UNIT 5

Isaac Levitan (1860–1900)

Vladimirka

(Vladimir Highway)

Task 1. You participate in the world art conference. Make a brief presentation of your favourite master Isaac Levitan and describe his masterpiece “Vladimirka” offering good reasons for your preference.

NOTE 1: Make use of prompts 1 (prompt questions), 2 (a plan of a picture description) or 3 (a sample description) depending on your readiness to describe a critical realism painting.

KEY NOTE: If you find describing a picture a rather challenging task for yourself, please, refer to the following texts for information about the development of critical realism in Russia, and also about Russian painters' love for genre and history painting in critical realism.

A.J. Kuinji (1842-1910)

Birch Grove

Task 2. Be ready to speak about one of the representatives of critical realism.

NOTE 2: Make use of prompts 1 (prompt questions), 2 (a plan of a picture description) or 3 (a sample description) depending on your readiness to describe a critical realism painting.

“A Religious Procession in a Village at Easter”

Task 3. Describe a masterpiece by Perov and art of the Itinerants to your British friend.

NOTE 3: Make use of prompts 1 (prompt questions), 2 (a plan of a picture description) or 3 (a sample description) depending on your readiness to describe a critical realism painting.

Vasily Surikov (1848-1916)

“Boyarina Morosova”

Task 4. You are an art critic. You were asked to talk about Surikov’s picture “Boyarina Morosova” before a group of tourists. Make a detailed presentation of the picture, try and mention painter’s style and choice of the subject.

NOTE 4: Make use of prompts 1 (prompt questions), 2 (a plan of a picture description) or 3 (a sample description) depending on your readiness to describe a critical realism painting.

Ilya Repin (1844 - 1930)

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire

Task 5. You participate in the world art conference. Make a brief presentation of your favourite “Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire” by Repin. Ddescribe the masterpiece offering good reasons for your preference.

NOTE 5: Make use of prompts 1 (prompt questions), 2 (a plan of a picture description) or 3 (a sample description) depending on your readiness to describe a critical realism painting.

Vasily Polenov (1844 - 1927)

The Moscow courtyard

Task 6. You are a student of a Department of Journalism, you were asked to write an article about "The Moscow courtyard" by Vasily Polenov. Now make a presentation of your article.

NOTE 6: Make use of prompts 1 (prompt questions), 2 (a plan of a picture description) or 3 (a sample description) depending on your readiness to describe a critical realism painting.

Vladimir Makovsky (1846-1920)

“On the Boulevard”

Task 7. Act as a guide to the picture “On the Boulevard” by Vladimir Makovsky.

NOTE 7: Make use of prompts 1 (prompt questions), 2 (a plan of a picture description) or 3 (a sample description) depending on your readiness to describe a critical realism painting.