These paintings, discovered in 1994, date from c. 30,000 BCE and depict animals such as horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalos, and mammoths.
What is Chauvet Cave?
100
Known as a "Renaissance man," this man is well known as an inventor, but also is recognized as an architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, scientist, and musician.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
100
This painting by Gustave Courbet had political implications
in the context of a wave of revolutions that spread across Europe beginning in 1848.
What is The Stonebreakers?
100
A series of interrupted dots or lines, such as footprints in the sand, that the eye connects, creates this.
What is an implied line?
100
With this shading technique, the artist creates different values by making a pattern of dots.
What is stippling?
200
In Stonehenge, this marks the point at which the sun rises on the midsummer solstice.
What is the heel-stone?
200
Prior to this painting, artists had generally begun with the figures that were to be the subject matter of the painting and then added the background.
What is The Tempest?
200
Another word for "wild beasts," this group led by Henri Matisse became well known for its use of arbitrary color.
What is the Fauves?
200
This is a technique that takes into account the ways that fog, smoke, and airborne particles change the appearance of things when they are viewed from a distance.
What is aerial or atmospheric perspective?
200
All printmaking processes use some sort of printing plate, or this, on which an image is created.
What is a matrix?
300
This focuses on the cultural, social, religious, and economic context in which the work was produced.
What is contextual analysis?
300
This artist portrayed the Virgin Mary and the apostles not as noble figures in classical garb as they had traditionally been represented, but instead depicted them as poor and simple folks in threadbare garments.
Who is Caravaggio?
300
This artist's De Stijl canvases, consisting of flat fields of primary color, have become a hallmark of modern art.
Who is Piet Mondrian?
300
To avoid the rigidity and monotony that may accompany a symmetrical composition, many artists employ this.
What is approximate symmetry?
300
Clays, gemstones, and minerals, as well as plant and insect materials are all natural forms of this.
What are pigments?
400
This civilization created artworks that were characterized by a naturalistic pictorial style. Their paintings took two major forms: frescoes painted on palace walls and pottery
designs.
What is the Minoans?
400
This style hearkened back to the emotional emphasis of the Baroque and tended to be highly imaginative; characterized by an emotional and dreamlike
quality.
What is the Romantic style?
400
This artist often combined the snapshot style of photography with a Japanese-like perspective from slightly above his subject.
Who is Edgar Degas?
400
The standards for the relationship of the various parts of the human face and body were established nearly 2500 years ago during this period of Greek sculpture.
What is the Classical Period?
400
Carving, casting, construction, and this, are the four most basic ways to create a sculpture.
What is modeling?
500
Notable works of this time period include freestanding sculptures such as the Venus de Milo and the Laocoön Group, which are masterworks designed to present ideals
of beauty.
What is the Hellenistic Period?
500
In this region of Belgium, Peter Paul Rubens established a huge workshop and produced works of great energy and color that became models for many artists.
What is Flanders?
500
Artists of this style such as Chuck Close, with his portraits, and Duane Hanson, with his witty sculptures of ordinary people, hearkened back to the work promoted by Honore Daumier.
What is Photorealism?
500
As primary colors are mixed, this aspect of a color is reduced.
What is intensity?
500
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this man created ingenious buildings of cut stone that are notably organic in appearance.