Global Contemporary (1979-2010 CE)
Modern (1912-1979 CE)
Global Prehistory
Ancient Mesopotamia
Etruscan/Greek
100
Combining Feminist narratives with folk-tale imagery, this artist's work marked a return to drawing the body (in contrast to the prevailing installation/abstraction/performance art of the time).
Who is Kiki Smith? ("Lying With the Wolf," 2001)
100
This work marked a sea-change in the art-world, moving works toward the conceptual where the artist's intent was as important as the product.
What is "Fountain (Second Version)?" (Marcel Duchamp)
100
Found in burial sites, the interlocking design of square and cylindrical forms of these objects is speculated to represent a connection between different physical and spiritual realms.
What is the Jade Cong?
100
As agriculture allowed cultures to flourish and organize throughout the Fertile Crescent, structures like this one began to take form as centers of both government and the gods.
What is the White Temple and its Ziggurat?
100
The Greeks utilized this in ceramic works like the "Niobides Krater" to portray their cultural stories.
What is red figure technique?
200
The image depicts what building made by who?
What is the "Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao", by Frank Gehry?
200
Using the human form, gold-leaf, and geometric pattern, this painting/artist elevates human love to a religious, transcendent experience.
What is "The Kiss," by Gustav Klimt? (1907)
200
Stonehenge's creators achieved its signature trilithon-forms using posts and lintels along with this construction technique.
What is mortise and tenon joint technique?
200
This object incorporated elements of mosaic, wood inlaid with shells, lapis lazuli, red limestone, and was held together using Bitumen as an adhesive.
What is The Standard of Ur?
200
Inspiring the Romans' architecture, this Etruscan temple was built using tufa, mud, wood, and brick.
What is The Temple of Minerva?
300
This artist uses recycled metal to create a work reminiscent of traditional fabrics.
Who is El Anatsui?
300
Works like Magdalena Abakanowicz's "Androgyne III" react to the personal horrors of war, a theme that emerged earlier in this artist's painting.
What is "Self Portrait As A Soldier," by Ernst Kirchner?
300
Although its exact function is unknown, the nature of decomposition suggests that this object had shamanistic connections to death/afterlife.
What is the Camelid Sacrum in Shape of a Canine?
300
This structural design of columns supporting a roof, as seen in the Temple of Amun-Re, allowed light to enter the temple convey a feeling of the creation of the world rising from a sea.
What is the Hypostyle Hall?
300
While creating "Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)," this Greek sculptor utilized the golden-ratio as a means of equating the male body with the ideal.
Who is Polykleitos?
400
Reflecting on class structures and colonial histories, Yinka Shonibare's "The Swing (After Fraggonard)" deals with cultural appropriation by incorporating what material into the installation?
What are Dutch Wax Textiles?
400
Often mentioned as the birth of graphic design, this work utilizes collage and stark patterns to act as propaganda on behalf of the state.
What is "Illustration from “The Results of the First Five-Year Plan," by Varvara Stepanova?
400
Carved of greywacke, this ritualized object was also used a pestle.
What is the Ambum Stone?
400
Like the temple carved directly into the surrounding rock, the statue of Hatshepsut from the Mortuary Temple conveys her permanence of rule and connection to the gods by being made of this material.
What is Red Granite?
400
Unlike "Anavysos Kouros," the sculpture of "Doryphoros" is depicted in a more relaxed and natural posture using this technique.
What is contrapposto?
500
Referencing medieval altar's use of the triptych, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith re-contextualizes painting by incorporating consumer products in this work/year?
What is "Gifts (For Trading Land with White People)", 1992?
500
In defiance of the traditional gallery/museum space, "Spiral Jetty" by Robert Smithson embodies this concept by existing in the landscape, completely exposed to the elements.
What is entropy? (changes over time/from order to chaos).
500
This object's red clay surface is decorated using a technique of repeated incising marks.
What is the Terra Cotta Fragment
500
Of the three Great Pyramids of Giza, only this one still displays its original exterior of limestone casing.
What is the Pyramid of Khafre?
500
A masterpiece of Hellenistic Greek art, the "Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon" uses high-relief to depict this mythological event.
What is the Gigantomachy?