The visual arts

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… developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously ‘on the spot’ rather than in a studio from sketches. The main… subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life.

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Impressionism

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someone who paints quickly and carelessly
a crude(грубый) or inartistic painter.

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daubers

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… was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.

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Cubism

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… aims to revolutionise human experience. It balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams. The movement’s artists find magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional.

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Surrealism

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considered; formal

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Deemed

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Tate glossary definition for …: A major development of painting in the 1960s that used geometric forms to create optical effects.

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op art

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content

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subject matter

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art movement

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school of art

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the fact of appearing everywhere or of being very common.

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ubiquity

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present, appearing, or found everywhere.

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ubiquitous

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educated with regard to art
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visually literate

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not affected by
If you become… to something unpleasant, you become familiar with it and able to accept and bear it

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inured to
After spending some time on the island they became inured to the hardships.

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original
new in a special and interesting way
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predictable

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highbrow
intended for educated, intelligent people
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lowbrow

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impenetrable
extremely difficult to understand
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transparent

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sophisticated
showing advanced skills and understanding
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primitive

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challenging:
demanding considerable effort to be understood
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undemanding

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dazzling:
inspiring great admiration because it is brilliant in some way
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pedestrian

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evocative:
calling up images and memories
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uninspiring

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thought-provoking:
making people think
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unstimulating

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exquisite:
having rare beauty or delicacy
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clumsy

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intriguing:
interesting because it is strange or mysterious
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dreary(depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive)

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peerless:
better than any other
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run-of-the-mill(lacking unusual or special aspects; ordinary)

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tongue-in-cheek:
not intended to be taken seriously, despite appearing serious
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earnest
If you are earnest, it means you are serious about something.

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priceless:
extremely valuable
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worthless

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skilful:
clever, masterly, done well
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poorly done

Question 27

made or shaped in a mould.

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moulded