Art & Craft Facts for Kids
Colourful facts about art and creativity
Arte Povera was an Italian movement using humble everyday materials β twigs, soil, rags β to challenge consumer society.
Conceptual art, pioneered in the 1960s, holds that the concept behind a work is more important than its physical form.
Han van Meegeren forged Vermeer paintings so convincingly in the 1930s that he fooled leading art experts.
Chinese landscape painting is deeply philosophical β the relationship between humans and nature reflects Taoist and Confucian thought.
Japanese ukiyo-e prints profoundly influenced Impressionists and Post-Impressionists β Monet collected hundreds of them.
The Fibonacci spiral β a mathematical sequence in nature β appears in shells, sunflowers, and has influenced art composition.
Body and performance art of the 1970s used the artist's own body as the medium β challenging what art could be.
Leonardo's Vitruvian Man illustrates the ideal human proportions described by Roman architect Vitruvius.
The High Renaissance (1490-1527) achieved an ideal of harmony, clarity, and grandeur β with Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
Mannerism followed the High Renaissance by deliberately distorting proportions and using unnatural colours for dramatic effect.