10-А Art test

1. Where would you find the Imperial War Museum North?            [Leeds, Manchester]

2. Where is the Beatles Museum?           [Liverpool, London]

3. Where is Old Trafford?            [Manchester, Newcastle]

4. Where would you find the largest private art collection in the world?         [Glasgow, Bristol]

5. Where would you find a living rainforest in the heart of the city?            [Manchester, Bristol]

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

Was there ever a more tortured genius than the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh? He lived in poverty, sold only one painting during his life, and cut off his ear. He created masterpieces of art, yet his life was miserable.

Vincent van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert, the Netherlands, in 1853. He thought he might become a priest like his father. For a time, he preached to poor miners, and then he began to draw them. He was mostly self-taught as an artist. Van Gogh’s brother Theo was an art dealer in Paris, France. Theo helped Vincent with money and it was Vincent’s only source of support. In 1886, Vincent went to live with Theo in Paris. In Paris, Vincent saw the bright colours of paintings by the impressionist artists, and he began to paint with bright colours, too.

Van Gogh created self-portraits and paintings of flowers and scenery. His colours became even more brilliant after he moved to southern France in 1888. He portrayed his own room in Bedroom at Arles in bright yellow, blue, and red. However, no one liked his paintings. No other artist had painted quite like van Gogh. He used vivid colours and thick strokes of paint to express his feelings about what he was painting. He didn’t try to copy his subjects accurately. Often his work seems brooding and threatening. His landscapes are full of twisted shapes. Always moody and restless, van Gogh began showing signs of mental illness in the late 1880s. After an argument with his friend, painter Paul Gauguin, van Gogh cut off part of his own ear. But he never stopped painting. Some of his most beautiful works were done while he was hospitalised for depression. Examples are The Starry Night and Crows in a Wheatfield.

Van Gogh died in 1890, after shooting himself. He left behind 750 paintings and 1,600 drawings. Theo van Gogh made sure they stayed safe, and gradually people began to appreciate these works. They became extremely valuable. In 1990, a van Gogh painting sold for $82.5 million. This was the highest price anyone had ever paid for a painting at an art auction. But in 2004, a painting by Pablo Picasso set a new record of $104 million.

1. In his early years, Vincent dreamed of becoming an artist like his father.       [False, True]

2. Van Gogh’s painting was influenced by the works of the impressionists he saw in Paris.       [False, True]

3. Van Gogh liked painting nature.       [False, True]

4. Van Gogh was a very popular artist in France in 1880s.       [False, True]

5. Van Gogh had some mental problems.       [False, True]

6. Van Gogh’s paintings became valuable only after his death.       [False, True]

Put the verbs in brackets in the correct past tense form. Записуєте лише форму дієслова.

He _________ (leave) by that time already.