Lesson 4 (Reading)

Vocabulary flashcards covering core terms, key artists, and famous artworks from the Grade 7 lesson on food art.

Landscape

A painting or a drawing of scenery.

Foodscape

An artwork similar to a landscape, but created by the artist through using food.

Imagine

To have a picture of something in your mind.

Imitate

To behave in a similar way to someone or something else, or to copy someone's actions.

Modern

Describing something that is new or created recently.

Original

The first one made and not a copy.

Weird

Very strange and unusual.

A feast for the eyes

An expression meaning very beautiful.

Carl Warner

A British artist and photographer who uses food to create foodscapes and photographs them.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

An Italian painter known for creating heads from food like fruit, vegetables, and flowers.

Vertumnus

A 1590 portrait painted by Giuseppe Arcimboldo for Emperor Rudolf II that shows a head made of food.

Carts and Balloons

A countryside foodscape by Carl Warner using broccoli as trees, bread as a cart, potatoes and berries as rocks, sweetcorn and cucumbers for fields, and bananas as hot-air balloons.