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FRENCH FINE ART VOCABULARY

Nouns

art: l'art

painter: le peintre

sculptor: le sculpteur, la sculptrice

artist: l'artiste

painting: le tableau, la peinture, la toile

sculpture: la sculpture

museum: le musée

art gallery: la galerie d'art

architect: l'architecte

architecture: l'architecture (f)

paintbrush: le pinceau

colored pencil: le crayon de couleur

canvas: le toile

pastel: le pastel, le crayon-pastel

color: la couleur

drawing: le dessin

easel: le chevalet

eraser: le gomme

illustration: l'illustration (f)

landscape: le paysage

mural: la peinture murale

masterpiece: le chef-d'œuvre

paint: la peinture

pencil: le crayon, le crayon à papier

photo: la photo

photography: la photographie

perspective: la perspective

watercolor: l'aquarelle (f)

Renaissance: la Renaissance

Verbs

to paint: peindre

to sculpt: sculpter

to draw: dessiner

to critique: faire la critique de, critiquer

to depict: représenter, dépeindre

to illustrate: illustrer

to create: créer

to inspire: inspirer

to design: dessiner

to influence: influencer, influer

to photograph: photographier, prendre en photo

Adjectives

artistic: artistique

abstract: abstrait

contemporary: contemporain

realistic: réaliste, vraisemblable

cubist: cubiste

colorful: coloré

acclaimed: encensé, reconnu

baroque: baroque

avant-garde: avant-gardiste, d'avant-garde

controversial: controversé, polémique

provocative: provocateur, provocatrice

evocative: évocateur, évocatrice

ethereal: sublime, délicat, pur

intense: intense

traditional: traditionnel, traditionnelle

Romantic: romantique

medieval: médiéval

Renaissance: de la Renaissance, Renaissance

rococo: rococo

neoclassical: néoclassique

impressionist: impressionniste

expressionist: expressionniste

All paintings are by French artists. From top to bottom:

Landscape with Saint John on Patmos, 1640, by Nicolas Poussin, classical and baroque painter.

The Embarkation for Cynthera, 1717, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, rococo painter.

The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, 1789, by Jaques-Louis David, neoclassical painter.

Grain Field, c. 1875, by Berthe Morisot, impressionist painter.

Anglerfish art source

If you feel like you’ve seen this alread, that’s normal. This list of recommendation has been previously posted on my first account @praestantias which has been deleted for some reasons. So here I am, reposting it. 

Hating how elitist and eurocentric the dark academia community became, I would truly appreciate that you leave some recommendation of book written by people of color, for I noticed that I am guilty of the eurocentric part, but I am really want to educate myself and read more non-white books. 

And that really hit me, especially because I’m an acts-of-service kind of person and tea is one of my go-to ways to show people that I’m thinking about them, care about them, and hope their day could be a little better. So maybe when I make tea for myself, I’m saying that to myself, too, that I’m thinking of my own needs, caring for myself, and trying to make my day a little better. 

piétiner - to stamp on sth

s’échouer sur un rivage - to be washed up on the shore

flotter - to float on water

boire la tasse - to swallow water

avaler - to swallow

un échantillon ADN - a DNA sample

un échantillon sang - a blood sample

cohérent - coherent, consistent

compact - dense

un remue-méninges - a brainstorm

recenser qch - to identify sth

l’embouchure d’une fleuve - river mouth

le golfe - bay, gulf

passer au crible = trier - to sift through

un bénévole - volunteer

sensibiliser qn à qch - to raise awarness among sb about sth

ne plus savoir où donner la tête - to be overwhelmed, to not know where to start

enclin à qch - inclined to sth, prone to sth

préjudiciable - detrimental

requis - required

étatique - regarding the state (e.g. state funding)

maintenir une chape de plomb sur qch - to put up a wall of silence surrounding an issue

semer la panique - to cause panic

transgresser la loi [langage soutenu] - to break a law 

perplexe - bewildered

passer en revue - to go through sth

le déploiement de qch - implementation

una affirmation - statement

garder le moral - to keep up morale

être interpellé - to get arrested

engourdi - numb

ou encore - as well as

se borner à qch - to limit oneself to sth

une benne à ordures - dumpster

une adhésion à une organisation - adherence, the act of joining an organisation

chevelu - long-haired

Yeah it's a rule! not for the period though. and not in every French speaking countries — so you might as well keep doing it, as long as you're consistent with it, it's just not France's rules.

In France you put a space before any punctuation sign composed of two parts : ; ! ? « »

— take a space before as well

" ( and [ take a space before as they open the quote/whatever, the closing half doesn't take a space before.

. , … never take a space before

except for the opening "([, there's always a space after the punctuation if you keep writing words.

un exemple improvisé : "Il m'a dit « Je t'aime. » ! Je n'ai pas répondu (je suis parti.e en courant, en fait) ; je n'ai jamais su comment répondre à ce genre de déclarations — mais qui sait comment y répondre ?"

(nobody uses that much punctuation nowadays but at least you've got examples xD)

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