Art of Egypt
This important tool was made out of pressed and flattened plants.
What is papyrus?
This is the order from oldest to newest column styles in Ancient Greece.
What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?
Ukiyo-e artworks depicting nature, kabuki actors, and other feel good subjects.
What is the floating world?
This body part is used to measure figure drawings for accuracy.
What is the human head?
Yayoi Kusama, George Seurat, and the Ben Day printing method all have this pattern in common.
What are dots?
This style of figure drawing shows part of a person in profile and part facing forward.
What is frontalism?
This art style used the raw clay color to show people in action and black slip around them.
What is red figure pottery?
The first one of these is believed to be written by monks in the 12th century to share whimsical animal stories.
What is Manga?
This red headed painter created his self portraits using realistic proportions.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
What is gesture drawing?
What is one?
Representations of the gods would have used idealized proportions in these to emphasize beauty and despite their current white color would have been fully painted in ancient times.
What are sculptures?
This innovation in Japanese art allowed artists to mass produce cheap artworks for average citizens to buy.
What are woodblocks?
Her official portrait created some controversy for using contemporary painting techniques.
Who is Michelle Obama?
Located in downtown Portland this museum was founded in 1892 making it the seventh oldest museum in the United States.
What is the Portland Art Museum?
This insect is featured prominently in Ancient Egyptian jewelry.
What are scarab beetles?
With a ratio of 1:1.61 this form is considered a standard in creating beauty in Greek art.
What is the golden rectangle?
The actors in this art form use large shapes of color to give clues to the audience about their character's personality and mood.
What is Kabuki?
Kehinde Wiley often using detailed versions of these in the background of his portraits.
What are patterns?
This material is the favorite art supply at STM.
What is clay?
This text was placed in tombs to help guide the souls of the departed into the next life.
What is the Book of the Dead?
This temple in Athens is one of the most important ruins for studying Greek architecture.
What is the Parthenon?
The Kabuto is worn on the head by these fighters and can feature complex sculptures and designs.
Who are samurai?
Robert Longo painted city workers dancing while wearing these.
What are black suits?
This drawing technique uses a vanishing point to create the illusion of depth.
What is one-point perspective?