Art & Craft Facts for Kids
Colourful facts about art and creativity
Banksy is one of the world's most famous artists, yet nobody knows who he or she really is.
Many cave paintings include stencils of human hands β artists blew pigment around their hand pressed to the wall.
Pop Art used everyday objects as subjects β Andy Warhol famously turned Campbell's soup cans into art.
The famous glass pyramid entrance to the Louvre in Paris was designed by architect I.M. Pei and opened in 1989.
The golden ratio (approximately 1.618) is a proportion found in nature and used by artists and architects for thousands of years.
Pablo Picasso invented Cubism, an art style that shows multiple views of an object at once on a flat surface.
China's Terracotta Army consists of 8,000 life-sized clay soldiers buried with Emperor Qin Shi Huang around 210 BC.
Oil paint dries slowly, which lets artists blend colours on the canvas over days or even weeks.
Vincent van Gogh famously cut off part of his own ear during a breakdown β he even painted himself with the bandage.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright as a single continuous spiral ramp.