of his line.
Ingres's paintings are perfect in colour. All the beauty of his colour and the perfection of his form are seen in the portrait of
Although many of his subjects are drawn from the medieval history and poetry, dear to the Romanticists, Ingres was resolutely opposed to their abandonment to emotion and to the artistic sources on which they drew. Yet, the influence of Ingres later in the nineteenth century was very great.
Make sure you know how to pronounce the foallowing words:
Dominique Ingres; Athens; Salon; Delacroix; Velazquez; Odyssey; Iliad; Eyck; genius; Romanticists; Louvre; exquisite; Shakespeare; Corneille; Renaissance; prodigy; apotheosis; Gothic; laurel; Chinese; phenomena; violin; perspective
rudder – руль
1. Ingres remained faithful to Romantic ideals to the end of his life.
2. Ingres was a talented pianist.
3. The
4. Ingres fancied himself a mythological painter.
5. Ingres was fond of portrait painting.
6. Ingres drew subjects from contemporary poetry.
II. How well have you read? Can you answer the following questions?
1. What did Ingres form? Did Ingres accept the cubic mass of David's mature style? What forms did Ingres prefer?
2. What did Ingres study in Italy? How did the public accept Ingres's first paintings? What are the drawbacks of Ingres's narrative pictures? What is one of Ingres's finest paintings?
3. What work embodies the ideal programme of Neo-classicism? Did Ingres make any concessions to the principles of illusionistic ceiling perspective from below? What tradition did Ingres prefer?
4. What is represented in the
5. What makes the portrait of
6. What was Ingres's attitude to other painters? What impact did Ingres make on other painters?
III. i. Give Russian equivalents of the following phrases:
to utilise the principles of Neo-classicism; an infant prodigy; to prefer curving form; a history painter; narrative pictures; an Ionic temple; to be crowned with laurel; the muse of epic poetry; geniuses from antiquity and later times; an artificial composition; muralists; pencil studies; perfect in colour; the perfection of the form; the artistic sources; to derive from Classical art; subjects drawn from medieval history; to bind the figures together; an ideal realm; a subtle contour line; an exquisite quality of the line; optical phenomena.
iii. Give English equivalents of the following phrases:
муза эпической поэзии; принципы неоклассицизма; вундеркинд; связать фигуры воедино; предпочитать изогнутые линии; тематические картины; ионический храм; увенчать лавровым венком; гении античности и более поздних времен; идеальное царство; искусственная композиция; заимствовать из классического искусства; изысканность линии; карандашные наброски; совершенные по цвету работы; изящество линии; творческий источник; слегка намеченный контур; совершенство формы; сюжеты из средневековой истории.
iv. Arrange the following in the pairs of synonyms:
a) artificial; artistic; perfection; to derive; reflection; phe nomenon; subject; abandonment; laurel; brand;
b) excellence; to obtain; wreath; creative; image; cession; mark of ownership; event; theme; unnatural.
IV. Here are descriptions of some of Ingres's works of art. Match them up to the titles given below.
1. She is posed in a comer of her salon.
2. The surface is modelled to porcelain smoothness.
3. The cool light of an ideal realm binds the figures together in the kind of artificial composition.
a) Apotheosis of Homer
b) Comtesse d'Houssonville
c) Valpinson Bather
V. Translate the text into English.
Жан Огюст Доменик Энгр, превративший давидовский классицизм в академическое искусство и вступивший в противоборство с романтиками, в семнадцатилетнем возрасте приехал в Париж в ателье Давида. Усвоив классическую систему с ее культом античного классицизма, Энгр отказался от революционности стиля своего учителя и стремился уйти от реальной жизни в мир идеального.
В картинах 1810-х годов, оставаясь преданным античным темам, Энгр обращался и к сюжетам из средневековья. Основным произведением художника в это время стал алтарный образ для церкви города Монтобана. Энгр решил образ мадонны близким к Сикстинской мадонне. Эта работа принесла художнику успех в Салоне в 1824 году. Однако некоторые произведения Энгра, такие как «Портрет художника Франсуа Мариуса Гране» и «Купальщица Вальпинсон», предвещают новое мироощущение романтиков.
Последние годы жизни Энгра были омрачены битвами сначала с романтиками во главе с Делакруа, затем с реалистами, которых возглавлял Курбе.
VI. Summarize the text.
VII. Topics for discussion.
1. The principles of Ingres's painting.
2. Ingres's style and characters.
Unit V Goya (1776-1828)
The greatest artistic genius of the turn of the eighteenth century was a Spaniard, Francisco Jose de Goya у Lucientes. He made a trip to Italy and was not impressed either by antiquity or by the Renaissance. Goya was a lifelong rebel against artistic or intellectual straitjackets. He managed to skip the Neo-classical phase entirely and passed directly from a personal version of the Rococo to Romantic stage.
In 1786 Goya was appointed painter to the king and in 1799 he became the first court painter. After 1792 Goya was totally deaf, and it liberated him from some of the trivialities of life for meditation on its deeper significance. Goya's brilliant portraits of the royal court may have been influenced by Gainsborough. But his characterisations are far more vivid, human and satiric. Goya's supreme achievement in portraiture is the
