Art Vocabulary
Fine arts – Type of art that creates beautiful things. It could be painting, sculpture, or music.
Sentence- He had always set his heart on a career in the fine arts.
Arts and crafts – the activity of making beautiful and useful objects.
Sentence- The article introduces the characteristics of arts and crafts of the air compressors and sets the task for the centralized monitoring system according to the spot needs.
Visual arts – creations that we can look at. For instance, painting, sculpture, architecture, film.
Sentence- He also argues that, in its turn, the Scientific Revolution had some effect on the visual arts.
Plastic arts – every type of art we can touch. Sculpture would be a good example.
Sentence- The geometric element is in the plastic arts the common expression means, Has the vital role in the modern vision design.
Performing arts – a very wide term meaning anything from cinema, theater, or any other form of visual art to modern computer presentations.
Sentence- He saw a need for a performing arts center in Australia.
sketch – a quick informal drawing to capture the essentials of an object.
Sentence- Use different colours of felt pen on your sketch to avoid confusion.
portrait – is a portrayal of a person showing the person’s face (could be a drawing, a photograph, or a sculpture).
Sentence- He was putting the finishing stroke to the portrait.
landscape – is a work of art that features a scene of land or countryside (in other words nature)
Sentence- She prefers still life to landscape painting.
still-life painting – is a painting featuring anything that does not move.
Sentence- The other was a still life, part of a series painted during a prolonged stay in Paris.
oil painting – is a technique of painting with oil paints. The second meaning is a picture painted with oil paints.
Sentence- Above the bookcase hung an oil painting of a tall ship on the high seas.
figurative art – is any type of art that accurately represents an image from the real world.
Sentence- Figurative art has evolved through Impressionism and Fauvism to arrive to at what we call Abstract art.
contemporary art – It means that it has been created during our lifetimes. Usually contemporary art refers to artworks made after 1970 by still living artists.
Sentence- It was strongly influenced by the contemporary art movement known as Constructivism, which was being energetically pursued.
Realism – an artistic movement attempting to portray the lives of ordinary people and their environments.
Sentence- Basing himself on the realities of his life, the painter successfully integrated realism and artistic exaggeration.
Abstract art is a genre of art which does NOT depict a person, place, or thing in the natural world. Objects are often simplified or distorted.
Sentence- He did a lot of abstract art in the sixties, but he’s moved on since then.
impressionism – a style in which the artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it.
Sentence- Figurative art has evolved through Impressionism and Fauvism to arrive to at what we call Abstract art.
Harmony – Harmony is a pleasing combination or arrangement of things. For instance, a harmony of colors.
Sentence- The harmony of sea and sky makes a beautiful picture.
Creativity – using imagination rather than imitating something.
Sentence- We must harness the skill and creativity of our workforce.
Aesthetics – the study of beauty.
Sentence- Perhaps custodial aesthetics, which is directed more to the specifics of particular cultures, in some way addresses his concerns.
Pattern – a principle of art which means the repetition of elements.
Sentence- She engraved the ring in a floral pattern.
