UNIT 4
Exercise 1. Get together with another student and practice the pronunciation of the following proper names and words:
a) Edward Manet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Renoir, Berthe Morisot
b) revolutionize, spontaneous, immediacy, brilliance, swathe, chromatic
NOTE: Check your answers with the key.
Exercise 2. Give the Russian equivalents of the following words and word combinations. Recall the situations from the text with them.
Immediate impression of an object, at a glance, to reproduce light, vibrating brilliance, pure colour, shimmering pictures, official circles, scientific study of light, to favour compositions, in the natural light, unfinished art, sunlit landscapes, notable feature, attention to the life of its time, divided colour technique, outside the trite and closed environment.
NOTE: Check your answers with the key.
Exercise 3. Think of the English variants of the following:
непосредственное впечатление от предмета, научные исследования явления света, японские гравюры, с одного взгляда, при естественном освещении, неоконченное произведение искусства, освещенные солнцем пейзажи, заметная черта, «избитая», техника раздельного нанесения цвета, «эскизность» (схематичность) картины, беспримесный («несмешанный») цвет, мерцающий, отдавать предочтение.
NOTE: Check your answers with the key.
Exercise 4. Explain the meaning of the following words and word combinations:
Official circles, divided colour technique, pure colour, the sketchiness of paintings, vibrating brilliance, to frame and use space, informal and spontaneous compositions, surface effects, sloppy workmanship, officially sanctioned art.
Exercise 5. Use these words to complete the sentences:
a) light and colour; b) extraordinary effects of light; c) a gentle and vibrant painting d) the effects of light; e) flat colour; f) colours on the troubled surface of the water; g) spatial perspective and the study of light;
1. Monet painted the same subject, at different hours of the day in order to study … 2. The hallmarks of Renoir’s paintings are … 3. Typical features of Degas’s paintings are … 4. The use of pastels in Degas’s painting The Tub creates … 5. Pissarro translated his love of the countryside and rural life, these simple and humble motifs, into …, creating a mood of gentle melancholy. 6. Particularly favourite motifs of Monet were the sparkles of … 7. In Luncheon on the Grass Manet laid the foundations of Impressionism by almost completely abolishing chiaroscuro and using large areas of … to create stark and daring contrasts.