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Vocabulary 4 unit 1

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  • Abstract: existing as an idea, feeling, or quality, not as a material object.
    My grandfather likes to make abstract art.
  • Inspired: excellent, or resulting from inspiration.
    I'm inspired to make still life art.
  • Pretentious: trying to appear or sound more important or clever than you are, especially in matters of art and literature.
    I am not pretentious.
  • Still life: a type of painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects that do not move, such as flowers, fruit, bowls.
    I like to make still life art.
  • Surrealism: a type of 20th-century art and literature in which unusual or impossible things are shown happening.
    I really love surrealist art.
  • Site-specific: refers to a work of art designed specifically for a particular location and that has an interrelationship with the location.
    My sister likes to make site specific art.
  • Mythology: a popular belief that is probably not true.
    In my trip I found some art from the mythology of Egypt.
  • Useful: effective; helping you to do or achieve something.
    This sculpture is very useful to sit when I am waiting for the bus.
  • Portrait: a painting, photograph, drawing, etc. of a person or, less commonly, of a group of people.
    My aunt likes to make portraits.
  • Open-air: used to describe a place that does not have a roof, or an event that takes place outside.
    My dad makes open air art.
  • Surfaces: the outer or top part or layer of something.
    I am swiming under the surface of the ocean.
  • Impressionism: a style of painting, which began in France in the 1860s, in which the artist tries to represent the effects of light on an object, person, area of countryside.
    Pedro likes to make impressionism art sometimes.
  • Novels: a long printed story about imaginary characters and events.
    I like to read the Harry Potter novels.
  • Posing: to move into and stay in a particular position, in order to be photographed, painted.
    This guy is posing in this photo.
  • Landscape: a view or picture of the countryside, or the art of making such pictures.
    My brother makes a lot of landscape drawings.
  • Pop art: a type of modern art that started in the 1960s and uses images and objects from ordinary life.
    My grandmother likes to make pop art.
  • Critics: someone who says that they do not approve of someone or something.
    My son is an art critic.
  • Pieces: a part of something.
    I like to build complicated puzzles with a lot of pieces.
  • Expressionism: a style of art, music, or writing, found especially in the 1900s, that expresses extreme feelings.
    Michael likes to make expressionism art.
  • Cubism: a style of modern art in which an object or person is shown as a set of geometric shapes and as if seen from many different angles at the same time.
    My friend likes to make cubism art