III.After reading

Work with a partner and discuss these questions:

1. What is more difficult to paint people or nature?

2. What do you like most when you look at the painting: coloures, shades, artist's vision or something else?

3. Which paintings catch your attention at first glance? Why?

4. What is your favourite painter? Tell your partner about him/her.

5. Does art have great influence on people, you personally?

6. What feelings do you experience in front of a beautiful painting?

IV.Translate:

1. T. Jablonska studied at the Kyiv State Art Institute (1935-41) under F.Krychevsky and later taught there (1944-52, 1966-73).

2. Her canvases, most of which are painted, in the realist tradition, are often bathed in light and show a highly developed sense of color.

3. In the 1960s, as a result of her interest in Ukrainian folk art and ethnography, her paintings became more decorative, with simplified forms (eg, Young Mother, 1964; Summer, 1967

4. 1969 Yablonska was creating canvases that synthesized her two previous styles, a synthesis that culminated in the powerful, symbolic Youth (1969) and Silence (1975).

* Find the following information in the reading.

1. T.Yablonska's descent

2. where she studied and worked

3. the styles she painted/paints in

4. what and whom her pictures depict

5. the canvases with Ukrainian elements she created

V. Writing

Make a research on the topic "My favourite genre in painting". Try to find as much information as you can using library resources, the Internet. Present your report in front of the class.

Vі. Project work

Collect the information about painters impressionists and organise this into the wall

Painting Quiz

1. What are the oldest surviving paintings in Ukraine?

2. Where have the frescoes from the medieval Rus been found?

3. When did the Galician School of icon painting emerge?

4. What style of painting began to develop in the 17th c.?

5. In what century did secular portrait painting emerge?

6. What did T.Shevchenko paint?

7. Who were landscape painters of the 19th century?

8. What styles emerged and flourished in Ukraine in the 20th c.?

9. When was the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts established?

10. In what style did M.Pymonenko paint?

11. Whose poems did he illustrate?

12. In what technique did V.Kasiian excel?

13. What is T. Yablonska known for?

14. What do you know about V. Krychevsky?

Independent work of the students: