Номер 3, страница 7 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс учебник Афанасьева, Михеева

Unit one.

Number one.

Exercise three.

Listen to the text, Famous Artists and say which of the artists:

A, worked not only in the field of visual arts,

B, was born, worked, and died in the seventeenth century.

C, made frescoes for one of the famous Catholic churches.

D, didn't like to paint in his studio.

E, couldn't earn money selling his pictures.

Famous Artists

One.

Vincent Van Gogh was born in Holland in eighteen fifty-three. In eighteen eighty-eight, he moved to Arle in the South of France, attracted by the sunny southern landscape, especially its fields full of sunflowers. Van Gogh loved the local sunflowers and painted them again and again. He used the paintings to decorate his house. He suffered from mental illness and killed himself in eighteen ninety.

Two.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there were lots of new discoveries in art and science. This period is known as the Renaissance. Many star Renaissance artists worked in Italy, including Leonardo da Vinci. He was born in the small Italy town of Vinci, which is how he got his name, Da Vinci means from Vinci. He was interested in science and engineering as well as art, and filled notebooks with hundreds of designs. He even designed a flying machine, though it never has flown. One of his world-famous portraits is the Mona Lisa, which Leonardo painted between about fifteen o five and fifteen fourteen.

Three.

Another Renaissance star is Michelangelo Buonarroti. He came from the Italian city of Florence. He is famous for his sculptures, as well as paintings, and he was very good at creating strong, muscular bodies. In fact, his art shows he knew a lot about anatomy, which he probably discovered by dissecting dead bodies. Michelangelo's admirers called him Divine Michelangelo. One of his greatest achievements was decorating the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Palace in Rome. He covered it with more than three thousand figures illustrating scenes from the Bible. The work took four years, most of which he spent flat on his back just below the ceiling. He was very uncomfortable. He wrote poems about it.

Four.

Claude Monet was born in France in eighteen forty. He liked to paint fast and out of doors, so he could capture the changing effects of light and weather. Compared to many other artists, his pictures are like quick impressions, which made art critics call this style Impressionism. At first, people mocked his sketchy atmospheric paintings. But by the time Monet died in nineteen twenty-six, he was one of the world's most successful artists. One of his masterpieces is the Water Lily Pond, painted in eighteen ninety-nine. Monet painted his Lily Pond over and over again. In fact, he is famous for making series of paintings showing the same scene in different conditions.

Five.

Harmensz van Rijn Rembrandt was born in Holland in sixteen o six. He became one of the leading artists of his time. He made most money by painting portraits, but he also painted scenes of ordinary life, filled with realistic details. Such as the artist in his studio showing Rembrandt going about his daily work. This painting of Rembrandt has many life-like touches from the artist's tools to the cracks in the walls. The artist is wearing his fancy-looking robe, which is in fact an ordinary housecoat to keep warm. Unfortunately, Rembrandt fell out with his clients and died bankrupt in sixteen sixty-nine.