portrait: a picture especially a painting of a person´s face head and shoulders
noun the artist painted a portrait of his mother
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
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
surfaces: the outside part or uppermost layer of something (often used when describing its texture, form, or extent)
noun The appearance of stone is perfect to cover any surface
mythology: a collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition.
noun greek mythology is very interesting
inspired: of extraordinary quality, as if arising from some external creative impulse
adjective an inspired performance
surrealism: a twentieth century art movement in which artists combine unrelated images or events in a strange and fantastic way
noun surrealism flourished between World War I and World War ll
Pieces: a part of something
noun he cut the cake into six pieces
novels: a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism
noun Two years writing a novel that no one's gonna read
open-air: taking place out of doors
adjective we went to an open-air exhibition in the park
critics: a person who expresses an unfavorable opinion of something
noun Critics maintain that it places too
cubism: a style of art that originated in the early twentieth century in which objects are shown as geometric shapes
noun Pablo Picasso was one of the founders of cubism
still life: a type of painting or drawing of an arrangement of motionless objects such as fruit or flowers
verb do you want to go to the still life exhibit?
pretentious: attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed
adjective art is pretentious
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
posing: assume a particular attitude or position in order to be photographed, painted, or drawn
verb nuclear weapons pose a threat to everyone
impressionism: an artistics movement that began in France in about 1870 in which painters attempted to creat impressions of scenes objects and people rather yhan exact likenesses
noun the term impressionism comes from a painting by Claude Monet
Lanscape: a painting or photograph of land forms and scenery
noun lanscapes painted in watercolors are very popular
expressionism: a style of art originally from the 1900s that expresses extreme feelings
noujn expressionism originated in Germany