Elements and Principles
Techniques
Name that Artwork/Artist
Art History
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100
This is an element of art that is three-dimensional and encloses volume.
What is form?
100
A stencil process of printmaking in which an image is imposed onto fine mesh, leaving large areas blocked with an impermeable substance.
What is screen-printing?
100
What is "I and The Village" by Mark Chagall?
100
The cave paintings in Lascaux, France, the Woman of Willendorf, and Stonehenge are all major works from this movement/time period.
What is Prehistoric or Stone Age?
100
He developed the first circular diagram of colors in 1666.
What is Sir Isaac Newton?
200
This is an element of art which refers to the continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point. It may be two dimensional, like a pencil mark on a paper or it may be three dimensional, like wire.
What is line?
200
This small sculpture is made as a preparatory study or model for a full-scale work.
What is a maquette?
200
What is "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali?
200
Some artistic characteristics of this movement/time period are idealism, balance, perfect proportions, and architectural orders.
What is Greek art?
200
The first illustrated book for children was published in this country in 1658.
What is Germany?
300
This refers to the surface quality or "feel" of an object, such as roughness, smoothness, or softness. It may be implied by the way the artist renders areas of the picture.
What is texture?
300
This substance protects a surface from receiving paints, inks, or dyes. Waxes are commonly used for this in batik.
What is a resist?
300
What is "Vincent's Bedroom in Arles" by Vincent Van Gogh?
300
This movement can be described as "ridiculous art." It concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the standards in art, creating anti-art with everyday objects.
What is Dada?
300
He wrote his first play, The Taming of the Shrew, in 1593.
What is William Shakespeare?
400
This refers to the distance or area between, around, above or within things. It can be a description for both 2 and 3 dimensional portrayals.
What is space?
400
A design or picture in a book, magazine or other print or electronic medium that explains the text or shows what happens in a story could be called this.
What is an illustration?
400
What is "The Flower Carrier" by Diego Rivera?
400
A painting by Claude Monet gave rise to the name of this artistic movement.What is Impressionism?
*The name of the painting is Impression, Sunrise.
Monet explained the title, "Landscape is nothing but an impression, and an instantaneous one, hence this label that was given us, by the way because of me. I had sent a thing done in Le Havre, from my window, sun in the mist and a few masts of boats sticking up in the foreground....They asked me for a title for the catalogue, it couldn't really be taken for a view of Le Havre, and I said: 'Put Impression.' "
400
To make this, you need a molten mixture of soda, ash, metal oxides and sand.
What is glass?
500
This describes the lightness or darkness of a color. It is used to express volume.
What is value?
500
A word borrowed from Italian, this refers to the modeling of volume by depicting light and shade by contrasting them boldly.
What is chiaroscuro?
500
What is "In Italian" by Jean-Michel Basquiat?
500
This movement/time period encompassed a resurgence of learning based on classical sources and widespread educational reform. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello contributed to the artistic developments of this time.
What is the Renaissance?
500
Paper usually has this printed on the package to tell you its thickness. It is used to differentiate printer paper from card stock.
What is weight? *If the weight of the paper is 120 lb. (card stock), it means 1 ream, or 500 sheets, weighs 120 pounds.