Fun Art Facts

Vincent van Gogh

• Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life.

• American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silk-screening, photography, film, and sculpture

• French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting.

• Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France

Why does the Mona Lisa have no Eyebrows?

• She lost them in a painting accident

• She plucked them off because she thought a big forehead was beautiful

• She was born with no eye brows

• her stylist accidentally waxed them off

Colour Study: squares with concentric circles was one of Kandinsky's best known works. Why is this Ironic?

• It was a practice artwork

• it was ugly

• it was a mistake

• he used the wrong colours

Yayoi Kusama loves Dots. Why does she love dots?

• They make her dizzy

• her therapist told her dots will make her less crazy

• she can't draw

• drawing dots helps her anxiety

Hokusai uses a print style called Ukiyo-e. What modern artwork is used in a similar way as Ukiyo-e.

• Museum Prints

• Portrait Paintings

• Movie Posters

• Xerox copies

Norman Rockwell painted "New Kids in the Neighborhood" during Desegregation. What was he saying was the new normal?

• People owning cats living near people with dogs

• Black children and White children living in the same neighborhood

• Kids who like baseball playing together

• kids working together to do lawn work

Roy Lichtenstein was inspired by what?

• Comic Books

• Anime

• TV shows

• Michael Jackson

Which Artwork is ABSTRACT?

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which other artwork do you think is made by Duchamp?

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Pable Picasso belonged to which art movement?

• Cubism

• surrealism

• primitivism

• abstract