I was the first Mexican artist to exhibit at the Louvre.
Correct! Wrong!
Frida Kahlo studied science at school and planned to become a doctor. Badly injured in a bus crash, Kahlo started painting while she was recovering and unable to get out of bed. Frida Kahlo never recovered completely and she often painted images of her body in great pain. She is known for her self-portraits and for her portrayals of Mexican culture. She said of her self-portraits: “I paint self-portraits because…I am the person I know best”
My artwork has been turned into one of the most used emojis
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I turned down a knighthood in 1990, saying: “I don’t value prizes…I value friends”
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My 17-foot tall sculpture of David is seen as the Renaissance ideal of the perfect human figure
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I was born in Covent Garden. My father was a barber and I kept my cockney accent all my life
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I am a Japanese artist, known for using dots throughout my work and famous for my brightly coloured pumpkins
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Yayoi Kusama is the biggest-selling female artist in the world. She creates paintings, installations, performances and sculptures – they all have one thing in common: dots! She says, “‘Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos. Polka dots are a way to infinity. “
An Italian Renaissance painter, I painted ‘The Mona Lisa’. It took me four years to complete from 1503
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I said, “A line is a dot that went for a walk”. I developed my ‘magic square’ painting style, abstract patchworks of colour, in World War One
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I was a nineteenth century, female, American artist. Degas invited me to join the Impressionists in 1877
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My most famous image is of a huge wave, “Under the Wave off Kanagawa”. A Japanese artist, I am believed to have produced 30,000 artworks in my lifetime
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ARTISTS Quiz
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History Heroes ARTISTS is a fun game about forty of the most famous artists in art history. The game contains fantastically illustrated cards, packed with facts about 40 of the greatest artists from 15th century Botticelli and Artemesia Gentileschi to today’s Yayoi Kusama and David Hockney. Read and enjoy all the facts and try to win the cards by guessing who the famous artist is from the facts read out on the cards. Do you know which artist is a great fan of Walt Disney and who changed their name at least 30 times during their lifetime? Do you know how Impressionism got its name? If you know the answers, you can win the cards. If not, discover these and learn SO many more facts about art by playing History Heroes: ARTISTS
I was the first Mexican artist to exhibit at the Louvre.
Correct! Wrong!
Frida Kahlo studied science at school and planned to become a doctor. Badly injured in a bus crash, Kahlo started painting while she was recovering and unable to get out of bed. Frida Kahlo never recovered completely and she often painted images of her body in great pain. She is known for her self-portraits and for her portrayals of Mexican culture. She said of her self-portraits: “I paint self-portraits because…I am the person I know best”
My artwork has been turned into one of the most used emojis
Correct! Wrong!
I turned down a knighthood in 1990, saying: “I don’t value prizes…I value friends”
Correct! Wrong!
My 17-foot tall sculpture of David is seen as the Renaissance ideal of the perfect human figure
Correct! Wrong!
I was born in Covent Garden. My father was a barber and I kept my cockney accent all my life
Correct! Wrong!
I am a Japanese artist, known for using dots throughout my work and famous for my brightly coloured pumpkins
Correct! Wrong!
Yayoi Kusama is the biggest-selling female artist in the world. She creates paintings, installations, performances and sculptures – they all have one thing in common: dots! She says, “‘Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos. Polka dots are a way to infinity. “
An Italian Renaissance painter, I painted ‘The Mona Lisa’. It took me four years to complete from 1503
Correct! Wrong!
I said, “A line is a dot that went for a walk”. I developed my ‘magic square’ painting style, abstract patchworks of colour, in World War One
Correct! Wrong!
I was a nineteenth century, female, American artist. Degas invited me to join the Impressionists in 1877
Correct! Wrong!
My most famous image is of a huge wave, “Under the Wave off Kanagawa”. A Japanese artist, I am believed to have produced 30,000 artworks in my lifetime
Correct! Wrong!
ARTISTS Quiz
Oh dear…
Almost good enough to put on the fridge door…. Buy the game!
How to Play
There are many ways of playing History Heroes quiz card games. Each pack gives suggestions on how to play, or you can make up your own rules if everyone playing agrees to them! Win the game by winning the character cards, and you win the cards by guessing/knowing the facts about each History Hero. You can use the images as clues and you can use the different levels of facts to make it as easy or as hard as you want to play the game.
Fun Way to Learn
The History Heroes ARTISTS game is a fun way to learn about famous artists and art history. It’s an excellent travel game: pop it in your bag, keep in the car and it makes a great home education and home learning game too.
Additional information
Weight
0.145 kg
Dimensions
11.8 × 7 × 1.8 cm
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