Question

Read the text and complete with the simple past tense of the verbs in parenthesis:

In the nineteenth century, a group of young painters in Paris __________ (break) away from traditional religious, historical, or mythological subjects and __________ (turn) to their everyday life for inspiration. They favored subjects that appeared informal and spontaneous and _____________ (want) their paintings to reflect the life they saw around them. They ____________ (travel) to the countryside, the coast, and the city, and painted what they observed on the spot, capturing the activity and energy of life in their art.

Those artists__________ (be) very interested in how light appeared on subjects in different weather and at different times of the day, so they preferred to work outdoors in natural light, rather than in their studio with sketches. They painted rapidly with quick brushstrokes to capture the moment and changes in sunlight and weather.

The sketchiness of this style, with its quick, visible brushstrokes, __________ (make) critics complain that the pictures ______________ (not - look) finished, that the work was sloppy.

Most of the artists’ paintings were rejected from the established exhibition in Paris, the Salon. In 1874, the group organized its first independent exhibition. One of the works on display, by Claude Monet, __________ (be) called Impression: Sunrise. A critic mocked them, calling them “impressionists” – and the group adopted the name.

A revolutionary art movement, Impressionism ____________ (open) the door to abstract painting, marking the beginning of modern art. Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir are some of the major impressionists.

Answer 1

Resposta:

- broke

- turned

- wanted

- travelled

- were

- made

- weren´t looked

- was

- opened

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