Paintings and Photos
Sculptures and Architecture
Political Art
Abstract Art
Miscallaneous
100
The piece, "Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh was created from what art movement?
Post-Impressionist
100
The building "Fallingwater" by Frank Lloyd Wright uses what architectural technique to support the majority of the house?
Cantilevers
100
The piece "Y No Hai Remedio" (And There's Nothing to be Done) by Francesco de Goya, conveys a conflict between which two countries?
France and Spain
100
Based on the picture, what is the image called + who is the author/creator of this piece?
Title: Marilyn Diptych
Artist: Andy Warhol
100
Where is the House in New Castle County located? (the state)
Delaware
200
What prompted Alfred Stieglitz to take this photo (The Steerage)?
He was riding first class on a ship to Germany and got annoyed how arrogant people were with their money.
200
What style can the George Washington statue by Jean-Antoine Houdon be associated with?
Neoclassical
200
The premise of "The Migration of the Negro" by Jacob Lawrence is influenced by what event in history?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
200
Woman I by William de Kooning is unique in ways that it?
Can't tell where the figure ends + background begins
200
The artist uses what method to create this image?
Silk-Screening
300
What does The Saint-Lazare Station by Claude Monet portray?
Portrays modern life (the main subject is the trains + color + lighting, NOT the people)
300
A viewer of "The Burghers of Calais" by Auguste Rodin is intended to do what action at the sight of the sculpture?
Circumambulate
300
Where was the Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks by Claes Oldenburg made and why?
It was made on the campus of Yale University by students in attempts to protest against the Vietnam War.
300
Vasily Kandinsky creates "Improvisation 28" to argue what connection between art and music?
One can hear color, and see music (Synesthesia)
300
The Spiral Jetty done by Robert Smithson was meant to evoke what out of his viewers?
Increased environmental activism.
400
In The Portuguese, Georges Braque creates an image using cubism. What is cubism?
Cubism is used to show all the possible viewpoints of a person and/or object all at once.
400
What was the Villa Savoy's purpose?
Be the most efficient house, function around people's daily lives
400
What social class issue does "The Stonebreakers" by Gustave Courbet touch on following the emerge of the Industrial Revolution?
The growing gap between rich and poor.
400
What paint method does Helen Frankenthaler use to create The Bay?
Soak-stain method (pouring paint over a canvas rather than painting it on).
400
Carson, Pirie, Scott, and Company building located in Chicago was built by the architect Louis Sullivan, what phrase was he famous for saying?
Form follows function
500
What are the bright colors in Goldfish by Henry Matisse associated as?
The bright colors are very Fauvist- a style of paintings that contain vivid expressionistic + non naturalistic use of color
500
Besides breaking the art norms, what else does Brancusi do with his sculpture "The Kiss"?
Leaves it 'raw'/presents it in its purest form
500
In Liberty Leading the People, Eugene Delacroix draws a half-naked woman that represents Liberty. What was this modeled after?
Modeled after ancient Greek and Roman women (both were cultures that thrived on the ideal of liberty).
500
What does Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso depict?
5 prostitutes from a brothel (house where men can visit prostitutes) Picasso frequented.
500
Woman I drawn by William de Kooning was created to show what?
Kooning would paint the canvas then wipe away the art and start again --> he meant to show the process of creating art rather than the finished product