1. Read the text and translate it into Ukrainian.

2. Answer the following questions:

1. Who is the only Russian painter to compare with Shishkin in depicting the forest?

2. What are outstanding examples of Levitan’s art?

3. What are the most famous works of Isaak Levitan?

4. Where did Ilya Repin come from?

5. What did Ilya Repin take after other famous Russian painters?

6. What are the titles of the most famous pictures by Repin?

7. What work immediately established Repin’s position as a serious and formidable artist?

8. What did Repin depict in his striking picture “On the Road of Mud, under Guard”?

9. Why is “They Did Not Expect Him” so famous?

10. What did Ilya Repin concentrate on after creating his masterpieces?

3. Give Ukrainian equivalents of the following words and phrases:

great poverty

noble

wide range of subject matter

impeccable virtuosity and genuine emotion

huge and threatening sky

unrivalled grandeur

to uncover human depth

enigmatic

ruling elite

values of freedom and fairness

to speculate in paint

striking picture

irresistible

great merit

to look up in astonishment

to shine with delight

to lack fire

4. Give English equivalents of the following words and phrases:

вважати найкращим художником

зазнавати злиднів

похмурий настрій

грандіозні акварелі

відображати духовні цінності

неосяжність

прихильність до свободи

несамовитий інтелігент

злидні та стан пригноблюваного класу

засвоювання живопису просто-неба

світитися від задоволення

створити шедевр

цілковита безнадійність

5. Make up sentences of your own with the given words and phrases.

6. Match a line in a with a line in b.

A	B
edge	worth or superior quality; excellence
impeccable	tending to inspire awe or admiration because of great size, strength, excellence, etc.
to hint	to be deficient or have need
unrivalled	of unwavering mind; resolute; firm
determined	not able to be refused; overpowering
formidable	unable to perform a task or function to the best advantage; wasteful or incompetent
irresistible	without flaw or error; faultless
merit	the border, brim, or margin of a surface, object, etc.
Inefficient	having no equal; matchless
to lack	to suggest or imply indirectly

7. Summarize the text in English. The wanderers

The Wanderers, a group of artists drawn together by the common determination to create a new Russian culture, constituted the first challenge to the all powerful Petersburg Academy of Art. The fourteen artists who had declared their secession from the Academy in 1863 were inspired by ideals of, bringing art to the people”. They called themselves the Wanderers, because they thought to put their ideals into practice by taking travelling exhibitions throughout the countryside. These artists sought to justify their activity by making their art useful to society. They repudiated the philosophy of ,art for art's sake” which they identified with the current academic tradition centered in the Petersburg Academy, this traditions derived its standards mainly from international Neo-classicism. The Wanderers defied these traditions, saying that art should be primarily concerned with and subordinated to reality.

,, The true functions of art”, wrote many Chernishevsky,” is to explain lite and comment on it, Reality is more beautiful that its representation in art”.

The mission of the Wanderers to arouse compassions and sympathy for the common man was a brave subject for art in Russia, not only by virtue of its social message, but by its emphasis on the traditional Russia way of life. The repudiating of international Neo-classicism and the ensuing rediscovery of the national artistic heritage, was the starting-point of a modern school of painting in Russia.