Stone Age
Egyptian
Greek
Roman
Elements of Art
100
When was the Stone Age?
30,000-2500 BC
100
When was the ancient Egyptian art period?
1,000 BC-100 AD
100
What time period includes ancient Greek art?
850 BC-31 BC
100
When was most Roman art created?
500 BC-476 AD
100
Which element of art includes "contour"?
line
200
Where is most Stone Age art found?
Caves
200
Where is most Egyptian art found?
Answers I'll take: 1. In tombs/graves/pyramids. 2. On cliff or mountain sides.
200
What were female and male statues called?
Male: kouros, female: kore
200
What culture influenced Roman art the most?
Greek culture
200
Which element means "the way something feels"?
texture
300
What did Stone Age artists usually paint or draw?
Animals, hunts
300
Why are some people larger than others in Egyptian art, even though they are standing right next to each other?
The larger people were considered to be more important.
300
What was the subject matter of most sculptures?
Religious art or athletes
300
What was the subject matter of most Roman art?
Answers I'll take: 1. Religious art (either gods and goddesses or Christian) 2. Portraits for funerary masks 3. Landscapes
300
What is another word for form?
Shape
400
What materials did Stone Age artists use?
Crushed up stones, charcoal (will also take animal materials, blood, ink made from plants)
400
Why did Egyptian tombs/pyramids contain so much art/furniture/jewelry/food, etc.?
Egyptians believe that they took all of these things with them to the afterlife.
400
What other culture influenced the Greeks?
Egyptians
400
What is at least one other kind of art that Romans produced besides sculpture?
Answers I'll take: 1. frescos 2. mosaics 3. architecture
400
How can you create value using line?
I'll take: 1. stipling 2. hatching 3. crosshatching
500
Why did Stone Age artists create art?
Answers I'll take: 1. To tell stories because they had no written language. 2. For religious rituals. 3. To communicate with other groups/clans/tribes.
500
What is the name of the stone that historians used to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta Stone
500
What are the four periods of Greek art?
Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic
500
Where can you find Roman architecture today?
All over Europe!
500
Name all six elements of art.
line, value, form, texture, color, space
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