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6. Matisse is considered to be the most sensitive painter of the twentieth century.
II. How well have you read? Can you answer the following questions?
1. What innovations interested Matisse? What experiments did Matisse perform? What
attracted Matisse then?
2. Why did The Green Stripe excite horror? What is depicted in this painting?
3. What is the triumphant affirmation of Matisse's Fauve period? What did Matisse reach in
this picture?
4. What did Matisse write in 1908? What painting sums up Matisse's art and philosophy? What
was the idea of this picture? What has survived as an echo in this painting?
5. What did Matisse create in 1921? What is typical of Matisse's Nice period? What is
represented in this painting?
6. What did Matisse do in 1943? What did he create between 1948 and 1951? What did
Matisse produce in his old age?
III. i. Give Russian equivalents of the following phrases:
the innovations of the Post-Impressionists; simplified figures; the art world; the celebrated
group of Fauve pictures; to intensify the differentiation of hues; to produce a strong emotional
effect; to intensify the fluidity of contour; exotic culture; a delicate web of line and colour; stained
glass; from a pictorial stand point.
ii. Give English equivalents of the following phrases:
упрощенные формы; перспектива Ренессанса; знаменитые работы фовистов; утонченная
изысканность линии и контура; витраж; экзотическая культура; произвести сильный
эмоциональный эффект; подчеркнуть плавность линий; мир искусства; с точки зрения
живописи; усилить контраст тонов.
iii. Make up questions of your own with the given phrases.
iv. Arrange the following in the pairs of synonyms:
a) contour; vestment; masterpiece; mural; touch; revive;
b) artistic scene; style; masterwork; recover; shape; garment
IV. Here are descriptions of some of Matisse's works of art. Match them up to the titles given
below.
1. This painting is dominated by blue, green and pink.
2. A forest glade is inhabited by a happy company of nudes, male and female, embracing,
playing pipes and picking flowers.
3. Renaissance perspective survives here only as an echo.
4. The strongly modelled, grandly simplified forms of the nude are played off against the
movement of the Rococo shapes in the wallpaper and the mirror.
5. The blazing bouquet of colours was applied not only to the background but also to the face.
6. It is a great work of art of the 20-th century.
a. Red Studio
b. Zulma
c. The Green Stripe
d. The Chapel
e. Decorative Figure Against an Ornamented Background (Nude with the Straight Back)
f. Joy of Life
V. Translate the text into English.
Анри Матисс, самый талантливый из фовистов, прошел через увлечение
импрессионистами и в поисках интенсивности и яркости цвета пришел к упрощенности и
плоскости форм. Предметом изображения Матисса служат самые простые мотивы: цветы,
кресла, ткани. В его полотнах почти нет объема, композиции строятся на контрасте цветов.
Линии у Матисса очень лак9нич-ны. "Матисс-декоратор"- это особая страница
монументально-декоративной живописи первой половины XX в. Одна из последних его
работ - декоративное оформление капеллы в Вансе.
VI. Summarize the text.