Skills for Study Level 2 Teacher's Book - Cambridge University Press

2jAnswersSummary A:Both good points and bad points. The main point of the summary is consistentwith the author’s position in the original text (that Northern European art isas beautiful and realistic as Italian art during the Renaissance, even though itlargely used different techniques), but some information misunderstood fromthe original, e.g. Northern artists only drew animals / did not use Maths. It doessummarize the original in other words.Summary B:The best summary of the three. Accurately describes the author’s position andputs the information into other words.Summary C:The worst summary of the three. Some information not in the original text, e.g.didn’t say Art History changed dramatically; no mention of human images being‘unreal’ and ‘unattractive’, just presumed that’s what the author meant; nomention of classical ‘paintings’ in the original (as classical painting extremelyscarce); Jan van Eyck used different techniques other than ‘Italian’ techniquesto make his art beautiful and realistic. The summary doesn’t refer to theauthor’s position at all.2kAnswersThe writer seems to describe Henstock’s position, but it is not accurate. Thewriter of this text suggests that Dutch artists didn’t use any ‘Italian’ techniquesduring the Renaissance:“Henstock (2010) indicates that Northern European and Italian artists of theRenaissance were using different techniques to attain beauty and reality in theirart, with Italian artists looking to scientific teachings on proportion, and Dutchartists drawing from life and imitating detail in their art.”In fact, Henstock (in 2c) suggests that Dutch artists were not only using Italiantechniques, suggesting that they did use some of them: “… but did not tryto recreate the world only by using the Italian techniques of perspective orproportion”.2l Note: This is based on what is written in ‘Henstock, 2010’ (Text B in 2d).AnswersDefinition A: Henstock is not likely to agree with this definition: there is nothing inthe text to support this definition of beauty.Definition B: It could be argued that Henstock would agree with this definition, asthe text mentions that the Renaissance revived ‘true-to-life art of classical times’,which made it beautiful and realistic. Henstock says that Northern European artwas as beautiful as Italian art, and it copied detailed images from life. If an image isrealistic, an observer may therefore think it’s beautiful? The text doesn’t mention thesubjective nature of beauty specifically, however.Definition C: Henstock is most likely to agree with this definition, as classical writingon proportion is mentioned, with Mathematics assisting “artists in the recreation ofnature’s beauty in sculpture, architecture and paintings” in both Italy and NorthernEurope (albeit to a lesser extent).2m Students check their answers to 2j–2l with a partner.Unit 4 Part B ∙ Understanding written information 115