Describing Art Today we will: Review genres and

techniques in art Watch a video Describe pictures

using learned phrases

Practice listening

Genres:

Portrait

Still Life

Landscape

Cityscape

Seascape

Genre Pictureex: Farm life

Battle Picture

Caricature

Abstract

Techniques

Oil

Charcoal

Felt-Pen

Watercolor

Pastel

“Blue Poles” Jackson Pollock, U.S. 1952

“Mona Lisa” Leonardo

DaVinci, Italy 1503

“A View of Toledo” El Greco, Spain 1600

“The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” Hokusai, Japan 1830

“Napoleon Crossing

the Alps” Jacques-Louis

David, France 1805

“Houses of Parliament at Sunset” Claude Monet, France 1805

“Great Piece of Turf” Albrect Dürer,

Germany 1503