Art

Task 1 Answer the questions and do the following exercise

1. What is 'art' for you? Are you interested in it? Why/not?

2. What kinds of art do you like?
3. What do you think of modern art?
4. Do you find yourself a creative person?
5. Do you think creativity is important in everyday life?
6. Do you often go to museums/art galleries? Why/not?

Do you know these art forms? Put the examples of art forms in the correct columns: architecture, music,
sculptures, paintings, magic shows, interior design, dance, fashion design, photography, wood crafts, opera,
drawings, stand up comedies, drama, theatre, films.

Visual art Applied art Performing arts

Which art form do you prefer? Why? Where can we see different kinds of art?

Task 2 You’re going to read an article about art news. What country is it about? Read through the
text for the first time and answer the question: what is the result of the program supposed to be?

South Korea Embarks on a Museum Building Boom, Aiming to Open 186 New Museums by 2023

The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism wants to double the proportion of the population that engages
with museums.

Sarah Cascone, June 25, 2019

Visitors look at Do Ho Suh's site-specific work “Home Within Home” at the National Museum of Modern
and Contemporary Art, Korea in Seoul. Photo: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images.

Is South Korea angling to become an international cultural hub? The Asian nation has unveiled a five-year
plan designed to make its art and artifacts more accessible to the public, with its Ministry of Culture, Sports,
and Tourism announcing an ambitious goal of opening an additional 186 museums by 2023.

That represents a 16 percent increase over the current number of cultural institutions, which would rise from
1,124 to 1,310 under the plan, according to the Korean Herald. The proposed expansion includes 46 art
museums, adding to the country's current total of 451 art institutions. Altogether, the increase will mean one
museum for every 39,000 people, an improvement on the current ratio of one per 45,000 residents.

One way that the government plans to fund this ambitious new initiative is by introducing a new tax on
museum entry fees, scheduled to take effect July 1 of this year.

As a result of the program, the government hopes to nearly double the proportion of the population that
engages with museums in the country, both through an increase in brick-and-mortar institutions and through
improved and expanded websites and mobile apps. In addition, new virtual reality and augmented reality
technology will be increasingly integrated into South Korean institutions, according to the proposal. The
ministry will also work to expand its art conservation system from state-run institutions to regional ones.

“The government's policy efforts will be focused on making museums and art museums more friendly and
useful cultural facilities for the people,” said a ministry official, as reported by the Yonhap News Agency. A
representative from the culture ministry did not immediately respond to a request from artnet News for
further details on the ambitious initiative.

In the capital of Seoul alone, state-run museums include the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art, the National Palace Museum of Korea, and the National Folk Museum of Korea. The other national art
museum, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, is in Gwacheon.
Full article: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/korea-embarks-on-museum-building-boom-1583464

Read the article again and answer the questions.

1. How many cultural institutions are there in South Korea now?

2. How many art museums are they going to open?

3. What does the government plan to fund this initiative by?

4. Which technology will be integrated into South Korean institutions (according to the proposal)?

5. How does the ministry want to expand its art conversation system?

Exercise 2 Choose the correct synonyms to the words below: scheduled, fee, to engage with, ratio,
unveiled, expansion, accessible, hub;

1. Centre\heart of smth - 5. Proportion -

2. Revealed - 6. Anticipated -
3. Available - 7. Payment -
4. Development - 8. To become involved into –
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Do you know any must-see museums? What are they? What cities are they in?

Task 3 Watch the video about the Digital Art Museum in Tokyo and answer some questions:

1. Would you like to visit it?

2. Do you like the idea of digital art museums? Why/not?
3. Is there no future for traditional museums?
4. How visiting a museum can develop people's creativity?

!!! Useful phrases for discussion:

 As far as I can see/I'm concerned…
 Sorry to interrupt you, but…
 It seems to me, that…
 What I mean is…
 That’s exactly how I see it.