Color Theory
Artists
Eras/Movements
Techniques
Famous Paintings
100

Magenta, cyan, and yellow

Red, Yellow, and Blue

What are the two color theories?

100

Shot in the gut and died two days later.

How did Vincent Van Gogh Die?

100

Italy in the 14th century. Means Rebirth. The movement owed a lot to the increasing sophistication of society, characterised by political stability, economic growth and cosmopolitanism.

What is the Renaissance Movement?

100

Most common medium used in paintings.

What is Oil paint?

100

Artist of Starry Night.

Who is Vincent Van Gogh?

200

Matter vs Light

What is the key different between the two theories?

200

Most famous for painting the Sistine Chapel.

Who is Michelangelo?

200

France 1907, Use of fragmented subjects.

What is the Iconic Cubism Movement?

200

Glueing and pasting together different materials.

What is collaging?

200

Artist of the Mona Lisa.

Leonardo da Vinci

300

Forms Black, the absence of light

What happens when combining the matter color theory? OR What is the result of combining red, yellow, and blue?

300

Most famous for paintings of ballerinas.

Who is Edgar Degas?

300

France, early 19th and late 20th century. Known for their unique view on light and color.

What is the Impressionist Movement?

300

Use of thin light pigments mixed with water. 

What is Watercolor?

300

Used of red, yellow, and blue and pictured a bald man which a surrprised expression.

What is The Scream?

400

Forms White, the total absorbtion of light.

What is the result of combing the light color theory; magenta, cyan, and yellow.

400

Famous for his use of Marilyn Monroe, worked during the Pop Art Movement. 

Who is Andy Warhol?

400

Most famous for its use of common items such as soup cans and road signs.

What is the Pop Art Movement?

400

Use of a comination of small dots to create a picture and values.

What is Stippling.

400

Arist of Guernica, a cubism painting of people, bulls, horses, etc.

Who is Pablo Picasso?

500

Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary, and Triadic.

What are the two main color schemes using the matter color theory?

500

Artist who was a rival of Michelangelo.

Leonardo da Vinci

500

Late 18th century - mid 19th century. Had a deep appreciation for beauties of nature, emotions, and unique imagery. 

What is Romanticism.

500

Use of a version of plaster among oil paints. Used in the Sistine Chapel.

What is Fresco?

500

Artist of "The Girl with the Pearl Earring", also known as the Dutch Mona Lisa.

Who is Johannes Vermeer