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Art can make us angry.
It makes us ask if it is for us or against us.
It questions us by asking who the public is.
It helps us to understand where we stand.
Art tells us who we are or who we will be.
Laura Lengyel,
painter, performance artist
4. Find extra information about different historical eras and periods in art
development.
Text 7. ENGLISH PAINTING
Pre-reading Tasks
1. One needs the ability to appreciate and share the vision of artists, lacking
such ability one may develop it. The best way to get understanding and
greater enjoyment of art is to view many paintings, looking at them thought-
fully, honestly. Great works of art seem to look different every time one
stands before them. Do you agree with it? Share your opinions.
2. Practice the pronunciation of the words from the text. When in doubt use
a dictionary.
Flemish, genre, portrait, vivid, character, success, allusion, passage, cere-
monial,
the Royal Academy, idealization, the “Family Portrait”, “Cupid Unty-
ing the Zone of Venus”, “Shortly after the Marriage”, the “Shrimp Girl”.
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