REAL ENGLISH: How to talk about art

Let’s say you arrange to meet a friend at an art gallery or museum. There will be a lot to comment on while you are there. To help you talk about art in English, I bring you this lesson filled with useful vocabulary and expressions to talk about painting, photography, sculpture, and more. I will give you ideas of what to talk about and how to express those ideas. I will also give you tips on how to understand the artwork itself and how to comment about it to your friend. You will learn the meaning of words like “installation”, “medium”, “watercolour”, “seascape”, “marble”, “bronze”, and more. You will also discover the difference between traditional art and experimental art. There is a lot to learn in this video, so don’t miss it! Make sure you understand it by taking the quiz: www.engvid.com/real-english-h...
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TRANSCRIPT
Hello. I'm Gill at www.engvid.com, and today's lesson is about visiting an art gallery and the kinds of things you'd see there, and also how to talk about them. So, you may have seen a lesson I did a while ago on arranging to meet a friend, and one of the places you could have met your friend was at an art gallery, so this lesson follows on from that. If you're meeting your friend at the art gallery and you go around the art gallery with that person, what do you talk about and how do you say things? Okay?
So, first of all, then, you have to decide where... You've probably already arranged where to meet: Outside the gallery; inside the gallery; in the foyer - the entrance to the building; if there's a cafe which there usually is, meet in the cafe, have a drink first maybe; or there's usually a shop or more than one shop - there could be a gift shop, a book shop, so you might meet in a... In the shop in the gallery.
You might decide to meet in a particular room in the gallery. If you know there's a room with paintings in it that you're particularly interested in, you could say: "We'll meet in that room where they have those paintings", because you can start looking while you're waiting. So, a particular room or a particular gallery. Within an art gallery, the separate rooms are also called "galleries". So, you might say: "Let's meet in the... Oh, the gallery where they have all the... The kings and queens in the portraits", something like that. I'm thinking of the... The National Gallery in London because this lesson really is for the big art galleries, museums, so I'm thinking of the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Tate Britain, the Tate Modern, big art galleries like that. Okay, so they have different rooms which are called "galleries".
You might also say: "Let's meet on the first floor or the second floor", because you know that that's a good place; you can sit down somewhere or you can start looking at something while you're waiting, whoever gets there first. So, that's how you decide where to meet.
And then once you've met, then you want to go in and start looking at some of the... The art. So, what are you going to see in the art gallery? You... You may already go to lots of art galleries, so you will have a good idea of what to expect; but if you haven't been to many art galleries, this is just a summary, and also giving the English names for things of all the kinds of things you would expect to see.
So, the kinds of things you see could be pictures and paintings, sculptures, statues, photographs, and these modern things called "installations". And all of those, those types of art - that's called the "medium." The "medium" is really what's... What the work of art is made of. So, all these things here in brackets, some of them are telling you what... For example, you could have a painting. And what is it made of? It's canvas, which is a kind of cloth with oil paint on it. So, it's called "oil on canvas". Sometimes pictures are painted on a panel, a wooden panel, so it could be: "oil on wood" or "oil on panel". Panel. Okay.
Sometimes the... The paint is not an oil paint; it's a water colour. So... Which is much paler. So, it could be a water colour. So, there are different... The medium is the type of material that's been used to make the work of art. Okay. So, with a sculpture, for example, a statue, it could be made of stone, like marble; metal, like bronze; or could be wood, it could be carved out of wood. Okay, so those... That's the medium used to make the sculpture.
And then photographs are always, of course, black and white or colour. Oh, there's another type as well. […]

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Miss Gill! Thank you so much! It is just the theam I would like to ask you about. Thank you! It also would be nice to have a list of adjectives for description. For portraits, seascapes, landscapes, abstract and for sculptures. Thank you so much! Love from the Caucasus❤

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There isn't a second chance to produce a first good impression. Meeting someone in an art gallery, and have a clever commentaire to make Is always valuable . Thanks Mrs. Gill.

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I'm guilty of not following this classes too often. This lady shows so clear the lessons and I need to practice english. Thank you Mrs. Gill for so much wonderful task.

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The real queen of the world. Words are short to express gratitude. Thank you.

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You are so kind when teaching. Beautiful to watch. :)

[@marcostovar7968]

There isn't a second chance to produce a first good impression. Meeting someone in an art gallery, and have a clever comment to make is always valuable . Thanks Mrs. Gill.

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Thanks for your time and dedication!

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The most useful lesson especially for me IELTS student!

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In 2 years, what could u say of this exam, what’s ur results, and are you enjoying the life rn?)

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Your language and the way you follow is amazing

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Goog morning Gill, As I'm a painter from Italy, this video will help me very much...thank you for being so great and usesful for all yours follower students from all over the World. Thanks for once again I admire you

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My wonderful English girl again. I love you!

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Thank you so much dear grandma.

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We in the hospitality industry are constantly using your lessons to enhance communication with clients for please and profit.

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I love the way she sometimes says "Ohhkai?" for O.K. such a lovely lady! thx for the vids!

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you are reminding me of my sweet grandmother, this topic is very useful for IELTS esp. part speaking. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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Simple and clear. Tks Mrs. Gill

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Magic voice. Thanks a lot!

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Shalom. Greetings to Mrs. Gill. You are a great teacher. Thanks for teaching us English. Happy teacher's day, from South America. Shalom.

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Dialogues on art, one of the most interesting things i found

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Oh! Very knowledgeable video! And lovely and I feel like now I'm in peace at own place of my mind. Yeah..very good!.

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Such a good video! THANKS A BUNCH!!

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I am happy. You teach English very well . l want to tell you that you are my best teacher . Thank you very much. May God bless you .

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Best teacher in the world you’re doing great job ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Thank you Gill💚 such a pleasure to watch this lecture . You're amazing🌹

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Thanks, you're fantastic!!!

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Thank you so much our teacher..i wish Long live and healthy.

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Very important vocabulary

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You are the best teacher of the world lady.

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What a great class! Thanks, Gill 😀

[@eloisebrynlee]

As an Australian, I have never heard that pronunciation of foyer before, and I am in my forties. 0:50 We pronounce it as it sounds. 👉🏻 Historically, obviously the British influence of English has predominated over the U.S. in pronunciation and to a much lesser extent spelling. That may be changing though. I also notice that the millennials speak differently than the older population, so that change is being seen more often, through the influence of U.S. media mostly. Some may say that we losing some of our culture and identity in this way. Back to the video, I valued this as I am enjoying the art scene much more nowadays and check to see whether I know and understand all the terms. Thank you! English is my first and only language, but it takes more than one lifetime to really learn and know it well in my opinion. It is really quite complex.

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Goog afternoon Ma’am As I'm a painter from China.this video will help me very much...thank you for being so great and usesful for all yours follower students from all over the World. 💐

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[@romina1645]

Thank you Gill, now I know what to say when I visit an art gallery. Great lesson!

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Thanks! I always like to listen teacher's lessons. It s too useful for me.

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Thanks

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I love how you teach, best teacher!

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Thank you so very much for your great efforts on this, Gill! God bless you!

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Usually, I don't end up watching youtube videos on how to......sort of things. This is not the case however after I have started wathing Gill's content and her presentation flair. Gill, greetings.

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Thank you very much ma'am 🌷🌷🌷

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I adore you. You my best teacher.

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Thank you very much, Gill !!!

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I really love this teacher

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Ok, you are such a good teacher. Thank you for this amazing class.

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Thank you so much Mrs.Gill. You are fantastic, teach me a lot. It`s really useful for us. Thank You from Ewa, Poland.

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As a visit to an art gallery can be really a great moment, your video lessons are always great. Thank you so much.

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Lovely lesson! Thanks

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Thank you teacher your lesson was fascinating again

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Thank you for this lesson and i hope to have more

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Thank you, Gill.

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Thanks as always.

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Thank you so much Gill you are teach me a lot God bless you.

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Wow! You're just amazing! Thank you for this lesson!

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I felt sad when this lesson ended. I was like going to the art gallery with Gill. Thank you, dear teacher!

[@MrLleal]

Thanks for your videos, Mrs. Gill! They are always so nice and enlighting.

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Thank you very much for having this video.

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Thank you for a quick intro to art. Art appreciation 101😊

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Thank you !

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You're the best, always

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Thanks a lot! It’s great lesson!

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Thank you very much for your hard work, Gill. I really like the way that you explain things also the temp of the lesson is perfect for me.

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Thank you so much.🙏❤❤❤nobody talked about this subject before.

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Such a useful video topic for English students!

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Yeah

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You are right.

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I really like the way you teach English speaking. Thank you :)

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Thank you very much!

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I love your videos Gill, your voice is so soothing.

[@eloisebrynlee]

Maybe leading on from this, a suggestion could be a video on going to a concert, the theatre, or the cinema?

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Always a great subject for the class! Hugs from Brazil! 🇧🇷;-D

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Hey Gill. You're great as always. Interesting topic, indeed. Could you set up a lesson on cooking words as well? Anyway, you're always the best. Congratulations.

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Nice

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Very useful!Thanks a lot!

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Thank you for this video. It`s really useful to talk about art. I believe you are really interesting for museum art and history. I feel your passion for art and a different museum.

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l am awufly sorry to say that l am not familiar with the art but one day l hope l will be getting use to the art. since traveling along with you in english world my brain has been getting more and more active and grdualy erapting. p.s the lesson was almost understood by the person like me. thankyou. 🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇 🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇

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Lovely teacher!!

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Thank you from João Pessoa, Brazil! I'm good at writing and reading english but I really need to improve my conversation skills and you're help me, Gill 💙

[@starbutterfly_5]

ME TOO 💜 sou de Belém do Pará e eu to vendo esse vídeo justamente pq eu quero fazer um canal baseado em artes e outras coisas. finalmente um BR 💚🇧🇷

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@@starbutterfly_5 que felicidade de ver outra pessoa brasileira por aqui hahah no meu caso eu já falo inglês só que tenho dificuldades com a pronúncia kkk eu amo artes, quando começar o canal me avisa que eu assisto os vídeos :)

[@starbutterfly_5]

@@jaquelanelima7719 💚 eu n tenho muita dificuldade tanto na escrita quanto na pronúncia, mas tem muita parte da língua que eu ainda n conheço, aí fica difícil kskaksa pode deixar q eu te aviso, tu parece ser uma boa amiga :)

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Thank you teacher my favourite subject. 🥰

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Excellent art's conversation 🌹

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Thank you Gill 😊

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Thanks a lot.