10-А Art test

1. Where would you find the National Gallery?                   [Albert Square, Trafalgar Square]

2. Which of these museums would you find in Glasgow?                  [The Lowry Centre, Kelvin Grove]

3. Which of these art galleries is not in London?                         [The National Gallery, The Walker Art Gallery]

4. Who was Manchester's most famous artist?                            [Charles Rennie Mackintosh, L S Lowry]

5. Where would you find exhibits from the natural world?                  [The World Museum, The Tate Gallery]

Read the text and choose if the statements below are TRUE or False:

Leonardo da Vinci excelled as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. He had endless curiosity. Leonardo wanted to understand how things worked. He wanted to put down on paper what he saw. He left thousands of pages of drawings and notes that recorded his thoughts.

Leonardo was born in 1452 in the small town of Vinci, near Florence, Italy. He had little schooling and was largely self-taught. Leonardo seemed to be good at everything he tried. He was handsome, a good speaker, and a fine musician. He trained as a painter with Andrea del Verrocchio, a leading artist in Florence. Leonardo produced a relatively small number of paintings, and he left some of them unfinished. But he had original ideas that influenced Italian artists long after his death. Leonardo believed painting was a science.

He applied scientific thinking in his art so that his paintings looked more like the real world. One of his most important painting techniques was sfumato, a blending of one area of colour into another so there are no sharp outlines. Leonardo used sfumato in one of his most famous paintings, the Mona Lisa. When you look at this portrait, notice how colours shade into each other on her face and hands. See how Leonardo has blurred the edges of her mouth to give her the hint of a smile. This mysterious smile has fascinated people for centuries. It looks as if Mona Lisa’s expression might change at any moment because of the way Leonardo has softened the edges of the mouth, eyes, and cheeks. She seems almost alive. Drawing was Leonardo’s favourite tool. He said that drawing was a better way of communicating ideas than words were. He drew catapults and war machines. He drew the muscles and skeletons of human beings and other animals. He drew clouds, swirling water, and storms. He designed churches that were never built.

Leonardo’s drawings and theories are contained in numerous notebooks. His ideas were far in advance of what other people were thinking at the time. But the notebooks were not published during his lifetime. If his notebooks had been published, they might have revolutionised scientific thinking in the 1500s. Leonardo’s deep love of research was the key to both his artistic and scientific endeavours. Leonardo died in 1519.

1. Leonardo da Vinci was an outstanding Italian painter.       [False, True]

2. He received an excellent university education in Florence, Italy.       [False, True]

3. Leonardo was talented in different fields.       [False, True]

4. Sfumato is a painting technique that allows avoiding sharp outlines due to blending of one area of colour into another.       [False, True]

5. Leonardo da Vinci devoted his life to drawing portraits.       [False, True]

6. After Leonardo’s notebooks had been published in the 1500s, they revolutionised the scientific thinking of his time.       [False, True]

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