Random Trivia
This soft drink once contained cocaine as one of its original ingredients.
What is Coca-Cola?
Lawrence Alloway is credited with this two-word term for work that uses comic strips, soup cans and the like as subject matter.”
What is Pop Art?
A very small, simple sketch usually done before a painting to try out design or subject ideas.
What is a thumbnail?
Made from twigs of willow or vine that have been heated at a high temperature in an enclosed vessel without oxygen
What is charcoal?
The industry standard software for creating raster files.
What is Adobe Photoshop?
This self-referential hit was the first video ever played on MTV.
What is "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles?
Modern movement that is named for the optical illusions created by its geometric patterns.
What is Op Art?
Landscape artist Eugene Boudin influenced the impressionists to paint "En Plein Air," meaning this.
What is outside?
A water-based matte paint, sometimes called opaque watercolor.
What is gouache?
A type of colouring where two or more colours transition to each other based on hue, saturation or brightness.
What is a gradient?
The singer-actor Stefani Germanotta better known by this stage name.
Who is Lady Gaga?
An ornamental style of art that flourished between about 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the United States.
What is Art Nouveau?
This three-part panel was a common form for altarpieces in medieval art.
What is a Triptych?
A type of paper made from polypropylene resin as its primary material.
What is YUPO?
A self-published booklet created with a DIY (do it yourself) ethic. Usually made in small batches by nonprofessional publishers.
What is a zine?
What is Starburst?
Renoir and Monet were part of this art movement that tried to capture what the eye sees at a particular moment.
What is Impressionism?
14th-century artist Giotto was a master of this technique, painting directly on freshly plastered walls.
What is Fresco?
Paints composed of pigments ground to an extremely fine texture in an aqueous solution of gum Arabic or gum tragacanth.
What is watercolor?
This a digital file format that is endlessly resizable without loss of quality.
What is a vector?
According to Instacart, this is the most disliked food in America.
What is Anchovies?
Giotto's realistic technique revolutionized painting and was a strong influence on this art era of the 1400s.
What is the Renaissance?
An Italian term for studied carelessness, especially as a characteristic quality or style of art or literature.
What is Sprezzatura?
This material is made mainly from soot of burnt lamp oil or pinewood, animal glue and perfume.
What is sumi ink?
A design movement, which began in Germany in 1919, was created to oppose opulent styles like art nouveau.
What is Bauhaus?