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21 What is art? Talking about art Look at the expressions below. Check the ones you don’t know in a dictionary, then combine them in meaningful phrases. You can use an expression more than once. Examples: visual arts museum, creative street art, famous masterpiece … LANGUAGE 4 M p. 11 abstract  art gallery  artist  artistic  artwork  beautiful  brilliant  colour  composition  contemporary arts  creative  dance  design  expensive  experience  famous  fine arts  images  imagination  masterpiece  museum  music  recording  performing arts  poetry  sculpture  statue  street art  style  talented   visual arts Read the text about art. Some words are missing. Choose the correct word (A–O) for each gap (1–12). There are two extra words that you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. LANGUAGE IN USE 5 What is art? Art is the human creative skill and imagination that creates something beautiful or meaningful, or expresses important ideas or feelings. Art has many forms, such as the visual arts (for example, (0) or sculpture), music, dance and literature. The visual arts include a wide range of (1) disciplines, traditionally subdivided into the fine arts – drawing, painting, sculpture – and contemporary (2) , which includes more modern developments, such as collage, film/video and photography, computer graphics, graffiti or land art. Music and dance are part of the performing arts. Music works through the (3) of various musical instruments or the human voice, dance through the movement of the human body. Music can be organised compositions, such as in classical (4) , it can be based on improvisations, such as jazz, or can merge (5) music with more modern forms of musical expression (world music). What is considered music may differ from culture to (6) , yet everywhere it plays a key role in religious and other rituals such as marriage. Literature is the term used to describe (7) and sometimes spoken material and refers to works of the creative imagination, including poetry, (8) , fiction, non-fiction, journalism, and in some instances, song. Works of (9) , at their best, provide us with a vision of (10) civilisation and give insight into and context to all the world’s societies. All art is a (11) of what it means to be human. We do it for the joy of doing, for others to see, (12) , experience and interpret. Thus, it can convey the full spectrum of human experience. Perhaps that is why it is so important. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 J A artistic F symbol K sight B arts G hear L sound C creativity H literature M traditional D culture I music N human E drama J painting O written Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv