#9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: In contrast to the thick impasto of her contemporaries in this 2-word style, Helen Frankenthaler used a technique called "soak-stain" Abstract Expressionism |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | ART & ARTISTS $600: Her accomplished use of this technique of light & shadow made Artemisia Gentileschi a masterful talent of the Baroque era chiaroscuro |
#1, aired 2023-05-08 | ART TERMS $1000: Nothing to do with noodles, it's the 7-letter Italian technique of laying on paint thickly impasto |
#8799, aired 2023-02-02 | ART-POURRI $600: This 5-letter word follows "wood" in the printing technique used by Japanese masters like Hiroshige block |
#8655, aired 2022-06-03 | RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS $600: A master of print making, Albrecht Dürer used this grainy technique to great effect as seen here woodcuts |
#9, aired 2022-02-15 | COURSE SYLLABLES $400: 4 syllables:
This course on the art & technique of building & design architecture |
#8356, aired 2021-03-15 | ART $800: In the 1940s & '50s this artist's drip technique opened the way to what was referred to as "action painting" Jackson Pollock |
#8106, aired 2019-12-02 | TV PEOPLE $1000: The alla prima art technique allowed this man who passed away in 1995 to complete a painting in 30 minutes on PBS Bob Ross |
#8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ART & ARTISTS $400: 14th century artist Giotto was a master of this technique, painting directly on freshly plastered walls fresco |
#8001, aired 2019-05-27 | FEELING ART "C" $400: This French-named technique involves sticking photos, papers or really anything onto a canvas or backing a collage |
#7626, aired 2017-11-06 | RECYCLOPEDIA $400: Newspaper can be recycled via this art technique, whose name means "chewed paper" papier-mâché |
#7522, aired 2017-05-02 | ART "C" $2000: The name of this technique pioneered by Leonardo da Vinci means "light & dark" chiaroscuro |
#7396, aired 2016-11-07 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Intonaco is the final, smooth coat of plaster spread onto a wall in the buon', or true, type of this painting technique fresco |
#7328, aired 2016-06-22 | ART TERMS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a sketch on the monitor.) To give the illusion of shade or texture in a drawing, artists create a mesh-like pattern of lines in a technique called this crosshatching |
#7290, aired 2016-04-29 | ART HISTORY $1600: This "dotty" art theory & technique was developed by the Neo-Impressionists Pointillism |
#7287, aired 2016-04-26 | THE BROAD $400: Andy Warhol used this printing technique also known as serigraphy; its colors & evocation of commercial art fit the pop project silkscreen |
#7211, aired 2016-01-11 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Sometimes done to color wood, it's also Helen Frankenthaler's technique of pouring paint & letting it run stain |
#7189, aired 2015-12-10 | TERM OF ART $400: This printing technique that has a fabric in its name is also called serigraphy silkscreen |
#7159, aired 2015-10-29 | ART $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the Italian term for a mural technique using water-based paint on lime plaster; the Sistine Chapel has examples fresco |
#6880, aired 2014-07-11 | WORKS OF ART $1200: "Circus Sideshow", completed in 1888, was this artist's first night painting using the Pointillist technique (Georges) Seurat |
#6594, aired 2013-04-25 | WHAT'S YOUR TECHNIQUE? $1600: The flowers are piled on top of each other in moribana, a style of this classical art of Japanese flower arranging Ikebana |
#6488, aired 2012-11-28 | ITALIAN ART $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Caravaggio's "Deposition from the Cross" illustrates this technique that uses light & shadow to create 3-D effects; its name is from the Italian for "clear and dark" chiaroscuro |
#6301, aired 2012-01-30 | ART "R"EVIEW $400: Donatello used a relatively flat type of this technique, where figures project from the background relief |
#6098, aired 2011-03-02 | ART -ISMS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Seurat's painting of the "Circus Sideshow" uses this new Impressionist technique, featuring small dots & brush strokes that, from a distance, create blended color pointillism |
#5886, aired 2010-03-29 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $400: Roy Lichtenstein perfected his technique for simulating benday dots to mimic the artwork found in these "strips" comic strips |
#5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ART $400: Giotto's realistic technique revolutionized painting & was a strong influence on this art era of the 1400s the Renaissance |
#5579, aired 2008-12-04 | OLYMPIC HEROES $400: In 2004 Ryoko Tani's inside leg technique brought her a second straight gold in this martial art judo |
#5462, aired 2008-05-13 | ART HISTORY $400: This Spaniard's contributions include pioneering Cubism & making collage an art technique Picasso |
#5425, aired 2008-03-21 | TERMES D'ART $1200: French term for the technique of placing paper over a relief surface & rubbing with crayon or pencil frottage |
#5425, aired 2008-03-21 | TERMES D'ART $1600: This French-named illusory technique tricks the eye into thinking a painted object is real & not two-dimensional trompe-l'œil |
#5374, aired 2008-01-10 | AN ART "C" CATEGORY $2000: Here we see mastery of this technique from the Italian for "bright and dark", used to create a 3-D effect chiaroscuro |
#5298, aired 2007-09-26 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Helen Frankenthaler's "soak and stain" technique was inspired by this artist's drip paintings (Jackson) Pollock |
#5273, aired 2007-07-11 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $400: Fresco is an art technique; Fresca is a product of this soft drink company Coca-Cola |
#5034, aired 2006-06-29 | LITERARY STYLES $1200: The Parnassians of 19th c. France used strict technique & advocated this, later used as a motto by MGM ars gratia artis (art for art's sake) |
#4862, aired 2005-11-01 | ART TERMS $800: As in the work seen here, this technique often includes photographs collage |
#4831, aired 2005-09-19 | ART TECHNIQUE $400: In the 1700s Rosalba Carriera, whose work is seen here, was the first to popularize these pigment sticks pastels |
#4831, aired 2005-09-19 | ART TECHNIQUE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew makes some cartoon trees grow.) By enlarging the nearest part of the image, this technique adds the illusion of depth foreshortening |
#4831, aired 2005-09-19 | ART TECHNIQUE $1200: Encaustic painting, used since ancient times, applies this animal product to a rigid surface & fixes it with heat wax |
#4831, aired 2005-09-19 | ART TECHNIQUE $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows off a blank canvas.) This step in prepping a canvas doesn't mean measuring; it means adding a layer of glue so the paint doesn't sink in & lose its color to size your canvas |
#4831, aired 2005-09-19 | ART TECHNIQUE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew fiddles with some classical whiskers.) This term for deliberately blurring an area, as Titian did here, sounds like a combination of "scramble" & "jumble" scumble |
#4649, aired 2004-11-18 | ART HISTORY CLASS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew points to an image of a painting on a screen.) The brushstroke works of this pop artist are parodies on abstract art technique Lichtenstein |
#4475, aired 2004-02-06 | ART HISTORY $1200: Andrea Mantegna developed sotto in su, the technique of making paintings here look like they're floating on the ceiling |
#4418, aired 2003-11-19 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Dots of color are applied on the canvas so that they fuse at a distance in the viewer's eye in this technique Pointillism |
#4320, aired 2003-05-16 | ART $1600: Disciple Paul Signac helped Georges Seurat develop this signature painting technique Pointillism |
#4041, aired 2002-03-11 | OBJETS D'ART $2000: The late Matisse work seen here shows the technique he called "drawing with" these tools scissors |
#2936, aired 1997-05-12 | ART $200: Sadly, the technique he invented to paint "The Last Supper" led to its rapid deterioration Leonardo da Vinci |
#2936, aired 1997-05-12 | ART $1,000 (Daily Double): Gouache is a type of this painting technique; its name comes from guazzo, Italian for "puddle" Watercolor |
#2730, aired 1996-06-14 | ART $1000: After seeing this American's "drip" paintings, Helen Frankenthaler developed her innovative stain technique Jackson Pollock |
#2609, aired 1995-12-28 | ART $400: In this technique of painting on plaster, softer, less brilliant colors are used fresco |
#2609, aired 1995-12-28 | ART $800: In this painting technique, egg yolk is used as a binder for a pigment-water mixture tempera |
#2503, aired 1995-06-21 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $600: His 1886 painting "The Lighthouse at Honfleur" displays his famous pointillist technique (Georges) Seurat |
#2477, aired 1995-05-16 | THE SHADOW $500: Leonardo da Vinci is known for his use of this art technique of light & shadow chiaroscuro |
#2414, aired 1995-02-16 | ART CLASS $400: This technique often involves the hands & arms too, not just the digits as its name implies finger-painting |
#2278, aired 1994-06-29 | ART $600: He hadn't perfected his pointillist technique when he painted "A Bathing Place" around 1884 Seurat |
#1387, aired 1990-09-18 | ART $500: "Dots nice" would describe this technique used by Seurat pointillism |
#1099, aired 1989-05-18 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: Bach's set of repetitive pieces designed to show contrapuntal technique is called "The art of" this the Fugue |