3. Reading

• Work in pairs.

Cut out and shuffle the parts of the two biographies. Students in pairs have to sort out the cards to make the biographies complete.

SALVADOR DALI

Salvador Dali was born in Spain in 1904. When he was a child, he

showed strange behavior and often interrupted his class in school. As he got older,

he started to paint pictures that came from his dreams.

His dreams and his paintings were scary and unreal. Dali went to art school in Madrid, Spain. He got kicked out,

and never finished. He even spent time in jail. However, he continued to paint,

and his art style became known as Surrealism. Salvador Dali drew everyday items,

but changed them in odd ways. For example, one of his paintings is of melting clocks. Before he died

at the age of 85 in 1989, Dali had created works in film, ballet, opera, fashion, jewelry, and advertising illustrations.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

In 1452, Leonardo Da Vinci was born in an Italian town called Vinci. He lived in a time period called the Renaissance, when

everyone was interested in art. Even though Da Vinci was a great artist, he became famous because of all the other things he could do. He was a sculptor, a scientist, an inventor, an architect, a musician, and a mathematician. When he was twenty, he

helped his teacher finish a painting called The Baptism of Christ. When

he was thirty, he moved to Milan. That

is where he painted most of his pictures. DaVinci’s

paintings were done in the Realist style.

4. Speaking

Do ex. 6, p. 125.

5. Summary

In groups discuss the following quotes briefly and express your opi­nions as for them.

1. There is no must in art because art is free. (Wassily Kandinsky)

2. We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. (Pablo Picasso)

3. A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. (Michelangelo)

6. Homework

Take any of the statements from ex. 6, p. 125 and write a short essay on it.

Цілі: вдосконалювати навички усного мовлення й читання; розвивати куль­туру спілкування й мовленнєву реакцію учнів; виховувати естетичний смак і загальну культуру учнів.

Дата

Procedure

1. Warm-up

1. What kind of art is your country famous for?

2. What famous art galleries do you know in Ukraine?

2. Reading

Read the text and say if the National Art Museum of Ukraine reflects the history and culture of our country.

NATIONAL ART MUSEUM OF UKRAINE

One hundred years ago, at the beginning of the history of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, which was first called the City Museum of Antiques and Art, there was hardly any concept of Ukrainian professional art. Ukraine was always famous for its national ethnographical applied art. The found­ers of the museum’s collections decided to prove that this opinion was wrong and defined the list of main representatives of Ukrainian fine art. These scientists have included in the list not only those who were born and worked in Ukraine, but also those national-conscious artists who lived abroad. They thought that foreigners who worked in Ukraine have enriched a national cul­ture too. These principles were the basis of their collective work.

So works of T. Shevchenko, I. Repin, V. Borovikovskiy, V. Tropinin, N. Pimonenko, M. Vrubel, N. Ge, G. Narbut, A. Murashko and V. Krichevskiy became a part of the museum’s collection. The collectors have found even some older works ranging from medieval icons to Cossacks times portraits of military and church leaders and humorous comic pictures “Cossack Mamay”. Things came to collection from different areas ranging from far western Galitsia to eastern Tchernigovshina areas. They looked for mas­terpieces of Ukrainian art in Moscow and Saint Petersburg and even wrote correspondence to Ukrainian artists living in Europe and America.

Today there are a lot of new works of art coming to museum’s collec­tions. Among these new comings are: unique icon relief “St. George in His Lifetime” dating to the 12th century; works of the founder of international abstractionism Kazimir Malevitch, who was native Ukrainian; masterpiece of Ukrainian rococo “The Great Martyr” icon, graphics of world famous Ukrainian living in the USA, Y. Gnizdovskiy. Now there are thousands of exhibits presented in the museum’s collection.

The 1990s were the time when museum came to an international level. For the first time in the museum’s history its collections were exhibited in famous museums of Canada, France, Denmark, Croatia. The world discov­ered an advanced culture of the country with 10,000 years of history. As a result, some previously infamous artists became a part of international art elite. For example, A. Petritskiy is considered to be one of the best set designers of the 20th century, V. Yermilov is known as the most laconic constructivist of the 20s, and O. Bogomazov is ranked as one of the best futurists of Europe.

Those exhibitions also have discovered the Ukrainian side of some fa­mous Russian artists as O. Exter, A. Arkhipenko, D. Burluk.

The items from museum’s collections often become the sensations on international exhibitions. In 1997 on “The Fame of Byzantium” exhibition the 12th century icon “St. Geroge in His Lifetime” gained the steadfast at­tention of the specialists.