Київський професійно-педагогічний коледж
імені Антона Макаренка

 

 

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Електронний навчально-методичний підручник

 

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Теоретичні відомості

Практичні роботи

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Укладач

 

Практична робота 7

 

 7. Painting.

 

1.Match the columns.

1)       to give away       a) випускати, виділяти

2)       to give in             b) псуватися, ламатися, вичерпуватися, закінчуватися, підходити до кінця

3)       to give off            c) віддавати безкоштовно роздавати, дарувати;

4)       to give out           d) здатися, опустити руки

5)       to give up            e) здавати звіт, доповідь, домашню роботу тощо

2. Fill in the gaps with the words from the list.

                      Back              off          away          out          up           in

1.       Could you give this book _______?

2.       Alice needs to give the toy __________. 

3.       I don’t want to give _____________.

4.       The dish gives  ________ the fire.

5.       They gave postcards  __________ to people. 

6.      Don’t give _______ ! 

 

 3. Read the article and make 5 own questions to the text.

Modern art is rubbish; at least that’s what cleaners at a gallery in Bolzano, Italy were probably thinking when they threw away an installation calledWhere shall we godancing tonight?’ To be fair, the installation was a room designed to look like there had been a party there the night before. It was ­ filled with empty bottles and party decorations, and was meant to be a comment on corruption in Italy in the1980s. Unfortunately, it was so realistic that the cleaners missed the message and threw the whole thing away. Interestingly, rather than asking the artist to go back to squareone, the gallery owners went through the bins and rebuilt the piece more or less as it was originally.

     On the other side of the world, at the Museum of Modern Artin San Francisco, two teenage visitors were impressed by many of the sophisticated and occasionally shocking works of art on display there. However, they found some of the pieces to be more puzzling than inventive, and others to be the sort of thing they could probably do themselves. And that’s what they did. When nobody was looking, one of them placed their glasses on thefloor below an official-looking piece of paper.Within minutes, people began to stop in front of theunique’exhibit to discuss and photograph it. At the same time, the two teenagers photographed the people and posted the images on Twitter, where they quickly went viral.

      These parallel stories raise a familiar question; ‘what is and isn’t art?’ Most would agree that Michelangelo’s spectacular ceiling of the Sistine chapel, the expressive face of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and the atmospheric paintings of Claude Monet are great examples of classical art. Such works demonstrate great skill, express the artistsemotions, and often make political, social or historical points. When it comes to more modern andabstract art, however, opinions are divided. Does, for example, Andy Warhol’s unchanging 8-hour single shot ­ film of the Empire State Building really demonstrate artistic skill? What is there to say about Damien Hirst’s series of over a thousand paintings of dots of different colours and sizes? Are these artists revealing their inner-thoughts and connecting with others, or are they making huge amounts of money from exploiting the audience? If their work gets you talking, doesthat make it art? If the artist, the critics and the experts say a work of art is meaningful, should we simply agree?

       Sometimes even specialists struggle to decide whether something is art or not. Belgian researchers showed expertsand non-experts a series of photographic portraits, some of which were valuable works of art and others simple passport photographs. The results revealed that the experts were no better at identifying the recognised works of art than the non-experts. In fact, the researchers reported that the experts were more likely to mistake the valuable works of art for the simple photographs. And, what about you? Can you tell what is art and what isn’t? Have a go: which of the two pieces in the photographs at the bottom of the page do you think is a real work of art?

       This article has asked far more questions than it has answered, so drawing conclusions is difficult. Presumably you weren’t expecting a de­finitive answer toWhat is and isn’t art?’ in a short article like this, anyway. Perhaps it’s safe to say that it is for the individual to decide. Some modern art is breathtaking, skilful and profound, and some classical art lacks exactly those qualities. Finally, what about the challenge from the previous paragraph? Which of the works of art isreal’? Well, you are probably not going to like this, butthe answer is neither of them! I’m not an artist and I did them both on my laptop in less than two minutes. Art?

 

4. Read the article again and choose the correct answers.


1 The two incidents described in the first two
paragraphs illustrate that….
a all modern art is worthless.
b only an artist can create a work of art.
c it is often dicult to decide what art is.
d social media can help us understand art.


2 In the third paragraph, the author suggests that
….
a it is easier to recognise classic examples of fine art
than of modern art.
b all art demonstrates the artistic skills of the artist.
c modern art is generally worth more money thanclassical art.
d if experts say something is art, it must be art.


3 Belgian researchers showed that
…..
a only an expert can answer the questionWhat is art?’
b both experts and non-experts struggle to recognise
true art.
c passport photographs are art.
d non-experts were worse at identifying real worksof art.


4 The concluding paragraph suggests that the answer to‘What is art?’
….
a may be di
fferent for each of us.
b has finally been answered in this article.
c depends on the individual artist.
d is impossible to answer.


5 The author writesyou are probably not going to like
thisin the final paragraph because she…..
a doesn’t think the reader will like her works of art.
b doesn’t provide the reader with the solution to the
challenge she set.
c asked the reader to think like an expert.
d played a trick on the reader.          

 

 

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