Materials
A medium that uses water to lighten color and create transparency.
What is watercolor?
the path of a moving point.
What is a line?
When an artist is untrained the may create art in this style.
What is naïve or privative?
In the 16th century they painted ,La Gioconda.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Using da Vinci's ideas of light and shadow to create an illusion of 3 dimensions.
What is classical drawing?
Pigment mixed with wax and shaped into a stylus shape.
What are crayons?
The use of a motif in more than once in the overall design.
What is pattern?
When an artist focuses on the geometric shapes of people or objects.
What is cubist?
Emotionally affected by the Spanish Civil War, they painted the event in "Guernica."
Who is Picasso?
This type of abstract painting utilizes large shapes of flat color.
What is color field painting?
Storing paint in these helped artists move into the landscape to paint.
What are tubes?
The gradual change from light to dark used to suggest depth.
What is value?
Expressing purely emotional response in art work.
What is abstract expressionism?
They sculpted the biblical "David," using Carrera marble.
Who is Michelangelo?
Painting focusing on a slice of life, sunlight, and features textured brushstroke.
What is impressionism?
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries this invention captured exact images of people, places, and objects.
What is the camera?
The equilibrium of elements in an art work; either symmetrical or asymmetrical.
What is balance?
A style that questions reality and explores the sub-conscience.
What is surrealism?
This artist is famous for their impressionist painting "Starry Night."
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
Letters used to symbolize the lightness or darkness of a pencil's graphite.
What is H and B?
When an artist uses different media on one creation it is called this.
What is multi-media?
The relationship of all parts to each other in art works.
What is proportion?
Questioning the meaning of language with a sense of "kitch."
What is DADA?
A trained engineer, they created the steal sculpture "Flamingo," a wire circus and silver jewlery.
Who is Alexander Calder?
A square shaped paintbrush.
What is a bright?