissance painting, which became the cornerstone of European painting for more than six centuries, was Masaccio.
2. In the sixteenth century, artistic leadership spread from Florence to Rome and Venice, where giants like Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael created sculpture and paintings with total technical mastery – a culmination referred to as the High Renaissance.
3. To avoid the solemnity of most formal portraits, Leonardo engaged musicians and jesters to amuse his subject.
4. Unfortunately, Leonardo was not temperamentally suited to the demands of traditional fresco painting, which required quick, unerring brushwork instead of accumulated blurred shadings.
5. Of the three major figures of the High Renaissance school (Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael), Raphael (1483–1520) would be voted Most Popular. Called to Rome by the pope at age 26 to decorate the Vatican rooms.
3 . Look at the two paintings. Compare them, use the words and phrases from the text.
4. Retell the text according to the plan:
The Renaissance.
The Early Renaissance.
The Italian Renaissance.
The famous artists and the new technologies.
5. Find the answer to the crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 The appearance of space or distance in a 2–dimensional artwork.
5 A big difference between 2 parts of an artwork.
6 The placement of some objects to partly cover other objects.
9 A design principle used to guide the viewers’ eyes around the work.
11 A pattern of squares of equal size.
12 The use of shape, colour or size to make part of an artwork stand out.
DOWN
1 The changing of the way an object bending or looks like stretching its shape.
2 The way the parts of an artwork are put together.
3 An artwork made by pressing an object covered with wet colour against the flat surface.
4 A part of an artwork that seems closest.
7 A darker value of a colour made by mixing it with black.
8 A lighter colour made by mixing a colour and white.
10 A large painting that covers a wall.
13 The way an artwork makes the viewer feel, such as happy or sad.
Unit5
The rebirth of art: THE northern RENAISSANCE