Chuck Close,

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Abstract

• Definition: art in shapes that aren’t realistic

• Synonyms: unrealistic

• Antonyms: realistic, concrete

• Sentence: The abstract painting made the children giggle because it did not represent a realistic face.

Abstract Paintings

Canvas

• Definition: tough, woven material for painting (often stretched over a wooden frame)

• Sentence: The artist’s studio was filled with blank and half-painted canvases.

Canvas on a Frame

Conceptual

• Definition: having to do with ideas

• Synonyms: hypothetical, visionary

• Antonyms: concrete, physical

• Sentence: His artwork was conceptual and had to do with saving the earth.

Conceptual Art

Exhibition

• Definition: show of artwork

• Synonyms: display, presentation

• Sentence: My uncle won first prize in the Anchorage Art Exhibition!

Art Exhibition

Hyperrealistic

• Definition: Extremely real looking

• Synonyms: very realistic, photographic

• Sentence: Her painting was so hyperrealistic, I thought it was a photograph.

Is it real?

Obstacles

• Definition: things that stand in the way

• Synonyms: blocks, barrier, disadvantage

• Antonyms: assistance, advantage

• Sentence: The only obstacle that he faced was that he was in a wheelchair.

Despite the obstacle of a

wheelchair,

he still raced in national

competitions.

Optically

• Definition: having to do with the eye

• Synonym: visually

• Sentence: There is more than one way to optically understand this picture.

Optically Confusing?

Painstaking

• Definition: involving great care and effort

• Synonyms: careful, meticulous, perfectionist

• Antonyms: careless, sloppy

• Sentence: Years of painstaking effort was necessary to create the detail in the paintings of the Sistine Chapel.

Sistine Chapel

Palette

• Definition: board for making paint colors

• Sentence: She mixed new shades on her palette by combining two or more colors.

PIXELS• Definition: pieces of an electronic

image

• Sentence: If you look at photographs closely, they are made up of tiny pixels of colors.

Portrait

• Definition: painting of a person

• Sentence: She had to sit for hours while he painted her portrait.

• Sentence Two: Some artists prefer to paint a person’s portrait by looking at their photograph.

Portrait of Mona Lisa

Portrait by Chuck Close