END OF YEAR ART QUIZ

Year 8

The basics…

1. Who painted the Mona Lisa?2. Who painted this? 3. What is the name of the person in this sculpture?4. How do you make the colour orange?5. How do you make the colour purple?6. How do you make the colour brown?7. What does composition mean?8. What does perspective mean?

Early cultures

9. How did Egyptians show perspective in their artwork?

10. How did early Islamic artwork show perspective?

11. What was the period of great scientific and artistic change called, that happened in Europe, during which the rules of perspective were discovered?

12. When did this movement take place?

Perspective

13. Can you name 1 of the most famous artists that worked during this period?

14. What type of perspective does this photo show?

15. What do we call this?16. And what do we call this?

17. What do we call this?

Cubism

18. When did cubism take place?19. Name one of the most famous cubism artists.20. Name 1 way that Cubism was different from

any way of painting that happened before?21. What were the womens faces in this picture

influenced by?22. A lot of Cubism paintings contained real

newspapers. What is it called when an artist mixes up materials in this way?

Animating Art

23. In this unit we studied 3 animators – name one.

24. Complete the following song line:‘At night, when there is nothing to do…..’

Shared View

25. What does Aborigine mean?26. What is the name for Aboriginal spiritual

beliefs?27. How did Aborigines make Artwork? (what

techniques?)28. Where is Andy Goldsworthy from?29. Name 1 similarity between the artwork of

Andy Goldsworthy and Aborigine artwork?

Andy Goldsworthy

30. Name 3 materials Andy Goldsworthy has used to make artwork?

31. What symbols keep appearing in his work? (name 1)

32. How did he make this piece of work, what is the white material?

Drawing

33. What pencil is darker? Hb or 2b?34. Which pencil is darker 4b or EE?35. What is contour drawing? Describe 1 thing.36. What is gestural drawing? Describe 1 thing.37. What parts of your body, apart from your

fingers, do you use when you are doing gestural drawing? 1 point.

38. Draw a box about 2cm wide. In the box show me an example of cross hatching.

39. Describe what Tone is, when we are talking about drawing.

Dada

40. What does Dada mean?41. What major event in the world had just

happened when Dada was invented?42. What is the name of this artwork?43. Who is the artist?44. When was it made?45. Why is it considered Important?

Surrealism

46. Who is this man?47. What two things are shown in This picture?

48. Who painted this:49. We all know that this is not A pipe…so what is it?

50. What type of Art did Andy Warhol Make?

THE END!

• Well done year 8!• Thanks for everything!• You have been awesome!• Keep being excellent artists!