Fundamentals
What is stippling?
The use of dots to change value
What and where is the oldest work of art?
Cave paintings in Chauvet Cave (France)
What aspect of Altarpiece is Harring most famous for?
The “radiant baby”
Whistler was professing his desire to be an artist by what age?
15
How did Henrietta Lacks pass away?
What is cervical cancer?
What are two examples of Post and Lintel architecture?
Stonehenge and the Greek Parthenon
What is considered the most famous work of Chinese art?
The Great Wall
In the Gross clinic, what is the patient being treated for?
Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
Where was Starry Night painted?
In an asylum at Saint Remy
What is a motif?
What is a single element of a repeated pattern?
What was Encaustic used for?
Egyptian grave markers
Which artist prompted Post-Impressionists’ use of arbitrary color rather than replicating color of the real world?
Vincent Van Gogh
What do the glazed terracotta in the Ospedale degli Innocenti reference?
The ten babies killed by King Herod
In Hogarth’s Illustration of Bedlam, he shows Rakewell in what position?
Reclining on the floor
What is the area around objects, shapes, or forms in artworks known as ?
What is Negative space?
What is the purpose of art history?
To reconstruct the context of a piece of art to understand the work and it’s meaning
What method is apparent in the Mona Lisa?
Sfumato (use of mellowed colors and a blurred outline to blend subtly)
What symptom of the bubonic plague is present in St. Sebastian Intercepting for the Plague Stricken?
Buboes (red bumps on the neck)
Dewing’s female subjects were typically depicted in this emotional state?
Repose
Who created the Code of Hammurabi? (The culture)
Who is the Babylonians?
What did the performance art New York Guerrilla Girls do?
Challenged the dominance of white men
What are ten prominent art movements in chronological order?
(Possible answers in order) Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Mannerism, Dada, Surrealism, Pop Art, Performance Art
What do the murals of Vertis Hayes’ The Pursuit of Happiness depict?
African diaspora
What is the rumor as to why yellow features prominently in Van Gogh’s paintings?
His medication (Digitalis) had a side effect Xanthopsia (or yellow-vision) that causes one’s vision to be tinged yellow
Who is the founder of the modern sculpture?
Who is Donatello?