YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY S. HOVHANNISYAN ENGLISH FOR ART STUDENTS YEREVAN YSU PRESS 2018 –1– UDC 811. English for Art Students/S. Yerevan, YSU Press, 2018, 166 p.
Ձեռնարկը նախատեսված է կիրառական արվեստի բաժնի ուսա- նողների և կերպարվեստով հետաքրքրվողների համար: Այն կզարգացնի ոչ միայն անգլերենի իմացությանը, այլև կնպաստի մասնագիտական անգլերե- նով հաղորդակցվելու կարողությունների ձևավորմանն ու ամրապնդմանը: ISBN 978-5-8084-2280-3 © YSU Press, 2018 © Abrahamyan S. Art and the Arts. Etruscan and Roman Art. Early Christian and Byzantine Art.
Early Medieval and Romanesque Painting. Baroque and Rococo Art. 163 –5– –6– LESSON 1 A PAINTER’S STUDIO I. Read and translate the text.
A PAINTER’S STUDIO This a picture of Mr. The studio is a small room. In the middle of the room there is a platform for the model to pose on. On the walls there are some portraits in oil and pencil sketches.
There is no statuary in the room. This is a canvas. That is an easel. The painter places his canvases on his easel.
Near the easel there is a palette. These are brushes and those are paints. Brown has a lot of paints. The painter’s studio is full of light and rather cosy.
Find in the text the English equivalents of: Արվեստանոց, դիմանկար, կտավ, նկարակալ, ներկ, գունապնակ, վրձին, բավականին, մեջտեղում, հարթակ, նկարիչ, էսքիզ, բնորդ, մատիտ, կեցվածք ընդունել: III. Give the Armenian equivalents of: Studio, model, pencil sketches, canvas, paint, palette, brush, easel, cosy, in the middle of the room, full of light, statuary, platform. Answer the questions. Brown’s studio a small room? 2.
What is there in the middle of the room? –7– 3. What are there on the walls? 4. Is there any statuary in the studio? 5. What does Mr.
Brown have in his studio? 6. What kind of room is Mr. Insert a) many or much. I see ______ foreign visitors at the exhibition.
In the morning he is always very busy. He has ______ work to do. In Yerevan there are ______ museums. Green is rather rich.
He has ______ money. The Tretyakov Art Gallery is a museum which contains ______ collections of beautiful pictures. b) few or little 1. There are ______ portraits here made in water-colour.
Most of them are in oil. Students are usually busy. They have ______ free time. The tube is almost empty.
There is very ______ paint in it. They have ______ icons in their collection. I have got ______ paper and ink. Insert articles and reproduce the story.
Imagine that you are in ______ studio of _____ sculptor. It’s _____ spacious room with large windows looking into _____ garden. ______ room is full of peculiar things hardly ever to be found in ______ ordinary apartment. Some blocks of marble, stone and wood, tones of animals and tools, wax and clay models are lying on ______ shelf.
From ______ walls are hanging ______ few sketches and drawings on various subjects. In ______ left corner of ______ room, on ______ table, one can see a number of richly ornamented figures and sculpture groups. In ______ right corner of –8– ______ room at ______ wall there are huge blocks of wood and stone ready to be translated into various artistic forms. In ______ middle of ______ room ______ sculptor is standing on ______ platform.
He is cutting ______ statue in life size. He is working with ______ hammer and ______ chisel. Time and again he takes ______ sketch and ______ drawing and looks at them trying to convey ______ necessary movement and tension of ______ muscles for different poses of ______ figure. ______ man is a well-known painter.
As you see ______ canvases are unfinished. They study Art too. Do you like ______ picture? _ Not quite. I like ______ sketches better.
Have you got ______ photo. ______ studio is full of light. ______ paints are in the box. ______ portrait is made in oil.
______ are my new pencil sketches. I haven’t got ______ album. Make these sentences plural. This is a picture.
The picture is rather beautiful. That is a painter. He works in our studio. This is a box of paints.
That young painter is a friend of mine. Whose brush is this? 6. This is a pencil sketch. Is that young man a painter or a sculptor.
Is that studio old? 9. Is this pencil black? 10. Whose brush is this? –9– IX. Make these sentences singular.
Cities are big towns. Knives are made of steel. We are students of Art. These sketches are made in pencil.
The sculptures are on the shelves. These leaves are yellow. Those foreign visitors are artists. These museums are famous for pictures made by well-known artists.
There aren’t any texts on Art in the book. They work in our studio. Translate the sentences into English. Read the text and tell it.
No foreign visitor would leave Yerevan without visiting the National Art Gallery and the Children’s Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery is a museum which contains rich collections of paintings. The museum holds over 16000 paintings of Armenian, Russian, Western-European and Oriental artists. The – 10 – section of Armenian art is the richest and covers a period from the 7th century to the present day.
The Children’s Art Gallery is worth attending too. It has several exhibition halls, where works by talented children between the ages of 3 to 16 are displayed. At different times the Gallery has arranged exhibitions of Children’s works from Bulgaria, Hungary, Britain, Canada, India and Japan. – 11 – – 12 – LESSON 2 ART AND THE ARTS I.
Read and translate the text. ART AND THE ARTS In a broad sense, art is skill in making or doing. Human beings are makers of many things, and they make them for many purposes. Some creations serve for practical needs.
For example, people have always made tools for cutting, digging, killing and eating. But in all cultures, people also seem to have two less obvious purposes for some of the objects they make. First, they want to make things in forms that give pleasure when seen or heard. Second, people want to make objects that will remind them, and also teach other people about their most important regarding fundamental realities.
We call these reasons for making and valuing art formal and cognitive interests. Painting The history of painting is never-ending chain that began with the very first pictures ever made. Each style grows out of the styles that came before it. Every great artist adds to the accomplishments of earlier painters and influences later painters.
A painting always describes something. It may describe the artist’s impression of a scene or person. It also describes the artist’s feelings about the art. – 13 – Many factors have influenced the history of painting.
Geography, religion, national characteristics, historic events, the development of new materials-all help to shape the artist’s vision. What Painters Paint Artists paint the things they see around them-people, animals, nature and objects. They also paint dreamlike scenes that exist only in the imagination. An artist can reach back into the past and paint a historical event, a relegious story or a myth.
Some artists paint pictures that show no recognizable subject matter at all. Instead, they arrange the paint in some way that express feelings or ideas that are important to them. Since prehistoric times, many artists have painted subjects that were most important to their societies. For example, religion was particularly important in Europe during the Middle Ages, and most of the paintings created had religious themes.
All great paintings do more than just reproduce with paint something that exists, existed or can be imagined. They also express the painter’s special view about a subject. Drawing Drawing is the act of making a design or image, using line or tone, or any suitable surface. Artists create drawings for a variety of purposes.
Many artists make preliminary drawings to help them develop the composition of a painting or sculpture. They also produce drawings as finished works of art. – 14 – Artists may use drawings to record information for further use. Art students draw figures and objects to gain skill with line and forms.
Artists draw with chalk, charcoal, crayon or ink. Artists can add tone to a drawing by applying a thin layer of liquid colours. They also can combine several materials and techniques in one drawing. Almost any surface can be used for a drawing.
Prehistoric people drew on clay and stone, and the ancient Chinese used silk cloth. In the Middle Ages many artists drew on parchment. Since the 1400s, paper has been the most popular surface. People have made drawing since prehistoric times.
Then this art form first gained populiarity among European artists. Sculpture Sculpture is one of the most interesting and complex of the arts. It ranges from Michelangelo’s powerful carvings to African masks worn in religious ceremonies, and from stone statues that decorate cathedrals to metal mobiles that sway gracefully in the air. A piece of sculpture can be small enough to stand on a table or large as the Statue of Liberty.
Large-scale sculpture is often called monumental because of its size. However, even the smallest piece of sculpture has the power to express noble and grand ideas. Sculpture emerged as an art from about 20000 years ago, during the Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age). Prehistoric people caved small statues from such materials as bone or ivory.
They modeled small objects in clay. Although the word sculpture originally meant cut and implied the technique of carving, modeled objects are also called sculpture. – 15 – Sculpture is extremely valuable for information. It shows the development of human culture.
Sculpture can tell us much about the way of life of a particular people or period, it shows ideas and ideas of civilization. Design Design is the organized arrangement of materials to satisfy a functional or artistic purpose. Design plays an important role in all the fine arts and in the creation of industrial products. Visual artists or designers work with such elements of design as line, plane, texture, colour, shape, form, volume, mass and space.
When these elements are combined in a satisfying manner, the design will have an interesting variety within an overall unity. Find in the text the English equivalents of: Լայն իմաստով, հմտություն, հիշեցնել, ճանաչողական, գործիք, հայտնագործություն, կտրել, հաճույք պատճառել, ակնհայտ, պատճառ, ստեղծագործություն, գործնական նպա- տակներ, փորձել, քանդակագործություն, նախնական, մագա- ղաթ, մետաքս, մեծ մասշտաբի քանդակ, կրոնական արարո- ղություններ, ձեռք բերել հմտություն, թանաք, ավարտուն աշ- խատանք, պատկեր, նախապատմական, կավ, քարե արձան- ներ, արժեքավոր, քաղաքակրթություն, փղոսկր, բարդ, հեղուկ, մակերևույթ, հարմար: III. Give the Armenian equivalents of: To make tools, cut, skill, purpose, in a broad sense, creation, reality, cognitive interests, reason, skill in making or doing, human being, dig, to give pleasure, to make objects, never-ending chain, accomplishment, to shape, influence, exist, to describe feelings, – 16 – myth, historical events, imagination, religious ceremonies, suitable, finished works of art, to gain populiarity, to apply a thin layer of colour, ink, clay, African masks, artistic, valuable. Read the text and choose the best answer.
Did you ever make a person or an animal out of clay? If you did, you already know something about sculpture – forms and figures made from stone, metal, wood, or other things. People have been making sculptures for thousands of years, usually carving them from one solid piece of rock. These figures were often huge and heavy and had to be planted firmly on the ground. But a man named Alexander Calder created a whole new kind of sculpture that was light and full of movement.
Often hung by wires from the ceiling so that parts could move freely, Alexander Calder’s moving sculptures were the first mobiles. Alexander Calder was a big, fun-loving man with bushy hair who enjoyed toys and circuses and parties and people. He wanted his art to be playful and make people happy.