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Texture

Still life

Negative space

Space

Form

Shape

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Color

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Elements of art

Artist

The Tate Gallery.

There are many places of interest in London. They are Westminster Abbey, Tower Bridge, Albert Hall (one of the biggest concert halls in London), Trafalgar Square and others.

If you are fond of paintings you’ll go to the Tate Gallery. The founder of this gallery was Henry Tate, a sugar manufacturer. He was a very rich man and collected paintings. This gallery overlooks the Thames, not far from the houses of Parliament.

Most of the national collections of British paintings were taken to the Tate Gallery. There are about 300 oils and 19000 water colors and drawings.

There are a lot of paintings by the 16^th century English artists there. You can see many works by the English painter William Terner (1775-1851). Most of his paintings are connected with the sea theme.

You can see many paintings by foreign artists of the 19^th-20^th centuries in the Tate Gallery. There are some paintings by impressionists and postimpressionists there. One can see works by Peter Blake, Pablo Picasso and others there.

There are many interesting sculptures in the Tate Gallery. The collection is rather big. Henry Moore’s works can be seen in this gallery. He was a famous British sculptor.

The painting of this gallery impress everyone who visits it.

Питання для самоконтролю:

1. Які лондонські галереї ви знаєте?

2. в Якій галереї можна побачити колекції зброї?

Unit 6. The Language of Art

Мова мистецтва

Ex. 1. Прочитайте та запам’ятайте подані нижче слова та вирази:

Ex. 2. Прочитайте та перекладіть текст:

Just as the poet arranges nouns, verbs, and adjectives into ideas, the artist arranges shapes, lines, and colors into images about our world. Each artist’s work is as personal and individual as the artist. You, too, are an artist, and the drawings and paintings you will be doing in this class will be as individual as you are. In this book, you will learn how to look at art and the world around you with the eyes of an artist.

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

● Name and describe the elements of art.

● Describe the different types of line.

● Identify the properties of color.

● Experiment with various elements of art to understand their role in making art.

Ex. 3. Прочитайте та перекладіть текст:

The Language of Art

Have you ever heard a person described as “wearing many hats”? Saying a person wears many hats means he or she is good at a number of things. An artist—a person who uses imagination and skill to communicate ideas in visual form—wears many hats. Among the hats artists wear is one labeled “scientist.” Wearing this hat, artists experiment with the effects of light on objects. Wearing the mathematician’s hat, they carefully measure distances between objects. Wearing the hat of writer, they tell stories and record events. In this book, you will learn about the different ways in which artists have used these skills over the centuries. You will also meet specific artists and learn about their creations.

THE ARTIST’S LANGUAGE

Like other professionals, artists “speak” a language all their own. Just as the mathematician uses numbers, so the artist uses line. Much in the way musicians communicatethrough notes and sounds, artists speak in color, value, and shape. The writer relies onwords, sentences, and paragraphs; the artiston form, space, and texture.

These seven terms—line, color, value, shape, form, space, and texture—make up the artist’s vocabulary. The terms are grouped together under the heading elements of art. These are the basic visual symbols an artist uses to create works of art. An artist’s success depends on how well he or she uses these elements.

Using the Artist’s Vocabulary

When you look at an artwork, it is not always clear where one element ends and another begins. Study the artworks in Figures 6–1and 6–2.You do not see the elements of form and color in the first or the element of line in the second. Instead, you see the works as a whole. As you examine each work, your eye “reads” all the elements together. In fact, it is the careful blending of elements that allows you to see an artwork as the artist meant it to be seen. Taken together, the elements in Figure 6–1 “add up” to a basket of apples and a bottle. The lines in Figure 6–2 cleverly suggest a familiar farm animal. Can you identify it?

Figure 6–1Paul Cézanne. The Basket of Apples. c. 1895. Oil on canvas.65.4 cm _ 81.3 cm (253⁄4 _ 32_).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection.

Figure 6–2 Alexander Calder. Sow. 1928. Wire. 43.2 _ 76.2 _ 19.5 cm (17 _ 30 _ 72⁄3 _). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York. Gift of the artist. © 1997 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.

“Reading” the Artist’s Vocabulary

Think back to when you first learned toread. You did not start with a book. Rather,

you began by reading a word at a time. This is how you will learn the vocabulary of art. You will learn about the elements of art one at a time.

Each of the remaining lessons in this chapter treats one or more elements. In later chapters, you will learn about other terms that are central to the practice and study of art.

Ex. 4. Дайте відповіді на питання:

1. Does the artist use a single color to show an object?

2. Do the objects look real?

3. What does this artwork “say” to you?

4. What are some of the questions you think the artist asked himself while he was creating this work?( Figure 6–2)

Домашнє завдання:

Ex. 1.Вивчити новий лексичний матеріал.

Ex. 5. Контрольне читання та переклад тексту:

Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)

Cultural connection.Although he is sometimes associated with the French Impressionist painters, Paul Cézanne was a leader in the movement toward abstraction in painting that became known as Post- Impressionism. Born in Aix-en-Provence, France, in 1839, Cézanne exhibited a few times with Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro. It soon became apparent, however, that Cézanne’s style and vision were clearly unique.

While the Impressionists were concerned with the effects of light on objects, Cézanne was more interested in showing the basic form and structure of objects. He once said, “Everything in nature is modeled after the sphere, the cone, and the cylinder. One must learn to paint from these simple figures.”

Look at Figure 6–1.How did Cézanne use these “simple figures” in his still life?

Питання для самоконтролю:

1.Define artist.

2.Name the seven elements of art.

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