- •Сборник текстов для чтения, перевода и реферирования
- •Введение
- •Part I. Texts for reading
- •1.1. Superhero
- •1. 2. Don’t miss concert in conservatoire
- •1. 3. Information for visitors of the national gallery in london
- •1. 4. Weekly rep
- •1. 5. British tv
- •1. 6. Folk music
- •1. 7. Comic books
- •1. 8. How a hit song is written
- •1. 9. A london pantomime
- •1. 10. Abstract art
- •1. 11. Patricia kaas
- •1. 12. My favourite ballet
- •1. 13. Disneyland park
- •1. 14. Do you like music?
- •1. 15. Egyptian arts
- •1. 16. Freddie mercury
- •1. 17. Horror films
- •1. 18. Interview with a musician
- •1. 19. Tom hanks
- •1. 20. Jazz – a new era in music
- •1. 21. London’s museums
- •1. 22. Music awards
- •1. 23. Progressive rock
- •1. 24. Hippies and skinheads
- •1. 25. Rock music
- •1.26. Andersen. Traveller and theatre lover
- •1.27. Henry wood promenade concerts
- •1.28. Holding meetings
- •1.29. Punk rock is 30 years old
- •1.30. The guitar
- •1.31. Services for school. The national gallery, london
- •1.32. The wallace collection
- •1.33. Clowning
- •1.34. Music and musicians. Punk.
- •1.35. Theatre superstitions
- •1.36. Reggae
- •1.37. The british museum
- •1.38. The american greats
- •1.39. Summer camps in the united states
- •1.40. Compositions by bach’s second son performed in moscow
- •1.41. The russian museum
- •1.42. Rachmaninov
- •1.43. Gainsborough and music
- •1.44. Britain's unique puppet theatre
- •1.45. “Cats”
- •1.46. "The picture of dorian gray"
- •1.47. Lord of the rings
- •1.48. Benjamin britten
- •1. 49. Al pacino
- •1. 50. Can you think of a day without music?
- •1. 51. Chicago bluesman comes to moscow
- •1. 52. The globe theatre
- •1. 53. Chopin in britain
- •1. 54. Covent garden
- •1. 55. Diana ross
- •1. 56. "Oklahoma!"
- •1.57. Tarkovsky: a new look
- •Part II. Texts for rendering
- •2. 1. A miracle on the stage
- •2. 2. ‘’ Beauty and the beast'’ (1946)
- •2. 4. Valentin serov
- •2.5. Blockbuster films
- •2 .6. Charlie chaplin – early years
- •2. 7. English on the stage
- •2. 8. Harry porter
- •2. 9. Hippies
- •2. 10. Hollywood
- •2. 11. Kevin costner
- •12. Leonardo DiCaprio
- •2. 13. Libraries
- •2. 14. Mozart
- •2.15. Madam tussaud's
- •2. 16. Niccolo paganini - virtuoso or devil?
- •2.17. Russian winter in london
- •2.18. The birth of the "seventh art"
- •2.19. The little tramp
- •2. 20. Tretyakov gallery
- •2. 21. Television in modern life
- •2. 22. Types of music
- •2. 23. Walt disney's world
- •2. 43. Young musician of the year
- •Оглавление
- •Progressive rock...................................................................................................................................
- •The american greats............................................................................................................................
- •Summer camps in the united states.............................................................................................
2. 20. Tretyakov gallery
Read the text and find out what makes the gallery famous.
The State Tretyakov Gallery is one of the best-known picture galleries in Russia. It takes its name from its founder Pavel Tretyakov, a Moscow merchant and art connoisseur.
In the mid-19"century, Tretyakov began to collect Russian paintings. He visited all the exhibitions and art studios and bought the best pictures of contemporary artists. He was especially fond of the works of the Peredvizhniki (or Wanderers) — the artists who belonged to the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions. Little by little Tretyakov extended his range of interest and began to collect earlier Russian paintings. More than once he had to add wings to his house in Lavrushinsky Pereulok, because his collection grew larger and larger.
In 1881 Pavel Tretyakov opened his collection to the public. 11 years later he donated it to the city of Moscow. Since then the gallery has received hundreds of pictures from other museums and private collections.
The Tretyakov Gallery reflects the whole history of Russian art, from the 1 llh century to the present day.
It has a rich collection of old Russian icons. The world-famous icon is The Trinity, painted in the early 15th century by Andrei Rublev.
The gallery contains halls devoted to the magnificent works of such 18th-century celebrities as Rokotov, Levitsky, Borovikovsky, Shchedrin.
The first half of the 19th century is represented by brilliant paintings by Bryullov, Tropinin, Ivanov, Venetsianov. The second half of the 19lh century is especially well represented. The gallery has the best collection of the Peredvizhniki, such as Kramskoy, Perov, Ghe, Yaroshenko, Myasoyedov, and others. Linked with the Peredvizhniki are such great names in Russian art as Surikov, Repin, Vereshchagin, Vasnetsov, Levitan. There you can see . historical paintings, portraits, still-lifes, landscapes, seascapes, etc.
Further on we find the cream of turn-of-the century Russian art: Serov, Vrubel, Kustodiev ...
Canvases of modem painters are housed in the new building situated on Krymskaya Naberezhnaya (Crimean Embankment).
The Tretyakov Gallery is not only Russia's biggest and most important museum of Russian Art. It's also a research, cultural and educational centre.
Exercise
Answer the questions:
1. When did Pavel Tretyakov begin to collect Russian paintings?
2. Whose works was he especially fond of?
3. What do you know about the Peredvizhniki ?
4. Where did Tretyakov keep his collection?
5. When did he open his collection to the public?
6. What did Tretyakov do with his collection?
7. Who was The Trinity painted by?
8. Do you know any other famous icon-painters?
9. What 18th century portrait-painters do you know?
10. Why is the second half of the 19th century especially well represented at the Gallery?
11. What great Russian names are linked with the Peredvizhniki
12. What turn-of-the-century Russian artists do you know?
13. Where are canvases of modern painters housed?
14. When did you last go to the Tretyakov Gallery?
15. Who are your favourite Russian painters?