Задание 2.

Перевод профессионального текста (сообщения)

(максимальная оценка – 10 баллов).
ТЕКСТ (1608 знаков)
Английская версия текста
Задача 1. Переведите приведённый ниже текст.
Задача 2. Найдите в тексте и выпишите ответы на вопросы

Configuration and shape in the visual arts.

Forms are at the heart of fine arts. These are figures and shapes that make up logos,
illustrations and countless other elements in all types of design and visual arts.
Proper use of figures is one of the keys to successful art. The shape, color, size,
and other characteristics for the configuration in the plan can determine their mood
and message. Soft, curved and rounded shapes are not perceived as sharp, angular
shapes. The "white space" or negative space left between the figures will also have
a significant impact on the visual arts. Experimenting and changing formats inside
a design can best lead to the desired result. Configuration and shape are areas or
masses that define objects in space. Form and shape imply space; they cannot exist
without space. There are different ways to classify forms and configurations. The
shape and configuration can be considered as two-dimensional and three-
dimensional. The two-dimensional form has a width and height. The 3D shape has
depth as well as width and height. Configuration and shape can also be described
as organic or geometric. An example of an organic shape can be snow-covered
boulders with typical irregularities in the plan, and they are often asymmetrical.
They visually describe the object. They are two-dimensional and have height and
width. Shapes can be geometric with straight edges and angles, such as squares,
rectangles, triangles, or circles. Or they can be organic with irregular and curved
lines. In nature there are organic forms: shells, flower petals, insects, animals and
even people! The object looks as if it had height, width, and depth. Artists use
shading to create the illusion of form. Shading indicates depth by creating
shadows.

Answer the following questions:

1. Why are forms the basis of visual arts?

2. What is the key to successful art?
3. What does form and space imply?
 Задача 1. Переведите текст

The Painter Picasso

On the 25 October, 1881, a little boy was born in Malaga, Spain. It was a difficult
birth and to help him breathe, cigar smoke was blown into his nose! But despite
being the youngest ever smoker, this baby grew up to be one of the 20th century's
greatest painters — Pablo Picasso.
Picasso showed his truly exceptional talent from a very young age. His first word
was lapiz (Spanish for pencil) and he learned to draw before he could talk. He was
the only son in the family and very good-looking, so he was thoroughly spoilt. He
hated school and often refused to go unless his doting parents allowed him to take
one of his father's pet pigeons with him!

Apart from pigeons, his great love was art and when in 1891 his father, who was
an amateur artist, got a job as a drawing teacher at a college, Pablo went with him
to the college. He often watched his father paint and sometimes was allowed to
help. One evening his father was painting a picture of their pigeons when he had to
leave the room. He returned to find that Pablo had completed the picture, and it
was so amazingly beautiful and lifelike that he gave his son his own palette and
brashes and never painted again. Pablo was just 13.

From then onwards there was no stopping him. Many people realized that he was a
genius but he disappointed those who wanted him to become a traditional painter.
He was always breaking the rules of artistic tradition and shocked the public with
his strange and powerful pictures. He is probably best known for his "Cubist"
pictures, which used only simple geometric shapes. His paintings of people were
often made up of triangles and squares with their features in the wrong place. His
work changed our ideas about art, and to millions of people modern art means the
work of Picasso. Guernica, which he painted in 1937, records the bombing of that
little Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, and is undisputedly one of the
masterpieces of modern painting.

Picasso created over 6,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures. Today a "Picasso"
costs several million pounds. Once, when the French Minister of Culture was
visiting Picasso, the artist accidentally spilt some paint on the Minister's trousers.
Picasso apologized and wanted to pay for them to be cleaned, but the Minister said,
"Non! Please, Monsieur Picasso, just sign my trousers!" Picasso died of heart
failure during an attack of influenza in 1973.
 Задача 2. Ответьте на вопросы.

1. What and who influenced his choice of career?

2. Do parents influence your choice of career? How?
3. Would you like to become a painter? Why?