[ART]IELTS Vocabulary: Learn 300 Essential Words for IELTS

🎨aesthetic=> aesthetically

=> We chose this furniture for its aesthetic appeal.

=> The bridge is aesthetically appealing.

=> Monet’s paintings are aesthetically pleasing.

-aesthetic quality

-aesthetic value

-aesthetically pleasing

-aesthetic appeal

----> artistic----> pleasing----> artful----> creative

🎨depict=> depiction

=> The painting depicts the Battle of Waterloo.

=> St Nicholas is often depicted as Father Christmas.

=> The government tried to depict the protesters as violent.

-depict in

-depict as

-depict a scene

-depict life

----> portray----> show----> illustrate----> describe----> characterize----> represent

🎨genre=> genres

=> Horror movies are a consistently popular genre.

=> The uniformity of Facebook games is probably a sign of the genre’s infancy.

=> Unlike other recent books in its genre, Unspeakable Things is markedly uninterested in converting its readers.

-literary genre

-artistic genre

-invent genre

-spawn genre

----> type----> style----> family----> class----> brand----> kind

🎨icon=> iconic

=> The painting of Mary is a famous religious icon.

=> David Beckham is as much a fashion icon as a football player.

=> J.K. Rowling is an icon for young female writers.

-religious icon

-cultural icon

-sporting icon

-iconic status

----> symbol----> idol----> legend

🎨vivid=> vividly

=> His poems are full of vivid imagery.

=> Her paintings are characterized by vivid colours.

=> To tell that story requires a vivid summary of day-to-day events.

-vivid memory

-vivid picture

-vivid imagination

-vivid colour

----> colorful----> brilliant----> powerful----> intense----> memorable----> detailed

🎨portrait=> portraits

=> He was asked to paint a portrait of the Queen.

=> A self-portrait is a painting that you make of yourself.

=> His biography provides a fascinating portrait of the 19th-century politician, Gladstone.

-portrait of

-paint a portrait

-portrait gallery

-self portrait

----> painting----> characterization----> account----> depiction----> likeness----> representation

🎨sculpture=> sculptor

=> The park was full of sculptures of animals and people.

=> The museum contains a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures.

=> The college offers courses in sculpture and painting.

-carve a sculpture

-unveil a sculpture

-make a sculpture

-sculpture by

----> carve----> form----> fashion----> model----> chisel----> shape