Unit 10- Arts (Vocabulary)

 

Visual art

• ceramics
• drawing
• painting
• sculpture
• printmaking
• design
• crafts
• photography
• video
• film-making
• architecture

Written art

• literature
• novels
• drama
• short story
• biography / autobiography
• poetry

performing art

• dance
• cinema
• theater
• ballet
• concert
• opera

Painting

• portrait
• brush stroke
• canvas
• landscape
• still-life picture
• palette
• impressionism
• expressionism
• sketch
• sitter

Places and events

• museum
• gallery
• theater
• cinema/ movies
• exhibition

Collocations

• the sets were incredible
• colorful / elaborate / lavish / national / traditional / period / eighteenth-century / Victorian costumes
• a good cast
• give a fantastic performance
• do a performance
• get a rave review
• an exhibition by Salvador Dali
• to publish a book
• cinema is showing Steven Spielberg's latest film