The World of Painting
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museums
exhibitions
musicians
works of art
painting
artists
Places where you
can see art
ART
What is ART?
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What is art and where do we find it?
Is art a Monet landscape of the countryside or an installation of a functional object? Is it a portrait of a well-known person in a museum or a collage of old magazine pictures? Is it a seventeenth-century still life of fruit or flowers or the black and white sketch I made in my exercise book at school?
What about 3-D pavement art on the street, a mural in an underground tunnel or graffiti on a wall? And performance art created with the artist’s own body? What if I put an unmade bed in an art gallery – is that art? If I can wear it, is it art? If I can live in it, is it art?
My answer is that art can be anything and anywhere. Anything that is made or performed with imagination and shared with others is art.
masonite
ink
easel
varnish
palette
sketchbook
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Renaissance
expressionism
conceptualism
surrealism
cubism
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urban landscape
installation
calligraphy
still life
graffiti
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Complete the sentences with the words on the left.
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Complete the sentences with the words on the left.
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Read the adjectives and their definitions (1–9). Which adjectives could describe the things (a–e) in the box?
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a a sad film about a young boy
b a work of art made from a plastic bag
c a fighting scene in a play
d a beautiful watercolour in soft colours
e a still life of a dead bird and some grapes
Give your opinion about the works of art
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