Vocabulary and Grammar Tasks 1. Find in the text the English for: изящные искусства, ведущий мотив, неумолимый динамизм, выдаю-
щиеся достижения, футуристская интерпретация традиционного натюр-
морта, основа для абстракции, изделия массового производства, смещать
акцент, передавать динамизм современной жизни.
2. Use one of the nouns to fill each gap. canvas
visibility
expression
focus
collage
achievement
aesthetic
subject matter
impact
motif
1. Symbolism had its roots in literature, but came to affect all forms of artis-
tic …………… .
2. The Futurists’ paintings of crowds and machines in motion were perhaps
their most spectacular ……………… .
3. Ardengo Soffici’s Decomposition of the Planes of a Lamp takes as its
principal ………….. a banal mass –produced object.
4. The ……………. – the key invention of Synthetic Cubism – featured
scraps of newspaper, old labels, fragments of wallpaper, in facts all kinds
of industrial detritus.
5. Three things established themselves at the very heart of the modern-
ist ………, and continued to influence artists long after Futurism had ex-
hausted its impetus.
6. The American artist Stuart Davis, heavily influenced by French Cubism,
took the Lucky Strike package as the …………… for a picture.
7. Davis asked his audience to shift …………. and look at it in a totally dif-
ferent way, as if they had never seen it before.
8. Another American painter, Gerald Murphy, already seems to anticipate
the Pop Art of the 1960s in a ……………… produced in 1922.
9. The fascination with machine forms had an inevitable ………….. on the
decorative arts.
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10. In the nineteenth century pure machine forms were invisible. They only
acquired …………… once they were ornamented in some way.