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1. John Constable John Constable, one of the greatest landscape painters, was born in Sufford, on June 11, 1776. He was the son of a wealthy miller. He began to take interest in landscape painting while he was at grammar school. His father did not favour art as a profession. As a boy Constable worked almost secretly, painting […]...
2. British Painters – Британские художники Joseph Turner Joseph Turner, the greatest English romantic landscape painter, was born in Covent Garden, London, on the 23rd of April in 1775. He was the son of a fashionable barber. He started drawing and painting as a small boy. His father used to sell the boy’s drawings to his customers. In such a way […]...
3. “Мой любимый художник” (My favourite painter) Thomas Gainsborough is definitely one of my favourite Western painters. His individual poetic and romantic style in painting enraptures me. The world-famous artist was born in 1727 in a British town of Sudbury. He studied art in London and got fascinated by Jan van Eyck’s portraits representing graceful poses and silver tones. Although Gainsborough always […]...
4. Alexei Savrasov Alexei Savrasov was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style. Savrasov was born into the family of a merchant. He began to draw early and in 1838 he entered the Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture. He graduated from it in 1850, and immediately began to specialize in landscape painting. […]...
5. Joseph Turner Joseph Turner, the greatest English romantic landscape painter, was born in Covent Garden, London, on the 23rd of April in 1775. He was the son of a fashionable barber. He started drawing and painting as a small boy. His father used to sell the boy’s drawings to his customers. In such a way he earned […]...
6. Isaac Levitan Isaac Ilyich Levitan, the great Russian artist, became the first painter of the Russian scenery, who revealed all its beauty. He is a real poet of the Russian countryside. He continued and developed the traditions of painters of the Russian realistic school – Savrasov, Polenov, Serov. Levitan found significant meaning and poetry in what would […]...
7. Перевод слова painter Painter – художник, маляр Перевод слова A portrait painter – портретист landscape painter – пейзажист an unskilful painter – плохой живописец Here are two exemplary drawings of this Painter. Вот два типичных рисунка этого художника The apartment’s previous occupant was a Painter. Предыдущий квартиросъемщик был художником. He was a journeyman Painter, not one of the […]...
8. Биография Исаака Левитана на английском языке. Biography of Isaac Levitan Isaac Ilyich Levitan, the great Russian artist, was one of the first painters of the Russian scenery to reveal its beauty. He is a real poet of the Russian countryside. Levitan developed the traditions of painters of the Russian realistic landscape school – Savrasov, Polenov, Serov and others. He found poetry in what would seem […]...
9. Portrait Painting В топике Портретная живопись я хочу рассказать о самостоятельном жанре изобразительного искусства, целью которого является отображение визуальных характеристик модели. На портрете изображается внешний облик, а через него и внутренний мир конкретного, реально существующего человека. Главная задача художника-портретиста – добиться не только максимального внешнего сходства портрета с оригиналом, но и точно передать индивидуальные черты характера, создать […]...
10. Art in our life – Искусство в нашей жизни Art plays an important role in my life. It aids the people`s understanding of their culture. No doubt tastes should be developed through images of high artistic culture, whereas works of popular culture as a rule meet consumer`s tastes. In my opinion the habit of looking at good pictures is in itself a means by […]...
11. British Art, Theatre, Music – Британское искусство, театр, музыка There was little pictorial art in England until the great miniaturists of the Tudor epoch. There were portraits on a large scale, but they were in the main, of foreign origin, notably Dutch like Holbein. Then came Hogarth, the first great native painter born at the end of the 17th century, famous for both engravings […]...
12. Paintings and painters – Картины и художники Art has always been a way of understanding the world and expressing feelings and emotions. There are many different forms of art and painting is only one of them. Horace said that a “picture is a poem without words” and indeed it is so. Throughout centuries many techniques have developed to allow artists to transform […]...
13. Jack London Jack London was born in 1876 in San Francisco. His real name was John Griffit. His father was a farmer. The family was extremely poor and the boy had to earn his living after school. He sold newspapers, worked at a factory. Later he became a sailor; during some time he wandered vrith the unemployed. […]...
14. Museums and art galleries of London Топик Музеи и художественные галереи Лондона рассказывает о культурном достоянии столицы Великобритании: музеях и художественных галереях. Например, Британская галерея Тейт, открытая в 1897 году богатым промышленником сэром Генри Тейтом, сейчас уже является только частью группы музеев Тейт. Лондонская национальная галерея – музей в Лондоне на Трафальгарской площади, содержащий более 2000 образцов западноевропейской живописи XIII – […]...
15. Thomas Edison Edison is known as one of the greatest inventors of his time. He invented so much that it is difficult to say which of his achievements is the greatest. He was an experimenter and a practical man more than a theoretician. Edison did not have any education. He went to school only for three months. […]...
16. Taras Shevchenko Taras Shevchenko is a great Ukrainian poet. He is the founder of the modern Ukrainian literary language. Shevchenko was born in the family of a serf in the village of Moryntsy in 1814. Young Taras became an orphan very early. He was a shepherd, a labourer to a priest and, when he was fourteen, his […]...
17. Перевод слова landscape Landscape – ландшафт, пейзаж Перевод слова To admire the landscape – любоваться видом a blot on the landscape – ложка дегтя в бочке меда cultivated landscape – культурный ландшафт I was seduced by the beauty of the Landscape. Я был покорен красотой пейзажа. He received a commission to paint a Landscape. Он получил заказ на […]...
18. Биография Рэя Брэдбери на английском языке. Biography of Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury, a prominent American science fiction writer, was born in Illinois in 1920, but mostly lived in Los Angeles, California. There he graduated from high school, where he put out a school magazine entitled “Future Fantasies”. His first story was published in 1941. Since then he has got many national awards and won […]...
19. Mrs. Jones is having her house painted Mrs. Jones is having her house painted, and her husband comes home from work and leans against the freshly painted wall. The next day, she says to the painter, “You wanna see where my husband put his hand last night?” He sighs and says, “Look, lady, I got a tough day’s work ahead of me. […]...
20. Биография Пабло Пикассо на английском языке. Biography of Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He experimented in many different styles and changed the world of art during his time. Early life Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881. His father was a drawing teacher. At 10 Pablo became his father’s pupil and at the age […]...
21. London (6) If I had a chance to go to London I’d like to see not only the places of interest but many other interesting things there. Certainly everyone knows that the most famous sights of the capital of the Great Britain are Tower Bridge over the river Themes, Big Ben, The Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square, […]...
22. Thomas More Топик Томас Мор дает краткую информацию о государственном деятеле Англии 15-го века и создателе знаменитой “Утопии”. Кроме этого, Томас Мор был неподкупным юристом и писателем-гуманистом, написавшим и другие произведения политического, философского и исторического характера. Thomas More came into great favour and made a rapid carrier as a statesmen, at the same time writing works of […]...
23. Описание картины/ Describing A Picture На английском языке Перевод на русский язык Describing A Picture Описание картины I’m very fond of arts and one of my favourite pastimes is visiting picture galleries. You can see lots of genuine works of art there that were written by famous artists. I also pay attention at any nice copy that I see in […]...
24. Thomas Alva Edison Most people know that Thomas Edison invented the first working light bulb, but they don’t know anything else about him. Edison had almost no formal schooling, yet he invented over 1000 different things. Among Edison’s inventions are: the phonograph (record player), the movie camera and the movie projector. Thomas Edison invented his electric light bulb […]...
25. London (3) London is one of the largest and most interesting cities in the world. Greater London covers an area of about 600 square miles and has the population of nearly 9 million people. In London today, there still stand numerous landmarks reminding us of the town, as it was five or six centuries ago. The old […]...
26. Биография Томаса Мора на английском языке. Biography of Thomas More Sir Thomas More, an outstanding public figure of the 16th century was a brilliant lawyer, a royal favourite and Chancellor of England. He was a son of a lawyer. A the age of 12 he went to serve in the household of Cardinal Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England; at 14 he went […]...
27. About myself (5) Let me introduce myself. My full name is Andrei Andreevich Ivanov. I was named after my father and I am very happy about it. I was born on April, 7, 1981 in Moscow. I come from the family of office workers. I am an only child in the family. I am a pupil of the […]...
28. Перевод слова background Background – задний план, фон Перевод слова To melt into the background – сливаться с фоном the background of the war – причины войны family background – семейное происхождение Steve has a Background in computer engineering. Стив имеет опыт в области вычислительной техники. In the Background you can see my college friends. На заднем плане […]...
29. Thomas Edison (2) Thomas Edison was born in 1847. He first went to school at the age of eight and a half. But after only three months his teacher called him “stupid” and he came home crying. From that time his mother taught him at home and he read science books by himself. He got a job sending […]...
30. Thomas Jefferson – Томас Джефферсон Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson is one of the American Presidents. Thomas Jefferson was one of the founding fathers of this nation. Jefferson strongly believed in a democratic form of government. He was born in Virginia in 1743. When he was 14 years old, his father died and the young boy was left to choose for […]...
31. Значение идиомы in bad form [in bad form] {adv. phr.} Violating social custom or acceptedbehavior. When Bob went to the opera in blue jeans and without atie, his father-in-law told him that it was in bad form. Contrast: INGOOD FORM....
32. Перевод слова painting Painting – картина, живопись, окрашивание Перевод слова Flemish painting – фламандская живопись a painting in oils – картина, написанная маслом a vivid painting of his impressions – живое описание его впечатлений crayons and water-colours can be used for painting – для раскрашивания можно пользоваться цветными карандашами и акварелью painting and decorating – малярные работы He […]...
33. American and British schools – Американские и Британские школы In America, all children from six to sixteen go to school. They spend six years in “elementary” school, and four or six years in “secondary” or “high” school. School education is free. At the end of every school year, the children take a test. If a child does well, he goes into next class (“grade”). […]...
34. Vincent Van Gogh Топик Винсент ван Гог познакомит вас с некоторыми фактами из жизни великого голландского художника-постимпрессиониста 19-го века, картины которого в настоящее время почти бесценны. Но слава и известность пришли к Винсенту ван Гогу только после его трагической гибели, а при жизни он был несчастен, нищ и болен психически. Несмотря на это, его полотна полны ярких красок […]...
35. Photography Photography is very popular today, but there is a question, if it is art or nor. Let’s discuss it. Some people think that it is art, others that it is separate branch. On the one hand, photography and art are closely connected. Many painters used photographs in their works. Also, photography and painting have the […]...
36. Перевод слова blue Blue – голубой, синий Перевод слова Dark blue – темно-синий light blue – голубой to go blue with cold – посинеть от холода Why is the sky Blue? Почему небо голубое? We painted the door Blue. Мы покрасили дверь в синий. Интересные факты Bluetooth (blue – синий и tooth – зуб) – технология беспроводной связи […]...
37. William Somerset Maugham Топик Уильям Сомерсет Моэм рассказывает об одном из самых известных английских писателях 20-го века. Сомерсет Моэм прошел тяжелую школу жизни, с детства впитав в себя впечатления о событиях и людях, его окружавших. Родившись во Франции, он жил и учился в Англии и Германии, став врачом – посетил Россию, Америку, Африку и Азию. Все это сформировало […]...
38. Биография Чарльза Диккенса на английском языке. Biography of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, where his father was the oldest of a large family, eight in all. He got his education at a small day-school and from his mother, who was a well-educated woman. In 1821 the Dickens family moved to London. Mr. Dickens was heavily in debt. The few possessions […]...
39. British and American families – Британские и американские семьи British and American families are small. In fact the populations of both Britain and the USA have stopped growing. The typical family has a father, mother and two children. Grandparents come to visit, but do not usually live with their children. Most people get married between the ages of 20 and 23 but many marriages […]...
40. Art galleries of London Топик Художественные галереи Лондона рассказывает о коллекциях живописи, хранящихся в Национальной галерее, Национальной портретной галерее и Британской галерее Тейт, переименованной сейчас в “Тейт Британия”. Национальная галерея была открыта 1839 году, но датой основания считается 1824 год, когда была приобретена коллекция из 38 картин Ангерштейна, которая и послужила основой для будущей галереи. Британская галерея Тейт – […]...