What can you see?

Points to be covered

•    Type of scene: describe the place, the people, the things you can see.

•    Try to follow a logical order:

  • From left to right (or from right to left)
  • From the middle/center to the sides (or from the sides to the middle)
  • From the foreground to the background (or from the background to the foreground)

Some useful expressions you might want to employ

•    The artwork shows/depicts (place, person, scene)
•    In the artwork you can see… (position: on the left/right/…)
•    There is/are… (position: in the middle/center …)
•    (position: In the foreground/background …) you can see…


The Persistence of Memory (1931), by Salvador Dali.

Example

"The Persistence of Memory depicts a surreal scene. On the left (hand) side of the painting we can see two soft melting pocket watches, one of them hanging from a tree branch, and an orange watch covered with ants. In the middle of the composition there is a third melting watch on top of a strange creature. In the background we can see some cliffs."

Find the English equivalent
In the texts above. find the English words for:

1. primer plano:

2. fondo: