Introduction

This work by Carmen Rio is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Learning goals

To be able to understand basic concepts in art.
To acquire useful vocabulary and expressions in order to be able to describe artworks, particularly paintings.

To achieve those goals, you should become familiar with the words in the resource, paying special attention to those included in the exercises. The interactive activities provide feedback so that you can evaluate your performance.

This resource is based on the website "The Artist's Toolkit: Visual Elements and Principles", created by ArtsConnected. Click here if you want to access the whole website. Otherwise, in each section of this resource you will be redirected to the relevant part of "The Artist's Toolkit". Please bear in mind that the links to the videos in the section called "See artists in action" are no longer active.