Famous Artists
This artist was famous for using popular culture in his artworks, including celebrities and advertising.
Who is Andy Warhol?
This painting features a woman with an enigmatic smile.
What is The Mona Lisa?
Melted clay is called this
What is slip?
This drawing technique shows objects disappearing in to space as they move further away.
What is one-point perspective?
What you make when you soak clay in water.
What is Slip?
No one really knows who this famous graffiti artist is.
Who is Banksy?
This painting, by Monet, features a pond from his own personal garden.
What is Water Lillies?
The name for clay that has only been fired once in the kiln, but not yet glazed.
What is bisque?
When you mix primary colors together you get these types of colors.
What are Secondary Colors?
Paint made by mixing a pigment and egg yolk.
What is Tempera Paint?
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
This work of Andy Warhol's, featuring a very famous musician and actor, sold for $100 million dollars.
What is Seven Elvises?
The name for raw, unfired clay.
What is Greenware?
The imaginary spot on the horizon line that objects disappear toward.
What is Vanishing Point?
This is the artistic media made by compressing burnt willow or pine bark into sticks.
What is Charcoal?
This artist could see sounds as colors and shapes. A disorder called Synesthesia.
Who is Wassily Kandinsky?
This type of flower is featured quite heavily in a lot of Vincent van Gogh's work.
What is a sunflower?
The name for the drying stage of clay when it is not yet bone dry but you cannot work with it anymore.
What is leather-hard?
This painting technique is named for its small dots of color.
What is Pointillism?
Word given to the liquid part of any type of paint that does not contain any color (pigment).
Suspension
This artist was part of a movement called Abstract Expressionism, in which he threw, dripped, poured, and splattered paint on a large canvas.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
This print, created by Hokusai, is one of the most famous Japanese prints ever made, and is even featured as an emoji today.
What is The Great Wave?
The process of making pottery on the wheel is called this.
What is throwing?
This can be added to oil paint or oil pastels to dilute the color or smooth out the paint on the canvas.
What is Linseed Oil?
This is the letter shown in front of the number on a drawing pencil to indicate that the graphite inside is soft
What is "B"?