Art Galleries

 ТЕМА: Art Galleries

Active Vocabulary

amazing – дивовижний

affordable – допустимий, можливий

fine art – образотворче мистецтво

impressive – вражаючий

sculptures – скульптури

to boast – хвалитися

Read the Internet page about an art gallery and answer the questions.

1. What is the gallery called?

2. Where is it situated? 

3. What art does the gallery specialize in?             

4. What works of art are represented there? 

5. Is it easy to buy pictures there? 

6. Is it popular all over the world? 

RED RAG GALLERY

5–7 Church Street

Stow-on-the-Wold

Gloucestershire

GL54 1BB

Welcome to Red Rag British Art Gallery in Stow-on-the-Wold, a delightful market town and an important shopping centre about 75 miles to the north-west from London.

UK art gallery Red Rag specializes in British and Irish contemporary art, sculptures and Limited Edition Prints representing many leading contemporary artists and sculptors. The gallery promotes both affordable art and major contemporary art pieces to art collectors worldwide.

Red Rag combines a high street gallery presence with the convenience of an online website. The website covers a number of art topics: British Art Galleries; Art Investment; British Art News and Art Glossary. There is also a comprehensive section on Limited Edition print featuring: top selling prints and featured print artists.

As one of the leading UK Art Galleries Red Rag offers British art for sale every day, so you can buy British art anytime. The gallery also promotes British contemporary art, paintings and modern Sculptures from established and young British Artists online 24 hours a day. Art works available range from affordable art to major pieces for collectors.

Red Rag supplies art for Business or art for home. Whether it is art for Offices or art for Homes there is always interesting contemporary British Art, paintings and sculpture from today’s artists at the gallery. Contemporary art at Red Rag comprise: landscape paintings, marine paintings, still life paintings, portrait paintings, architectural paintings and abstract paintings. The gallery also offers contemporary sculptures from leading British sculptors.

Red Rag is one of the best known British Art Galleries with a world-wide reputation for fine art quality and service. The gallery represents the best in living British, Scottish and Irish Artists specializing in fine modern art, sculpture, contemporary paintings and Limited Edition Prints.

British Artists who are represented by Red Rag Gallery include those with International standing such as Stephen Brown, George Devlin, Charles Hardaker, Peter Kelly, Janet Ledger, Martin Leman, Steven Outram and William Selby to young emerging artists such as David Farren and Mark Preston.

Fill in the gaps with the words or word combinations, mind – there are some odd words:

hundreds of, all over the world, gallery, an expression,  travel,    famous,   representatives,  known,    masterpieces,   including,    examples,  culture,    painters

  There are literally thousands of art galleries 1 __ . Almost every city has an art gallery but there are some art galleries that are 2 __ all around the world. People will 3 _ across the world just to see some of these famous art galleries and the masterpieces that they house inside. Probably the most 4 __ art gallery in the world is ‘The Louvre’ in Paris. The most famous piece of art in the Louvre is the Mona Lisa, by Leonardo Da Vinci. This famous painting is kept under high security as it tops the list of art thieves the world over. The Louvre also houses many other famous paintings by Da Vinci and 5 __ other famous artists.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is a renowned location for beautiful art masterpieces. This museum has an impressive assortment of American paintings. In addition to these, it also has paintings and statues by famous artists such as Botticelli, Raphael, and El Greco. This makes it a global museum. London has an amazing gallery known as The National Gallery. This gallery boasts of some of the finest 6 ___ of European art, 7 __ paintings by Raphael, Manet, Leonardo Da Vinci, Renoir, and Monet. This 8 __ has a very large number of paintings and some of the most famous ones are: Sunflowers, by Vincent van Gogh, The Virgin of the Rocks, by Leonardo Da Vinci, and Venus and Mars, by Sandro Botticelli.

Art as 9 ___ of our culture, thought process and creativity has no parallel. Viewing these masterpieces in an art gallery transposes the viewer into the mind and time of the creator who has shaped our 10 __. 

Match to make word combinations. Use them to compose your own sentences.

1. numerous                           a) value

2. to cultivate love                 b) masterpieces

3. educational                        c) for people and nature

4. to represent                        d) in different languages

5. to be available                    e) major schools of painting