Arts Vocabulary

Gap-fill exercise

Complete the definitions with the words in the box, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints!
public - filmed - rough - patterns - sprayed - Greek - inanimate - dreams - genre - frame - sticking - body - oils - looks - past - technical - innovative - artist - diluting - applying - cloth - carbon

self-portrait: a portrait that an produces of themselves.
oil painting: a picture painted in .
watercolours: the art of painting using a technique of producing paler colours by rather than by adding white.
canvas: a strong, coarse unbleached made from hemp, flax, or a similar yarn, used for oil painting.
easel: a wooden for holding an artist's work while it is being painted or drawn.
sketch: a or unfinished drawing or painting, often made to assist in making a more finished picture.
charcoal: a porous black solid, consisting of an amorphous form of .
paintbrush: a brush for paint.
installation: an artistic of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific.
collage: a piece of art made by various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing.
graffiti: writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.
multimedia: an discipline which combines an array of artistic insights and crafts such as film, literature, performance, music and sound, drama, visual arts, or design.
abstract art: shapes and that don't look like real things or people.
street art: artwork that is created in a space, typically without official permission.
figurative art: art that includes images of the human .
conceptual art: art in which the ideas and concepts are more important than skills.
video art: art that uses moving images.
modernism: a style of art that rejected the and focused on experimentation.
classical art: art using traditional forms based on Ancient and Roman styles.
realism: a style which tries to show nature or life accurately, exactly as it really .
surrealism: art that mixes strange, unrelated images from or the unconscious mind.
still nature: a work of art depicting mostly subject matter.