How to describe a Work of Art

In this radio program, four students analyze in English four works of art of their choice. Activity proposed by the subject Plastic, Visual and Audiovisual Education of 3rd year of ESO in its Bilingual modality. The students and their respective chosen works are: Alba Montes Vega with 'Venus at her Mirror' by Velázquez (The Venus of the Mirror), Houda Maimouni Maimouni with 'Dutch family' by Pieter de Hooch (Dutch Family), Clara Real Vaquero with ' Still Life with Nuts, Candy and Flowers' by Clara Peeters (still life with fruits and flowers) and Mireya Pérez Barco with 'The birth of Venus' by Sandro Botticelli (The birth of Venus) Here you have the link to the radio program 'How to describe a Work of Art'.Enjoy!. https://extrerradies.blogspot.com/2020/05/how-to-describe-work-of-art.html

Describing a work of art

Hi guys!

This is an example of a composition to describe a work of art. I gave you a PDF file (at the end of the post) with the structure and a lot of useful vocabulary.

This is a picture painted by the artist Caspar David Friedrich in 1823 called "The Sea of  Ice" or "The Wreck of Hope".

The technique used is oil on canvas.
It is a realistic work of art and it represents a different seascape, as the sea appears completely frozen.

In the foreground there are huge broken ice blocks, terribly sharp. These blocks are illuminated with warm lights.
In the background we can see a leaning ship trapped between the ice blocks, and how the light gradually becomes colder in the distance.

I love this picture because it is an unusual vision of the power of nature against our fragility.

The lights effects are amazing, and the hole picture is really powerful and impressive. 

Learn from mistakes, be creative and work with love.