Artists
Аrt is one of the best ways to express what we see around us. People have always tried to express themselves in different ways: through writing novels, poems and songs, through creating hand-made items and paintings.There are many art works by famous artists which are visually attractive. Most of them are kept at the Louvre, the Hermitage, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the Tretyakov Gallery, the British Museum and some other world-famous museums. Some works cost a fortune. For example, Paul Cezanne’s painting “The Card Players” costs more than 200 millions of US dollarsHowever, my favourite artist is William Turner. He is a well-known English painter, who mostly created romantic landscapes. He was only 12 years old when he started drawing. His childish sketches are still preserved in the British Museum. At the age 21 he began exhibiting his works at the Royal Academy. Most of those works were water-colours and oil paintings. Turner was a real traveler. He visited France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, but he never lost interest in his own country. As a landscaper, he was mainly interested in light and colour effects. One of his famous paintings is even called “Light and Colour”. All his works are highly praised by critics. Turner died in London in 1851. His paintings are considered to be the property of the British nation.Among Russian artists I especially admire Ilya Repin and Valentin Serov. They are both considered to be outstanding Russian masters of art. Ilya Repin was mostly interested in historical and political events of his motherland, which he expressed in the paintings. He created the portraits of some outstanding figures, among them Tolstoy, Mussorgsky, Pirogov. Valentin Serov also painted some famous people, including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Isaac Levitan, Sawa Mamontov. His most famous works “The Girl with Peaches” and “The Girl in the Sunlight” can be seen in the Tretyakov Gallery.
Объяснение:
Hobbies differ like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby according to your character and taste - you are lucky because your life becomes more interesting. Hobbies are divided into four large classes: doing things, making things, collecting things, and learning things.
The most popular hobby group is doing things. It includes a wide variety of activities, everything from gardening to traveling and from chess to volleyball. Gardening is one of the oldest man's hobbies. It is well-know fact that the English are very found of gardening and growing flowers, especially roses.
Both grown-ups and children are found of playing different computer games. This is a relatively new hobby but it is becoming more and more popular. Making things includes drawing, painting, making sculpture, designing costumes, handicrafts and others. Two of the most famous hobby painters were President Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill. Some hobbyists write music or play musical instruments.
President Bill Clinton, for example, plays the saxophone. Almost everyone collects something at some period of his/her life: stamps, coins, matchboxes, books, records, postcards, toys, watches and other things. Some collections don't have real value. Others become so large and so valuable that they are housed in museums and art galleries. Many world famous collections started in a small way with one or two items. People with a good deal of money often collect paintings, rare books and other art object. Often such private collections are given to museums, libraries and public galleries so that others might see them.
No matter what kind of hobby a person has, he/she always has the opportunity of learning from it. By reading about the things he/she is interested in, he/she adds to what he knows. Learning things can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby. So I think that everyone should have a hobby, it is like the target of your life.