Styles
What is Abstract Art?
an American portrait painter based in New York City known for his naturalistic paintings of Black people that reference the work of Old Master paintings
Who is Kehinde Wiley?
is a design in which lines, shapes, forms or colors are repeated.
What is a pattern?
Art that puts two things together that don't usually belong.
What is Juxtaposition?
Artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions.
What is Expressionism?
an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement and who died at the tender age of 27.
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?
Showing where the light hits the object in a drawing. Also referred to drawing light and shadows.
What is value?
Art that takes an animal and gives it human characteristics.
What is Anthropomorphism?
Art that is accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life.
An African-American artist and teacher who uses heavy abstract patterns in her works of art.
Who is Alma Woodsey Thomas?
What is Mosaic?
A term used for an artist who is currently living.
What is a Contemporary Artist?
Art that is created with the support of technology.
What is Digital Art?
a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
Who is Salvador Dali?
Art that uses pieces of paper, photographs and magazines that are arranged and glued onto a surface to create a new image. It can have a mixture of words and images.
What is Collage?
An artist who did not attend art school but learned to create on their own.
What is a self-taught artist?
Art that balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams.
What is Surrealism?
an American fiber artist who has created a new genre of quilting which incorporates portraits of African American History.
Who is Bisa Bulter?
Art that defines the outline of a form, as well as interior structure, without the use of shading.
What is Contouring?
The term that refers to someone who creates for themselves or others?
What is an Artist?