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Surfaces: the outside part or uppermost layer of something (often used when describing its texture, form, or extent).

Noun: The earth's surface.

Pieces: A portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole.

Noun: A piece of cheese.

Posing: Present or constitute (a problem, danger, or difficulty).

Verb: The sheer number of visitors is posing a threat to the area.

Novels: A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.

Noun: The novels of Jane Austen.

Useful: Able to be used for a practical purpose or in several ways.

Adjective: Aspirin is useful for headaches.

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.

Pretentious: attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc.

Adjective: a pretentious literary device

Inspired: excellent, or resulting from inspiration.

Adjective: They had to thank the goalie for some inspired saves.

Mythology: a popular belief that is probably not true.

Noun: A book discussing Jewish and Christian mythologies.

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.

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.

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.

Expressionism: A style of art originally from the 1900s that expresses extreme feelings.

Noun: Expressionism originated in Germany.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Portrait: A picure, especially a painting, of a person's face, head and shoulders.

Noun: The artist painted a portrait of this mother.

Open-air: Talking place out of doors.

Adjective: We went to an open-air exhibition in the park.

Landscapes: A painting or photograph of land forms and scenery.

Noun: Landscapes painted in watercolors are very popular.