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THEME 9 ENGLISH 11
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COMPETENCES • Students will be able to scan online and printed newspaper articles about well-known people to find out personal details.

PRECIOUS STAMPS FOR SALE

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, who has been collecting stamps since childhood, has recently announced that
she is selling some of the pieces in her collection. In today’s article, we will have a closer look at three of those stamps
which are for sale.
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The stamps we’ve chosen for you show the works of modern artists who lived in the 19 century and early 20
century. One of the artists in the collection is Paul Cezanne, who was born in France and lived between 1839 and 1906.
His father wanted him to be a lawyer, but he pursued his own dreams and became an artist. He was the father of
Post-Impressionist and Cubist art movements. The stamp shows an oil painting called Fruit, which was painted by
Cézanne in 1879. It is a still life painting with napkins, fruits, and some bottles. You can see the original painting in the
Hermitage Museum, Russia.
The second artist in Sharapova’s stamp collection is Vincent Van Gogh, a Post-Impressionist Dutch painter who lived
between 1853 and 1890. His work extremely influenced the 20 -century art. He couldn’t become a famous artist in his
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lifetime, but now Vincent Van Gogh is one of the greatest artists of the world, and his paintings are sold for millions of
dollars. In this stamp, you can see a still life painting by Van Gogh, which is called Sunflowers. Van Gogh did seven
versions of the same painting, and all of them show sunflowers in a vase. You can see this version in the Sompo Japan
Museum of Art, Tokyo.
The last piece shows a painting by Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian painter and graphic artist who was born in 1866.
Kandinsky is one of the pioneers of modern abstract art and famous for his use of bright colours. The painting is called
Murnau with Rainbow, and it is an example of Kandinsky’s expressionist style. It was finished in 1909, and it shows a
colourful landscape with a rainbow in a town called Murnau in Germany. It isn’t possible to see this painting in a
museum because it’s in a private collection.
1 Read the article called “Precious Stamps for Sale” and complete the sentences.

1. According to the article, some of the pieces in Sharapova’s stamp collection are _____________.
2. The painting which was done in 1879 is in the collection of the _____________ .
3. Van Gogh’s painting gets its name from a series of paintings that show a vase full of _____________ .
4. Murnau with Rainbow, is a _____________ painting which was finished in 1909.

2 Read the article again and tick the correct information.

1. The article is about the stamps that are in the collection of Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova.
The article is about the artists that have changed the 20 century classical art scene.
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2. The first stamp shows an abstract painting called Sunflowers by Paul Cézanne, who was a French painter.
The first stamp shows an oil painting called Fruit by Paul Cézanne, who was a French painter.
3. Vincent Van Gogh, who died in 1906 was a Post-Impressionist Russian artist.
Vincent Van Gogh, who died in 1890 was a Post-Impressionist Dutch artist.
4. The last stamp shows a painting by Wassily Kandinsky, who was among the founders of modern abstract art.
The last stamp shows a painting by Wassily Kandinsky, who was famous for dark atmospheric paintings.

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