Elements of Art
This artist’s Starry Night uses swirling, expressive lines to create energy and movement across the sky.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
This tool is used to roll out ink evenly on a printing block.
What is a brayer?
This pointed tool is used for carving fine details or incising lines into clay.
What is a needle tool?
Today's modern Halloween is centered on themes of fright and fun and celebrated on the 'eve' of what holiday on November 1st?
What is All Saint's Day?
Dia de los Muertos is a Mexican holiday about honoring ancestors and celebrating life. On what two days is it celebrated?
What is November 1st and 2nd?
In stained glass windows of Gothic cathedrals or medieval churches, color and light were used to teach this.
What are religious stories or moral lessons?
This small knife-like tool is used to carve away material in a linoleum block.
What is a gouge?
To remove air bubbles from clay before using it, artists perform this kneading process.
What is wedging?
This artist created the famous animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas, combining Halloween and Christmas aesthetics.
Who is Tim Burton?
In Mexican art, colorful skulls and skeletons used to honor ancestors are known as what?
What are calaveras?
The blocky, geometric shapes of Cubism helped this artist establish this revolutionary art movement.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
The 'Great Wave off Kamagowa' is a famous wood block print by this Japanese artist.
Who is Katsushika Hokusai?
This circular machine helps potters shape symmetrical forms out of clay.
What is a potter’s wheel?
What was the original name of Halloween?
What is 'All Hallow's Eve'?
Día de los Muertos art often features this flower, symbolizing the fragility of life and beauty of remembrance.
What is the marigold?
In The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci used this drawing technique to draw the viewer’s eye to the central figure of the painting.
What is one-point perspective?
The part of a print that does not receive ink (background space).
What is the negative space?
You perform this '2 part' step to securely attach two pieces of clay
What is score and slip?
Candy maker, George Renninger created this tri colored harvest inspired candy.
What is candy corn?
What type of balance does a calavera demonstrate?
What is bilateral or mirror symmetry?
Frida Kahlo used this element of warm reds and cool blues to convey emotion and cultural identity in her artwork.
What is color?
The invention of this printmaking process in 15th-century Europe helped spread literacy and art across cultures.
What is the printing press (or movable type)?
Applying a thin glassy coating that melts during firing creates color and waterproofing.
What is glazing?
In Celtic traditions, people carved vegetables like turnips to ward off spirits — a practice that evolved into which Halloween custom?
What is pumpkin carving (Jack-o’-lanterns)?
What personal item would you observe on an ofrenda?
What is a photograph?