Artist Biography
Wet Mediums
I am not an Artist
Drawing Mediums
Name Names
100

This Surrealist based woman had an affair with Russian exile, Leon Trotsky, with whom she and her husband Diego Rivera were hiding in their Mexican home.

Frida Kahlo

100

This medium can also be used as a dry medium, but you used it as a wet medium. Many can be seen in the hallway. 

Chalk Pastel

100

This person requires an advanced degree, such a Masters Degree or even a Doctorate to teach at a university or college. 

Professor, Asst. Professor, Adjunct Professor 

100

This pencil is made of wax and colored pigments.

Color Pencils

100

This Surrealist artist was involved in a horrific accident at 14 with a trolley bus. As a result, this left her unable to carry pregnancies and this would be one of many subjects in her deeply personal self-portraits. 

Frida Kahlo

200

Her work as a contemporary artist includes using the ancient form of writing, calligraphy, in her work. You could say her ideas are royally...genius...

Wijad 

200

This was the medium you used to create your leaf paintings and your abstract painting while you listened to your favorite music.

Watercolor

200

This person is responsible for designing the layout of a museum. 

Museum Curator 

200

2b, 4b, 6b, oh, and 2h, 4h, 6h, 8h..... oh yeah, and its a #2 this...

Drawing Pencils

200

This Post- Impressionist artist's stint in theology school might have been a bust, but drawing the poor coal miners he preached to helped develop his charcoal drawing skills more. Too bad his stint in art school didn't work out, his brother Theo, the art dealer could have hooked him up.  

Vincent Van Gogh

300

A cadaver is the scientific word for a human corpse that is used to study human anatomy. This Artist, Inventor, and Engineer dissected over 30 in his lifetime.

Leonardo da Vinci

300

As a result of the Renaissance Era, this paint medium created many opportunities for artists such as da Vinci and Michelangelo to work in light, layered glazes on canvas.

Oil Paints

300

This person researches the history behind artists' works, reviews their journals and sketchbooks, and completes other research. When it is all compiled they may write a book about it. 

Art Historian

300

These are located in Lascaux, France. Requiring light to be seen, some of the oldest known art in humanity can be found on its' walls. Fun fact though, they weren't art at all, but a way for Hunter/ Gathers to leave marks about herd hunting. 

Lascaux Caves. 

300

"Escapist Fantasies"  these yellow figures are the product of the Brazilian twins' dreams. These dreams have landed on everything from graffiti street art, to Boeing Jets to Louis Vuitton scarves. 

Osgemeos Twins

400

The film you watched depicted a woman caught between two cultural identities. Oddly enough, she was denied a filming permit in her home country of Iran and as a result, filmed across the border in Turkey.

Shirin Neshat

400

Before oil paints were made famous in the Renaissance Era, this egg mixture ruled the Byzantine Period.

Tempra

400

This is a position in Art and Design that can be done digitally from anywhere in the world. 

Digital Nomad

400

By heating wood or other organic materials above 750° F in an oxygen-starved environment. This material could become a diamond or make grill people happy. In the art world, we think it makes pretty awesome moody works or quick sketches. 

Charcoal

400


"My mural, Pan Unity will picture the fusion between the great past of the Latin American lands, as it is deeply rooted in the soil, and the high mechanical developments of the United States." "Pan Unity" is a unique combination of an artist in his prime and a critical moment in world history brought together on a monumental scale. "Pan Unity" is arguably the most important work of art created in the Bay Area. The mural "Pan Unity" includes three self-portraits and a portrait of artist Frida Kahlo, his wife. Who created this piece?

Diego Rivera 

500

This Surrealist painter's bizzare antics included him drawing the back of checks at dinner. As a result, this made the check worth more than the dinner price itself. Wonder if he ever signed with his mustache?

Salvador Dali
500

Created out of liquid polymers, this plastic-based medium has only been around for the last 100 years or so.

Acrylic Paint

500

This person must earn a four-year degree from a college in order to selflessly give their days to minors; showing them various ways to draw art, mix colors to make colors, use paints, use pencils, build giant statues, the list goes on and on really.

ME! 

500

 This medium is a pigment mixed with a binder mixture of non-drying oil and wax. So while it was greasy, and is still stuck on the table, its awesome cause it smudges and makes the work for you! 

Oil Pastel

500

Tatsunke Witko is famous for his stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn against encroaching US soldiers. To honor his bravery the Lakotan asked Polish immigrant Ziolkowsi to build this memorial. 

Crazy Horse

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