Name that Artwork
What artwork is a limestone sculpture showing 2 rectangular figures in an embrace which has the same name as another piece in our curriculum?
The Kiss
Who created The Horse in Motion?
Eadweard Muybridge
What is the style/era of Slave Ship by Joseph Turner?
ROMANTICISM
Describe The Portugese by Georges Braque.
An image of guitar player which is difficult to be seen due to being fragmented perspectives of the scene. Braque believes that art should look more like this and not realism. Everything is flat with no sense of form or depth.
In the piece Summer Trees we understand that ink is a very traditional media in...
Korea
What piece depicts Tenebrism lighting where Matthew has a spiritual awakening and Jesus points to him. This is made to look like normal people to appeal to he average common person. The window could be symbolic of a cross.
The Calling of Saint Matthew
Who made the Narcissus Garden.
Yayoi Kusama
What is the style/era of The Stone Breakers by Gustav Courbet?
Realism
Describe The Coiffure by Mary Cassatt.
This is a Japonisme work depicting a woman who is ordinary and doing her own hair which is contrast to the name of the piece which would imply wealth and hair being done by attendants.
What is the name of the people that created an extremely old mask which came before the Aztecs and is associated with the Templo Mayor in our curriculum?
The Olmec People
What is the name of the cliffside in China which was used to assert the emperor's power through depicting himself as Buddha?
The Longmen Caves
What (ninja turtle) artist created the sculpture "David"?
Donatello
From what period of 500-700 CE are the Merovingian looped fibulae from?
Early Medieval
Describe the meaning behind Woman 1 by Willem de Kooning.
A commentary/satire on advertisements that begin to sexualize the female in the 50s by making her more grotesque to be the opposite of appealing and not being idealized.
What peoples did the Ikenga originate from?
Igbo peoples (Nigeria)
Made by Miguel Cabrera, what oil painting is of a nun who stated "I,____, the worst in the world" and signed it with her own blood. She is widely considered to be the first feminist of the Americas.
Portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la cruz
What is the name of the artist who made the Allegory of Law and Grace?
Lucas Cranach the Elder
What is the name of the style/era of the two pieces "Self-Portrait as a soldier" and "Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht"
German Expressionism
Describe the process for the female (Pwo) mask?
From the Chokwe peoples it would have been made by, and danced by a man, but intended to honor women.
Where is the Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza generally from?
New Spain
What detail of a much larger complex depicts the story of the beginning of time and creation of the universe? Gods fighting Demons for power and pulling tug of war on a snake, they stir the sea by pulling back and forth to produce the elixir of immortality.
The Churning of the sea milk
Who made the Grave Stele of Hegeso?
Kallimachos
What is the name of the style/era of Henry IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de'Medici
Flemish
How would you describe the 'Ahu'ula?
A Hawaiian feather cape that male nobility or chiefs wear. They caught birds and took a few feather at a time then let the birds go. Overall taking half a million feathers over time.
What is the place/culture of Nan Madol?
Pohnpei (Saudeleur Dynasty)