Once Upon a Timeline
"The Great Wave off Kanagawa" is from this Art Category, based on our worksheets.
What is Asian Art (Japan)?
Greek idea meaning "counter balance," made statues look for natural/realistic.
What is Contrapposto?
The term for decorative handwriting.
What is Calligraphy?
Painter of the Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
You do this to clay to remove air bubbles and dry the clay.
What is wedging?
"The Istar Gate" is from this Art Category, based on our worksheets.
What is Mesopotamia?
The most common theme of prehistoric art?
What are animals?
Frescoes are made when painting into this material.
What is wet plaster?
One of the first Medieval Artists to get credit, major work was called the "Maesta."
Duccio?
Paint that is washable, cheap, and easy to mix, but can feel chalky and lightens in color as it dries.
What is Tempera?
Michelangelo's "Pieta" is from this Art Category, based on our worksheets.
What is the Renaissance?
Daily Double!
Name three examples of Renaissance art borrowing an idea from Classical art. For full points you must point out what is "Classical" about your examples.
In Art History, the term "Classical" is referring to these two cultures.
What is Greece and Rome?
Chinese artist with a major landscape painting called "Travelers among Mountains and Streams."
Who is Fan Kuan?
What is the "Art Pencil Code" for a regular #2 pencil?
What is HB?
"The Bayeux Tapestry" is from this Art Category, based on our worksheets.
What is Medieval Europe?
Three orders of Greek Columns, in order.
What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?
The term for art work that does not include humans.
What is Non-Figural?
This Ancient Greek artist created the Discus Thrower.
Who is Myron?
Printmaking technique were you add to the image, instead of carving it away.
What is a Collagraph?
"The Parthenon" is from this Art Category, based on our worksheets.
What is Ancient Greece?
Reason images were so important in Medieval Europe.
What is "few people could read, it was the only way to communicate"?
Reason for Egyptian paintings to have distorted body positions.
What is "They thought it would help their soul (Ka) recognize them"?
Islamic calligraphy artist created art out of his Sultan's name.
Who is Mustafa Râkim?
The lightest part of a realistic drawing, the opposite of the Shadow.
What is the Highlight?