Landscapes: A painting or photograph of land forms and scenery.
Noun: Landscapes painted in watercolors are very popular.
Open-air: Talking place out of doors.
Adjective: We went to an open-air exhibition in the park.
Portrait: A picure, especially a painting, of a person's face, head and shoulders.
Noun: The artist painted a portrait of this mother.
Site-specific: Of artwork created for a particular location.
Adjective: The artist made a site-specific statue of a waiting passenger at the old train station.
Still life: A type of painting or drawing of an arrangement of motionless objects, such as fruit or flowers.
Noun: Do you want to go to the still life exhibit?
Abstract: Art that involves shapes and colors and not images of real people or things.
Noun: I really like abstract art, but I'm not sure what most of it means.
Cubism: A style of art that originated in the eaaarly twentieth century in which objects are shown as geometric shapes.
Noun: Pablo Picasso was one of the founders of cubism.
Expressionism: A style of art originally from the 1900s that expresses extreme feelings.
Noun: Expressionism originated in Germany.
Impressionism: An artistic movement that began in France in about 1870 in wich painters attempted to create impressions of scenes, objects and people rather than exact likenesses.
Noun: The term impressionism comes from a painting by Claude Monet.
Pop art: Art that features common objects from popular culture.
Noun: Warhol's pictures of soup tins are a well-know example of pop art.
Surrealism: A twentieth century art movvement in which artist combine unrelated images or events in a strange and fantasic way.
Noun: Surrealism flourished between World War I and World II.
Mythology: a popular belief that is probably not true.
Noun: A book discussing Jewish and Christian mythologies.
Inspired: excellent, or resulting from inspiration.
Adjective: They had to thank the goalie for some inspired saves.
Pretentious: attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc.
Adjective: a pretentious literary device
Critics: a person who expresses an unfavorable opinion of something.
Noun: Critics say many schools are not prepared to handle the influx of foreign students.
Useful: Able to be used for a practical purpose or in several ways.
Adjective: Aspirin is useful for headaches.
