Listening eighteen. In an Art Museum.

1.Look at this list of events in the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh. Listen to Track 26 and put them in the right order.

a Van Gogh meets the painter Paul Gauguin.

b Van Gogh spends time at a mental asylum.

c Van Gogh moves to Aries in southern France.

d Van Gogh slices off a piece of his ear.

e Van Gogh shoots himself.

f Van Gogh goes to live with his brother in Paris.

g Van Gogh spends time in a hospital.

h Van Gogh starts to experiment with new painting techniques.

i Van Gogh becomes a salesman in an art gallery.

j The paimer Paul Gauguin joins Van Gogh in Aries.

k Van Gogh studies theology.

2. Look at the two pictures (after the exercises) and listen to the descriptions from the museum audio tour on Track 27. Which picture is Exhibit 27 and which is Exhibit 28? The audio tour says these are both self-portraits, but it was recently proved that one of them is a portrait of his brother; can you guess which one it is?

3. Listen to Track 27 again and decide whether these statements are true or false according to what you hear.

a Van Gogh lived in Paris for three years.

b He had a lot of money at that time.

c He wanted to try different ways of painting.

d He did not find the colour grey interesting.

e He uses the colour red to create a special effect.

f In the felt hat picture, he is wearing fashionable clothes.

g Van Gogh never painted other people.

h A straw hat would not normally be worn with a suit at that time.

i The main purpose of picture number 28 was to paint a suit.

4. What do these words and phrases in bold from Track 26 and Track 27 mean here?

a He was a moody young man...

b... became familiar with the new art movements developing at the time.

c... scenes of the fields, the peasants and lives typical of the people who lived in the countryside.

d... he began to use the swirling brush strokes...

e ... violent disagreements, culminating in a quarrel...

f... one of his most remarkable paintings, the ominous Crows in the Wheatfields...

g The picture is full of varying tones of grey...

h The red in his face and particularly in the beard makes the head stand out from the background.

i Van Gogh was always looking for customers for portraits...

j... the range of colours in the jacket, bow-tie and background.

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