A

Art: High quality conception or production of the beautiful in a graphic medium, for example a painting.
Artist: One who creates works of art; especially a painter. Whose work shows skill, imagination or other artistic qualities.
Artistic: Relating to art or artists; appreciative to art or beauty.
Architecture: The art and science of designing and erecting buildings.
Authentic: Worthy of trust, reliance, or belief. Having undisputed origin; genuine
Artistry: Artistic ability, quality, or workmanship.
Artiste: A public performer or entertainer.
Artisan: A skilled manual worker, or craftsman.
Artwork: Work in the graphic arts, illustrative, graphic or artistic objects.
Authenticity: The condition or quality of being authentic.

B

Born: Appearing to have a specified innate quality or talent; a born artist.
Best: Surpassing all others in quality.
Balbianello: Name given to a villa on the shores of Lake Como, Italy.
Bridge: A structure spanning and providing passage over a road, waterway, railway, or other obstacle.
Bridge of Sighs: Stone bridge of the 16th century, in Venice.
Boat: A relatively small, usually open craft of a size that may be carried aboard a ship.
Bullfight: A public spectacle, especially in Spain, in which a fighting bull is engaged with a matador.
Battle: A large scale combat between armed forces.
Beautiful: Pleasing to the senses, pleasing to the mind; excellent.
Bountifully: Generous, much of something, abundant, plentiful.
Beach: The shore of a body of water.
British: Of, pertaining to, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom, U.K.
Brush: Device made of bristles or fibres, fastened into a handle for applying paint.
Buildings: Something that is built; a structure; an edifice.
Balance: Harmonious or satisfying arrangement of elements, as in a design or composition.
Blue: Any of a group of colours varying in light and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear sky.
Black: An opposite to white; colour value of maximum darkness.

C

Canvas: Heavy, coarse, closely woven fabric. Especially used for oil paintings.
Canal: A man-made waterway or river.
Camel: A humped, long-necked mammal of world desert regions.
Colours: A dye, pigment, paint, light or other substance that imparts colour.
Café: In Europe and elsewhere, a bar serving drinks and light meals.
Cruise: To sail or travel. Sea voyage for pleasure, usually a cruise ship. liner.
Como: Lake in Lombardy, north Italy and popular tourist centre.
Commission: To place an order or task.
Celebrated: Famous; to mark or observe.
Certificate: A document testifying to the truth of a given fact.
Collectors: Persons who bring items together to collect.
Creative: Having ability to create.
Contemporary: Belonging to the present time; modern; up-to-date.
Corporation: Group acting as one body
Claude: Monet, French artist and founder of Impressionism.
Canaletto: Antonio Giovani Canal. Venetian painter, famous Venice artist.
Contrast: In order to show differences.
Create: To cause to exist; originate.
Copyright: The right by law for an artist to have exclusivity of his work.
Carnival: Any time or type of revelry; a festival.
Colourist: An artist skilled in achieving special effects with colour.
Colourful: Abounding; full in colour.
Composition: A putting together of elements to form a whole.

D

Disney: Walt. U.S. film producer and animator; famous for Mickey Mouse and Disneyland theme parks.
Design: The art of creation. To conceive; invent; contrive.
Draw: To draft or sketch a picture.
Drawing: The art of depicting forms or figures on a surface using lines.
Dorset: A County in Southern England.
Denison: Surname of the artist.
Deux Magots: Famous Café in Paris, France.
Desert: A region rendered barren.
Dynamic: Energetic and enterprising; forceful.
Dream: Ideas of the mind during sleep. A state of abstraction.

E

Embellished: Used by an artist to make more beautiful.
Enhanced: To increase or make greater, as in value, beauty, or cost.
Exhibition: A display for the public, as of art objects.
Egypt: A country of Northeast Africa.
Easel: A frame in the form of a tripod; used to display an artist's canvas.
England: Largest political division of the United Kingdom.
Effects: In order to impress or influence.
Engraving: The art or technique of one who engraves. To etch into an object.

F

Fine art: Art produced or intended for beauty alone, rather than utility.
Framed: Decorative painting surround
Figurative: Designating a style of painting in which animals or human figures are depicted.
Falucas: Egyptian fishing boat.
Famous: Currently Renowned, publicly acclaimed or celebrated.
Freestyle: Styled strokes, movement.
Flanked: To protect or guard.
Flowing: To move or run freely.
Freehand: Drawn or sketch by hand.

G

Giclee: French to squirt or spray.
Gondola: A narrow lightweight boat used on the canals of Venice.
Gondolier: Boatman of a gondola.
Giverny: Monet's home in France.
Gallery: Building or hall in which sculptures, paintings or photographs are displayed.
Giza: Al-gizeh. Town in Egypt.
Gaze: To look or stare intently.

H

Horizon: Intersection as seen between earth and sky.
Hemingway: Ernest (miller) famous U.S. novelist and author.
Hues: Gradation of colour or tint.

I

Impressionism: Style of painting.
Illustration: A picture or image used around or to decorate text.
Italy: Republic of southern Europe.
International: Involving two or more nations.
Impressionistic: Of or pertaining to Impressionism.

K

Knife, Palette: A knife with a thin, flexible blade, used by artists for applying, scraping or mixing paint.

L

Landscapes: A wide view or vista of natural scenery. A painting depicting such scenery.
Lilies, water: Plant with flower.
Liner, ocean: Commercial ship for carrying passengers.
Lilac: Colour; pale purple; mauve.
Light: Source of illumination.
Luminous: Emitting, or full of light.
Loaded: Full of weight or mass.
Landmark: Identifying landscape feature.
Leading: At the head of; foremost.

M

Maiden: Fist; maiden voyage.
Mediterranean: Countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
Marbella: Town in the province of Málaga, Andalucia, southern Spain.

N

Niche: Activity specially suited to a person's abilities or character.
Nile: River in northeast Africa.

O

Oil, Paint: Pigment ground in a drying oil, used in an oil painting.
Original: An authentic work of art.
Originate: To bring into being, create for the first time.

P

Ploughs: To break and turn over.
Pond: A still body of water.
Print: Impression made in ink upon a surface.
Palette: Board upon which an artist mixes colours.
Portrait: Painting usually of a person, especially the face.
Pyramid: Monument found in Egypt.
Picture: A Visual representation or an image.
Publication: Any printed material.
Painting: Artistic composition in paint.
Paint: Liquid mixture with colour pigments.
Paris: Capital of France, Europe.
Portofino: An Italian seaside town.
Provence: Region of southeast France.

Q

Queen Elizabeth 11: Current British reigning Monarch or ruler.
Queen Mary 2: Previous Monarch's name given to a Cunard cruise liner.

R

realism: In art, the representation of life or objects as they actually exist.
Reproduction: A copy of a work of art.
Renowned: Having renown; famous.
Romance: Love, an affair or to have romantic involvement.
Rendering: Covering of a surface.
Reflections: To form an image of; mirror. To think back; or consider.

S

Scene: The surroundings or place where an event occurs; the locality as seen by the viewer; a picturesque view.
Solent: Straight in the English Channel, separating the Isle of Wight from the Hampshire coast.
Signed: To affix one's signature to.
Skilled: Having or showing skill, showing specialised ability or training, especially in a trade or craft.
Studio: The workroom of an artist.
Strokes: To give or apply a stroke.
Substrate: A surface on which to apply something.
Stretcher: Wooden framework over which canvas is stretched to form the surface for a painting.
Southampton: City and major port in Hampshire, southern England. Britain's largest passenger port.

T

Texture: The degree of roughness or smoothness of any given surface.
Talent: Natural ability of a superior quality; naturally gifted.
Toreador: A bullfighter, especially one mounted on a horse.
Taught/self: Having taught oneself without formal instruction or the help of others.

U

Unique: Being the only one of its kind; being without an equal or equivalent; unparalleled.

V

Versatility: Capable of turning competently from one task, subject, or occupation to another; capable of moving freely in all directions.
Venice: Port in northeast Italy. The capital of Venetia, and of Venetia province. It lies on a lagoon consisting of 118 individual islands connected by some 400 bridges, and separated by narrow canals. A very popular tourism centre and location.
Villa: A large, luxurious countryside residence. In ancient Rome a country estate with a substantial house; a holiday home.
Value: A fair price or return. The amount of money for which something may be exchanged on the open market. Worth, quality, desirability, to regard highly or esteem.

Foreign

Bellas artes: Spanish words for fine-art or the beautiful arts.
Tableau: French for a painting.
Cadre: French for a frame.
Chefd'oeuvre: French for masterpiece.
Cuadro: Spanish for a painting.
Beaux arts: French words meaning fine-art.