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Make sure you know how to pronounce thefollowing words:

Claude Monet; Impressionist; photographer; retrospect; Normandy; Japanese; Flamboyant; Gothic; Cathedral; Le Havre; Rouen; Seine; Thames; caricaturist; locomotive; instantaneous

Notes

Impression – Sunrise, Le Havre – «Впечатление Восходящее солнце»

Women in the Garden – «Женщины в саду»

Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris – «Вокзал Сен-Лазер в Париже»

Rouen Cathedral in Full Sunlight – «Руанский собор в полдень»

Tasks

I. Read the text. Make sure you understand it. Mark the following statements true or false.

1. The first exhibition of the Impressionists was held in 1872.

2. In Impression – Sunrise, Le Havre, Monet demonstrated that colour belongs not to the object but to the moment of the visual experience.

3. At the third Impressionist exhibition in 1879 Monet showed ten canvases devoted to the railway.

4. By the 1890s Monet had long deserted the Impressionist principles.

5. In 1899 Monet began a series of seascapes that occupied him ten years.

6. The fleeting effects that absorbed Monet's attention could not pause long enough for him to paint them.

II. How well have you read? Can you answer the following questions?

1. Where was the first exhibition of the Impressionists held? Why was this exhibition greeted with public derision? What picture gave name to the whole movement? What does it represent? What did this revolutionary painting intend to correspond? What did this revolutionary painting intend to correspond?

2. What did Monet constantly observe in Le Havre when he was a boy?

3. What did Monet submit to the Salon in 1867? What is depicted in this painting? What did Monet establish in this painting? What was hard for Monet's contemporaries to accept? What was Manet's attitude to this painting?

4. Where was Monet during the disorder of 1870-1871? What did he study there?

5. What did Monet set up in 1873? What did Monet depict in the Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris? What offered to Monet a tissue of changing light and colour? What colour did the Impressionists eliminate from their palette? Why was the Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris the product of several sessions?

6. Why did Monet have to work in series? What series did Monet paint? What appealed to Monet? What did Monet exhibit in 1895? What does the painting known as Rouen Cathedral in Full Sunlight represent?

7. What are Monet's most magical pictures? What do they show? What battle did Monet win? What environment did Monet construct? What did Monet symbolically do?

III. i. Give Russian equivalents of the following phrases:

a recently vacated studio; public derision; a revolutionary painting; an instantaneous glimpse; to observe ships; the unending stream of time; to devise new methods; to record the immediate impression of light on smth; to establish a new Impressionist subject; successful from the artistic point of view; to single out moments; landscape painting; to record in series; a lacy faзade.

ii. Give English equivalents of the following phrases:

удачная с художественной точки зрения (картина); недавно освободившееся ателье; презрение публики; пейзажная живопись; ажурный фасад; новаторская картина; написать серию работ; наблюдать за кораблями; бесконечный поток времени; разработать новые методы; создать новый образ; момент восприятия света; запечатлеть непосредственное отражение света.

ii. Make 'p questions of yoir own with the given phrases.

iv. Arrange the following in the pairs of synonyms:

a) to establish; to demonstrate; impressive; flank; derision; streak; blob;

b) to show; to found; moving; lateral edge; contempt; stripe; a huge lump.

IV. Here are descriptions of some of Monet's works of art. Match them up to the titles given below.

1. In this painting Monet demonstrated that colour belongs not to the object but to the moment of the visual experience.

2. In this picture the new Impressionist subject – the moment of experience in light was established.

3. The iron-and-glass train shed offered to Monet a tissue of changing light and colour, dominated by blue and silver.

4. The painting represents the moment just about noon when the low winter sun is still striking the southern flanks of the massive masonry.

a. Rouen Cathedral in Full Sunlight

b. Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris

c. Impression – Sunrise, Le Havre

d. Women in the Garden

V. Translate the text into English.