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3. What is the subject of the opening episode of the Marriage a la Mode? Where is the opening
episode set? How are the figures arranged? What does the alderman do? How is the bride depicted?
What does the earl do?
4. What is seen out the window? What lines the walls of the room?
5. What compositional style dominates in the Signing the Contract? Why is the scene set
diagonally?
6. Were all Hogarth's devices original and witty?
III. i Give Russian equivalents of the following phrases:
a school of painting; a founder of the school; narrative candour; satiric wit; pictorial skill;
moralistic cycles; theatrical effect; Old Masters; the robust handling of poses; the dowry; to owe to;
to expatiate about; a family tree; to exhaust the fortune; to profess to hate; the betrothed; bold
brushwork; bases for engravings; an opening episode.
ii. Give English equivalents of the following phrases:
смелые мазки; приданое; цикл нравоучительных картин; генеалогическое дерево; школа
живописи; быть обязанным кому-либо; рассуждать на тему; основатель школы; театральный
эффект; основы для гравюр; сатирический ум; растратить состояние; искренность; суженая;
живописное мастерство; открыто выражать свою неприязнь.
iii. Make up sentences ofyour own with the given phrases
iv. Arrange the following in the pairs of synonyms:
a) to line; to exhaust; alderman; dazzling; strikingly; expatiate; dowry; detest;
b) municipal legislator; to discuss; extremely; to cover; to waste; hate; marriage portion;
brilliant.
IV. Translate the text into English.
Национальная живопись в Англии начинается с Уильяма Хогарта. Художник занимался
исторической живописью, религиозными сюжетами. Однако истинный Хогарт - это
жанровые картины и гравюры. В своих произведениях, объединенных в повествовательные
циклы, он обращался к разнообразным темам. Хогарт полагал, что его работы будут
способствовать улучшению нравов. Для того, чтобы как можно больше людей могли
познакомиться с его произведениями, художник делал с них гравюры, которые часто
оказывались интереснее самих оригиналов. Всю свою творческую жизнь Хогарт писал
портреты: групповые, парадные, автопортреты. Умение передать характер человека
принесли художнику успех. Портрет всегда был в Англии самым любимым жанром
живописи.
V. Summarize the text.
VI. Topics for discussion.
1. Hogarth's moralistic cycles.
2. Hogarth's style and characters.
3. Satire in art.
UNIT II GAINSBOROUGH (1727-1788)
The most accomplished and the most influential English painter of the eighteenth century was
Thomas Gainsborough. Until 1774 Gainsborough painted landscapes and portraits in various
provincial centres before settling in London for the last fourteen years of his life. Although the
elegant attenuation of his lords and ladies is indebted to his study of Van Dyck, Gainsborough
achieved in his full-length portraits a freshness and lyric grace all his own. Occasional objections to
the lack of structure in his weightless figures are swept away by the beauty of his colour and the
delicacy of his touch. The figure in Mary Countess Howe, painted in the mid-1760s, is exquisitely
posed in front of a landscape background. Gainsborough has expended his ability on the soft
shimmer of light over the embroidered organdy of her overdress and cascades of lace at her elbows,
sparkling in the soft English air; the only solid accents in the picture are her penetrating eyes.
Although Gainsborough was country-born, his landscape elements seem artificial, added like bits of
scenery to establish a spatial environment for the exquisite play of colour in the figure.