( Homework in electronic portofolio for English lesson)

           Ex.I                        Modernism

   The modernism includes the activities and creations of those (people) who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature etc. were becoming illfitted to their tasks and outdated in a new economic, social,political environment. A notable characteristic of modernism is self-consciousness,which often led to experiments with form, along with the use of techniques that drew atention to the process and materials used in creating a painting, sculpture, poems, buildings etc.

  This curent begins in the 19th cntury.

  The list with modernist artists is huge, but I would like to mention only some well-known modernism paintersn and sculptors 

  Painters and their masterpices:

                                                          Pablo Picasso 

The old Guitarist 

Blue nude 

Boy with a Pipe

                                                       Vincent Van Gogh

Self Portrait 

Vase with Twelvw Sunflowers

And sculptors:

                                                          Sir Antoney Caro

Early One Morning 

Sunfeast 

Constantin Brancusi 

The Kiss

Endless Column 

Ex.II

                                                       Ludwig van Beethoven 

Ludwig van Beethoven was a deaf German composerand the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between theClassical and Romantic eras.       Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was baptized on December 17, 1770, in Bonn, Germany.  The greatest composer of all time, was born on or about December 16, 1770 in the city of Bonn in the Electorate of Cologne, a principality of the Holy Roman Empire. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Beethoven was baptized on December 17, 1770.  Beethoven had two younger brothers who survived into adulthood, Caspar, born in 1774, and Johann, born in 1776. Beethoven's mother, Maria Magdalena van Beethoven, was a slender, genteel, and deeply moralistic woman. His father, Johann van Beethoven, was a mediocre court singer better known for his alcoholism than any musical ability.   Beethoven's father began teaching him music with an extraordinary rigor and brutality that affected him for the rest of his life.
    Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II. It is now considered his earliest masterpiece. In the first spring of the new century, on April 2, 1800, Beethoven debuted his Symphony No. 1 in C major at the Royal Imperial Theater in Vienna. In 1804, only weeks after Napoleon proclaimed himself Emperor, Beethoven debuted his Symphony No. 3 in Napoleon's honor.  despite his rapidly progressing deafness, Beethoven continued to compose at a furious pace. From 1803-1812, what is known as his "middle" or "heroic" period, he composed an opera, six symphonies, four solo concerti, five string quartets, six string sonatas, seven piano sonatas, five sets of piano variations, four overtures, four trios, two sextets and 72 songs. The most famous among these were symphonies No. 3-8, the "Moonlight Sonata," the "Kreutzer" violin sonata and Fidelio, his only opera.
     He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life, when he was quite unable to hear.

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