Elements of Depth
Famous Artists and Styles
Architecture & Mosaics
Vocab and Principles
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100

This line is where the sky meets the ground in a drawing.

What is the Horizon Line

100

This famous Spanish artist is known for co-founding Cubism and drawing portraits with mixed-up, abstract facial features.

Who is Pablo Picasso?

100

This ancient art technique involves creating a large image by arranging hundreds of tiny pieces of glass, stone, or beans close together.

What is a mosaic?

100

This term describes the look or actual feel of a surface, such as the roughness of beans or the implied fur of an animal.

What is texture?

100

What Year was Rose Glen built?

Bonus points on what year it was remodeled

1978

*2018

200

This is the dot on the horizon line where all parallel lines seem to meet and disappear.

What is a vanishing point? 


200

This artists is famous for his pioneering Post-Impressionist paintings, which feature bold colors, expressive brushwork, and energetic textures. His legacy is also defined by his intense emotional depth and the tragic, mythic story of his life. 

Who is Vincent Van Gogh

200

This historical style of house architecture features steep roofs, towers, porches, and intricate, repeated decorative trim.

What is Victorian architecture?

200

This is when an object, image, or color represents a bigger, deeper idea or meaning without using words.

What is symbolism?

200

What is Ms. Kutz doing her Master program in?

Food Science

300

This technique uses a single vanishing point to make flat paper look three-dimensional.

What is one-point persepective

300

Claude Monet is best known as the founding father of French Impressionist painting. His work revolutionized the art world by moving away from strict realism in favor of capturing the fleeting effects of natural light, the atmosphere, and color through quick, visible brushstrokes and painting outdoors (plein-air). He also was known to paint his famous japanese garden over 250 times!

Who is Claude Monet?

300

True or False: True Victorian exterior color schemes historically used pure, bright white paint for all of their trim.

What is False? (They preferred rich earth tones, saturated hues, and pale jewel-tone trims!)

300

Adding white to a color creates a ________, while adding black to a color creates a ________.

What is a tint (white) and a shade (black)?

300

How old is Ms Ressman?

bonus points if you know her dogs name

22

*Tatum

400

To show depth, an artist draws objects close to the viewer ________ and objects far away ________.

What is bigger (close) and smaller (far away)?

400

This style of art does not try to look like a realistic photograph, but instead uses shapes, lines, and colors to express a feeling or idea.

What is Abstract Art (or Modernism)

400

This architectural tower element is a small, round windowed room that clicks out from a Victorian house wall.

What is a turret (or bay window)?

400

This design principle means both sides of an artwork match perfectly or look like a mirror image of one another.

What is symmetry?

400

What is the spinning table machine used for pottery called

Pottery Wheel

500

The element of art that refers to the area above, below, around, or within an object, used by artists to create the illusion of depth.

 What is Space?

500

This art movement emerged in the early 1900s as a "rule-breaking" style where artists chose to express deep emotions and ideas through bold, unnatural colors and distorted shapes instead of painting like a photograph.

What is Modernism (or Post-Impressionism/Abstract Art)?

500

Mosaics and buildings have been created throughout history to communicate the ideas, beliefs, and status of different cultures. What is the design principle called when an architect repeats shapes, windows, or trim across a building to create a sense of balance?

What is Repetition (or Symmetry/Pattern)?

500

Organic shapes are free-form and curvy. What is the word for shapes with straight lines and sharp angles, like squares and triangles?

What is geometric?

500

In the classic children's book Charlotte's Web, this is the name of the pig?

Wilbur

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