II. How well have you read? Can you answer the following questions?

1. What countries did Turner visit? What did he want to experience?

2. Where did Turner paint his pictures? What colour did he favour?

3. What subjects did Turner like to paint? What canvases were found after Turner's death?

4. What did Turner enjoy to paint?

5. What does the Slave Ship represent?

6. What is depicted in one of the first paintings with the Romantic idealisation of "progress"?

III. i. Give Russian equivalents of the following phrases:

mystical attachment to nature; to make frequent trips; mountain landscapes; to experience the full force of the wind; to make colour notes; to live under an assumed name; to abandon smth in favour of smth; to accompany the labels with quotations from poetry; unfinished canvases; identifiable subject; to paint the pure movement of masses of colour; shortly before; on varnishing day; to make the pictures exhibitable; to bring into completion; colour sense.

ii. Give English equivalents of the following phrases:

горный пейзаж; незадолго до; подготовить картины для выставки; совершать частые поездки по; незавершенные по­лотна; передавать мгновенные изменения в природе; сопро­вождать картины цитатами из поэзии; загадочная привязан­ность к природе: испытать всю силу волн; в день открытия; чувство цвета; делать цветные наброски.

iii. Make up sentences of your own with the given phrases.

iv. Arrange the following in I he pairs of synonyms:

a) finished; exhibition; label; gorgeous; revelling; revelation;

b) splendid; display; completed; disclosure; marker; amuse­ment.

IV. Here are descriptions of some of Turner's works of art Match them up to the titles given below.

1. It is one of the first paintings of a railway train.

2. The painting represents an incident common in the days of slavery, when entire human cargoes were thrown into the sea.

A. The Slave Ship

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