4. Describe different pictures in words. Use the following words and word
combinations
1) to evoke, intense, to capture the sitter’s vitality, to paint from life, special
insight into the psychology, spontaneity;
2) conception, brilliant, poetic in tone and atmosphere, to anticipate, investi-
gation of colour, range of colours;
3) vivid, life-like, supreme mastery of technique, to achieve lightness of tone,
high artistic quality, to be impressed by, to retain freshness;
4) pure, vivid, to look natural, intensity, to emphasize;
5) appeal, brilliance, primary colours, to convey, to produce impression, to af-
fect, to render;
6) soft, delicate colours, elegant gesture, spiritual face, the impression of, air-
ness and lightness;
7) to combine form and colour, spirituality, harmonious unity, romantic, po-
etic in tone and atmosphere, to ignore the rules;
8) emotion, natural and characteristic pose, to convey, finished technique, to
produce impression, to penetrate.
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Text 8. MEDIA OF ART: THE MAGIC
OF WATERCOLOR
Pre-reading Tasks
1. What is watercolor?
2. Who of the artists used watercolor in their work?
3. Practice the pronunciation of the words from the text. When in doubt use
a dictionary.
Charm, mysterious, elegance, carbohydrate, technique, Paleaolithic,
manuscript, Renaissance, Baroque, illustration, autonomous, procedure,
variation, scheme.
4. Find the following words in a dictionary and memorize their meanings.
alteration
backrun
blend
binder
borrow
cling-film
cluster
coarse
comprise
consummate
diffuse
dilute
dissolve
draft
edge
fluid
hatch
hue
imperfection
judicious
lacquer
medium
mill
penetrable
plow
plunge
pointillism
precisely
precision
random
raw
refine
resemblance
ridge
saturate
serrate
soluble
sprinkle
stroke
subtlest
tilting
tip
translucent
varnish
wick
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