UNIT 7. The World of Painting » Стр.72 (4)

Choose the correct ward from (a), (b) or (c) to complete the sentences. 1. Painting in England in the 17th-19th centuries was represented by (b) foreign painters. 2. Van Dyck founded a school of aristocratic (c) portrait painting. 3. Reynolds, Gainsborough and Lawrence were (a) influenced by Van Dyck's works. 4. The national school of painting in England was created during the (c) eitghteenth century. 5. (a) W. Hogarth wasn't success as a portrait painter but he was a master of social life pictures. My favourite genre in painting is abstraction. Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, from, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.