Printmaking
Drawing and Painting
Art Eras
Sculpture
Textiles
Art and Artists
100
This printmaking technique involves using a sharp tool (a burin) to create grooves in a plate made from plastic or metal.
What is intaglio? (I will also accept, "What is etching?")
100
An element of art that employs a range of lights to darks to create shading and oftentimes an illusion of 3-dimensionality on a 2-dimensional surface.
What is value?
100
Artists during this artistic era attempted to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and color.
What is impressionism?
100
This type of sculpture is defined as any work which projects from, but which belongs to the wall, or other type of background surface, on which it is carved. They can be classified as "high" or "low".
What is a relief?
100
This is a type of embroidery stitch.
What is a French knot?
100
Although she is often labeled as a surrealist, this Mexican artist disagreed and said that her paintings represented her reality.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
200
This printmaking technique involves using a sharp tool to carve into rubber or linoleum.
What is linocut?
200
This tool is used to show color relationships including color families, analogous colors, complementary colors, and color mixing.
What is a color wheel?
200
This painting by Salvador Dali was painted during this 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature movement which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.
What is surrealism?
200
Metal is typically to hard to carve so artists creative metal sculptures using this method.
What is casting?
200
This machine is used for weaving fabric.
What is a loom?
200
Rodin's sculpture bears this thoughtful title.
What is The Thinker?
300
Unlike other printmaking techniques, this method creates only one original print.
What is a monoprint?
300
An element of art that describes different weights, lengths, and types of line that are used to create interest in a work of art.
What is line quality?
300
This art style was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by two artists who brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.
What is cubism?
300
These two artists, which we looked at in class, were known for their wire sculptures.
Who are Alexander Calder and Ruth Asawa.
300
This type of stitch is used to fill in shapes.
What is a satin stitch?
300
This artist often used flowers as her source of inspiration.
Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
400
The common name of this print by Japanese artist Hokusai
What is The Great Wave?
400
This type of paint is somewhere between watercolor and acrylic and is sometimes referred to as "opaque watercolor".
What is gouache?
400
This art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drew inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture.
What is pop art?
400
Although we can't be certain, it is widely believed that the Venus of Willendorf was created for this purpose.
What is fertility?
400
Faig Ahmed, who designs non-traditional rugs, is from this country.
What is Azerbaijan?
400
The prints of Kathe Kollwitz were mainly based on this theme.
What is war?
500
This printmaking technique involves layering pieces of cardboard and other materials to create a low relief plate that is then printed.
What is a collagraph?
500
These two terms are used to describe a color mixed with white and a color mixed with black.
What is a tint and a shade?
500
This 18th-century art movement was an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colors, sculpted molding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.
What is rococo?
500
This type of art is made by arranging various objects into a sculptural composition.
What is assemblage (or found-object).
500
This artist is well-known for his "soft sculptures".
Who is Claes Oldenburg?
500
Yayoi Kusama is best known for creating this type of art, which is created for a specific site.
What is an installation?