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UNIT 5ARE YOU FOND OF ART?Read the text and retell it.Before you read1. Are you interested in art?3. What art movements do you know?4. Do you know famous English painters?5. What famous Armenian painters do you know?Art includes painting, sculpture and photography. It has always been interesting forman the creator to mirror the world as exactly as he could. He decorated churches andillustrated books. He made masterpieces to tell the world how he felt about it. He neverspared his efforts to bring forth something beautiful. He created different art movementsand styles. When you look at the paintings belonging to different periods, you can seehow ideas about art have changed over time:classical art– the art of harmony of formsromanticism– the art of natural beautyrealism– the art of painting things as they areimpressionism– art as impressions ,surrealism– the art of dreamlike imagescubism– the art of breaking spaceabstract art– the art of arranging shapes and coloursSome prefer to paint portraits and still life, others landscape painting. Englishpainters were fond of painting landscapes. In fact, they often combined landscapepainting with portrait painting. As for most English painting it isn’t as famous as Frenchor Italian painting, but there are still some excellent pieces of art.Fair Faces of EnglandThomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) is a painter whose works are always easilyrecognised. He is famous for his portraits which are usually painted in clear tones andsoft colours. The story goes that he made such a good portrait of a thief whom he hadseen robbing a garden that the thief was caught at once. With his portraits Gainsboroughleft us a fascinating 1 face of eighteenth century England.1 fascinating[2f{sineitiÎ] – ÑÙ³ÛÇã51