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Chuck Close,
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Abstract
• Definition: art in shapes that aren’t realistic
• Synonyms: unrealistic
• Antonyms: realistic, concrete
• Sentence: The abstract painting made the children giggle because it did not represent a realistic face.
Abstract Paintings
Canvas
• Definition: tough, woven material for painting (often stretched over a wooden frame)
• Sentence: The artist’s studio was filled with blank and half-painted canvases.
Canvas on a Frame
Conceptual
• Definition: having to do with ideas
• Synonyms: hypothetical, visionary
• Antonyms: concrete, physical
• Sentence: His artwork was conceptual and had to do with saving the earth.
Conceptual Art
Exhibition
• Definition: show of artwork
• Synonyms: display, presentation
• Sentence: My uncle won first prize in the Anchorage Art Exhibition!
Art Exhibition
Hyperrealistic
• Definition: Extremely real looking
• Synonyms: very realistic, photographic
• Sentence: Her painting was so hyperrealistic, I thought it was a photograph.
Is it real?
Obstacles
• Definition: things that stand in the way
• Synonyms: blocks, barrier, disadvantage
• Antonyms: assistance, advantage
• Sentence: The only obstacle that he faced was that he was in a wheelchair.
Despite the obstacle of a
wheelchair,
he still raced in national
competitions.
Optically
• Definition: having to do with the eye
• Synonym: visually
• Sentence: There is more than one way to optically understand this picture.
Optically Confusing?
Painstaking
• Definition: involving great care and effort
• Synonyms: careful, meticulous, perfectionist
• Antonyms: careless, sloppy
• Sentence: Years of painstaking effort was necessary to create the detail in the paintings of the Sistine Chapel.
Sistine Chapel
Palette
• Definition: board for making paint colors
• Sentence: She mixed new shades on her palette by combining two or more colors.
PIXELS• Definition: pieces of an electronic
image
• Sentence: If you look at photographs closely, they are made up of tiny pixels of colors.
Portrait
• Definition: painting of a person
• Sentence: She had to sit for hours while he painted her portrait.
• Sentence Two: Some artists prefer to paint a person’s portrait by looking at their photograph.
Portrait of Mona Lisa
Portrait by Chuck Close
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