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Vocabulary 4

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    vocabulary 4
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  • Landscape- a landscape refers either to all the visible features of an area of land (usually rural)
    Noun- Nepal is stunning, with its wild, untamed landscape.
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  • Open-air : the space where air is unconfined
    Adjective- I love take exercise in the open air
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  • Abstract- expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance: an abstract word like justice
    adjective - I have seen many abstract paintings
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  • Still life- A still life (from the Dutch, stilleven) is a painting featuring an arrangement of inanimate, everyday objects, whether natural objects (flowers, food, wine, dead fish, and game, etc.)
    Noun- Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumblebee, the small child, and the smiling faces.
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  • Site-specific : created, designed, or selected for a specific site a site-specific sculpture.
    Noun- I find the site specific interesting
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  • Portrait- a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders.
    Noun- When he had his portrait drawn, he couldn’t move for a few hours while the artist drew an image of him.
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  • Pop art- Pop Art Definition Pop Art is the name given to a style of artworks created in the UK and USA from the mid-1950s through the 1960s.
    Noun- I like the pop art
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  • Impressionism- Impressionism - a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light art movement , artistic movement
    Noun- Vincent Van Gogh painted “The Starry Night” during impressionism with bright blue and yellow colors and the light showing in the painting.
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  • Expressionism- Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century.
    Noun- he Scream during expressionism due the feelings he felt when the weather one day changed drastically.
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  • Cubism- a style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements
    Noun- The cubism is interesting
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  • Mythology- a collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition.
    Noun-The pioneer and the cowboy are part of the national mythology.
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  • Surrealism- a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
    Noun- the surrealism is strange
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  • Pretentious- making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction;
    Adjective- I don't like pretentious people
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  • Inspired- aroused or guided by or as if aroused or guided by divine inspiration: an inspired performance; she was like one inspired.
    Adjective- my teacher is very inspired explaining the subject of the class
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  • Critics- a person who expresses an unfavorable opinion of something.
    Noun- The book critic wrote a negative review that ripped the novel to shreds
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  • Useful- able to be used for a practical purpose or in several ways.
    Adjective- My grandmother expects all children to be useful and help with household chores.
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