Element's of art
The building blocks that artists use to create images on canvas and in our minds
What is shape?
The use of artistic elements such as line, texture, color, and form in the creation of artworks in a way that renders visual stability
What is balance?
Created elaborate, fantastical spaces in his paintings that are an excellent example of Surrealism in their reliance on dream-like imagery and their use of biomorphism.
Who is Joan Miro?
A 4.4-inch-tall figurine made from limestone discovered in Willendorf, Austria.
What is Venus of Willendorf?
Francis Bacon featured painting in Batman.
What is Figure with Meat?
The way an object feels to the touch or looks as it may feel if it were touched.
What is texture?
Principle of design that suggests movement or action.
What is rhythm?
Works tend to be intellectual, often dealing with visual puns and the relation between the representation of something and the thing itself.
Who is Rene Magritte?
This painted limestone bust, now in the Neues Museum in Berlin, is a beautiful portrait.
What is bust of Nefertiti by Thutmose?
Roberto Longo presented a painting in the movie American Pyscho.
What is the Men in Cities series?
Connotes something that is three-dimensional and encloses volume, having length, width, and height.
What is form?
Repeating or echoing the visual elements of an artwork.
What is pattern?
His decision to become a painter was his sighting of a canvas by Giorgio de Chirico in a shop window in 1923.
Who is Yves Tanguy?
A collection of statues in Xi'an, China, depicting the army of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China.
What is the Terracotta Warriors?
Pablo Picasso had a painting in Children of Men.
What is Guernica?
Refers to the distance between or the area around and within shapes, forms, colors, and lines.
What is space?
Refers to the use of visual elements to draw attention to a certain area, usually a focal point, in an artwork.
Painted in the summer of 1929 just after Dalí went to Paris for his first Surrealist exhibition.
Who is Salvador Dali?
Depicts three marble figures in an action-packed scene based on an ancient Greek myth.
What is Laocoon and His Sons?
Albrecht Durer has a painting in Dracula.
What is Self-Portrait?
It is produced when light waves strike an object and are reflected in our eyes.
What is color?
Refers to the arrangement of opposite elements and effects.
What is contrast?
Was one of the few Surrealists who focused on sculpture.
Who is Alberto Giacometti?
Known as the Aphrodite of Milos and is thought to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love.
What is Venus De Milo?
Alex Katz had a painting in The Devil Wears Prada.
What is Harbor #3?