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духовную победу; оригинальный стиль; на голубом фоне; построение пространства; для
достижения большей выразительности; разработать новый оригинальный контур;
перспектива Ренессанса.
iii. Make up sentences of your own with the given phrases.
iv. Arrange the following in the pairs of synonyms:
a) to vibrate; expressive; device; to endow; technique; spiritual; victory;
b) ethereal; to bestow; meaningful; triumph; invention; to wave; method.
IV. Here are descriptions of some of Van Gogh's works of art. Match them up to the titles given
below.
1. In this painting the perspective is so strongly exaggerated that it seems to catapult the
observer into the end wall.
2. Exploding masses of gold fire expand against the blue.
3. Renaissance perspective of fields and farms is revived in this painting.
4. In a mood of renewed confidence, the artist has endowed the painting with his own physical
colouring.
a. The Starry Night
b. The Night Cafu
c. Self-Portrait
d. A View of La Craw
V. Translate the text into English.
Винцент Ван Гог - "великий голландец" - неразрывно связан с французской живописной
школой. Художника, воплотившего душевную смятенность современного человека,
называют постимпрессионистом. В своих произведениях Ван Гог выразил глубокий трагизм,
с которым он воспринимал жизнь. Любой портрет, пейзаж или натюрморт у Ван Гога
исполнен скрытой драматической силы. Ощущение беспокойства выражено в резком
звучании красок.
Творчество Ван Гога охватывает десятилетие, причем самыми важными являются
последние пять лет. Это были годы нечеловеческого труда, в результате которого Ван Гог
создал произведения, оставившие неизгладимый след в мире искусства.
VI. Summarize the text.
VII. Topics for discussion.
1. Van Gogh's style and colour.
2. Van Gogh's theme.
3. Van Gogh's artistic heritage.
UNIT XVII MATISSE (1869-1954)
When the twentieth century opened, Henry Matisse, already past thirty, was a competent
painter in a modified Impressionist style. He was not interested in the innovations of the Post-
Impressionists. Soon after the turn of the century Matisse began experimenting with figures so
simplified that their masses could be stated in bold areas of pigment. Then he turned to the divided
touches of bright colour introduced by the Neo-impressionists. In 1905 came the Fauve explosion.
Matisse burst upon the art world with astonishing series of paintings in which masses of brilliant
colour were applied in broad areas and full intensity. His Green Stripe, of 1905, exhibited in the
celebrated group of Fauve pictures in the Salon d'Automne, excited horror because this blazing bou-
quet of colours was applied not only to the background but also to the face, dominated by the green
stripe through the centre of the forehead and down the nose. Matisse intensified the differentiation
of hues already analysed by the Impressionists in order to produce a strong emotional effect. Not
even Gauguin had dreamed of such distortions.
The triumphant affirmation of Matisse's Fauve period is the huge Joy of Life, of 1905-6,
almost eight feet long. A forest glade is inhabited by a happy company of nudes, male and female,
embracing, playing pipes, picking flowers, draping garlands about their bodies, or dancing in a ring,
all indicated with an unbroken contour of the utmost flexibility. In a sense, Matisse's new scale and