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Unit 6

12. Mount Princeton is the shortest in a chain of four very high peaks.

(1) In this chain there are four high mountains peaks and one short one which is mount Princeton. (2) Mount Princeton is very tall, but some of the peaks in its chain are shorter. (3) Mount Princeton is a very high peak, but there are three other peaks in its chain, which are even higher. (4) Mount Princeton is very short, but the other three peaks in its chain are very high.

הר פרינסטון הוא הנמוך מבין שרשרת של ארבע פסגות גבוהות מאוד.

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The Fauve revolt was the first violent explosion of twentieth-century art. It established a precedent for the hole Sirius of revolutions that have characterized the history of art since the beginning of the century. Yet it was a curious phenomenon, different in essence from such movements as cubism, abstraction, and surrealism. 5 the movement were creating what could be described as Fouve paintings as early as 1903, the movement as such took shape in 1905 or 1906. Within two or three years members of the group were beginning to explore other directions, and by 1908 Fauvism as a movement had ceased to exist. 10 intense than the scientific color of the neo-impressionists and the non-descriptive color of Gauguin and Van-Gogh, and to the direct, violent brushwork with which Matisse and his friends had been experimenting with for the previous years. The Fauves wished to use violent color squeezed directly from the tube, not to describe objects in nature, not simply to set up retinal vibrations, not to accentuate a romantic or mystical subject, but to build 15 new pictorial values apart from all these. They were not actually introducing a new concept into twentieth-century painting. Rather, they were carrying to their logical conclusions - and in the process, destroying the concept of great innovators of the previous generation - Gauguin, Van-Gogh, and Seurat. Fauvism as a movement lasted only for a few years. Although artists associated with The word “Fauves” had particular reference to the brilliant, arbitrary color, more

13. The word “it” (line 3) refers to -

(1) the Fouve revolt (2) the history of art (3)

the beginning of the century

(4)

a curious phenomenon

שורות 0-3 : "מהפכת ה'פוב'... אך היא (המהפכה) היתה תופעה מוזרה..."

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