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Vocabulary
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Vocabulary
Choose the best alternative to complete the sentences.
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Constable’s early style has many of the qualities associated with his _______ work, including a freshness of light, colour and touch.
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primary b) monumental c) mature d) life-size
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The museum has an impressive ________ of early 20th century American paintings.
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exhibit b) exhibition c) auction d) collection
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The artist Hans Holbein was best known _____ painting portraits.
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by b) with c) of d) for
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The museum also holds many precise and detailed figure ______ done in Picasso’s youth under his father’s tutelage.
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paintings b) portraits c) studies d) nudes
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Salisbury produced several ____________ including depicting himself whilst painting the 1937 Coronation.
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sketches b) still lifes c) self-portraits d) ceremonial portraits
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'Four Women on a Bench', oil on _______, 1991.
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picture b) canvas c) mural d) easel
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Her paintings __________ the lives of ordinary people in the last century.
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paint b) draw c) depict d) characterize
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Art collectors and __________ were more interested in Monet's earlier, Impressionist work, and his paintings from the 1910s and 1920s were considered too unstructured and unfinished.
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colourists b) draughtsmen c) engravers d) historians
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Picasso’s Blue Period (1901–1904) consists of somber paintings rendered in ________ of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colours.
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fades b) shades c) colours d) views
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Perhaps Gainsborough's most famous work, The Blue Boy is thought to be a _____ of Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant, although this was never proved.
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sitter b) genre painting c) canvas d) portrait