World Book Trivia Quiz For Kids--05/12--painting

Artists have painted almost every subject there is. Paintings of people are called portraits. Paintings of land are called landscapes, and paintings of oceans and seashores are seascapes.

The mural is one of the oldest art forms. Artists use several methods to make murals. They may use many different kinds of paint and colors. Some murals, called mosaics , are made up of tiny pieces of glass or stone.

Abstract paintings show colours and shapes instead of showing real objects.

Leonardo Da Vinci was hired to do a large battle painting. While he worked on it, he painted the Mona Lisa, a picture of a young woman. The battle painting no longer exists, but the Mona Lisa is probably the most famous painting of a person ever created.

In the past, some paint companies put a metal called lead in their paint. Many governments no longer allows lead in paint, because lead can make people very sick.

Many kinds of paints are used today. Oil paints dry slowly. Tempera paints are powdered pigments mixed with water and egg yolks. Tempera paints dry very fast. Other paints that dry fast include water-color paints and acrylic paints.

One of his best-known scroll paintings shows court ladies and includes fine handwriting. The faces in the painting show character and feelings.

Perspective is a way of showing objects on a flat surface to make them look farther away or deeper. Artists often use perspective when drawing or painting. Artists in ancient Greece and Rome were the first to understand how to use perspective.

Pablo Picasso was a great Spanish artist. Some of Picasso's earliest paintings are mostly blue. Others are mostly pink and reddish. Picasso became famous for a style called cubism. In this style, people, animals, and things are made up of shapes like squares or triangles.

Painting is one of the oldest and most important arts. The earliest paintings are about 30,000 years old. They have been found in caves in Australia, France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal.