Practice of the Descriptions of Artworks: Use of Adjectives

OUTCOME
 You will learn about the order of adjectives in English in describing different pieces of art.

Follow-up Activity

Language to Describe Paintings and Sculptures

OUTCOME
You will get acquainted with some artworks and learn how to describe them.
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES

Visit a local museum or art gallery in your native city or country. Choose a memorable sculpture and painting and describe them following the patterns of descriptions in the previous exercise.

Look up for a couple of artworks (a sculpture and a painting) online and describe them.

Vocabulary to Describe Painting and Sculpture

OUTCOME
You will learn vocabulary that will help you to describe paintings and sculptures.

Sorting into Categories

OUTCOME
You will revise vocabulary describing paintings and sculpture and will learn the aspects of their application. 

Please find four more words that would be used to describe an art work in terms of colour or tone, mood or atmosphere, composition and material. Share them with your fellow students and together create a word bank containing the same categories.

Gap-fill Exercise: Text Venus de Milo

OUTCOME
You will learn to use familiar words describing arts in a specific context.
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES

Choose a significant art work that you would like to describe and write a text of ten sentences about it. Please leave out some words from the text and prepare a word bank with the omitted words. Forward the created task to your fellow student who will have to complete the text using the words from the bank.

AUTHORS
  • English language lecturers of the Institute of Foreign Languages at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, Ausra Jankauskaite and Jurgita Cvilikaite-Maciulskiene. http://uk i.vdu.lt  
  • Art educator at the Art Museum of Kadriorg Estonia, Ilona Kroon. https://kadriorumuuseum.ekm.ee/ 

 

 

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