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English Spanish Vocabulary – Arte Art Posted by on Jan 3, 2017 in Learning, Spanish Vocabulary

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Today we are going to practice useful Spanish vocabulary related to Art.
Hoy vamos a practicar vocabulario español útil relacionado con Arte.

Use the player below to listen to and repeat the pronunciation of the words in Spanish:

 

Arte – Art

el aguafuerte – etching
el boceto, el esbozo – sketch
el bodegón, la naturaleza muerta – still life
el busto – bust
el caballete – easel
el carbón, el carboncillo – charcoal
el collage – collage
el dibujo – drawing
el diseño – design
el equilibrio – balance
el esmalte – enamel
el estudio – studio
el fresco – fresco
el grabado – engraving
el mosaico – mosaic
el paisaje – landscape
el paisaje marino – seascape
el pincel – brush
el subastador / la subastadora – auctioneer
el tapiz – tapestry
la acuarela – watercolor
la arcilla – clay
la cerámica – ceramics
la escultura – sculpture
la estatua – statue
la figura – figure
la figurilla – figurine
la obra maestra – masterpiece
la pintura al óleo – oil painting
la subasta – auction
la talla de madera – wood carving
la pintura – paint
el lienzo – canvas
el pincel – paintbrush
el pigmento – pigment
bosquejar, esbozar – to sketch
los óleos – oil colours
el acrílico colora / colores de acrílico – acrylic colours
los colores pastel – pastel colours
los creyones – crayons
un tablero de dibujo – a drawing board
un retrato – a portrait
arte abstracto – abstract art
arte moderno – modern art
arte conceptual – conceptual art

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Laura & Adam have been blogging and creating online Spanish courses for Transparent Language since 2010. Laura is from Bilbao in northern Spain and Adam is from Devon in the south of England. They lived together in Spain for over 10 years, where their 2 daughters were born, and now they live in Scotland. Both Laura & Adam qualified as foreign language teachers in 2004 and since have been teaching Spanish in Spain, the UK, and online.