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PRACOVNÝ LIST Č. 13
Téma:
HISTORY OF ART: INSERT PREPOSITIONS
Exercise 1: insert prepositions (some of them are used more times): with, to, unlike,
by, of, around, in, from, on, without, up, off,
ART STYLES OF THE 19th CENTURY and THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
insert prepositions and adverbs: in (5x), of (10x), from, to (5x), or, for (2x), apart, on
(6x), without, unlike (2x), with (3x), out, at, up, off, between, with
1. Romanticism was an artistic movement opposite ...... realism. Apart .........
realists, romantic painters used to imagine a lot. ........ reasonable realists,
romanticists were daydreamers.
2. They tended ...... idealize, to
portrait romantic, dramatic natural scenes.
Romantic paintings were often expression ........
artist's feelings, soul and
imagination.
3. Romanticism found inspiration in medieval gothic art, romantic and tragic novels.
It often depicted hero who wanted to fight ........ his rights, love or beliefs against
the destiny or society. ......... from realism, it is not focused .......reality.
4. Realism is an art style that arose in Europe 40's of 19 th century. It was spread
with the ideals of the Industrial Revolution and Enlightenment. Realism was a
historical movement that had a profound influence .......
the literature and
figurative arts.
5. Realistic painters tended to portray present, truthful reality ..............idealizing.
They painted real life situations, people and scenes. Realists did not idealize
models. Realism is the objective reflection ....... reality. It was focused ........ real
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world and what artists could see with their own eyes, therefore in realism artists
did not paint any fantastic mythological creatures.
6. Impressionists formed the characteristic habit ........ going to sit ........ the banks at
the river Seine and Oise .... paint the countryside. What interested them was the
reflection ......... light in the river because this light seemed to be constantly giving
life ......... the water.
7. ........... impressionists, the Post-Impressionists were not only interested ....
colour, but they were fascinated ......... ideas and feelings.
8. For the post – impressionism is characteristic the technique ....... defining form ...
short brushstrokes of broken colour. Several contemporary trends and early
20th-century modernism were inspired ......... post-impressionists. Many postimpressionists were able to inspire ... outstanding colours and models.
9. Unsteady and emotional Vincent van Gogh was brought ........ in a religious
family interested ....... culture. Everybody knows he cut his own auricle..... .
Post-impressionists were open ..... artistic influences ..... them.
10. Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec's immersion .......the decadent life of fin de siècle
Paris lead ....... provocative pictures full of coquettes and Moulin Rouge strippers.
Fin de siècle means ,“end ..... the century”.
Exercise 2: insert prepositions (some of them are used more times): with, to, out,
therefore, but, for, at, after, by, during, of, around, in, from, on, without, up, off
ART STYLES OF THE 20th CENTURY
11. The cubist movement grew .......... of the efforts of Picasso and Braque to focus
..... the intellectual conception of form and colour. Cubistic artworks often look
confusing because they combined several views ......... the object. This meant
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........ practice analysing the object ..... different points of view. Cubistic artists
often expressed their ideas with collage or assemblage ..... at that time collages
were not digital, of course.
12. The prolific career ...... Pablo Picasso was often depicted in films , books and
photographs. Picasso is famous ..... many cubistic compositions ..... this was not
the only style of painting he preferred. His Blue Period ......... 1900 and 1904 was
full of monochromatic paintings ..... blue and blue-green shades.
13. It is hard to believe that he had troubles ..... sell his paintings at that time. The
Blue Period was reflection ...... his sadness and experience of relative poverty or
desolation ..... poor outsiders. ....... it is full of melancholic portraits.
14. Expressionism is famous .......... its expressive style, distortions ........ line and
colour. Exaggerations are typical, too. The emphasis was put ......... simplified
style and strong vivid colours intended ....... carry emotional impact.
15. Dadaists were group ..... artists and writers who were refugees from World War I
in Switzerland. Dadaism was intended .......... shock and outrage. The term
„dada“ is a French word ..... child’s hobby-horse. This name of the artistic
movement was chosen ......... random from a dictionary.
16. Salvador Dalí, one ..... the most famous surreal artists was obsessed ....... his
wife Gala. He was addicted .... her presence so much that he stopped painting
.......... her death. Dalí was expelled ........ art school because ..... his inadmissible
behaviour and prideful quotes. He told his professors that they were not
competent ......... test him.
17. Dalí decided ..... demonstrate that he existed at the bottom ......the sea of
subconsciousness .........the London International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936
..... wearing old-fashioned diving suit.
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Exercise 3:
GRADABLE AND UNGRADABLE ADJECTIVES: INSERT ADJECTIVE in correct
order and grade:
1. Longer focal length has ....... optical power therefore image is created with
........................... angle of view and it appears................. Apart from that ..........
focal length of ...............optical power has wider angle of view.
(low, high, big, wide, short, narrow,)
2. Prime lenses are lighter, faster and .......................than zoom lenses. They have
just one size of zoom available but their images are ..............They offer
.................. maximum aperture therefore they are the best for capturing photos at
lowlight or indoor photography like in the theatre etc.
(cheap, sharp, large, good)
3. Wide- angle lenses are .................. than 35mm. Many photographers consider a
"full telephoto" lens with its focal length.............. than around 135 m.
(great, short)
4. Many contemporary DSLRs have visual grid in viewfinder that is automatically
dividing composition into thirds to help you. Then we place ................... subject of
composition into intersections. Thanks to the visual grid, building up a
composition is ..................... .
(easy, important)
5. The.................... the distance between the object and observer, the ................
the object appears . Due to the atmospheric haze, object's colours look ..............
and they can get blue or grey cast.
(small, big, light)
6. One of ........................... conceptual photographers is Cindy Sherman. Due to her
................... ideas she always looks ......................... Many of her photographs
are collected and some of them cost ..................... prizes than you could imagine.
(unpredictable, famous, high, different)
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Exercise 4: DECIDE IF THE STATEMENT IS TRUE/FALSE (T/F)
1. Romanticism was expressing the ideals of the Industrial Revolution and
Enlightenment. (T/F)
2. Unlike realistic, romantic paintings reflected artist's feelings, soul and
imagination. (T/F)
3. Cubism is an art style that arose in Europe 40's of 19th century. (T/F)
4. Everybody knows Vincent van Gogh has cut his auricle off and that he was one
of the most famous impressionistic landscape artists. (T/F)
5. Picasso is famous for his Blue Period that was full of bluish paintings expressing
happiness, simplicity of life. (T/F)
6. Cubistic painters were typical for analysing and painting object from different
points of view. (T/F)
7. Distortions of line and strong colour contrasts as well as expressing feelings were
typical for expressionistic artworks. (T/F)
8. Salvador Dalí, one of the most famous artists truly loved his wife Gala. Her
beauty was often depicted in his paintings. (T/F)
9. Dalí was expelled from art school because his unacceptable behaviour, once he
even told his professors that they were not competent to test him. (T/F)
10. Sitting at the river Seine and Oise to paint the countryside was typical habit of
impressionists. (T/F)
11. Short
dynamic
brushstrokes
of
broken
colour
were
typical
for
post-
impressionistic artists. (T/F)
12. Dadaism was not focused on beauty and romantic scenes but it was intended to
shock and outrage. (T/F)
13. Henri de Toulouse – Lautrec was outraged with Moulin Rouge strippers during
Fin de siècle period in Paris. Instead of observation of dancers Henri decided to
paint only acceptable portraits of modest ladies of respectable background. (T/F)
14. Realists did not idealize models. They depicted exactly what they could see
without changes. (T/F)
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