Artist
Style & Time Period
Location
Technique
Messaging
100
Name of this piece/site, artist, and art medium used.
Sistine Chapel, fresco, Michelangelo.
100
Name of this artwork and the style and time period it is in.
Grave Stele of Hegeso, Greek Classical, 400s (or 5th century) BCE
100
Name of site and its location.
Mesa Verde cliff dwellings, Southwest United States (corners of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico)
100
Name of the site and the culture it belongs to, and the main artistic technique they are known for.
Tomb of the Triclinium, Etruscan, fresco.
100
Name this painting and artist, and what is the messaging behind the piece.
The Oxbow, Thomas Cole
Manifest destiny
200
Name of this piece and its artist.
Woman, I
Willem de Kooning
200
Name of the piece and the style and time period it is from. Bonus for the artist.
The Swing, Rococo, 1760s
Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
200
Name of building, location.
White Temple and Ziggurat, Uruk (modern Warka), Iraq
200
Name of this piece, building it is located in, location of that building, and the technique/art form used.
Theotokos Mosaic, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey. Mosaic
200
Name this building. What is the message of this building? (Multiple answers accepted)
Harmony between civilians and gods, military and political/moral superiority of Greeks over Persians
300
Name of this piece and its artist.
Las Meninas, Diego Velazquez.
300
Name of building and architect, and style and time period.
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Frank Gehry, 1993-97, Deconstructivism
300
Name of artwork, artist, and location it was made in.
Adam and Eve, Albrecht Durer, Germany (Northern Renaissance)
300
Name of the art piece, and technique/form it is most known for pushing forward. Bonus: artist
Doryphoros (spear-bearer), contrapposto.
Polykleitos
300
Name this piece, and what is its messaging. (Bonus for the artist!)
Chariman Mao en Route to Anyuan
Supporting Mao Zedong and Communism, that he will save the Chinese people
Artist: Liu Chunhua
400
Name of this piece and its artist.
Darkytown Rebellion, Kara Walker
400
The name of the piece and artist, and the time period and style it is in.
The Kiss, Gustav Klimt, 1907-1908, Art Nouveau
400
Name of piece, location (and bonus for people it belongs to).
Female (Pwo) Mask, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Chokwe peoples
400
Name of this piece, artist, and technique it is most known for.
Calling of St. Matthew, Caravaggio, chiaroscuro
400
Name this site, and what is its main messaging. (Bonus for architect!)
Forum of Trajan, shows Roman political and moral superiority over the Dacians, also overall strength of the empire and Emperor Trajan
Architect: Apollodorus of Damascus
500
Name of the piece and its artist.
Tamati Waka Nene, by Gottfried Lindauer
500
Name of the sculpture, time period, and style.
Bonus for sculptor.
George Washington, 1780s-90s, Neoclassical.
Artist: Jean-Antoine Houdon
500
Name of piece, location (Bonus for people it belongs to).
Ikenga, Nigeria
Igbo peoples
500
Name of this site, the city it belongs to, the culture/people, and the technique used.
Saqsa Waman, City of Cusco, Inca, dry-stone technique.
500
Name this piece and artist,
Sunflower Seeds, Ai Weiwei
Danger of Communism in conformity and losing the individual, also subverting negative ideas of "Made in China" through the use of handcrafted procelain