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Reading Tasks

Understanding main points

Answer these questions

1) Enumerate the most important qualities of paint.

2) What requirements should the paint meet?

3) In what ways does easel painting differ from other techniques?

4) Enumerate some other techniques.

5) What materials do these techniques use?

6) Do the materials have to follow the rules for permanent painting?

7) What are the requirements for them?

Understanding details

Make these statements T (true) or F (false) according to the information in the text.

1. Craft of painting and art of painting are closely interrelated and overlapping.

2. It is quite possible to ignore all technical considerations to establish a personal technique.

3. Works by commercial artists, illustrators and designers should follow the rules of permanent painting.

4. The very early European easel painters used materials that seem to us awkward and difficult to command.

5. The artist who has a broad general knowledge of all painting methods has a great advantage, because he is able to modify and alter his technique to suit his personal requirements.

6. The term “easel painting” means a picture that is kept away from ligh in a portfolio or file.

7. The early European easel painters improved the working qualities of their materials.

8. A mural painting is either painted directly on the wall or pasted to the wall.

Match these words as they occur together in the text.

Guess methods of fine-art painting from their definitions

1. The typical or customary example is a picture painted in straiht oil colors on a stretched linen canvas which has ben primed with white oil paint.

2. Painting on pure white rag paper with prepared transparent watercolor paints sold in tubes or pans.

3. Painting on white or tinted paper with the same materials as watercolor except that opaque instead of transparent colors are used.

4. Painting on an absorbed gesso ground with emulsion paints which can be thinned with water.

5. Painting with pure pigment in the form of crayons without the use of fluid mediums.

6. Painting on freshly applied, wet, lime-plaster walls with colors made by grinding the pigments in water.

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