Abstract Expressionism and After / Postwar European Art
Pop and Minimalism
Conceptual and Activist Art, Postminimalism and Earth Art
100
German school that opened in 1918 and promoted the idea that art could improve society.
What is the Bauhaus?
100
Title of a mural-size painting inspired by the destruction of a Basque town by German bombers during the Spanish Civil War.
What is Guernica?
100
Jackson Pollock is to gestural painting as Mark Rothko is to this style.
What is Color Field painting?
100
Donald Judd is to boxes as this artist is to fluorescent lights.
Who is Dan Flavin?
100
The study of signs.
What is semiotics?
200
A picture produced with photographic materials, such as light-sensitive paper, but without a camera.
What is a photogram?
200
Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood were important members of this Depression-ear movement in American art.
What is Regionalism?
200
An unscripted performance in which one or more artists, using materials without fine art associations, encourage the participation of spectators who condition its development.
What is a Happening?
200
A reductive process in which layers are removed by tearing to reveal what lies beneath.
What is décollage?
200
A large-scale artwork for which the surface of the earth is the medium.
What is an Earthwork?
300
Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier are associated with this style of architecture.
What is the International Style?
300
An old parlor game adapted by the Surrealists as a form of collective drawing.
What is exquisite corpse?
300
Technique used by Jean Dubuffet, characterized by a thick ground made of sand, earth, fixatives and pigment into which the artist incised crude figures.
What is haute pâte?
300
American Pop artist who set up his own store in a New York City storefront in 1961.
Who is Claes Oldenburg?
300
Her Dinner Party celebrates women’s history through such stereotypically feminine and decorative artistic media as needlework and china painting.
Who is Judy Chicago?
400
Name for Piet Mondiran's artistic philosophy, meaning "new image" or "new form."
What is Neoplasticism?
400
Political party joined by Diego Rivera, who painted murals made possible by capitalist industry that were also critical of it.
What is the Communist Party?
400
American artist who used chance to create his studies for mural-size paintings made up of individual monochrome panels.
Who is Ellsworth Kelly?
400
Early twentieth century art movement that greatly influenced the artists associated with Minimalism.
What is Constructivism?
400
American brand whose story has been reimagined by Faith Ringgold and Betye Saar, among other artists.
Who is Aunt Jemima?
500
This artist's Light-Space Modulator is also the subject of a short film.
Who is László Moholy-Nagy?
500
Name given to a form of Social Realism that emerged in Germany alongside the rise of the Nazis.
What is The New Objectivity?
500
Technique used by Helen Frankenthaler and others that involves pouring thinned paint onto unsized, raw canvas.
What is stain painting?
500
French New Realist known for his blue monochrome paintings.
Who is Yves Klein?
500
German-American artist whose Real Estate series prompted the cancellation of his solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.