You are going to listen to the Tate Director, Penelope Curtis, talk about the organisation of works in the gallery. Read the following sentences before you listen, and decide whether they're true or false, according to what you hear.
0. Example. Over the last three
years, the Tate has re-hung its collection to organise the works of art
according to different schools. - F (The collection has been reorganised chronologically)
1. Before the changes, the
sculpture dating from 1908 could be seen together with works from the Victorian
period.
2. The sculpture and the painting of
naked bodies have been put together because they belong to the same artist.
3. According to the Tate Director, the
Gwen John painting makes female viewers think about solitude.
4. The painting by Mona Hatoum speaks
about how politics and democracy make us free.
5. Sonia Boyce’s work deals with the policies made to favour the Church in Britain.
6. The painting by Richard Hamilton
refers to Northern Ireland street protests against the British Government.
You can check your answers in the comments below, and you can read the transcript here
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3 comments:
1. True
2. False - (They’re both from the same year and they seem to speak to each other. The sculpture was made by Augustus John and the painting by Gwen John, his sister)
3. True
4. False - (It speaks about slavery and oppression in Thatcher's time)
5. False (It makes a connection between politics and religion, but it does not specifically refer to policies favouring the Church)
6. False - (It refers to the protests that took place in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland, not on the street)
I've faild only two. I can't believe it because the Tate Director speaks very quickly, I don't know she was nervious or she was in a hurry to close the museum.
Ha ha ha! No, I don't think she was in a hurry; but yeah, you can hear a bit of her Scottish accent ;-)
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