This art movement is known for its obsessions with dreams, symbols, and the unconscious mind.
What is Surrealism?
100
The element of art used in positive and negative space and is also used as a silhouette.
What is shape?
100
This contemporary artist works from a wheel chair and is known for large scale gridded portraits.
Who is Chuck Close?
100
This principle of art references asymmetry, symmetry, and radial design.
What is balance?
100
A chalk like substance that is applied to a canvas prior to painting.
What is gesso?
200
Style of art that uses optical illusions to hide images, distort, and warp the space.
What is Op Art?
200
An identifiable path created by a point moving in space.
What is a line?
200
Artist known for his subway drawings in NYC, graffiti drawings around the world, and his foundation for Aids Awareness.
Who is Keith Haring?
200
The principle of art that uses recurring elements to form a pattern.
What is repetition?
200
A sheer and transparent water based pigment used in painting to create a wash of color.
What is watercolor?
300
This art movement was created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque between 1907-1914 and reorganized the break up of space in new ways.
What is Cubism?
300
The lightness or darkness of tones or colors.
What is value?
300
This artist said, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Who is Pablo Picassso?
300
When viewing a work of art there is a commanding place of interest within the work.
What is emphasis?
300
A French word meaning "to cut and paste."
What is collage?
400
This art movement emerged in the late 1960's and still resembles a high resolution photograph in painting and sculpture.
What is Hyper Realism?
400
The element of art that is produced when lights strikes an object and the light reflects back to the eye.
What is color?
400
This painter was famous for Starry Nights (1889), Irises (1889), and the Bedroom in Arles, (1888).
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
400
Scale and size relationships reference the parts to the whole.
What is proportion?
400
A paint made commercially available in the 1950's that is synthetic and widely used today.
What is acrylic?
500
This 19th century art movement was characterized by visible brush strokes, and an emphasis on the depiction of light and how times of day affects its changing qualities.
What is Impressionism?
500
This element references the distances between, around or within the components of an art work.
What is space?
500
This artist was known for his "drip paintings" and played a major part in the abstract expressionist movement.
Who was Jackson Pollock?
500
Compositional device that directs the viewers eye along a visual path creating action and energy in a work of art.