Elements of Art
the path of a point moving through space
What is a line?
What is Egypt?
Created the sculpture David and painted the Sistine Chapel
Who is Michelangelo
This style is highly imaginative and emotional, seen as "dreamlike"
What is Romanticism
The size relationships among the parts of a composition of art.
What is proportion?
Despite gaining popularity in the mid 1800s, it wasn't considered "art" until the 20th and 21st century
What is photography?
What is Rome?
He was famed as a "renaissance man" and invented sfumato
Leonardo Da Vinci
This style celebrates gaiety, romance, and grand life at court. It is also known for its use of fete galante
What is Rococo?
Artists use which techniques to shade objects to create illusions of three-dimensionality?
What is hatching and crosshatching?
where the eye tends to rest on an art piece
focal point
This country invented "contrapposto" and built the parthenon
What is Greece?
This movement aimed to move away from richly decorated churches and religious imagery
What is Reformation?
This style was in response to neoclassicism and Romanticism and depicts all features of the subject.
What is realism?
Paint is usually composed of which three materials?
What are pigments, binders, and solvents?
the creator of the color wheel
Who is Issac Newton?
Known for building massive stepped pyramids called ziggurats
what is Mesopotamia? (Sumerians is also accepted)
This movement emphasized even more lavish church decoration and highly dramatic art
What is Counter-reformation?
This style is used when an artist directly applies paint with brush strokes. Famous artist of this style is Manet
What is impressionism
The process in which an image is drawn with a waxy pencil or crayon directly on a plane, which can be made of stone, zinc, or aluminum.
What is lithography?
when wooden beams are place horizontally in order to create more support (ex: Greek Parthenon)
What is Post and Lintel Construction?
Which country in the americas is known for building the Pyramid of the Sun?
What is Mexico?
He came in 2nd at the Florence door competition and developed linear perspective
Who is Filippo Brunellschi?
This was a direct challenge to Rococo, and was a revival of interest in Classical Greek and Roman art
Neoclassicism
What is the liquid clay that is used in ceramics to produce pottery called?
What is slip?