Types and Elements of Art
Art Movements
Inventions
Inventors
Science Milestones
100
A kind of art composed of many small tiles placed together to form an image.
What is a Mosaic?
100
an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture. It involved capturing a static image from multiple angles at once.
The most well known artist from this movement is Pablo Picasso.
What is cubism?
100
Invented in 3500 B.C. this is something we still use today. The first was invented for pottery but has since been a part of our daily lives.
What is the Wheel?
100
He patented the first successful telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100
It was discovered with an experiment using a kite and a key.
What is electricity?
200
These include Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian
What are types of Columns?
200
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.
The most well known artist from this movement is Salvador Dali.
What is Surrealism?
200
Invented in ancient Rome, this common tool consists of a single sharp rod of metal.
What is a nail?
200
They created the first Gas Powered car.
Who is Karl Benz?
200
The first of these was invented by Edward Jenner, in 1796 and involved injecting a young boy with the cowpox virus.
What are Vaccines?
300
an extremely thin sheet of gold that is used especially for gilding.
What is Gold Leaf?
300
A term used for art that mimics reality.
What is realism?
300
The first of these was invented in china between the 1st and 2nd century, it was made of lodestone, a naturally-magnetized iron ore, the attractive properties of which they had been studying for centuries.
what is a compass?
300
The inventor of Television.
Who is Philo Farnsworth?
300
First appearing around 3500 BC this was such a milestone it had an age named after it.
It may have been discovered when copper and tin-rich rocks were used to build campfire rings.
What is Bronze?
400
a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer's eye.
Bonus points if you can name the artist that developed this technique.
What is Pointillism?
It was developed by Georges Seurat with the aim of producing a greater degree of luminosity and brilliance of color.
400
a style of decorative art, architecture, and design prominent in western Europe and the US from about 1890 until World War I and characterized by intricate linear designs and flowing curves based on natural forms.
From the French for New
What is Art Nouveau?
400
this device, Invented by Johannes Gutenberg, allowed for a more widespread distribution of written information.
What is the printing press?
400
The inventor of Coca-Cola
Who is Dr. John S. Pemberton
400
Its first calculation was done by Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC), one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world.
What is pi?
500
Also called relievo, (from Italian relievare, “to raise”), in sculpture, any work in which the figures project from a supporting background. To project out from the surface from which they were carved.
What is Relief?
500
the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
What is the Renaissance?
500
it was discovered by Alexander Fleming, from a contaminated petri dish and some rogue mold.
What is penicillin?
500
He invented the game of Basketball
Who is James Naismith?
500
Otto Hahn won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944 for his discovery of this.
What is Nuclear Fission?