Self-assessment test

Ex. 1. You will hear an interview with a young artist who is talking about her life and work. For questions 1-9, complete the sentences.

Lynda identifies (1) ……… as the two most important themes in her work.

Lynda says that the art school she attended had a (2) ………….. approach to drawing.

Lynda describes her initial riverside sketches as a (3) …………..

Lynda likes both the size and the (4) …………. of her previous studio.

Lynda describes the journey from home to her previous studio as (5) …………..

Lynda was surprised to discover that one of her neighbours was a (6) …………..

At first, Lynda worried that she might get (7) … working so close to home.

Lynda explains that her work has become (8) …… in colour since she changed her studio.

Lynda remains convinced that (9) ………… is the best surface for her to work on.

Ex. 2. Match the following words with appropriate definitions. Half a mark is given for each correct answer (1-16).

1. arcade a. a painting that represents scenes from daily life

2. applied art b. the art that restores sb. to health

3. bequest c. the particular way in which an artist paints with

a brush

4. brushwork d. series of arches carried on columns

5. chiaroscuro e. a picture painted with colours mixed with water

6. commission f. art or forms of art that appeal to sense of beauty

7. etching g. a flexible knife used by artists for applying paints

8. the Fine Arts h. a type of still-life representing a vase of flowers

9. fresco i. the forms of art such as pottery, glass, embroidery

10. flower piece j. the art of making a picture using a needle and acid

11. genre painting k. the process of printing from a smooth surface sothat ink sticks only to the design to be printed

12. healing art l. a piece of work given to sb. to do

13. impressionism m. a design painted on a wall while the plaster is wet

14. lithography n. a thing that one leaves to sb. else when one dies

15. palette knife o. the treatment of light and dark parts in a painting

16. water-colour p. a style of painting that creates the general

impression of a subject by using effects of colour

and light

Ex. 3. Fill in the blanks (1– 21) with the correct particle or preposition where necessary.

1. The Gallery acquires about 80 new portraits a year, about half (1) … bequest or gift.

2. The earliest work (2) … Leonardo’s hand which we know today is the angel (3) … profile (4) … the left (5) … Andrea del Verrochio’s ‘The Baptism of Christ’.

3. In the famous statue (6) … David Michelangelo achieved the difficult transition (7) … normal scale (8) … the colossal one (79) … a flaw.

4. (10) … from the unfinished tomb (11) … Pope Julius II, the most important work of this period is the elaborate painting (12) … the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (13) … the Vatican.

5. (14) … stake is nothing less than our appreciation of Michelangelo and scores (15) … other major artists.

6. The exhibition drew (16) … a close.

7. (17) … the Impressionists were bent (18) … freeing nature (19) ….sham, so the Expressionists hoped to liberate their own feelings from all trace (20) … artificiality.

8. In the study for the Sistine Chapel ceiling the Lybian Sybil is drawn (21) … red chalk.

Ex. 4. Read the text below. Use the word given at the end of the lines to form a word that fits in the space in the same line (1-10).

A TIME OF CHANGE

What we mean by the Renaissance is the rich (1) …… CULTURE

development that began in the late fourteenth century.

It (2) …… in northern Italy and spread northwards ORIGIN

during the subsequent two centuries.

Literally meaning rebirth, this was characterized by a

(3) …………interest in classical learning and values. NEW

Three discoveries, the compass, firearms and the printing

press were essential conditions for the new epoch. The first

of three, the compass, made (4).............possible and became NAVIGATE

the basis for great voyages of discovery.

The second, firearms, gave the Europeans military (5) …….. SUPERIOR

over the American and Asiatic cultures. Finally, printing

played a vital role in disseminating the new ideas of the

Renaissance. The spirit of the Renaissance ultimately took

many forms. It was expressed at first by intellectual movement

called (6) ………. HUMAN

This philosophy can be best understood as a reaction against the

seemingly (7) …... dark ages in which every aspect of life TERMONATE

was seen through divine light. It brought with it a new

confidence in man’s worth, in striking contrast to the biased

mediaeval emphasis on the (8) ……. nature of man. PERFECT The humanists of the Renaissance took as their frame of

(9) …………man himself. REFER

For perhaps the first time in western history, man’s potential

seemed (10) …………. LIMIT

There was so much to be done, for the restless men of this new age.

Ex. 5. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space.

(1- 16).

TATE MODERN

The Tate Modern, a gallery (1) …… modern art in London, opened (2) ……. doors in May 2000. In its first year, it attracted more (3) …… 5.25 million visitors, but some people were surprised (4) ….. its success. A lot of people in the UK are not interested (5) …… modern art, and even get angry (6) …… the large sums of money which are spent (7) …… it. The museum’s success has been to bring (8) ….. a new audience for art. Half the visitors are under 35 years of age, and the gallery (9) …… helped to make modern art ‘cool’. How is this possible? Firstly, many visitors talk to each other (10) …… the building itself, (11) ……. that the art on display. The building (12) ……converted from a power station, and the architects (13) ……. designed the Tate Modern decided to keep many of the building’s industrial features. Secondly, the gallery organized its collection into themed areas, such as ‘Still life, Real Life and Objects’, (14) ……. of arranging the works in the order they were produced, (15) …….is the approach people have got used (16) ……. over the years.

Ex. 6. Fill in who, which, whose, where, why, that, how, whom (1-21).

1. Our new neighbours, (1) …… live in the flat (2) ……. is just below ours, own the gallery (3) ……. is showing the Picasso exhibition.

2. It is possible (4) ….. the most important happening in the years Goya spent in Saragossa was (5) …… he got to know a group of artists (6) ……. most outstanding member was Francisco Bayeu, (7) …… went to Madrid in 1763 (8) …… he began to work under the orders of Mengs.

3. Young Diego Velazques from Seville, (9) …… took his maternal surname, began studying philosophy and Latin rhetoric, but soon realized (10) ……. neither syllogisms nor the study of Latin had anything at all in common with his incipient artistic vocation.

4. El Greco must have stayed in Venice till 1576, leaving it in that year, perhaps to escape from the plague (11) …….caused the death of Titian. It appears (12) ….. he went first to Madrid, (13) ….. he probably got to know Dona Jeronima de las Cuevas, an aristocratic lady (14) ……some say was his mistress and others his lawful wife, by (15) …… he had a son called Jorge Manuel (16) ……. might be the young gentleman painted by El Greco in the portrait in the Museum of Fine Arts in Seville.

5. There is a legend in (17) ……… Zurbaran is the hero: it states (18) …… in his village, Zurbaran did a caricature of a certain rich landowner named Silverio de Luarca with such spitefulness (19) …… the man ridiculed decided to take revenge, (20) …… he did by killing the artist’s father. The legend goes on to tell (21) …… the son of the murdered man recognized the odious Silverio in Madrid and ran him through with his sword.

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