ART🎨Fundamentals
This discipline focuses on the visual qualities of an artwork itself, such as line, color, and composition
What is formal analysis?
The stick chart object from Micronesia used to navigate ocean swells without printed maps
What is a Rebbelib Navigation Chart?
This Mexican artist painted The Two Fridas, representing her dual heritage
Who is Frida Kahlo?
This French Impressionist painter produced a famous 1877 series capturing modern industrial travel at the Gare Saint-Lazare train station in Paris
Who is Claude Monet?
The speed or pace of a given piece of music
What is tempo?
A large keyboard instrument that produces sound by plucking strings
What is a harpsichord?
This period spanning roughly 1600 to 1750 is known for complex counterpoint and composers like Bach
What is the Baroque period?
This composer's Short Ride in a Fast Machine is a famous orchestral fanfare
Who is John Adams?
The oldest known cave paintings in southeastern France, discovered in 1994, feature animal depictions made with charcoal and red ochre
What is Chauvet Cave?
Artist who created A Line Made by Walking (1967) by walking back and forth in a field
Who is Richard Long?
British artist of the Black Arts Movement who won the Turner Prize for works exploring African diaspora history
Who is Lubaina Himid?
This artist painted Homage to Bleriot, celebrating the first flight across the English Channel
Who is Robert Delaunay?
The perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone, also known as tone color
What is timbre?
A brass instrument consisting of a coiled tube, valves, and a wide bell
What is a French horn?
This period of music emphasizes emotion, individualism, and nature, with composers like Chopin and Wagner
What is the Romantic period?
This composer wrote Take the A Train, which became the signature tune of the Duke Ellington orchestra
Who is Billy Strayhorn?
This technique, used heavily in ancient Egyptian art, determines the relative size of figures based on their social status
What is hierarchical scale?
Artist behind the 2000 artwork State Names, which reflects on histories of mapmaking and naming
Who is Jaune Quick-to-See Smith?
Japanese ukiyo-e artist famous for The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido
Who is Utagawa Hiroshige?
Art Deco painter famous for her stylized, glamorous portraits like Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti)
Who is Tamara de Lempicka?
The volume of a sound or note
What is dynamics?
A woodwind instrument typically made of wood, with a double reed
What is an oboe?
A genre of African American music that originated in the Deep South, characterized by its chord progressions and melancholy lyrics
What is the Blues?
This Brazilian composer combined local folk music with Baroque forms in Bachianas brasileiras
Who is Heitor Villa-Lobos?
The Greek standing pose where a figure's weight is shifted onto one leg for a relaxed appearance
What is contrapposto?
This photographer documented the migration of African Americans in works like The Birmingham Project
Who is Dawoud Bey?
This painting by Sir John Everett Millais depicts a tragic Shakespearean character floating in a stream
What is Ophelia?
This architect designed the futuristic TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport
Who is Eero Saarinen?
A sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying
What is melody?
A percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned wooden bars struck with mallets
What is a xylophone?
A minimalist style of music characterized by repetitive patterns and steady pulses
What is Minimalism?
This composer's March to the Scaffold is a famous movement from his Symphonie fantastique
Who is Hector Berlioz?
A late 16th-century style characterized by distorted perspective, acidic colors, and twisted figures
What is Mannerism?
This Turkish artist painted The Tortoise Trainer, reflecting Ottoman modernization
Who is Osman Hamdi Bey?
This Venetian painter was highly sought after for his detailed vedute of Venice
Who is Canaletto?
This pioneer of video art created Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii
Who is Nam June Paik?
The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and chord progressions
What is harmony?
A stringed instrument played with a bow, larger than a violin but smaller than a cello
What is a viola?
This genre of music was created by combining elements of rhythm and blues with country music in the 1950s
What is Rock and Roll?
This English composer wrote the Padstow Lifeboat march
Who is Malcolm Arnold?
Developed by Leonardo da Vinci, this technique uses mellowed colors and blurred outlines to allow forms to blend subtly into one another
What is sfumato?
This video installation by Lisa Reihana reimagines Captain Cook's voyages in the Pacific
What is in Pursuit of Venus [infected]?
This Italian term refers to highly detailed city views popular with 18th-century Grand Tour travelers
What is veduta?
This historic hotel on the rim of the Grand Canyon was designed by Mary Colter to blend with the landscape
What is El Tovar?
The structural outline or organizing principle of a musical composition
What is form?
A traditional Japanese stringed instrument with 13 strings
What is a koto?
A style of jazz developed in the 1940s, featuring fast tempos and complex chord progressions
What is Bebop?
This American composer wrote the cowboy song Charlie Rutlage
What is Titanic?