visual arts vocabulary and defining relative clauses practice
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. Then take turns doing the same with other vocabulary below.
| Useful phrases for defining the vocabulary “A person who…” “A thing that/ which…” “Stuff which/ that…” “A place where/ in which/ … which…” |
| Oil | Watercolour | Statue/ Sculpture | Bronze |
| Stone | Wood | Canvas | Frame |
| Gallery | Exhibition | Auction house | Paint brush |
| Easel | Charcoal | Sketchpad | Collage |
| Pottery/ Ceramics | Print/ Etching | Instillation | Photography |
| Biennale | Triennale | Sketch | Forgery/ Fake |
| Masterpiece | Miniature | Renaissance | Landscape |
| Figurative | Video art | Performance art/ A happening | Permanent collection |
| Blockbuster show | Retrospective | Solo show | Atelier/ Studio |
| Temporary exhibition | Rodin’s The Kiss | Rodin’s The Thinker | Picasso’s Guernica |
| Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa | Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers | Andy Warhol’s soup cans | Antique |
| Priceless | Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel | Monet’s Water Lilies | Salvador Dali |
| Matisse | Mark Rothko | Still life | Perspective |
| A nude | Pastel | Charcoal | Readymade/ Found art |
| Group portrait | Modern art | Contemporary art | Medieval art |
| Abstract/ Non-figurative | Semi-abstract | Portrait | Group portrait |
| The Louvre | The Uffizi | Collector | Curator |
| Auctioneer | Sculptor | Painter | Mixed-media |
| Chisel | Palette | Subject | Composition |
When your teacher stops you, ask about any vocabulary you aren’t sure about, working together as a class to define the vocabulary each time.
Change groups. Do the same, but without the worksheet to help and with different arts vocabulary if you like.
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Upper Intermediate art vocabulary definitions page
