Fascinating art forms

Fascinating art forms

Language used to describe artistic techniques and materials

Which of the follwing activities do you think are art?

• cooking

  sculpture

  photography

  fashion

  drawing

  computer games

  football

  gardening

Multiple Choice

Which art form uses these materials and tools?

Light, dark, enlarger

• pottery

• weaving

• poetry

• photography

Multiple Choice

Which art form uses these materials and tools?

Loom, needle

• pottery

• weaving

• poetry

• photography

Multiple Choice

Which materials and tools are associated with sculpture?

• Stone and bronze

• Wool, thread

• Piano, guitar, orchestra

• Pen and ink

Multiple Choice

Which materials and tools are associated with calligraphy?

• Stone and bronze

• Wool, thread

• Piano, guitar, orchestra

• Pen and ink

Make notes about tools and materials associated with

• Calligraphy / pottery / sculpture / poetry / weaving / music / cabinet making / photography

Multiple Choice

What does fine mean?

• similar, comparable

• excellent, skilled

• using new ideas

• by a machine

• suspicious, negative

Multiple Choice

What does analogous mean?

• similar, comparable

• excellent, skilled

• using new ideas

• by a machine

• suspicious, negative

Multiple Choice

What does mechanical mean?

• similar, comparable

• excellent, skilled

• using new ideas

• by a machine

• suspicious, negative

Multiple Choice

What does cynical mean?

• similar, comparable

• excellent, skilled

• using new ideas

• by a machine

• suspicious, negative

Match comments about artists to artwork you see

Multiple Choice

History doesn’t belong to one people or one nation, or one time, even. We are all conditioned by these different strands.

Multiple Choice

It’s all about space, and it’s about her inviting you to imagine yourself inside.

Multiple Choice

I used to think, “People in London, they’ll be really smart and draw well and everything!”

Multiple Choice

It’s about the inability to put the character or the space in a clearly defined box, because it doesn’t exist.

Now, watch the videos about these artists and complete the comprehension activities.