Номер 5, страница 8 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс учебник Афанасьева, Михеева

Number two.

Exercise five.

Listen to the text, ballet dancers.

And say if the statements below are true, false, or not mentioned in the text.

Ballet dancers.

Edgar Degar was born in France in eighteen thirty-four and studied law before taking up art.

He specialized in painting dancers and racehorses, and women washing themselves.

As he grew older, he suffered eye problems and began to make more sculptures instead.

Edgar Degar was fascinated by ballet dancers.

He made over one thousand five hundred paintings and drawings of them, as well as dozens of sculptures.

He showed them in many poses, not just dancing, but going to classes, chatting, stretching, and trying their shoes.

Degar made Little Dancer Aged Fourteen in eighteen eighty, eighteen eighty-one.

She stands just ninety-nine centimeters high.

Degar made a wax figure, which was then cast in bronze, and gave her a real cloth skirt and hair ribbon.

The model for this sculpture was a young dance student.

Compared to the elegant ballerinas in some of his paintings, she looks still and awkward.

You can even see wrinkles on her stockings.

Most artists preferred to draw or sculpt models in graceful looking poses.

But Degar wanted to show how people really move, catching them in just the awkward, unbalanced poses other artists avoided.