History and Artworks
This portrait is famous for it's enigmatic smile and is arguably the most recognized painting in the world.
What is the Mona Lisa?
Circle, triangle and square.
What are the most basic shapes?
It's the lightness or darkness of a color, and it adds dimension in a piece.
What is value in art?
This scale, used to classify pencils from 9H (hardest) to 9B (softest), determines how light or dark a pencil mark will appear based on the hardness of its graphite core.
What is the pencil grading scale?
The artist who painted The Starry Night.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
This movement puts emphasis on capturing a momentary feel rather than detailed realism.
What is Impressionism?
Lines that are straight but slanted.
What are diagonal lines?
Red, Yellow and Blue
What are the primary colors?
Engraving, carving and painting using natural materials like stone, bone and plant pigments.
What are the oldest art mediums?
This artist was one of the most important ones for the Cubism movement.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
This 1960s art movement blurred the lines between high art and popular culture, often appropriating imagery from advertising and media.
What is Pop Art?
A line that outlines the edge of a shape or form is called this type of line.
What is a contour line?
When used in groups, these closely spaced parallel lines create shading and value in a drawing.
What is hatching?
It's a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk.
What is a/an (egg) tempera?
A secret artist known through the towns of England.
Who is Banksy?
The art movement that started in 1905 and lasted until approximately 1920.
What is Expressionism?
These are the two main types of form in art — one based on math, the other on nature.
What are geometric and organic forms?
They are the colors opposite of each other on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
This medium uses acid to bite into a metal plate to create an image.
What is etching?
He was enigmatic Renaissance artist, whose most famous painting is housed in the Louvre, was also a prolific inventor and anatomist—but completed fewer than 20 paintings in his lifetime.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This anti-war 20th-century movement aimed to break all traditional forms, often using collage, photomontage and found objects to reflect the chaos of war and modern life.
What is Dada?
It's a visual pathway created by the artist that leads the viewer's eye from one point to another without a continuous line being drawn. Works as an illusion.
What is an implied line?
A phenomenon that happens when two adjacent colors influence each other, changing our perception of these colors (more or less saturated, more or less bright)
What is simultaneous contrast?
This sculptural technique involves building up a form by adding material, such as clay or plaster.
What is additive sculpture?
This visionary Post-Impressionist reinterpreted natural forms into geometric structures, laying the foundation for the Cubist movement and modern art in general.
Who is Paul Cézanne?