Культурология. Горелова А.В - 7 стр.

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maxim
a respectable job
rejection of naturalism
simple, flat, rather distorted forms
3. Give the English equivalents of the following phrases:
разработать (развить) собственный стиль
копировать буквально
привести к чему-л.
иметь большое влияние на что-л.
использовать яркие цвета
быть представителем стиля реализма
4. Answer the following questions:
1. How did struggling artists pay for their board and lodging in 19
th
century
France?
2. Why were dozens of artists drawn to southern Brittany?
3. What kind of place was le Pouldu in 1889?
4. How did the writer Andre Gibe describe the colony of painters?
5. Why did Gauguin leave the inn’s owner, Marie Henry, some paintings?
6. Why did the painters prefer the port to more rustic bases in Brittany?
7. What school has been called the first chapter in the history of modern art?
1.2. Salvador Dali
(1904 — 1989)
Salvador Dali typifies in his art the Surrealist movement at its height in
the 1930s. After his visit to Paris in 1928 Dali experimented briefly with semi-
abstract forms, as he was then under the influence of Picasso. Soon Dali set out
on his individual path, based on his study of Freud, which seemed to clarify to
him his personal fantasies and obsessions. Dali began producing what he called
“hand-coloured photographs of the subconscious”. His desire to “materialize
images of concrete irrationality with the utmost imperialist fury of precision”
resulted in pictures of а quality and brilliance that cannot be ignored, done in
bright colour, with an exactitude of statement that at times rесalls less his idols
Vermeer and Velasquez than the technique of the Netherlandish masters of the
fifteenth century. Dali’s terrifying images are always brought home with
tremendous force by the magical virtuosity of his draughtsmanship and colour.
The Persistence of Метоry, of 1931 is one of Dali's most striking and
best-known early Surrealist paintings. Dali said the idea for the work occurred to
him while he was eating ripe Camembert cheese. The “wet watches”, as they
were termed by the astonished, horrified and fascinated New York public when
the picture was first exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, are disturbing in
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