In our new ‘ART ENGLISH ESSENTIALS’ lesson, we share important portrait and landscape vocabulary.
In daily life we use the words ‘landscape’ and ‘portrait’ to describe paper when printing a document or photograph, but did you know these words come from painting…?
🎈Portrait Vocabulary:
- Sitter=（肖像画などの）モデル
- View=（鑑賞者に対しての）顔の角度
- Facial expression=表情
- Posture=（モデルの）身体の位置
- Gestures=（手の）しぐさ
- Attire=（フォーマルな）服装
- Setting=場所や環境
🎈Landscape Vocabulary:
- Background=遠景
- Middle ground=中景
- Foreground=前景
- Overlapping=重なり
- Linear perspective=線遠近法
- Vanishing point=消失点
- Horizon line=地平線
- Relative size=相対的サイズ
Artworks featured in this video (in order of appearance):
- “Mona Lisa” (c. 1503-1506), Leonardo da Vinci
- “Landscape with a Calm” (1650-1651), Nicolas Poussin
- “Self-Portrait” (1660), Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
- “Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” (1940), Frida Kahlo
- “Self-Portrait” (1889), Vincent van Gogh
- “Girl with a Pearl Earring” (c. 1665), Johannes Vermeer
- “The Hay Wain” (1821), John Constable
- “Pedernal” (1941), Georgia O’Keeffe
- “A Wheat Field, With Cypresses” (1889), Vincent van Gogh
- “Apartment House, East River” (1930), Edward Hopper
- “Study of Sea and Sky - Isle of Wight” (1827), Joseph Turner
Oh, and after you watch it why not try our portrait and landscape projects? We'd love to see your work.
Thanks a lot for watching!
Adam
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