Choose one of the words below (either from the worksheet or from a pack of cards) and explain what it is without using any of the words in that box until your partner guesses.
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Oil |
Watercolour |
Statue/ Sculpture
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Bronze |
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Stone
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Wood |
Canvas |
Frame |
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Gallery |
Exhibition
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Auction house
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Paint brush |
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Easel
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Charcoal |
Sketchpad |
Collage |
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Pottery/ Ceramics
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Print/ Etching |
Instillation |
Photography |
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Biennale |
Triennale |
Sketch
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Forgery/ Fake |
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Masterpiece
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Miniature |
Renaissance |
Landscape |
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Figurative
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Video art |
Performance art/ A happening |
Permanent collection |
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Blockbuster show
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Retrospective |
Solo show |
Atelier/ Studio |
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Temporary exhibition
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Rodin’s The Kiss |
Rodin’s The Thinker |
Picasso’s Guernica |
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers |
Andy Warhol’s soup cans |
Antique |
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Priceless
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Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel |
Monet’s Water Lilies |
Salvador Dali |
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Matisse |
Mark Rothko |
Still life |
Perspective
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A nude |
Pastel
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Charcoal |
Readymade/ Found art |
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Group portrait
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Modern art |
Contemporary art |
Medieval art |
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Abstract/ Non-figurative
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Semi-abstract |
Portrait |
Group portrait |
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The Louvre
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The Uffizi |
Collector
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Curator
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Auctioneer
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Sculptor
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Painter |
Mixed-media |
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Chisel
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Palette |
Subject |
Composition |
Useful language
A person who…
A thing/ Stuff that/ which…
A place where…
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Upper Intermediate art vocabulary definitions page
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