Методические указания по английскому языку для студентов 1 курса всех специальностей. Терехова Г.В. - 11 стр.

       8 the Tretyakov Gallery as one of the largest museum in the world.

         6.1.9 Speak in general about the Tretyakov Gallery to a group of English tourists


         6.2 Text “The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts”

         6.2.1 Some words and expressions to learn

       plaster casts of antique sculpture     гипсовые слепки с античных скульптур
       Grecian vases                          греческие вазы
       Egyptian antiquities                    Египетские древности
       Prints                                 гравюры
       Renaissance                            эпоха Возрождения
       The Impressionists                      импрессионисты
       “Anonymous Cooperative Society of Artists, “Анонимное общество художников,
        Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, etc.”          живописцев, скульпторов и пр.”
       “Impression: Sunrise”                          “Впечатление: восход солнца”
       “Rouen Cathedral at Noon”                      “Руанский Собор в полдень”
       “Rouen Cathedral at Sunset”                     “Руанский Собор вечером”
       “The Nude”                                      “Обнаженная”
       mother- of-pearl shell                          перламутровая раковина
       “Blue Dancers”                                   “Голубые танцовщицы”
       pastel                                           пастель

         6.2.2 Read the text, translate it

          The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is among the world’s outstanding museum. Its collection contains works of
ancient and modern art, paintings and sculpture of different national schools of Europe and America from the 3d
century B. C. Up to the 20th century A. D. The value of its collection makes it the second largest museum of Western art
in our country (after the Hermitage).
          The idea of a Museum of Fine Arts was born in the first half of the 19th century. And in the 1980s some
professors of Moscow University founded the Fine Arts Room for students of art history. By the 1869 the collection
consisted of 58 plaster casts of antique sculpture, various ancient coins and a few painted Grecian vases. The extension
of the Fine Arts Room demanded the construction of a special large building. In 1898 architect Roman Klein began the
construction of a museum. The founder and the first director of the museum was Ivan Tsvetayev.
          The collection of the museum expanded. In 1909 a well-known Egyptologist, Vladimir Golenishchev , donated
a unique collection of Egyptian antiquities to the museum. In 1924 the museum acquired paintings, drawings and prints
from the former Moscow Rumyantsev Museum and Western European canvases collected by Sergei Tretyakov, the
brother of Pavel Tretyakov. Then some masterpieces from the Hermitage were added to the picture collection. In 1948
the Museum of Fine Arts was further enlarged when it received a unique collection of French paintings. These paintings
were taken from the Moscow Museum of Modern Western Art which had comprised the collections of two famous
Moscow art collectors of the early 20th century, Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morosov.
          Nowadays canvases from the museum depository which the public has never seen are included in the
exposition. So the collection of Fine Arts comprises the following treasures: samples of the art of ancient civilization, as
well as of antique and Byzantine art, a fine collection of paintings which includes canvases of early Italian art and the
Renaissance art of Italy and the Netherlands. Impressive canvases by German and Spanish artists are also among the
gems of this collection. The museum’s pride is the Dutch and Flemish collections of all famous 17th century masters.
The most remarkable are six paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn. The museum possesses a fine collection of French
paintings, including canvases by Camille Corot, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Henri
Matisse, and a brilliant collection of the Impressionists.
          Let us speak about Impressionists and their paintings.
          In April 1874, a group of young painters organized its own exhibition in a photographer’s studio in Paris.
Among these painters were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley,
Edouard Manet and others. First the group was called “Anonymous Cooperative Society of Artists, Painters, Sculptors,
Engravers, etc.” Among the pictures there was a painting called “Impression: Sunrise” by Claude Monet. This canvas
(and all the other canvases ) was criticized by the public and by the critics. One of the critics called this group of artists
the Impressionists. The name caught on.
          The Impressionists became the first revolutionaries in modern art. They showed in bright colours the country-
side and seaside resorts of France and the daily life of people relaxing in cafes, theatres and parks and gardens. The
Impressionists left their studios and went to paint in the open air. Their colours were pure, airy and bright. The painters
wanted to achieve the exact reproduction of light, colour and movements as we see them. The main thing for them was
to watch how the subject changed under various light conditions. We can see this effect in two paintings by Claude

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