Module 5 - Creative arts Unit 5.3 - Art: Painting in 19th century: a brief overview
1. Say whether the statements are true or false.
1. During the Enlightenment, painters wanted to convey the need to reunite the individual with nature.
2. Constable and Turner were not realistic painters.
3. Delacroix was a Romantic English painter.
4. According to Courbet, paintings had to convey emotion rather than represent reality.
5. En plein air means twilight in French.
6. Impressionists didn’t use to paint inside their studio.
7. Neither Degas nor Manet belong to the group of Post-Impressionists.
8. Van Gogh and Cézanne belong to the same post-impressionist movement.
2. Complete the text with the words given below.
Romanticism • feelings • paintings • historical • created • interest • works • colours • Impressionists • light
Eugène Delacroix Known for producing paintings with 1. themes such as Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix’s paintings also include works with exotic, medieval, and literary settings to the extent that he began by illustrating several 2. by Shakespeare, Goethe, and Scott. His 3. then turned to contemporary history. Referring to the typical canons of French 4. , which focused on the emphasis of 5. , the search for movement and the play of 6. , the artist succeeded in restoring to the viewer those intense, dramatic 7. and sensations that he himself experienced. It was precisely by reproducing his most authentic emotions that the artist instilled power into his subjects: The Massacre of Scio was 8. out of a desire to represent the failure of a Greek revolt against the Turkish Empire. His 9. with subjects portrayed with ill-defined contours and dynamic, colourful brushstrokes played a fundamental role for the 10. . Adapted from: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eugene-Delacroix