A kind of art composed of many small tiles placed together to form an image.
What is a Mosaic?
an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture. It involved capturing a static image from multiple angles at once.
The most well known artist from this movement is Pablo Picasso.
What is cubism?
Invented in 3500 B.C. this is something we still use today. The first was invented for pottery but has since been a part of our daily lives.
What is the Wheel?
He patented the first successful telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
It was discovered with an experiment using a kite and a key.
What is electricity?
These include Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian
What are types of Columns?
a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself.
The most well known artist from this movement is Salvador Dali.
What is Surrealism?
Invented in ancient Rome, this common tool consists of a single sharp rod of metal.
What is a nail?
They created the first Gas Powered car.
Who is Karl Benz?
The first of these was invented by Edward Jenner, in 1796 and involved injecting a young boy with the cowpox virus.
What are Vaccines?
an extremely thin sheet of gold that is used especially for gilding.
What is Gold Leaf?
A term used for art that mimics reality.
What is realism?
The first of these was invented in china between the 1st and 2nd century, it was made of lodestone, a naturally-magnetized iron ore, the attractive properties of which they had been studying for centuries.
what is a compass?
Who is Philo Farnsworth?
First appearing around 3500 BC this was such a milestone it had an age named after it.
It may have been discovered when copper and tin-rich rocks were used to build campfire rings.
What is Bronze?
a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer's eye.
Bonus points if you can name the artist that developed this technique.
What is Pointillism?
It was developed by Georges Seurat with the aim of producing a greater degree of luminosity and brilliance of color.
a style of decorative art, architecture, and design prominent in western Europe and the US from about 1890 until World War I and characterized by intricate linear designs and flowing curves based on natural forms.
From the French for New
What is Art Nouveau?
this device, Invented by Johannes Gutenberg, allowed for a more widespread distribution of written information.
What is the printing press?
The inventor of Coca-Cola
Who is Dr. John S. Pemberton
Its first calculation was done by Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC), one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world.
What is pi?
Also called relievo, (from Italian relievare, “to raise”), in sculpture, any work in which the figures project from a supporting background. To project out from the surface from which they were carved.
What is Relief?
the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
What is the Renaissance?
it was discovered by Alexander Fleming, from a contaminated petri dish and some rogue mold.
What is penicillin?
He invented the game of Basketball
Who is James Naismith?
Otto Hahn won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944 for his discovery of this.
What is Nuclear Fission?