The Arts
World Arts
The British school of painting
Prepared by Iryna Krupko,
Valia Halushko
pupils of the 11th form,
School of Svaritsevichy
How does art influence on our
life?
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What famous painters do you
know?
What are their masterpieces?
What do you know about the
“Golden Age’’ of English
painting ?
What contribution did English
painters make to the
development of the world art?
Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is one of the
greatest of all painters. His painting the Last
Supper is probably the most famous painting in the
world.
Leonardo was born in the village of Vinci in Italy.
When his father found out that the boy was
interested in painting, he sent him to an excellent
painter and teacher.
The Last Supper is a mural in a chapel in Milan.
This picture was famous long before it was
finished.
One of Leonardo’s paintings is called the “Mona
Lisa”. It is the picture of a woman with a faint
smile on a face. Now it is the greatest treasures of
Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa
Rembrandt
Titian
Van Gogh
Van Gogh
Van Gogh
Van Gogh
Pissarro The red roofs
Renoir
Ball in Mullen de le Galette
Monet
The wild poppies
Monet
Impression. Sunrise
Gauguin The Tahitian women
Degas
Degas The blue dancers
Cézanne
Cézanne
The cards-players
Salvador Dali
The “Golden Age” of
English Painting
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The period from W. Hogarth to J. Constable
and W. Turner is the period between the
1730s and 1830s. Never in any other
century did England contribute so much to
the history of world art.
Holbein, Antonio More, Rubens, Van Dyck
were almost English painters during a
longer or shorter period of their lives. They
influenced greatly the formation of the
British Painting school.
Anthony Van Dyck
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The Flemish Painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck
(1599-1641), a pupil of great Rubens, is
considered the father of the English portrait
school and set before it an aristocratic ideal
of the person.
Anthony Van Dyck
Charles II
Joseph Mallord William
Turner
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Joseph Mallord William Turner(1774-1851)
had a life-long passion for the sea and
dedicated most of the painting to it. Calais
Pier is one of the greatest creations.
Genre – seascape
Masterpieces - Calais Pier , The Sun Rising
Through Vapour
Joseph
Mallord William Turner
Snow-storm
William Hogarth
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William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) is a truly English
painter. He was the first English painter who
raised English pictorial art to a high level of
importance. He was a man of remarkably individual
character and thought.
Genre – portraiture, satirical social painting.
Masterpieces – The Shrimp Girl, Self portrait, The
Rake’s Progress, The Marriage- a -la- Mode .
Peculiar features – connected painting with
literature, theatre, invented stories and illustrated
them.
William Hogarth
The Girl with Crabs
John Constable
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John Constable(1776-1837) developed his own style
of painting . He was the first English landscape
painter to ask no lessons from the Dutch.
Constable was an acute observer of nature and had
a romantic passion for light.
Genre – landscape
Masterpieces – the Haywain, The Flatford Mill
Peculiar features – introduced the green colour,
made sketches directly from nature, used broken
touches of colour, began the realistic trend
John Constable
J.
Constable.
The Evening
Thomas Gainsborough
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Thomas Gainsborough(1727 – 1788) succeeded
brilliantly as a portrait painter. His portraits are
painted in clear tones, where blue and grey colours
are dominated.
Genre – portrait, landscape.
Masterpieces – The Blue Boy, Mrs. Sheridan.
Peculiar features – grey and blue colours, romantic
paintings, the creator of landscape painting.
Thomas Gainsborough
Painter’s daughters
Thomas Gainsborough
Sarah Siddons
Thomas Lawrence(17691839)
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Thomas Lawrence(1769-1839) was a painter of
kings, princes, great diplomats, generals. All these
are presented in large fulldress portraits painted
with verve and elegance. He lavished on his
portraits his facility of execution, his fluid touch,
his rich colour.
Genre – portrait.
Masterpieces – Portrait of Vorontsov, Duke of
Wellington.
Peculiar features – a master of brilliant official
portrait, did not penetrate into the nature of his
characters.
We put a question to our classmates:
What helps you to enjoy and understand arts?
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I read special books
30%
I go to the theatre
10%
I listen to the music
50%
I visit lectures
10%
Additional information
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It is not a secret that the calm flouring moonlight over the dark of
one winter evening inspired Beethoven to write his “Moonlight
Sonata”.
Listening to it we can first hear the dance of spirits upon the lawn,
then breathless movement, descriptive of flight and uncertainly and
then vague impulsive terror, which carried us away on its rustling
wings and left us in emotion and wonder.
Additional information
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All of you know a canvas Vesuvius at
Night by Aivasovsky. A sudden eruption of
Vesuvius happened early in the morning in
79 AD and the town was covered with 7
meters of ashes for 18 centuries.
A popular Italian composer Puccini wrote
his opera “The last Day of Pompeii”. The
opera inspired a great Russian painter
Briullov to create his famous painting
under the same title.
My conclusion
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A word can unite a sound and colour in itself.
The beauty of our world is expressed in music, poems and painting.
Arts help us to understand, see, hear, feel, watch beautiful things around us.
Arts express liberty of feelings and emotions that is as the wind, the sky, the sea.
We must read books about arts
We must learn folk songs, dances, handicrafts.
We must visit museums, art galleries.
It is impossible to understand classical music (sonatas, symphonies, operas) or
masterpieces of great painters without previous preparation.
Used materials
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Books
Magazines
Digest
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