Arts Grab Bag
Pre-2000's
Putting the "Pop" in Popular
Technical Knowledge
Photo Phacts
100
This legendary figure of American comics shares part of his name with Nintendo’s “Super Tuff Pink Puff”.
Jack Kirby
100
This art movement that came after Baroque is characterized by lighter colors, asymmetry, and beautiful flowy styles.
Rococo.
The Happy Accidents of the Swing (1767) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
100
One of Andy Warhol's more well-known works depicts this brand of canned food.
Campbell’s Soup Can (1962)
100
The parts of the Exposure Triangle
ISO, shutter, and aperture
100
True or false? The first Selfie was taken in 1939. –
False, the first selfie was taken in 1839 by Robert Cornelius
200
Creator of Kimba, "the Father of Manga".
Osamu Tezuka
200
She once told art critic Emily Genauer: "I hate flowers--I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."
Georgia O'Keeffe
200
Richard Hamilton is considered a pioneer of the Pop Art movement. Why did his 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? create the term "Pop Art".
The enormous Tootsie POP in the hands of the central figure.
200
What were the traditional ingredients of tempera paint?
Madonna and Child (1284) by Duccio, tempera with gold ground on wood.
Egg yolk and pigment diluteted with water.
200
The first commercially successful photographic process.
Daguerreotype (duh·geh·ruh·tipe)
Invented in 1839 by Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre using a sheet of silver-plated copper and mercury vapour.
300
What ties these four together in the modern-day?
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were named after the renaissance artists Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo
300
This voluptuous sculpture was discovered near Willendorf, Austria and is dated around 25000 BC.
"The Venus of Willendorf"
300
Name the artist
Keith Haring
Untitled, (1993) - Untitled, (1983)
300
How Leonardo Da Vinci gained a detailed understanding of human anatomy.
Dissecting corpses to better understand bone and muscle structure.
300
He was a master orator, former slave, abolitionist, preacher, feminist, an early proponent of desegregated education, and the most photographed American of the 19th century.
Frederick Douglass
400
This former US President died while sitting through a portrait session with Elizabeth Shoumatoff.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the unfinished canvas was aptly named The Unfinished Portrait of FDR (1945).
400
He was responsible for designing Mickey Mouse.
Ub Iwerks
According to Chuck Jones, whom Iwerks gave Jones's start in animation, "He was the first, if not the first, to give his characters depth and roundness. But he had no concept of humor; he simply wasn't a funny guy."
400
Name the Artist
Roy Lichtenstein
Whaam! (1963)
400
This cancer-causing pigment is still commonly used in paints and stained-glass due to its quality and abundance.
Cadmium
400
Kodak engineer Steven Sasson invented the first digital camera in 1975, it weighed this much.
eight pounds
500
This was the first manga brought to America with its original art in 1978.
Keiji Nakazawa's “Barefoot Gen”
Previously, in 1965 a redrawn American adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy was published in the US.
500
His revolutionary approach to oil was such that a myth, perpetuated by Giorgio Vasari, arose that he had invented oil painting.
Jan van Eyck
Ghent Altarpiece (1432)
500
This Andy Warhol piece and this 14th-century religious piece have what in common?
Both Marilyn Diptych (1962) and The Wilton Diptych (c. 1395–1399) are Diptychs, a two paneled painting that is intended to be stored folded to protect the painting.
500
In 1907 this was the closest thing to drone footage.
Pigeon Photography
500
He took the most viewed photo in human history.
Charles O’Rear, the image titled “Bliss” was the default background for Windows XP computers
