Pop Culture meets American Art
Art Movements
Famous Dead Artists
Famous Alive Artists
Step up your vocab!
100
This American Painter created images depicting the loneliness and dread Americans during WWII. "Nighthawks" is their most famous painting.
Who is Edward Hopper?
100
This art movement took place in Europe during the 15th and 16th century and was considered a rebirth of culture, art, and inventions.
What is the renaissance?
100
This troubled Dutch painter is known for their Post-Impressionist paintings such as the Starry Night.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
100
This individual is a contemporary artist from Japan. They are known for their pop-art style, incorporating a repetitive smiling flower icon. They have collaborated with a variety of fashion companies, such as: Louis Vuitton, Supreme, & Vogue.
Who is Takashi Murakami? 
100
A measurement of the quantity of pixels in an image is . . . .
What is resolution? 
200
This American Artist is celebrated for their beautiful, playful, realistic, illustrations of American Culture. They created over 4,000 artworks in their lifetime. They were featured on the cover of "Saturday Evening Post" for over 40 years.
Who is Norman Rockwell?
200
This art movement took place in aftermath of WWI. Artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.
What is Surrealism?
200
This prolific Italian artist & engineer lived during the Renaissance period. They created many inventions and paintings like The Last Supper & The Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci? 
200
This artist is known for creating portraits expressing the experience of African-Americans. Theirs portraits are made of layers of fabric sewn together.
Who is Bisa Butler?
200
______ describes the difference between two things, such as white and black.
What is contrast?
300
This individual is known for their large "action paintings" and is considered an important figure in American Art. This artist would splatter a variety of colored paint on a canvas creating an abstract expressionism piece. This artist was a troubled man who would pass away in a drunk driving accident at the age of 44.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
300
This 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush to create beautiful scenes and landscapes. The art's emphasis is on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities. It is often considered an emotional experience of the human perspective.
What is Impressionist? 
300
This Spanish painter is known for their original paintings and portraits in throughout the 1900's. They were apart of the Cubist movement and their paintings were colorful, unproportionable, and expressive.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
300
This individual is known for being a great ceramic artist and incredible teacher. Originally born in Wisconsin, they have lived a life full of travel, exploration, and kindness. They are usually seen around Old Colorado City.
Who is Chere?
300
This color scheme is often associated with luxury and sport brands. It means "without color".
What is achromatic?
400
This individual is known for their beautiful abstract and landscapes paintings of the American West. They are known as being one of the most influential women in Modern American Art. They lived until the age of 98 and passed away in Santa Fe, NM.
Who is Georgia O'Keefe?
400
This art movement is one that has continued for several centuries. This movement is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements.
What is Realism? 
400
This artist is known for their beautiful, soft, impressionist-landscapes paintings. They would bring an easel to a specific outdoor environment to create their paintings (plein-air technique). This artist lost their vision at the end of their life and passed away at age 86.
Who is Claude Monet?
400
This artist is known for defacing public property and vandalizing public walls. Their artwork is often provocative and ironic, the meaning of the work often creates a social dialogue about current socio-political issues.
Who is Banksy?
400
These three colors are universally known as being secondary colors . .
What is purple, green, orange?
500
This American Artist is known for jumping large buses and cars on a motorcycle in 1960's and 1970's.
Who is Evil Knievel?
500
This art movement emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane mass-produced objects.
What is Pop Art? 
500
We watched this Artist eat a Burger King meal. It was iconic.
Who is Andy Warhol?
500
This artist creates beautiful realism portraits of African-Americans with colorful and decorative backgrounds. Their portraits place modern people in poses that mimic royal paintings of the 18th century.
Who is Kehinde Wiley?
500
This term is used to describe a design that is the same on both sides.
What is symmetrical?