10th form "Art Museums and Galleries" Reading / Test

1. In Britain works of art are _____ in asrt galleries and museums.

2. Shops that sell paintings are also ____ galleries.

3. In the USA public art collections are displayed in art museums and a gallery is a place where people go to buy works of art. Many galleries and museums in Britain and the US receive limited financial ____ from the government.

4. Works of art are often expensive and galleries can rarely buy them without organizing a public appeal or, in Britain , _____ money from National Art Collection Fund.

5. Visiting an art gallery is a popular leisure activity for ____ British people.

6. Galleries and museums are friendlier places than they used to be. Many try to ____ children's interest in art by arranging school visits.

7. Most Americans make their first ____ to an art museum with their school classes especially when they travel on vacation.

8. The most popular galleries in Britain are the National Gallery, which ____ over 4 million visitors a year, the Tate Gallery, which specializes in the work of British artists.Important art museums in the USA include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art.

9. Sometimes people are ____ to queue a long time to see the exhibition devoted to one painter.

10. Many people admire old masters but have ____ interest in modern art.

11. New works receive ____ in the media only when they are unusual or likely to shock people.

12. Galleries and museums try to encourage a positive attitude to modern art but many people ____ doubtful.

13. The Museum of Ukrainian Art ____ by Vladyslav Horodetskyi as Kyiv's first City Museum of Antiquities and Art.

14. It ____ in 1899.

15. The large collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures ____ all periods of the development of Ukrainian Fine Art.

16. They ____ in twenty-one rooms.

17. The end of the 16th and early 17th centuries ____ by the establishment of a narrative tendency in icon painting.

18. The desire of the artists to show what they saw in their visual environments ___ quite evident.

19. The art of the late 18th century definitely ____ with icon painting traditions of the past.

20. The trend toward realism ____ aleading place in Ukrainian painting and graphics.