Artists
This Italian Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
This art movement utilizes familiar imagery from mass media, advertising, and popular culture
Pop Art
This medium is made by combining color pigments with a non-drying oil and wax, then molded into sticks
Oil pastel
This Element of art implies how something looks like it would feel
Texture
This is the percentage of your grade made up by your participation
40%
This artist painted over 150 works in their lifetime, of which, over 1/3rd were self-portraits
Frida Kahlo
This art movement is characterized by the way painters attempted to capture the effects of light with quick, loose brushstrokes
Impressionism
This medium is sometimes described as an opaque watercolor
Gouache
This Element of Art describes shapes that have length, width and height
Form
This is the percentage of your grade made up of projects and assessments
40%
This Director co-founded an animation studio in Japan in 1985 where, to this day, they continue hand-drawing thousands of frames for each film
Hayao Miyazaki
This art movement emphasized realism, linear perspective, and human anatomy from roughly 1400-1600 CE
Renaissance
This medium is made by heating twigs in a sealed metal container without oxygen
Charcoal
This Element of Art describes the lightness or darkness of a color
Value
This is the percentage of your grade made up of classwork
20%
This artist sold a painting at auction for $1.4 million, moments before it passed through a shredder installed into the frame
This art movement popularized breaking down subjects into geometric, multi-angled shapes
Cubism
This art medium was traditionally bound together with egg yolks (3400–2700 BCE)
Tempera paint
This Element of Art describes the impression of light, bouncing off of objects into our eyes
Color
This is a required class material you must bring with you to each class for participation points
Sketchbook (also pencils, pens, eraser, color pencils)
This Neo-Expressionist artist explored themes of racism, classism, and identity through graffiti and mixed-medium paintings.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Reducing art down to fundamental geometric forms and extreme simplicity
Minimalism
This medium is naturally occurring in many different regions of the world and contains silica; a chemical compound which poses a life-long danger to the lungs if inhaled.
Ceramics
This Element of Art defines the area within and around a subject
Space
Art office hours occur on these two days
Wednesday and Thursday