Answer the questions about the text.
Why did New Yorkers consider graffiti the work of vandals?
Why did graffiti artists suddenly become respectable in New York?
What influence did music have on popularity of graffiti artists?
In what way does Europe take graffiti art more seriously than the USA?
How do some graffiti artists make money?
Do you share the author’s view about the graffiti? Do you think that graffiti is a real art? What’s your attitude to the graffiti in general?
Read and translate the information about different genres of painting. G enres of painting
Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The first branch of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in France. In its second phase, Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread and remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity.
In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.
Expressionism was a cultural movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the start of the 20th century. Expressionist artists sought to express the meaning of "being alive" and emotional experience rather than physical reality. Expressionism emerged as an 'avant-garde movement' in poetry and painting before the First World War; in the Weimar years was being appreciated by a mass audience, having its popularity peak in Berlin, during the 1920s.
Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including: painting, literature, theatre, dance, film, architecture and music.
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review.
Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.
Emotions and feelings
Vocabulary
To feel good – чувствовать себя хорошо
To feel fine – чувствовать себя прекрасно
To feel great – чувствовать себя замечательно
To feel pride and joy – чувствовать гордость и радость
To be bright and happy – быть радостным и счастливым
To be in a good mood – быть в хорошем настроении
To feel bad – чувствовать себя плохо
To feel uneasy – чувствовать себя скованно
To feel anxious – ощущать обеспокоенность
To feel lonely – чувствовать себя одиноким
To feel scared – чувствовать страх
To feel miserable – чувствовать себя несчастным
To feel guilty – чувствовать вину
To feel put upon – чувствовать себя обманутым
To be upset – быть расстроенным
To be tense and jumpy – быть напряженным и нервным
To be furious – быть взбешенным
To be in a bad temper – быть в плохом настроении