Types of music

Exercise2. Summarize the text in three paragraphs specifying the contribution Gainsborough made to the English arts.

Exercise3. Match the words or phrases in the box with the correct definitions:

Creative portrait talent art gallery work of art sketch genius abstract

1…………natural ability to do something well

2…………place where paintings, etc are displayed

3…………painting, etc. of high quality

4…………painting of a real person

5…………draw something quickly, without adding a lot of details

6……….. (of art) showing areas of colour instead of objects or people

7…………person who is naturally extremely good at something

8…………having new ideas and a good imagination

Exercise4. Use the Topical Vocabulary in answering the questions:
1. What service do you think the artist performs for mankind? 2. Historically there have been various reasons for the making of pictures, apart from the artist’s desire to create a work of visual beauty. Can you point out some of them? 3. How does pictorial art serve as a valuable historical record? What can it preserve for the posterity? 4. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist. What are some of the qualities a true artist must possess? 5. Why does it sometimes happen that an artist is not appreciated in his lifetime and yet highly prized by the succeeding generations? 6. The heyday of the Renaissance is to be placed between the 15th and 16th centuries. Artists began to study anatomy and the effects of light and shadow, which made their work more life-like. Which great representatives of the period do you know? 7. What national schools of painting are usually distinguished in European art? 8. Classicism attached the main importance to composition and figure painting while romanticism laid stress on personal and emotional expression, especially in colour and dramatic effect. What is typical of realism/impressionism/cubism/expressionism/surrealism? 9. What kinds of pictures are there according to the artist’s theme? 10. What kind of painting do you prefer? Why?

Music can be described in terms of the instrument(s) playing it: piano music, guitar music, big band music, instrumental music [instruments only with no vocals (voices, singing)], electronic music [played by a synthesizer], orchestral music.

chamber music
[written for a small group of orchestral instruments] heavy metal

blues folk [traditional]

jazz classical

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