Учебное пособие по английскому языку часть I для I курса
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UNIT 6 ART Text: “De Daumier Smith’s Blue Period” by J.D. Salinger Grammar: Perfect Continuous Tense Forms Lead-in: Before reading the text answer the following questions:
“De Daumier Smith’s Blue Period” (An Excerpt) One week in May I saw in a Quebec newspaper (one of sixteen French-language newspapers and periodicals I had blown myself a subscription to) a quarter-column advertisement that had been placed by the direction of a Montreal correspondence art school. It advised all qualified instructors to apply immediately for employment at the newest, most progressive, correspondence art school in Canada. Candidate instructors were to have a fluent knowledge of both the French and English languages and only those of temperate habits and unquestionable character need apply. Samples of work, it said, should represent both the academic and commercial fields of art, and were to be submitted to Monsieur I. Yoshoto, director, formerly of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, Tokyo. Instantly I got out a typewriter from under the bed and wrote, in French, a long, intemperate letter to M. Yoshoto – cutting all my morning classes at the art school on Lexington Avenue to do it. My opening paragraph ran some three pages. I said I was twenty-nine and a great-nephew of Honoré Daumier. I said I had just left my small estate in the South of France, following the death of my wife, to come to America to stay – temporarily, I made it clear – with an invalid relative. I had been painting, I said, since early childhood, but that, following the advice of Pablo Picasso, who was one of the oldest and dearest friends of my parents, I had never exhibited. However, a number of my oil paintings and watercolors were now hanging in some of the finest, and by no means nouveau riche, homes in Paris, where they had gained considerable attention from some of the most formidable critics of our day. Following, I said, my wife's untimely and tragic death, I had earnestly thought I would never again set brush to canvas. But recent financial losses had led me to alter my earnest resolution. I said I would be most honored to submit samples of my work just as soon as they were sent to me by my agent in Paris. I remained, most respectfully, Jean de Daumier-Smith. It took me almost as long to select a pseudonym as it had taken me to write the whole letter… During the next four days, using all my spare time, plus some time that didn't quite belong to me, I drew a dozen or more samples of what I thought were typical examples of American commercial art. Working mostly in washes, but occasionally, to show off, in line. I drew people in evening clothes stepping out of limousines on opening nights – lean, super-chic couples. I drew suntanned young giants in white dinner jackets, seated at white tables alongside turquoise swimming pools, toasting each other, rather excitedly, with highballs made from a cheap, but, ultra-fashionable brand of rye whisky. When the samples were finished, I mailed them immediately to M. Yoshoto, along with a half dozen or so non-commercial paintings of mine that I'd brought with me from France. Conversation ‘However, I don’t propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. Tell me more about Mr. Dorian Gray. How often do you see him?’ ‘Every day. I couldn’t be happy if I didn’t see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me.’ ‘How extraordinary! I thought you would never care for anything but your art.’ ‘He is all my art to me now’, said the painter, gravely. ‘I sometimes think, Harry, that there are only two eras of any importance in the world’s history. The first is the appearance of a new medium for art, and the second is the appearance of a new personality for art also. What the invention of oil-painting was to the Venetians, the face of Antinous was to late Greek sculpture? And the face of Dorian Gray will some day be to me. It is not merely that I paint from him, draw from him, sketch from him. Of course I have done all that. But he is much more to me than a model or a sitter. I won’t tell you I am dissatisfied with what I have done of him, or that his beauty is such that Art cannot express it. There is nothing that Art cannot express, and I know that the work I have done, since I met Dorian Gray, is good work, is the best work of my life. But in some curious way – I wonder will you understand me? – his personality has suggested to me an entirely new manner in art, an entirely new mode of style. I see things differently, I think of them differently. I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me before. “A dream of form in days of thought:” – who is it who says that? I forget; but it is what Dorian Gray has been to me. The merely visible presence of this lad – for he seems to me little more than a lad, though he is really over twenty – his merely visible presence – ah! I wonder can you realise all that that means? Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh school, a school that is to have in it all the passion of the romantic spirit, all the perfection of the spirit that is Greek. The harmony of soul and body – how much that is! We in our madness, have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, and ideality that is void. Harry! If you only knew what Dorian Gray is to me! You remember that landscape of mine, for which Agnew offered me such a huge price, but which I would not part with? It is one of the best things I have ever done. And why is it so? Because, while I was painting it, Dorian Gray sat beside me. Some subtle influence passed from him to me, and for the first time in my life I say in the plain woodland the wonder I had always looked for, and always missed.’ ‘Basil, this is extraordinary! I must see Dorian Gray.’ Hallward got up from the seat, and walked up and down the garden. After some time he came back. ‘Harry,’ he said, ‘Dorian Gray is to me simply a motive in art. You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him. He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there. He is a suggestion, as I have said, of a new manner. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. That is all.’ Notes J. D. Salinger – an American writer whose most famous book is Catcher in the Rye. Quebec – a province in Canada. Quebec is an industrial and farming area, and the centre of French Canadian culture and language. Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) – a Spanish painter who worked in France, one of the founders of cubism. His work is usually divided into periods e. g. his blue period. One of his most famous paintings is Guernica, a criticism of war and fascism. nouveau riche - plural nouveaux riches - someone who has only recently become rich and spends a lot of money. highball – Am E an alcoholic drink, esp. whiskey or brandy mixed with water and soda and served with ice. O. Wilde (1854 - 1900) – an Irish writer best known for his play The Importance of Being Earnest and his story The Picture of Dorian Gray. Vocabulary
Word combinations by no means – никоим образом, ни в коем случае of our day – нашего времени be honored to do smth – быть удостоенным чести сделать что-л. show off – красоваться, рисоваться, хвастать along with – с, вместе с Exercises
Подписаться на что-то; заочная художественная школа; подавать заявление о приеме на работу; не злоупотреблять спиртными напитками; безупречный характер; сферы искусства; подавать на рассмотрение образцы (чего-либо); отменять занятия; занимать три страницы (о параграфе, статье и т.д.); картина, написанная маслом; акварель; строгие критики; безвременная кончина; выбрать псевдоним; работать акварелью; работать в карандаше; провозглашать тост в честь друг друга.
But recent financial losses led me to alter my earnest resolution. 1. Что заставило тебя заняться живописью профессионально? 2. Безвременная кончина Джона побудила меня переосмыслить, что, собственно я хочу от жизни. 3. Под страхом смерти он солгал. 4. Нас убедили в том, что все деньги с концерта пойдут на благотворительность. 5. Это дало мне основания ожидать, что рано или поздно он избавится от привычки злоупотреблять спиртными напитками. 6. В поисках работы ему пришлось разместить объявление в одном из периодических изданий. 7. Она убедила меня в том, что имеет большое влияние в политических кругах, но это оказалось лишь вымыслом. 8. Несмотря на мнение самых строгих критиков его убедили выставить свои картины, написанные маслом. 9. Обстоятельства сложились так, что он был вынужден взять псевдоним и работать под покровом тайны. 10. Из-за финансовых проблем ему опять пришлось взять в руки кисть, чтобы заработать на жизнь, создавая типичные образцы коммерческого искусства. 11. Подавая заявление о приеме на работу, он был вынужден представить на рассмотрение лучшие образцы своих работ.
Show off, set off (2), go off, beat off, pass off(2), come off, fall off, turn off, shake off, ring off, take off (2), get off. 1. Минуту он стоял, размышляя о чем-то, и потом направился в сторону дома. 2. Не обращай на него внимания, он просто рисуется. 3. Обед прошел в очень приятной обстановке, и меньше, чем через месяц Элизабет переехала в небольшую очаровательную квартирку. 4. Не могло быть и речи о том, что она сбежала с моим приятелем. Она не могла так рисковать. 5. Она попыталась рассмешить своих гостей, но шутка не удалась. 6. Толпа устремилась вперед, но полиция обступила женщину и отогнала дубинками разъяренных людей. 7. Он простудился, играя в гольф, и довольно долго не мог избавиться от кашля. 8. “С нашего балкона невозможно упасть!” Администратор отеля не мог поверить тому, что ему только что рассказали. 9. Я пришел к печальному выводу, что мы свернули с шоссе и ехали по какой-то объездной дороге. 10. Он поблагодарил телефонистку и повесил трубку. 11. Дональд нерешительно спустился вниз, и Фрост сразу же увел его на кухню, чтобы обсудить все наедине. 12. Я поднял с травы ключ от номера и отправился взять деньги на покупки. 13. Раз уж ты оказался в черном списке, ты не сможешь спастись. 14. Я отчетливо помню, как он снял шляпу и назвал Мейзи “мадам”. 15. Все зависит от того, зачем вы делаете копию. Если вы собираетесь выдать ее за оригинал, тогда это конечно же мошенничество.
1. Her latest novel is nothing to get _____ about. She found the atmosphere of the college _____ (excite). 2. Some topics appeared _____ enough to require more detailed information. Carrie was only half _____ in the conversation (interest). 3. Jane was lying in the sun looking very _____ and happy. Being left alone she had a _____ time in the garden (relax). 4. He looked up with a slightly _____ expression. It’s been a _____ time for us all (worry). 5. I was _____ by her voice. What was _____ to me was the way he courted the ladies (fascinate). 6. He was _____ at the thought of jumping off the bridge. The hostages suffered a _____ ordeal (terrify). 7. I’m _____ to hear about your new job. His paintings are very _____ to the eye (please). 8. There is nothing _____ about the situation. I was not at all _____ to find they had eaten all the cake (amuse).
To understand modern art; to be a typical example of commercial art; to represent academic art; to translate life into line and colour (передать жизнь с помощью карандаша и красок); to work in washes/in line; to set brush to canvas; to apply paint to the picture; to know how to handle paint; blobs of paint; still life paintings; to exhibit pictures; to submit samples of work to smb’s consideration; to take up painting for a living; to pass a copy off as an original; to be a fraud; to admire masterpieces; to gain attention from the most formidable critics; an exhibition of watercolours; to be a gallery-goer; correspondence art school.
Attention (3); clear v; clear adj (3); advertisement; represent (2); brush n (2), v; excited; remain (2); apply (3); draw (2); art (3); fashion; submit (2); exhibit A 1. He didn’t read verse very easily and though he read with _____, every word of it, the impression he received was far from _____. 2. She gave her _____ to the article in the parish magazine. 3. I thought I made it _____ to you that I didn’t want to see anyone. 4. The word Bouquet was meant to indicate the choice of perfume, and the first _____ showed a tasteful bunch of flowers. 5. From the sale of their chocolates my employers paid me three thousand francs a month which I suppose may have _____ half an hour’s income to Doctor Fischer. 6. When first Skelton saw it he had thought that it suggested a wish to call _____ to something behind her back, but now, after what she had told him yesterday, it did indeed look as though she were constantly trying to _____ something off her dress. 7. Mrs. Grange, in the same blue dress she had worn the day before, her hair untidy, appeared _____. 8. Meanwhile he uttered a few remarks on the perfidy of women. She _____ silent. 9. Jik’s strength and know-how soon ensured that it didn’t _____ that way. 10. A huge box of rags stood under one table, ready to wipe clean everything used to _____ paint to picture, not just _____ and knives, but fingers, palms, nails, wrists, anything which took his fancy. 11. The world began coming back fast, very sharp and _____. 12. Jik and I watched in interest while he _____ the pale yellow to the skirt of the nearest figure. 13. I _____ quickly in soft pencil a reasonable likeness of Greene, but without the moustache. B 1. Good _____ were at least as costly as paint. 2. My friend here is well known in England for his painting of horses, and is _____ in many top galleries and has been hung often at the Royal Academy. 3. The street was noticeably emptying as the crucial time _____ near. 4. Sarah looked downcast. “It may not be _____, but I like it.” 5. She herself wore the latest trendy _____ with careless ease and radiated tycoon-catching sincerity. 6. So we got out the road map, _____ our feet to the accelerator, and set off in pursuit. 7. When I was in hearing distance I heard her gasp, “There are five _____ ,painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and poetry.” 8. Having made a sketch of Lincoln, he had become a graduate _____ critic. 9. I asked Bambi, with maximum delicacy, to please hold off temporarily, _____ any more drawings with titles kindred to “Forgive Them Their Trespasses”. 10. Both had _____ themselves to medical tests as a result of which Lou had a course of injections. 11. – Was he absolutely certain? Absolutely: he _____ his throat. 12. If they had _____ their feelings it would have been a further humiliation.
1. _____ _____ times, while he slept, I made progress _____ both the paintings. The sad landscape was no longer sad but merely Octoberish, with three horses standing _____ in a field, one of them eating grass. Pictures of this sort were my bread and butter. The portrait _____ Regina, though, was the best work I’d done _____ months. She laughed _____ _____ the canvas, alive and glowing, аnd _____ me at least seemed vividly herself. Pictures often changed as one worked _____ them, and day _____ day the emphasis in my mind had shifted, so that the kitchen background was growing darker and less distinct and Regina herself more luminous. One could still see she was cooking, but it was the girl who was important, not the act. _____ the end I had painted the kitchen, which was still there, as an impression, and the girl, who was not, as the reality. 2. The gallery was open, brightly lit, with a horse painting on a gilt display easel _____ the centre _____ the window. Not a Munnings. A portrait picture _____ an Australian horse and jockey, every detail sharp-edged, emphatic, and, _____ my taste, overpainted. The gallery looked typical _____ hundreds of others _____ the world; narrow frontage, with premises stretching back a good way from the street. Two or three people were wandering _____ inside, looking at the merchandise on the well-lit neutral grey walls. To go _____ was still what I intended, but I hesitated _____ in the street feeling as if I were _____ the top _____ a ski jump. Stupid, I thought. Nothing venture, nothing gain, and all that. If you don't look, you won't see. I took a deep breath and stepped over the welcoming threshold. Greeny-grey, carpet _____ ,and an antique desk strategically placed _____ the door, _____ a youngish woman handing _____ small catalogues and large smiles. ‘Feel free to look _____ ,' she said. 'More pictures downstairs.' 3. А уоung man was sitting _____ an easel slightly to one side, painstakingly working _____ a copy. _____ a table beside him stood large pots _____ linseed oil and turps, and a jar _____ brushes _____ cleaning fluid. A comprehensive box _____ paints lay open _____ hand. Two or three people stood _____ ,watching him and pretending not to, _____ the manner _____ gallery-goers the world over. Jik and I went round _____ him to take a look. The young man glanced at Jik's face, but saw nothing there except raised eyebrows and blandness. We watched him squeeze flake white and cadmium yellow _____ tubes _____ _____ his palette and mix them together _____ a nice pale colour _____ a hogshair brush. _____ the easel stood his study, barely started. The outlines were there, as precise as tracings, and a small amount _____ blue had been laid _____ the sky. Jik and I watched _____ interest while he applied the pale yellow _____ the shirt _____ the nearest figure. 4. The inner room was bright _____ skylights, and its walls were almost entirely covered _____ dozens _____ pictures which hung closely together. Our eyes opened wide. _____ first sight we were surrounded _____ an incredible feast of Dutch interiors, French impressionists and Gainsborough portraits. _____ second blink one could see that although they were original oil paintings, they were basically second rate. The sort sold as ‘school _____’ because the artists hadn't bothered to sign them. 5. If I were a villain, I thought, _____ a well-established business and a good reputation, I wouldn't put myself _____ risk _____ selling fakes. Forged oil paintings were almost always detectable _____ a microscope, even if one discounted that the majority of experienced dealers could tell them _____ a glance. A painter left his signature all _____ a painting, not just _____ the corner, because the way he held his brush was as individual as handwriting. Brush strokes could be matched as conclusively as grooves on bullets.
A 1. Я осознал, что моя голова была не такая ясная, как я думал. 2. Нанесите краску чистой кисточкой. 3. Это правильное изложение их точки зрения. 4. В суде его представлял известный юрист по уголовному праву. 5. Красные линии на карте изображают железные дороги. 6. Все местные общества были представлены на параде. 7. Я подавал заявление с просьбой о зачислении в 4 университета и был принят во все. 8. Новая технология применяется почти в каждом производственном процессе. 9. Мы получили сотни заявлений о приёме на работу. 10. Водить машину по центру Лондона – это искусство. 11. В этом музее содержится несколько бесценных произведений искусства. 12. Сейчас в музее изобразительных искусств проводится выставка искусства Африки. 13. Много людей из мира искусства присутствовало на похоронах художника. 14. Мистер Тейт дал понять, что компромисса не будет. 15. Ты должен рассказать им о своих намерениях предельно ясно. 16. Эта фотография не очень чёткая. 17. Перед началом собрания нам надо разобраться в 2-3 пунктах. 18. Не афишируй тот факт, что ты ищешь работу. 19. Ты пробовал тот шампунь, который уже 2 недели рекламируют по телевизору? 20. Между телевизионными передачами слишком много рекламы. 21. Давид собирается показать (экспонировать) свои работы на выставке цветов. 22. Группа лиц, ведущих переговоры, продемонстрировала ноль эмоций, когда услышала это предложение. 23. Встань немедленно с пола и перестань быть посмешищем. 24. Возьми щётку и подмети весь этот мусор. B 1. Я почувствовал, как её волосы коснулись моей руки. 2. Я хотел поговорить с ней, но она быстро от меня отделалась. 3. Художник нанёс несколько маленьких мазков, чтобы закончить картину. 4. Мне жаль, что ты устал, но факт остаётся фактом, работу надо выполнить. 5. Ему ничего не остаётся, как ждать пока она не изменит своё решение. 6. Правительство осталось у власти на 12 лет. 7. Всё, что ещё осталось от первоначальной коллекции картин, сейчас находится в городском музее. 8. Не позволяй втянуть себя в их спор. 9. Эта пьеса собирает огромные толпы народа. 10. Две политические партии всё больше расходились во мнениях. 11. Какой вывод ты сделал из их заявления? 12. Я попытался увести его в сторону, чтобы поговорить наедине. 13. Когда Том нервничает, он начинает заикаться. 14. Мне было трудно заснуть после всех переживаний за день. 15. Мэри начинает волноваться по поводу предстоящей свадьбы. 16. Это судебное дело вызвало огромный общественный интерес. 17. Высокие каблуки в моде в этом году. 18. После окончания колледжа мне хотелось бы работать в индустрии моды. 19. У англичан модно отправляться в отпуск на юг Франции. 20. Она вращается в светском обществе.
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