Identify the artwork
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Points to be covered
- Artwork's title
- Name of artist
- Year of origin / artistic period
- Media / technique used: e.g. oil on canvas, watercolor, bronze...
- Genre (portrait, still-life, landscape...)
- Degree of likeness with reality (abstract, figurative/representational)
- Dimensions (if that information is available)
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Some useful expressions you might want to employ
- (Title of the artwork) is a (media used) created by (artist) in (year).
- This painting/drawing/sculpture/photograph is a (degree of likeness) (genre) that belongs to (artistic period).
- This painting/drawing/photograph measures (...) cm in height by (...) cm in width.
- This statuette measures (...) cm in height by (...) cm in width by (...) cm in depth.
Portrait of Eduard Kosmack, by Schiele (1910). Image taken from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egon_Schiele_061.jpg
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Example
"Portrait of Eduard Kosmack is an oil on canvas created by Egon Schiele in 1910. This painting, which measures 100 cm in height by 100 cm in width, is a representational portrait that belongs to Expressionism".
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Complete the following sentences with words from the texts above.
1. The English word for acuarela is "
2. "Portrait" means "
" in Spanish.
3. The English equivalent of paisaje, as a
in painting, is "
".
4. The English term for óleo sobre lienzo is "
".
5. When referring to an artwork's degree of
with reality, another way of saying "abstract" would be "non-
" or "non-figurative".
6. The English term for naturaleza muerta or bodegón is "
".
7. Las Meninas 318 cm in h by 276 cm in w .