The Arts

World Arts
The British school of painting
Prepared by Iryna Krupko,
Valia Halushko
pupils of the 11th form,
School of Svaritsevichy
How does art influence
on our life?
 What famous painters do you
know?
 What are their masterpieces?
 What do you know about the
“Golden Age’’ of English
painting ?
 What contribution did English
painters make to the
development of the world art?
Leonardo da Vinci
 Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is one of the greatest
of all painters. His painting the Last Supper is
probably the most famous painting in the world.
 Leonardo was born in the village of Vinci in Italy.
When his father found out that the boy was
interested in painting, he sent him to an excellent
painter and teacher.
 The Last Supper is a mural in a chapel in Milan.
This picture was famous long before it was finished.
 One of Leonardo’s paintings is called the “Mona
Lisa”. It is the picture of a woman with a faint smile
on a face. Now it is the greatest treasures of the
Louvre in Paris.
Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa
Rembrandt
Titian
Van Gogh
Van Gogh
Van Gogh
Van Gogh
Pissarro The red roofs
 Renoir
Ball in Mullen de le
Galette
 Monet
The wild poppies
Monet
Impression.
Sunrise
Gauguin The Tahitian women
Degas
Degas The blue dancers
Cézanne
 Cézanne
The cards-players
Salvador Dali
The “Golden Age” of
English Painting
 The period from W. Hogarth to J.
Constable and W. Turner is the period
between the 1730s and 1830s. Never in any
other century did England contribute so
much to the history of world art.
 Holbein, Antonio More, Rubens, Van

Dyck were almost English painters during

a longer or shorter period of their lives.
They influenced greatly the formation of
the British Painting school.
Anthony Van Dyck
 The Flemish Painter Sir Anthony
Van Dyck (1599-1641), a pupil of
great Rubens, is considered the
father of the English portrait school
and set before it an aristocratic ideal
of the person.
Anthony Van Dyck
Charles II
Joseph Mallord
William Turner
 Joseph Mallord William
Turner(1774-1851) had a life-long
passion for the sea and dedicated
most of the painting to it. Calais
Pier is one of the greatest creations.
 Genre – seascape
 Masterpieces - Calais Pier , The Sun
Rising Through Vapour
 Joseph
Mallord William Turner
Snow-storm
William Hogarth
 William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) is a truly English
painter. He was the first English painter who
raised English pictorial art to a high level of
importance. He was a man of remarkably
individual character and thought.
 Genre – portraiture, satirical social painting.
 Masterpieces – The Shrimp Girl, Self portrait,
The Rake’s Progress, The Marriage- a -la- Mode .
 Peculiar features – connected painting with
literature, theatre, invented stories and illustrated
them.
William Hogarth
The Girl with Crabs
John Constable
 John Constable(1776-1837) developed his own
style of painting . He was the first English
landscape painter to ask no lessons from the
Dutch.
 Constable was an acute observer of nature and
had a romantic passion for light.
 Genre – landscape
 Masterpieces – the Haywain, The Flatford Mill
 Peculiar features – introduced the green
colour, made sketches directly from nature,
used broken touches of colour, began the
realistic trend
John Constable
 J.
Constable.
The Evening
Thomas Gainsborough
 Thomas Gainsborough(1727 – 1788)
succeeded brilliantly as a portrait painter.
His portraits are painted in clear tones,
where blue and grey colours are dominated.
 Genre – portrait, landscape.
 Masterpieces – The Blue Boy, Mrs.
Sheridan.
 Peculiar features – grey and blue colours,
romantic paintings, the creator of landscape
painting.
Thomas Gainsborough
Painter’s daughters
Thomas Gainsborough
Sarah Siddons
Thomas
Lawrence(1769-1839)
 Thomas Lawrence(1769-1839) was a painter of
kings, princes, great diplomats, generals. All
these are presented in large fulldress portraits
painted with verve and elegance. He lavished on
his portraits his facility of execution, his fluid
touch, his rich colour.
 Genre – portrait.
 Masterpieces – Portrait of Vorontsov, Duke of
Wellington.
 Peculiar features – a master of brilliant official
portrait, did not penetrate into the nature of his
characters.
 We put a question to our classmates:
What helps you to enjoy and understand arts?
 Here are the results:

I read special 30%

books
I go to the theatre 10%

I listen to the 50%

music
I visit lectures 10%
 Additional information
 It is not a secret that the calm flouring moonlight over the
dark of one winter evening inspired Beethoven to write his
“Moonlight Sonata”.
 Listening to it we can first hear the dance of spirits upon the
lawn, then breathless movement, descriptive of flight and
uncertainly and then vague impulsive terror, which carried
us away on its rustling wings and left us in emotion and
wonder.
Additional information
 All of you know a canvas Vesuvius at
Night by Aivasovsky. A sudden eruption
of Vesuvius happened early in the morning
in 79 AD and the town was covered with 7
meters of ashes for 18 centuries.
 A popular Italian composer Puccini wrote
his opera “The last Day of Pompeii”. The
opera inspired a great Russian painter
Briullov to create his famous painting
under the same title.
 My conclusion
 A word can unite a sound and colour in itself.
 The beauty of our world is expressed in music, poems and painting.
 Arts help us to understand, see, hear, feel, watch beautiful things around us.
 Arts express liberty of feelings and emotions that is as the wind, the sky, the
sea.
 We must read books about arts
 We must learn folk songs, dances, handicrafts.
 We must visit museums, art galleries.
 It is impossible to understand classical music (sonatas, symphonies, operas)
or masterpieces of great painters without previous preparation.
Used materials
 Books
 Magazines
 Digest
 Encyclopedia