Artists
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American hot glass artist who made large sculptures. 

Dale Chihuly.

100

a painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects

still life

100

An artwork made with more than one art medium.

mixed media

100

a print produced when raised surfaces are inked.

 relief prints

100

 This artist had a teenage mutant ninja turtle named after him.

Leonardo DaVinci

200

An artist whose nose was deformed from an earthquake when he was a child.

Ansel Adams

200

 The materials, such as oil, watercolor, etc used to make an artwork.

medium

200

a method of mural painting in which pigments are applied to a thin layer of wet plaster so that they will be absorbed 

fresco 

200

a style emphasizing the idea behind the artwork rather than the artwork itself.

conceptual art

200

This artist didn't want to go to college and later co-founded a college. 

Dale Chihuly

300

American architect who used organic methods to blend buildings into nature.

Frank Loyd Wright

300

A technique of painting in which water-based paint is mixed or tempered with egg yolk.

Tempera 

300

a type of painting consisting of pigments mixed with linseed oil. 

oil

300

all the visible features of an area of countryside or land.

landscape

300

name atleast 5 of the following neutral colors 

gray, black, white, tan, beige, brown, taupe

400

Renaissance man from Italy, who was an inventor many of his sketches found in his notebooks after his death were far ahead of his time. He also painted The Last Supper.

Leonardo DaVinci

400

a free-standing sculpture meant to be seen from all sides.

sculpture in the round

400

a synthetic painting medium in which pigments are mixed with acrylic, a plastic emulsion that acts as a vehicle, and a binder.

acrylic
400

works of a theoretical nature performed by the artists before an audience. 

performance arts

400

a mural technique formed by placing colored pieces of marble or glass, small stones, or ceramic tiles in a layer of adhesive material.

mosaic 

500

An environmentalist advocated for nature preservation. Was known for taking photographs at Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks.

Ansel Adams

500

a printmaking technique in which the artists create a design or an image on a stencil and then place it on a screen that is stretched tightly over a frame. 

Silk Screen 

500

a two-dimensional composition made by gluing various materials such as paper, fabric, etc. On a flat, firm surface

collage 

500

often large in scale and temporary, these assembled artworks often juxtapose two and three-dimensional objects and materials.

 installation art

500

 A method of printmaking from a flat stone or metal plate. A drawing is made is on the stone or plate with a greasy crayon and chemically treated so that only the greasy drawing will hold the ink while the remaining surface resists it. A print is then made from that plate.

lithography