Vocabulary
a color produced by mixing two secondary (or with primary) colors
Tertiary
Starry Night
Vincent Van Gogh
He was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. His most famous works were Impressionism Sunrise, The Water Lily's and Women with a Parasol.
Claude Monet
An art movement that focused on obtaining the mood or feeling of the moment. Mostly done outside and usually is done in strong messy brushstrokes.
Impressionism
A cutting tool used to make precise and fine cuts.
E-Xacto Blade
What did Glass represent in Still Life?
This was how artists showed off their skill as an artist and it was a luxury item.
Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Gustav Klimt
Who was Yayoi Kusama?
is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. She is best known for her dots.
is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself.
Surrealism
is a painting and drawing medium formed into a stick which consists of pigment mixed with a binder mixture of non-drying oil and wax.
Oil Pastels
is about separate parts working together in a composition. This is a principle of Design.
Unity
Geurnica
Pablo Picasso
He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Some of his most well known works are The Old Guitarist, Le Reve and Geurnica.
Pablo Picasso
is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related artistic movements in music, literature, and architecture. It's known for it's geometric and cube tile forms.
Cubism
A Shading Technique consistent of diagonal lines going in one direction.
Hatching
What is a Tessellation?
A pattern made with polygons (a shape with three or more sides) that completely fills a space with no gaps, spaces or overlaps.
Ciphers and Constellations In Love with a Woman
Joan Miro
Who was Stephen Wiltshire?
He is a British architectural artist and autistic savant. He is known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once.
is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.
Pointillism
Is a contour drawing done without picking your pencil off of the paper.
Continuous Contour
What is Reflective Light?
is light that is bounced off the surfaces (surroundings), making the value slightly lighter.
Impression Sunrise
Claude Monet
Who was George Seurat?
was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.
art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect.
Abstract Art
What is a Tortillon?
A blender stick made out of paper.