ISMS
This ISM consisted of a revival classical art to emphasize virtue and create a distinction between masculine and feminine.
What is Neoclassicism?
Developed by Caravaggio, this feature is characterized by predominantly dark tones and shadows with dramatically contrasting effects of light.
What is tenebrism?
The fetes galantes is a feature of this 18th-century art movement.
What is Rococo?
As a reaction to Neoclassicism, Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa relies on this new ISM to play with the viewer's emotion.
What is Romanticism?
In Barcelona, this architect created works like Casa Milà (aka La Pedrera) to break with the linearity inherent in Haussmanization.
Who is Antoni Gaudì?
This ISM was was the result of the Salon des Refusés.
What is Impressionism?
In order to make painting more profitable, Rembrandt looked to this kind of portraiture.
What is the group portrait?
This important 18th-century event allowed Italian artistic ideals to migrate throughout Europe, predominantly in Britain.
What is the Grand Tour?
This movement which started in Paris and was adopted with zeal in Barcelona, created grid-like cityscapes with wide avenues.
What is Haussmanization?
This artist struggled with the duality of her indigenous and German backgrounds?
Who is Frida Kahlo?
This ISM is synonymous with Art Nouveau in a Catalan context.
What is Modernisme? (with an e)
This kind of painting depicts scenes of everyday, contemporary life.
What is Genre painting?
This artist painted a series of works that depicted the devastating effects of syphilis.
Who is William Hogarth?
The dates in Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, July 28, 1830 and Francisco Goya's Third of May, 1808 allude to this defining aspect of Romanticism.
What is journalism?
This art movement, born out of disgust, was a direct response to the tragedies of WWI.
What is Dada?
This ISM was named after French Art Critic Louis Vauxcelles who referred to the artists of the Salon of 1905 as “wild beasts.”
What is Fauvism?
Bernini's David captures this important feature of Baroque art.
What is movement?
Works like William Blake's Europe Supported by Africa and the Americas were inspired by this 18th-century movement.
What is the Enlightenment?
In an attempt to help photography be considered a true art form, Oscar Rejlander composed his The Two Paths of Life, a work based on this famous work?
What is Raphael's School of Athens?
This movement is strongly associated with dreams and the hidden meanings in the unconscious mind.
What is surrealism?
This ISM was inspired by the post-WWII desire to depict America as the land of the free.
What is Abstract-Expressionism?
By depicting himself painting a canvas, while staring out at the viewer, this painter allowed the viewer to imagine themselves as the subject of his work.
Who is Diego Velazquez?
Giambattista Tiepolo did a series of works depicting the story of Rinaldo and Armida, from this popular work of the period.
What is Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered)?
The main feature of the Gothic revival in architecture in Britain and the United States is this.
What is the pointed arch?
Jackson Pollock's method of dripping, flinging and scattering paint onto canvases spread across the floor is also know as this.
What is action painting?