Painting

Painting is the expression of ideas and emotions in a two-dimensional visual language. The elements of the language are its shape, lines, colours, tones, and textures. They are used in different ways to produce sensations of

volume, space, movement, and light on a flat surface.

Media are liquids added to paints to mix them and make them workable. In the wider meaning, media are various paints, tools, support, surface used by painters. An artist uses a particular medium, such as tempera, fresco, oil, watercolours, etc. A tempera medium is a dry pigment tempered with an emulsion and thinned with an emulsion and thinned water. It’s a very ancient medium. Having been in constant use in most world cultures, it was replaced during the Renaissance by oil paints. Fresco is a traditional medium for painting directly onto the wall or ceiling. Oil painting became the most widely used technique in Italy. Watercolour, or aquarelle has remained popular especially for its immediate, sketchy, transparent qualities.

In painting the subject matter is very important. The subjects of painting include a set of categories, or genres, of painting.

Landscape painting comprises country scenes, seascapes and cityscapes. Landscapes appeared on most Renaissance paintings. The most developments in the 19^th century were made through the landscapes of Impressionists. Styles in landscapes painting range from the classically idealized world of Claude Monet to the poetic romanticism of John Constable and Turner and pantheism of Peter Paul Rubens and Van Gogh.

The category called genre painting consists of scenes from everyday life, such as hunting expeditions, domestic and agricultural occupations with scenes of feasting, dancing, and music. Rembrandt used domestic scenes underline the emotional intensity, Van Gogh and Edgar Degas – to describe the harsh realities of working life.

Portraiture is among the highest achievements in painting. The portraits of Raphael, Rubens express nobility, grace and authority of the people. The psychological insight, emotional empathy is in the self-portraits and portraits of ordinary people by Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

Task 5. Complete the following sentences in logical way:

1. Painting is …. 2. Media are……. 3.The subjects of painting include……. 4. Genre painting consists of …… 5. The portraits express….. 6. Some famous artists used domestic scenes to …. 7. Oil painting became……

8. Aquarelle has remained popular ……..

9. Styles in landscape painting range from …..

10. The elements of visual language are ……

Task 6.

Answer the questions:

1. What does landscape painting comprise?

2. What does genre painting consist of?

3. Who painted landscapes?

4. Have you ever visited a picture gallery?

5. What famous picture galleries in our country do you know?

6. What famous picture galleries all over the world do you know?

7. Do you enjoy painting?

8. Who is your favourite painter?

9. What picture do you like most of all? Why?

10. Can you describe your favourite picture? Try to do it.

Task 7. Read the text. Make up a dialogue about the problem of street art.

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