Art & Craft Facts for Kids
Colourful facts about art and creativity
Pointillism is a painting technique using tiny dots of pure colour β your eye blends them together from a distance.
The Great Wall of China is both an engineering marvel and a work of art β it stretches over 13,000 miles.
Botanical illustration combines science and art β precise drawings of plants were used to identify species before photography.
Manga is a Japanese style of comic art with a distinct visual language β it has influenced artists worldwide.
Over a third of Frida Kahlo's paintings are self-portraits β she said she painted herself because she knew herself best.
Relief carving is when a design is carved to stick out from the background β like the sculptures on ancient Egyptian temples.
Dada was a protest art movement born in WWI that deliberately made nonsense art to challenge tradition.
Chiaroscuro is a technique using dramatic contrasts of light and dark β Caravaggio was a master of it.
Silkscreen printing pushes ink through a mesh to create identical copies β Warhol used it to make his famous prints.
Japanese calligraphy is considered a high art form β beautiful brush-written characters are hung like paintings.