This figurine is believed by scholars to be a fertility figure during the stone age.
What is the Venus of Willendorf?
100
This technique is the use of mellowed colors and a blurred outline.
What is Sfumato?
100
This movement was a reaction to Neoclassicism and Romanticism and was inspired by the idea that painting must illustrate all the features of its subjects.
What is Realism?
100
These kinds of works tended to fall into two categories: action-paintings or color field paintings
What is Abstract Expressionism?
100
Admired for both its engineering and aesthetic appeal, this famous Chinese work originally had a utilitarian function.
What is The Great Wall of China?
200
This pose was invented to show the body to its best advantage.
What is contrapposto?
200
The Catholic Church reacted to the Protestant Reformation by launching this. It called for emphasized lavish church decoration.
What is the Counter Reformation?
200
This artist is sometimes referred to as the first Impressionist.
Who is Edouard Manet?
200
This art genre sought to reduce art to its barest essentials, emphasizing simplification of form and often featured monochromatic palettes.
What is Minimalism?
200
This West African civilization built life-like terracotta sculptures.
What is the Nok civilization?
300
This innovation allowed for larger windows and higher ceilings.
What is a flying buttress?
300
This movement is characterized by a greater sense of movement and energy and an emotional appeal.
What is Baroque?
300
This group of artists were dissatisfied with the effects of the Industrial Revolution and as a result banded together.
What is the Pre-Raphaelites?
300
Christo and Jeanne-Claude are responsible for creating much interest in this kind of artwork.
What is Earthworks?
300
In this Oceanic Island, tattooing and other body arts were important ways of expressing social stature.
What is Polynesia?
400
This temple was restored in 447 BCE after being destroyed by the Persians in 480 BCE and is one of the most admired works of all ages.
What is the Parthenon?
400
Francois Boucher became a favorite painter of this mistress of Louis XV.
Who is Madame Pompadour?
400
This type of art was thought to be more intuitive and closer to nature and for that reason influenced Cubism.
What is African Art?
400
This type of art arose in reaction to modernist styles and takes many forms across a verity of media.
What is Postmodern art?
400
In Japan, linear perspective was rejected in favor of this traditional perspective.
What is isometric perspective?
500
This time period saw an increasing influence from Eastern civilizations as Greek styles blended with those of Asia Minor.
What is the Hellenstic Period?
500
This king was nicknamed the "sun king."
Who is Louis XIV?
500
Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden were inspired by this ten year long movement.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
500
This artpiece by Robert Rauschenberg consists of a stuffed goat, a tire, a police barrier, the heel of a shoe, a tennis ball, and paint.
What is Monogram?
500
This structure is one of the oldest examples of Islamic architecture.