Color Theory
Supplies
Female Artists
Male Artists
Painters Painting Paintings
100
The secondary color __________ is made by mixing red and yellow.
Orange
100
True or False
Watercolor paper is measured in weight, 90lb, 140lb, 300lb, and 400lb. The larger the number, the heavier the paper, the more water the paper can hold.
TRUE!
That's why when you are given weak watercolor paper, the paper warps and buckles and then your colors run.Or the paper is so "thin" (light weight) that its starts to make little paper balls (piling).
Sad face.
100
This Iranian exile focuses her work on the feminine, and examines the physical, emotional, and cultural implications of veiled women in Iran
Shirin Neshat
100
I wonder what Andre Breton would have to say about this Surrealism artist walking his anteater on the streets of New York City...
Dali
100
Her paintings are known for their uncompromising colors and exploration of themes like identity, the human body and death.
Frida Kahlo
200
True or False, an analogus color scheme uses three to five colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel. An example might be this:
Blue+Blue-Green+Green
True. Remember, next to each other on the color wheel. Here's some more examples:
200
True or False
You CAN paint with any medium that is powdery, you just need to grind it down and add water.
True!
Charcoal:
Chalk Pastel:
Painting with Graphite:
200
George Suerat created the style Pointilism. This artist is best known for her acrylic dot paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art. Valentino and Vogue picked up her style.
Christi Belcourt
200
Known as La Muerte in the Book of Life, she is based on La Caterina, who looked more like this...
This Mexican illustrator was a prolific graphic artist who produced an estimated twenty thousand prints, many of which critiqued Mexican politics and society.
Jose Posada
200
Who painted this?
Osgemeos
300
Name the 7 colors of the rainbow... backwards
Violet
Indigo
Blue
Green
Yellow
Orange
Red
300
Name this artist's tool.
Electric eraser.
Pencil artist Silvie Mahdal uses it for her massive pencil or charcoal pieces.
300
Surrealism artist Frida Kahlo paints her life and the painful experiences within them. One of those experiences involved her husband, who happened to be Mexico's "Father of Muralism" and is famous for "Pan America Unity" now in San Francisco, California.
Diego Rivera
300
Hell Boy
Hell Boy II
Pan's Labyrith
Pinocchio
Frankenstein
"Bleak House"
His wife made him move all of his exhibits of monsters, occult items, and gothic art to the "Bleak House."
Guillermo Del Toro
300
Pan American Unity was painted by the "Father of Mexican Muralism."
Diego Rivera
400
A triadic color scheme is a fancy word for three colors evenly spaced in a triangle pattern on the color wheel. For example, the primary colors are triadic; a second example of triadic colors is the secondary colors. Can you think of a triangle combo and name a triadic color combo from the color wheel?
Triadic color combos:
Red, Yellow, Blue.
Orange, Purple, Green.
400
Using these supplies:
images, scissors and glue...
this style of work can be made:
Collage. This is another way to create Surrealism art. Just becuase you cant draw, doesnt mean you cant dream up images and find them online.
400
This Alaskan native and activist uses her platform as a model to represent issues of environmentalism, sustainability, women's rights and Native American rights.
Quannah Rose Potts Chasinghorse
400
By using loose, gestural strokes of charcoal powder, and well defined parts of the face this first-generation Mexican American is able to capture the human form without actually "completing" the faces. 
Josh Hernandez
400
In addition to Cubism, pottery, and painting "Guernica" this artist also painted "The Old Guitarist"
from his "Blue Period."
Pablo Picasso
500
True or False...
You can have warm blues, warm reds, warm yellows.
This goes for all the colors though. So you can have a warm purple or a cold orange, or a cold yellow-green for example. All of these colors help to support different types of paintings. a
500
Name the medium used to make this piece of work:
Oil Pastel.
A famous artist that uses oil pastel was Paul Gauguin.
500
This subtractive charcoal drawing is a technique of dumping charcoal powder onto paper and erasing the charcoal to make various lighter values appear.
It was done by an artist who graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor's in Fine Art and she went on to get a Master's of Fine Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Mrs. Dawes- yeah I'm an artist too!
500
His "Blue Period" is identified by the flat expanses of blues, greys and blacks, melancholy figures lost in contemplation, and a deep and significant tragedy.
This poor standard of living, and the result of a dear friend taking his own life further developed his "Blue Period." If you're still stumped... he also painted Guernica...
Pablo Picasso
500
This Iranian-American artist uses movement, paint, or text to bring to light cultural disparities. 
Darvish
