Ancient Art
The Renaissance
Modern and Contemporary Art
Art Techniques
The Art Biz
100
Ancient rock art is more commonly known by this term
What is cave painting?
100
This well-known fresco of the Last Supper was painted by this artist. (Name must be given correctly!)
Who is Leonardo? (Or, Leonardo Da Vinci)
100
This famous artist didn't start painting until he was almost 30.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
100
In a perspective drawing, lines that recede away from the viewer converge upon any number of these.
What are vanishing points?
100
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This retail business is where artwork is sold, and the profits are shared between the artists and the people who run the business.
What is an art gallery?
200
An example of this art form was discovered in a pattern on a 5,200 year old bowl from what is now Iran.
What is animation?
200
The Renaissance refers to a series of cultural movements that took place mainly on this continent.
Where is Europe?
200
This famous 20th century American artist killed himself in a car crash before he had a chance to drink himself to death.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
200
These two types of lines are used to measure and record the positions and edges of forms in a drawing.
What are structural and observed lines?
200
This type of business sells artwork to the highest bidder on the behalf of its current owner.
What is an auction house?
300
The Moai monoliths, which were carved over 3,000 years ago, are better known by this name.
What are the Easter Island heads?
300
The above painting by Johannes Vermeer, "Head of a Young Girl," is commonly known by this title.
What is "Girl with a Pearl Earring"?
300
The development of this art form caused many painters to abandon realism in favor of abstraction.
What is photography?
300
This component of paint gives it its color.
What is pigment?
300
Pop art provocateur Maurizio Cattelan created an international sensation in 2019 when he duct-taped this item to the wall of a booth in a famous art fair and it sold for $120,000.
What is a banana?
400
Desert kites are enormous structures that, in addition to making shapes that can be seen from the sky, served this function.
What is trapping game and livestock?
400
This 17th century Dutch master is credited with over 80 well-known self-portraits.
Who is Rembrandt?
400
This popular street artist is most likely a collective of people with a global network of participating artists.
What is Banksy?
400
Johannes Vermeer is known to have used this optical tool in the creation of his paintings.
What is a camera obscura?
400
Contemporary artist Anish Kapoor holds the exclusive artistic rights to use this blacker-than-the-blackest-black material.
What is Vantablack?
500
These members of ancient Egyptian society tended to be depicted in the artwork of the time and buried in luxurious cases.
Who are monarchs/pharaohs?
500
This Italian master was as well known for his use of light and shadow to convey a sense of drama as he was for his extravagant and sometimes dangerous lifestyle.
Who was Michelangelo da Caravaggio?
500
Brian Donnelly, who worked as an animator on TV shows like Daria and Doug, is better known as an artist by this pseudonym.
Who is KAWS?
500
In color theory, orange, violet, and green share this type of harmonious relationship.
What is triadic?
500
In order to be taken seriously by art institutions and dealers, most artists need to develop one of these.
What is a portfolio?