Enlightenment/Romantic
Modern life/Impressionism
Technical
Matisse & Picasso
Abstract and Misc.
100
Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi is an example of this standardized type of painting.
What is a History Painting?
100
This style of Art is highly related to Vincent Van Gogh and his emotional manner of painting
What is Expressionism?
100
What is one question that technical studies helped answer about this picture?
That it was produced in the 17th century (woven paper)
100
What is a common characteristic of the work of Matisse and Picasso?
Worked indoors and avoided landscapes (others acceptable).
100
Which artist produced this work and what is the artistic movement it belongs to?
Piet Mondrian/ Abstraction
200
Romantics considered this to be the strongest emotion we are capable of feeling, and would try to capture it by portraying nature.
What is sublimation (or the sublime)?
200
One of these artists is not an impressionist:
Claude Monet | Berthe Morisot | Edouard Manet
Who is Edouard Manet
200
True or false: Technical Art History is the conservation of works of art over time.
False. Technical art history is the study of materiality and the process of making art. Conservators sometimes use technical art history in their work.
200
How are cubes produced in Picasso's cubism?
By pressing the cube against a flat plane.
200
Why didn’t Kazimir Malevich care which way Airplane Flying hung on the wall?
He believed the forms would retain their relationship to each other regardless of the orientation of the canvas.
300
This image of Marie Antoinette is reflective of this style of painting, which often showed powerful figures in a favorable way.
What is Neoclassicism (Rococo also acceptable)?
300
This is one reason that Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Banjo Lesson is an example of Realism.
What is 'It shows a scene of everyday life'? (other answers acceptable).
300
This specific pigment is turning many of Van Gogh's paintings brown when exposed to light.
What is chrome yellow?
300
For Matisse, what part of an artwork was Expressionism?
The arrangement of the entire composition.
300
What artistic movement inspired Kandinsky's abstraction?
Impressionism
400
Goya breaks the tradition of History painting in The Third of May (1808) by doing this.
What is depicting modern events?
400
This is the term for the thick application of oil paint that adds texture to a surface
What is impasto?
400
Why was it important for conservators to understand the materiality of Floor Cake?
Because the statue was sagging and cracking over time.
400
This is an example of Still Life Dutch painting that inspired the making of this modern painting.
What genre of painting inspired The Dessert by Henri Matisse?
400
What are some of the characteristics of fauvism?
Unrealistic shades of vivid colors and active brushwork.
500
This author is sometimes considered the father of Art History. He hated the Baroque, and wanted to restore Classical ideals to art.
Who is Johann Winckelmann?
500
This is the symbolic meaning of the balloons in Monet's Boulevard des Capucines 1873.
What is 'the fleeting nature of the moment'? (or similar).
500
Infrared reflectography allows art historians to through a painting in order to look at this.
What is an "underdrawing"?
500
What kinds of subject matter did Picasso favor in his work?
Traditional subject matter.
500
What style influenced this picture (and impressionism) by Mary Cassat?
Japanese woodblock prints (japonisme)
