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What is art ? Art has been characterized in terms of expression, communication of emotion, or other values. Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities in fields including:

Painting

sculpture Sculpture and photography

printmaking

Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts.

music

theater

film

dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, and other media such as interactive media are included in a broader definition of art.

what is it, life with art?

I think it's great to give people something beautiful, to express my worldview so. And it's amazing when you can understand the artist through his pictures, to see the world through his eyes.

The State Tretyakov gallery is one of the best-known picture galleries in Russia.

The Tretyakov Gallery reflects the whole history of Russian art, from the 11th century to the present day.

It has a rich collection of old Russian icons. The world- famous icon is The Trinity, painted in the early 15th century by Andrei Rublev.

The gallery contains halls devoted to the magnificent works of such 18th-century celebrities as Rokotov, Levitsky, Borovikovsky, Shchedrin.

The first half of the 19th century is represented by brilliant paintings by Bryullov, Tropinin, Ivanov, Venetsianov. The second half of the 19th century is especially well represented. The gallery has the best collection of the Peredvizhniki, such as Kramskoy, Perov, Ghe, Yaroshenko, Myasoyedov, and others.

State Pushkin museum of fine art also is one of the famous and largest museum in Russia. It has one of the world's largest ancient collections of European art.

Now the picture gallery has over 2 thousands works of various schools of painting.

St. Petersburg, which once was the capital of Russia, is famous for its museums, too. The Hermitage is one of the biggest museums in the world.

Of all London's great art collections, the Tate Gallery is the most rewarding. It does not cover the whole range of art, but has two distinct collections — British painting and a modern foreign collection.

It also possesses a unique collection of Turners. The Tate owns more than 280 of his oil paintings. The sculpture collection includes works by Roden, Epstein, Henry Moore.

Salvador Dali well known for his surrealist works

Pablo Picasso

With his fantastic imagination he took those ideas even further. He started to paint about what he knew about the object or person. Anything solid was broken down into flattened, cut out 'pieces' so you could see all around it.

The pieces were shaped like patterns, or cubes, so the new style was called 'Cubism'. When cubism first appeared some critics said it was a complete disaster. Some still do, though the style was Picasso's first gift to the art world. He didn't stop there.

. Also worth mentioning about an artist as van Gog. His paintings are full of colour and sunlight. Today his paintings are worth millions of pounds but in his lifetime he only sold one.

But what is music? Specialists explain it very well. Music isn't combination of pleasant sounds only. It is an art, which reflects life. Music reflects people's ideas and emotions. Music is also a weapon. It fights for light against darkness, for freedom against tyranny, for humanism against barbarity.

British and American music of the 60's 70's.

" The Fabulous Four" came from Liverpool.

It`s The Beatles. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were in the group.

They became the voice of new generation.

Pink Floyd is one more group which one of the most commercially successful and musically influential groups in the history of British music.

Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved international acclaim with their progressive and psychedelic music. Distinguished by their use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, and elaborate live shows.

And speak about American music we must mention Bob Dylan.

He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Dylan's lyrics have incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences.

His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored many of the traditions in American song— from folk, blues, and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.

Nowadays it's almost impossible to imagine our life without books.

We can distinguish books between three classes of them. Firstly, books on different branches of knowledge, works by brilliant minds of mankind. Secondly, textbooks, reference books and numerous dictionaries. And at last, books of all kinds and genres to read at leisure.

Books are the source of knowledge and the means of self - perfection. Sometimes it is difficult to solve some problems in life. I think that books can help us. Books must be our friends during all our life.

My favourite writer is Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. In my opinion, he is the greatest Russian dramatist and short-story writer. I'm never tired of reading and rereading his plays and humorous stories.

The art is lovely that it is created by a few, but belongs million.

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