Define the items from Points II, III (A, B), VII (B).

3. Say which of the arts – music or painting – you like more and why.

4. Learn the difference between the words and insert the suitable word in the necessary form:

to draw – to paint – to sketch

1. She ___ in oil and water-colours. 2. Let me ___ out the main points of our plan. 3. She placed the paper and pencil before me and told me I could ___ anything I like. 4. The picture was ___ so that the eyes seem to follow you no matter where you are.

picture – a painting – drawing – sketch – illustration – study – portrait

1. Renoir did a number of ___ of small plants and flowers. 2. On the wall was a ___ of a woman’s head by Matisse. 3. The museum has an impressive collection of early 20^th century English ___. 4. The new encyclopedia is full of beautiful ___ and photographs. 5. This isn’t the finished picture – it’s just a simple ___. 6. Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” is one of the most famous ___ in the world. 7. The exhibition includes a series of ___ by Picasso for his painting Guernica. 8. The artist Van Holbein was best known for painting ___ of his contemporaries.

colours – paints

1. He painted the picture in glowing ___. 2. If you want conrflower blue you’d better mix these two ___. 3. The warm ___ are red, yellow and orange. 4. She gave me a set of oil ___ as a present.

hue – shade – tone – tinge – tint

1. The picture is painted entirely in varying ___s of blue, ranging from the very pale to the dark blue. 2. The painting glowed with beautiful autumn ___s. 3. The sky is grey with a ___ of pink. 4. Turner and the Romantic painters were sometimes called the white painters by followers of the classical tradition because of the light ___s of their pictures. 5. The diamond shone with every ___ under the sun.

shade – shadow

1. This drawing is remarkable for the skillful use of ___. 2. He walked along in the ___ hoping no one would recognize him. 3. There are some beautiful effects of light and ___. 4. It was painted in various ___s of blue. 5. The tree cast its ___ on the wall of the house. 6. She had to live in her father’s ___.

picture – portray – represent – depict – convey – describe – render

1. The artist was more concerned with the recreating the radiance of Venice than with __ the solid structure of its monument. 2. I could hardly __ Charlie in this role. 3. Roerich’s paintings for the Kazan railway station in Moscow __ combats between Russian and Tatars. 4. The great actress is __ in her day dress. 5. The picture __ the idea of tragedy and hardships of a peasant’s life 6. The Protestants banished symbols of luxury and icons from the churches, and merchants, craftsmen and well-to-do farmers now came forward as purchasers of painting. They wanted to see life __ as it was in reality, they wanted to see themselves on canvas. 7. I can’t __ to you what I feel, I have simply no words to do it. 8. The Impressionists wanted to ___ as truthfully as possible effects of sunlight. 9. Nicolas Berchem’s Italian Landscape with a Bridge __ a dilapidated bridge with crevices and unobtrusive rocks, all arranged in a lively, well-balanced composition. 10. I’d like you to close your eyes and __ a summer forest in the early morning. 11. Seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting came to a revelation for the thinking men of the epoch. Landscape as a genre helped to __ many varied spiritual bonds between Man and nature, as well as to acquire new painterly techniques. 12. Degas effectively ___ he atmosphere of the ballet. 13. Each figure is __ with a touch of warm and kindly humour, everyone is busy in one way or another, no posture or casual gesture is in discord with the swaying rhythm of the music of this landscape.

5. Match the terms in the box and their definitions below:

a) a picture made with a pencil; b) a drawing showing the parts of something to explain how it works; c) art of cutting or carving designs on metal, stone, etc.; d) a rough drawing without many details; e) a picture to go with the words of a book; f) a picture in solid black; g) a picture painted in watercolour on a surface of fresh wet plaster; h) woven cloth hanging on a wall, with picture woven from coloured wool or silk; i) using needle and acid to make a picture on a metal plate from which copies may be printed; j) a representation of a person made so that aspects of his or her appearance become more noticeable than they really are; k) a picture made by an unusual combination of bits of paper, cloth, metal, etc.; l) a picture painted directly into the wall; m) a humorous drawing, often dealing with smth of interest in the new or in an amusing way; n) a drawing showing by a line the connection between two quantities; o) method (of making a picture by way) of drawing on stone with chalk or pencil; p) a stick of coloured wax or chalk used for writing or drawing, esp. on paper.

6. Give the English for:

живопись; набросок; пейзаж; натюрморт; морской пейзаж; натурщик; батальная сцена; цветочная композиция; жанровая живопись; цветовая гамма; автопортрет; конный портрет; мифологический сюжет; акварель; масляная живопись; портретист; художник-самоучка; маринист; мелки/пастель; полотно; эффект пространства; на переднем плане; на заднем плане; творчество.