Artists
This Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa and was also an inventor and scientist.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Popularized by Monet, Manet, and Degas, this is a style or movement in painting originated in France in the 1860s.
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Impressionism
This PLACE in Italy had extravagant parties called Carnivale where people would don masks.
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Venice, Italy
A circular chart that visually organizes colors, showing the relationships between primary, secondary, and tertiary hues
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the Color Wheel
This development allowed artists to work on walls and ceilings using wet plaster.
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Fresco Painting
This contemporary artist is anonymous. They sell their work exclusively to galleries and wealthy clients, but are mostly known for elevating graffiti into fine art.
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Banksy
This 20th-century movement broke objects into geometric shapes and multiple viewpoints.
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Cubism
In Hindu and Buddhist traditions, these geometric designs are used for meditation.
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Mandalas
This principle of art refers to how light or dark something is.
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Value
This invention allowed images to be reproduced quickly and widely in Europe.
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The Printing Press.
This Japanese artist created 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'.
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Katsushika Hokusai
This movement focused on speed, machines, and everyday life.
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Modernism
This collection of clay sculptures depicted the soldiers of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China.
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Terracotta Army
Paintings like Filippo Brunelleschi's 'Madonna and Child' and Leonardo's 'Last Supper' pioneered this new set of techniques that gave their art a more 3d effect.
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Perspective
This ancient innovation allowed artists to carve long-lasting images in stone.
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Relief Sculpture
A surrealist, known for his mind-bending and dreamlike creations, such as melting clocks, he explored the realm of the subconscious and challenged the conventional notions of reality.
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Salvador Dali
This medieval art style features intricate patterns, knotwork, and illuminated manuscripts.
In this practice, artistic meaning is preserved through repetition, apprenticeship, and community memory rather than written records.
Oral Tradition
This theory argues that meaning in art is unstable and can change over time. We exist in this framework today.
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Postmodernism
Today, in the animation or game-industry pipeline, this step is where artists create images from ideas framed by their art director or from a script.
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Concept Art
This female Baroque painter was known for dramatic biblical scenes and overcoming gender barriers in art.
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Artemisia Gentileschi
Associated with the midcentury moden style, this 70s art movement was a revolutionary German art school that merged fine arts with functional crafts, emphasizing simplicity, mass production, and unity of design.
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Bauhaus
This Disney movie mythical creature is a Mingqi or a funerary figures and objects placed in tombs during ancient China's Han dynasty.
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Mushu
This light phenomenon is when light enters a translucent material, scatters internally, and exits at a different point, creating soft, realistic glows.
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Subsurface Scattering
This ancient Egyptian style followed strict rules for proportion and symbolism.
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the Canon of Proportions