Reading and Writing fill in the blanks practice exercise. Below is text with blanks. Choose the correct word for each blank to complete the text.
Movement in painting that (1…………….) in France in the 1860s and had enormous influence in European and North American painting in the 19th century. The Impressionists wanted to (2…………..) real life, to paint straight from nature, and to capture the changing effects of light. The term was first used abusively to describe Claude Monet’s painting Impression; Sunrise (1872). The other leading Impressionists included Paul Cezamie. Edgar Degas.Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro.
Piene-Auguste Renior, and Alfred Siskey, but only Monet remained devoted to Impressionist ideas throughout his career. The core of the Impressionist group was formed in the early 1860s by Monet Renoir, and Sisley, who met as students and enjoyed painting in the open air-one of the hallmarks of Impressionism. They met other members of the Impression circle through Paris cafe society. They never made up a formal group, but they organized eight group exhibitions between 1874 and 1886. At the first of which the name Impressionism was applied. Their styles were diverse, but all (3……………..) with effects of light and movement created with distinct brushstrokes and (4……………….) of color dabbed side-by-side on the canvas rather than mixed on the palette. By the 1880s the movement’s central impulse had dispersed, and a number of new styles were emerging, later described as post-impressionism. British Impressionism had a major influence on the more (5………………..) British painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the painters were affected in the circle of Walter Sickert, who spent much of his career in France and was an influential figure who (6………………….) many younger artists. His friend and exact contemporary Philip Wilson Steer is generally regarded as the most outstanding British Impressionist.
1. Associated, evolved, born, originated
2. Depict, witness, distinguish, concentrate
3. Tried, speculated, experimented, gauged
4. Fragment, piece, quantity, slice
5. lofty and arrogant, incoordinate, experimental and progressive, conservative
6. repel, constrain, misguide, inspired
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