A description of a work of art

Today we are going to write a description of a work art, after reading a model on page 78.

First of all, listen to this description and answer the following questions:

Listening

What kind of work art is it?
Where is it situated?
Who was it made by?
What is it made of?
Who does it show?
Does the speaker like it?
When did the speaker see it first?
What's the tradition related to this work of art?


These are the art samples you can choose to write your descriptions. They are taken from this great art website:

Art Beyond Sight (Museum Education Institute)

1. Coronation of the Virgin painting.

Gentile da Fabriano

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California. 

Gentile da Fabriano. Painted about 1420. Tempera and gold leaf on panel.

2. View of the Grand Canal.

Bernardo Bellotto.

 J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California.

About 1740. Oil on canvas, 53 1/4 inches high by 91 1/4 inches wide.

A panoramic view of activity on Venice 's Grand Canal.

3. Still Life with Parrots

Jan Davidzon de Heem.

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota.

Baroque Art of the 17th Century

4. Joseph Nollekens 1776

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, Producer, Antenna Audio, Inc. & Joel Snyder

A set of life-size freestanding marble sculptures of three mythological goddesses created as a group by one sculptor.

JUNO (on the far left)

MINERVA (on the far right)

VENUS (in the centre)

5. Block Statue of Senwosret-Senebefny

Egypt, between 1878 and 1814 b.c. Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.

6. The Bather

Paul Cezanne

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Museum of Art of New York

The Bather. Painted around 1885 by the French artist Paul Cézanne, 1839-1906. Oil on canvas, 50 inches high by 38 inches wide. 127 x 97 cm.

7. Girl With a Mandolin

Pablo Picasso

Museum of Modern Art, New York.

He painted it in 1910.

It’s an oil painting on canvas.