1. Painters and their craft. - , a fashionable/mature artist - / ; a self-taught artist - -; a portrait painter - ; a landscape painter - ;
to paint from nature/memory/imagination - / / ;
to paint mythological (historical) subjects - () ;
to specialize in portraiture/still life - /
to portray people/emotions with moving sincerity/with restraint - / /;
to depict a person/a scene of common life/the mood of... - / / -./-.;
to render/interprete the personality of - / -.;
to reveal the person's nature - () ;
to capture the sitter's vitality/transient expression - / ;
to develop one's own style of painting - ;
to conform to the taste of the period - ; ; to break with the tradition - ; to be in advance of one's time - ; to expose the dark sides of life - () ;
to become famous overnight - ; to die forgotten and penniless - .
Paintings. Genres, ibnraz] - . .
an oil painting - , /;
a canvas - , , ;
a water-colour - , , ;
pastel picture - , ; a sketch/study - /;
a family group/ceremonial/intimate portrait - // ; a self-portrait - ;
a shoulder/length/half length/knee length/full length portrait - / / / ; a landscape - ; a seascape - ;
a genre/historical painting - / ();
a still life - ; a battle piece - /; a flower piece - , ;
a masterpiece - .
Composition and drawing. - .
in the foreground/background - / ;
in the top/bottom/left-hand corner - // ;
to arrange symmetrically/asymmetrically - / ;
to arrange in a pyramid - ; to arrange in a vertical format - ; to divide the picture space diagonally - ;
to define the nearer figures more sharply - ;
to emphasize contours purposely - ;
to be scarcely discernible - ; to convey a sense of space - ;
to place the figures against the landscape background - () ;
to merge into a single entity - () ; to blend with the landscape - /;
to indicate the sitter's profession - /;
to be represented standing/sitting/talking - // ;
to be posed/silhouetted against an open sky/ a classic pillar/the snow - / / /;
to accentuatate smth. - , -.
