Artists & Art Movements
This art movement was spawned out of WWI and centered on chance, absurdity, and meaninglessness.
What is Dadaism?
You may not have committed a crime, but these small self portraits share their name with your arrest photo and was one of our first projects.
What are Mini Mugshots?
This element represents the first dimension, is a mark that has greater length than width, and is used to represent the edge of an object.
What is a line?
This principle is a perfect repetition of elements like colors and shapes.
What is pattern?
This tools is the basis of all artists kits and is a long tube of graphite in the middle of a wooden hexagon.
What is a pencil?
This movement, followed Dadaism and wanted to explore what Freud called "the unconscious" and means beyond reality.
What is Surrealism?
This project focused on shading and observing light and shadows on objects we have arranged in a composition, photographed, and then drawn as realistically as possible.
What are still life drawings?
This element is one of the first things we learn as a kid, lives on a wheel, and is light bouncing off an object and back to the eye.
What is color?
Like pattern, this principle involves the repetition of elements but is more irregular and is a musical term.
What is rhythm?
This goopy substance is used to bond two pieces of clay together, as well as to smooth surfaces and is really just extra watery clay.
What is slip?
This Spanish artist brought Surrealism to America and had a super cool mustache.
Who is Salvador Dali?
This project involved taking a series of photos that can be played together into a movie.
What is Stop Motion?
This element sounds like it has to do with money, but really only has to do with lightness and darkness and shading.
What is value?
This principle describes an equal visual weight in a work, and could be symmetrical, asymmetrical, or radial.
What is balance?
These almost crayon-like supplies can be blended together and we used to create sunsets.
What are oil pastels?
This artist was more of a writer and revolutionary and started the Surrealist movement in France.
Who is Andre Breton?
This project was with Ms. Maeve and involved clay building and was inspired by things that grow and live outdoors.
What are nature-inspired ceramics?
This element is the 3rd dimension, and like you and or a sculpture, it is something you can walk around or view from multiple angles.
What is form?
This principle describes how things are different or opposite of each other and is often used in conjunction with the word "compare".
What is contrast?
This method allows an artists to perfectly reflect a design or drawing by getting the graphite to adhere itself to the other side of a paper.
Trace and Transfer Method
This artist was part of the Dada movement and attempted to submit a urinal as a fountain to a gallery show to question what art is.
Who is Marcel Duchamp?
Our last project of the year, this project uses color theory, painting, and radially balanced designs
What are Monochromatic Mandalas?
This element is the illusion of depth, like a room, on a flat 2D surface, like paper.
What is space?
This principle describes how a work of art or several works of art are tied together by themes, elements, or ideas, like the States of America.
What is unity?
These tools are made from soft, wrapped up rice papers and are used for softening graphite and blending it together.