Art History Review Level 1

Artists

100

I'm a Renaissance Artist, Architect, and Inventor. I love to write from right to left. 

Leonardo DaVinci

200

I'm a pop artist, I make work in my "factory", I love the idea of being famous. 

Andy Warhol

300

I'm an impressionist artist. I love to paint outdoors. I love to paint during the golden hour at sunrise or sunset. 

Claude Monet

400

I painted the first modern painting in 1863. I'm very avant guard. I like to use my friends as models when I compose my work. 

Edouard Manet

500

I'm a French artist who paid $5 to place what is now  called a Readymade into an American modern art show. People didn't like it. I thought it was smart and fresh. 

Marcel Duchamp

Art Titles

100

Artist unknown, prehistoric sculpture, 11 cm high.

Venus of Willendorf

200

Artist unknown, prehistoric paintings and engravings, 7 chambers, made to honour the hunt.  

Caves of Lascaux 

300

Artist unknown, Ancient Roman Marble Sculpture, Contropposto posture

Augustus of Prima Porta

400

Byzantine Mosaic, image of Christ with Mary and John the Baptist, covered up when the church became a Mosque. 

Deesis Mosaic in the Hagia Sophia

500

The first Modern Painting, very avant-garde, no religious meaning or symbolism, lacking of perfect perspective. 

Luncheon on The Grass

Material & Techniques

100

The term used to describe Painting into Wet Plaster. Used by Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel. 

Fresco

200

The Italian word for the technique of using light and shadow to make objects appear realistic. Vermeer uses this in The Girl with the Pearl Earing. 

Chiaroscuro 

300

This expensive material was used to complete much of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss. 

Gold Leaf

400

DaVinci used this technique to create Mona Lisa. The technique is described as soft, heavily shaded modelling, tones and colour that gradually shade without lines or borders, dramatic contrast, and blurred lines. 

Sfumato

500

George Seurat's A Sunday on The Grande Jatte is an example of this technique. The viewer's eyes and light reflections do the paint mixing, not the artist. 

Optical Mixing or Pointilism

Art Terms

100

This type of Modern Art is defined by repurposing a found object. 

Readymade

200

Used in Ancient Greek sculpture to mimic the appearance of a natural stance. 

Contrapposto

300

These symbols together make up the Ancient Egyptian language.  

Hieroglyphics

400

This term refers to an artwork of a character rather than of a real human. An example would be "The Girl with The Pearl Earing". 

Tronie

500

A single candle, shoes off, orange, halo, dolphin, and gold, are all examples of this. The Arnolfini Portrait uses a lot of it. 

Symbolism 

Art Era/Movement

100

Venus of Willendorf and Caves of Lascaux are two artworks from this era. 

Prehistoric

200

This era lasts from the 1860s to the 1960s and is defined by such things as the male gaze, avant-garde artists, challenging the belief that art needs to create the illusion of 3D, challenging the belief that art should be about lofty themes and figures of historical or religious importance.

Modern Art

300

Picasso's career evolved from high realism to abstract to at times non-objective. He is most famous for this art movement, that began with his large painting "The Ladies of D'avignon. 

Cubism

400

This Italian Art Era is defined as follows: human ideals, naturalism, the use of linear perspective. 

Renaissance

500

This Art Movement is known for flat perspectives, bright colours, patterns, curved lines, and references to nature. 

Art Nouveau