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VSL Unit 2 Workset 6

expressions-clés

françaisanglais
C'est un paysage This is a landscape
C'est un portrait This is a portrait
C'est une nature-morte This is a still life
C'est une peinture narrative/ historique This is a narrative/ historical painting
C'est une peinture abstraite This is an abstract painting
C'est une huile (c'est une peinture à l'huile) This is an oil (this is an oil painting)
C'est une aquarelle This is a watercolour
Le peintre a représenté un paysage/ une nature morte/ une rue/ une scène de la vie quotidienne... The painter has presented a landscape, a still life, a street, a daily life scene...
C'est une nature-morte éclatante de lumière This is a still life radiant with light
Cette peinture représente (un coin du jardin, une rue animée à Paris, etc) This painting represents (a corner of a garden, an animated street in Paris, etc)
Le thème principal du tableau est... The main theme of the painting is...
Ce tableau est divisé en trois sections This painting is divided in three sections
en haut/ en bas at the top/ at the bottom
au milieu/ au fond du tableau in the middle/ in the background of the painting
à droite/ à gauche on the right/ on the left
au premier plan/ au dernier plan in the foreground/ in the background
au centre/ au milieu in the centre
dans le coin in the corner
la lumière vient du côté gauche/ droit light comes from the left/ right corner
le tableau est dominé par... the painting is dominated by...
les tons bleus/ ocre blue/ochre tones
les couleurs vives/ chaudes/ lumineuses vivid/ warm/ luminous colours
les couleurs primaires/ secondaires primary/ secondary colours
des couleurs claires/ foncées light/ dark colours
des contrastes de couleurs contrasts of colours
Le tableau est exécuté dans des tons ocre... the painting is done in ochre tones
Le champ est représenté par des touches de couleurs multiples The field is represented by multiple strokes of colour
C'est un paysage plein de lumière This is a landscape full of light
une forme géométrique a geometric shape
une ligne courbe/ droite/ verticale/ horizontale a curved/ straight/ vertical/ horizontal line
une diagonale a diagonal line
un trait a short line
un point a dot
la perspective the viewpoint
la symétrie symmetry
l'harmonie (f) harmony
l'équilibre (m) balance
Je l'adore/ je l'aime beaucoup, ce tableau I really love this painting
Ce tableau me fait penser à (mon enfance, la beauté de la nature, la mort, etc.) This painting makes me think of (my childhood, nature's beauty, death, etc)
Cette toile me rappelle de très beaux souvenirs This painting brings back beautiful memories
Ce tableau, je le trouve très inquiétant (beau, triste, etc.) I find this painting disturbing (beautiful, sad, etc)
Ce tableau évoque le bonheur/ la tristesse/ la joie/ la solitude This painting evokes happiness/ sadness/ joy
En regardant ce tableau j'éprouve un sentiment de joie/ de bonheur/ de mélancolie When looking at this painting, I experience joy/ happiness/ melancholy
En regardant ce tableau je pense à/ je me souviens de... When looking at this painting I think of/ I remember...
le semeur au soleil couchant sower at sunset
une toile canvas
les Pays-Bas the Netherlands
semer to sow/ to plant seeds
au fond in the background
un champ a field
l'œuvre (f) the work
exécuter to do, to complete
éclatant(e) blazing
le courant impressionniste the impressionnist art movement
d'après nature directly what he saw from nature
s'imprégner de to immerse oneself in
aux teintes (f) bleu vert with a blue-green hue
se dégager en silhouette (f) an outline emerges/ becomes clear
attire l'œil draws the eye
les reflets (m) reflections
ondulant(e) rippling
la brume mist
une nuance de gris-bleu blue-grey toned
esquissé sketched, outlined
les mâts (m) masts
le voilier sailing boat
les grues (f) cranes
le partage en tiers (m) the division into thirds
saisir un instant fugitif to capture a fleeting moment
aveuglant(e) blinding
avant que la lumière... ne fige le paysage Before the light freezes/ fixes the landscape into place
se détachent à peine de barely stand out from
baignés dans le flou de l'atmosphère bathed in the blurry atmosphere
le soleil levant the rising sun
éclairer to illuminate, to light up
fugitif, fugitive fleeting
saisir to capture
épais(se) thick
la nouveauté the novelty
achevé completed
une esquisse a sketch
dissoudre to dissolve
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