Famous Artists
This artist's Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of Marilyn Monroe helped define American Pop Art.
Who is Andy Warhol?
In ancient Rome, artists sometimes used this unusual substance as a pigment in artwork.
What is crushed insects?
The lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
This movement embraced mass-produced imagery, advertisements, celebrities, and consumer culture.
What is Pop Art?
Vincent van Gogh painted the Mona Lisa.
What is False?
This Mexican artist is famous for her self-portraits, distinctive eyebrows, and paintings exploring identity and pain.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
Pablo Picasso reportedly kept a pet named Mimì and even included the animal in some of his paintings. What kind of animal was Mimì?
What is a monkey?
The arrangement of visual elements within an artwork.
What is composition?
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped develop this movement, which broke objects into geometric forms and showed multiple viewpoints at once.
What is Cubism?
The Statue of Liberty was designed by a French sculptor.
What is True?
This Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and created the sculpture David.
Who is Michelangelo?
The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911. Approximately how long was it missing?
What is two years?
This term describes the relationship between the size of an object or element and the size of other elements within the same artwork.
What is proportion?
This movement focused on capturing fleeting effects of light and color and often featured visible, loose brushstrokes.
What is Impressionism?
The word “Renaissance” translates to “reawakening.”
What is False?
This artist is famous for The Persistence of Memory, featuring the iconic melting clocks.
Who is Salvador Dalí?
Salvador Dalí designed a famous piece of jewelry shaped like this body part, complete with a mechanism that made it appear to beat.
What is a heart?
In art, this term describes taking a recognizable existing image, object, or other artistic material and incorporating it into a new artwork, often with little or no alteration to the original.
What is appropriation?
This movement emphasized dreamlike imagery, the unconscious mind, and bizarre combinations of otherwise ordinary objects.
What is Surrealism?
The Mona Lisa is painted on canvas.
What is False? — It's painted on a poplar wood panel.
This artist created The Birth of Venus and was a major figure of the Italian Renaissance.
Who is Sandro Botticelli?
One of the world's most famous ancient sculptures, the Venus de Milo, is missing both of these major body parts.
What are her arms?
A technique of applying paint thickly enough that the brushstrokes or texture remain visible.
What is impasto?
This movement emerged during World War I and rejected traditional artistic values, embracing absurdity, nonsense, and irrationality.
What is Dada?
Michelangelo's David was originally commissioned to be placed inside the Sistine Chapel.
What is False? — It was originally intended for the roofline of Florence Cathedral.