Artists of the Month
September - December
September - December
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Women Artists
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Male Artists
100
Known for Cubism and Line Art, this artist also painted,"Guernica" which showed the carnage of a village after it had been bombed.
Pablo Picasso
100
This type of drawing technique can help with proportions.
Gridding
100
Francis Crick won a Nobel Prize for discovering the double helix. This first women of Abstract Art in Western Art History used meditation to draw them nearly 40 years earlier. She still insisted on hiding her work from the public for at least 20 years.
Hilma af Klimt
100
Name another type of perspective drawing besides One-Point Perspective
Two-Point, Three- Point, Four- Point, Bird's Eye, Ant's View are all acceptable answers.
100
He was married to Frida Kahlo and was the Father of Mexican Murals and was interanationally known for them.
Diego Rivera
200
Also the Portugese word for "twins", this art duo painted a Boeing jet for the 2014 Brazilian World Cup team.
Osgemeos!
200
What is another pencil number you can use besides a #2 that is great for blending with?
4B, 6B, 8B, 10B...
200
This Japanese-born, American artist uses her camera to speak about her work this way:
"Just as Byzantine icons serve as windows to the spiritual realm, may my icons serve as a means of sending gratitude to those who have shaped our lives and legacies across generations."
Tawny Chatmon
200
How many eyes should fit across a face when drawing a portrait?
5 eyes
200
This American portrait artist uses a naturalistic style pose to recreate Renaissance art with the contemporary black man in his work. He is also called "that Obama painter guy"
Kehinde Wiley
300
Known her "dot paintings" similar to Pointilism, this artist actually calls upon her Metis culture to create works about Mother Earth.
Christi Belcourt
300
What is the name of the dot used to anchor all lines in a One-Point Perspective Drawing?
Vanishing Point
300
After leaving the deep South and its' Segregation Laws, this Expressionist Artist became a D.C. icon, known for her broad, mosaic patches of color.
Alma Thomas
300
Where can blue pigment be naturally sourced?
Lapis Lazuli, Azurite minerals, but they were made from plants as well.
300
This New York teacher headed down south to Georgia to chase a passion he discovered on the pottery wheel.
Rich Brown
400
Diego Rivera was her husband. She is the "Queen of the Selfie" being the first woman artist to make nearly all of her work self-portraits portraying real events that happened to her.
Frida Kahlo
400
What type of Line Art is this called?
Continuous Contour Line Art- the pencil doesnt come off the paper. It is one continuing line.
400
Who is this dot happy artist?
Yayoi Kusama
400
Where should eyes fit on a skull when drawing a portrait?
In the middle of the head!
400
Famous for wearing this shirt often, he was aso pretty famous for being the Father of Cubism, with famous works like Guernica, and having a "Blue Period" (see the The Old Guitarist) at the back of the room oh and contour line drawings.
Pablo Picasso
500
This UK- based artist uses oil paint
Safeyah Aljabouri
500
What's this called?
A value scale
500
Hungarian-born American conceptual artist makes ecological intervention art
Agnes Denes
500
How do you make the color yellow?
You cant!
500
This Post-Impressionist artists had over 2,000 pieces of work.
Post- Impressionism focuses on naturalistic light and color...
He is from Groot.
His left ear was due to his fight with fellow artist Paul Gaugin. They were fighting about art styles...
Vincent Van Gogh