The Surrealists
This Spanish painter wore a pencil-thin mustache and painted 'The Impermanence of Memory'
Who is Salvador Dali?
This pliable, versatile material is useful for carving and inking engravings
What is lino tile?
This nubbled, rougher side of mixed media paper is more useful for this medium instead of oil pastels.
What is watercolor?
The method pioneered by early artists to accurately depict the human face
What is the Loomis method?
This pop artist did huge installation pieces and focused on pop art in the form of huge mock-balloons and ceramic statues of celebrities such as Michael Jackson
Who is Jeff Koons?
This Japanese artist used repetition of dots, pumpkins, and stars in her full-scale exhibitions.
Who is Yayoi Kusama?
This soft transparent plate allows the artist to roll paint and use textured items to make elements of a finished art piece
What is a gelli plate?
This process prepares pottery clay for hand-building by removing trapped air
What is 'wedging'
The proper ratio of 8 heads to one body
What is average human proportion?
This pop-artist used prints of celebrities and soup cans to establish his vaunted New York celebrity.
Who is Andy Warhol?
This artist was the love interest of Max Ernst, and was criminally overlooked in her life as a key pillar of the Surrealist movement.
Who was Merrit Oppenheimer?
This device allows the printmaker to evenly smooth paint, ink, or other over the print-making surface.
What is a brayer?
Contour drawing and visualizing a 3D underwire help artists when drawing this.
What are every day objects?
This kind of art was typically used in early print-publishing in the 17th and 18th century pamphlets
What is engraving prints?
This watercolor artist used vivid reimaginings of viral or bacterial pathogens as the basis of his work
Who was David Goodsells?
This candy wrapper was allegedly designed by Salvador Dali on a lunch napkin
What is Chupa Chups?
This device allows the printmaker to use heavy force to transfer ink or medium evenly across the paper
What is a baren?
This technique for three-dimensional building involves layering paper scraps over one another with a glue-like substance to build form on an under-frame such as taped paper forms or chicken wire
What is papier mache?
An early part of the process in art-making involving making a beginning attempt at plotting out your artwork.
What is a rough draft?
This artist used line and color primarily to work on his abstracted art.
Who is Piet Mondrian?
This fur-wrapped teacup set was inspired by which Surrealist artist's fur-lined bracelet?
Who is Merrit Oppenheimer?
Military and fascist forces often used this in conjunction with printmaking to spread propaganda
What are propaganda posters?
This plastic-based paint is used for bright, vivid colors and typically used on canvases
What is acrylic paint?
A multi-varied word used for external appearance, a certain style, or used as a broad term for the value of art
What is the aesthetic?
This artist used the vibrant, thick, and smearable effects of oil pastels to create horizons with filled dark skies
Who is Van Gogh?