Stone Age
The oldest works of art, discovered in 1994, date from c. 30,000 bce and thus are placed in the Old Stone Age
What is the Chauvet Cave?
The artist most often mentioned in connection with this transitional period...
Who is Giotto di Bondone?
Referred to as the first impressionist...
who is Édouard Manet?
Early Twentieth Century movement
What is modernism?
the explanation of current art events to the general public via the press
WHat is art criticism?
The two modes of analysis
What is... formal analysis and contextual analysis
Is widely considered the founder of modern sculpture... (Bronze statue David)
Who is Donatello?
Against the naturalistic, often sentimental, artworks that were popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century...
What is Cubism?
A byword of modern design— established standards for architecture and design that would have a profound influence on the world of art.
What is Bauhaus?
pop art, minimalism, photorealism... when was it introduced?
Post-WWII art
Features concentric rings made with sarsen (a form of sandstone) stones and smaller “bluestones”—rocks indigenous to the region...
What is a Stonehenge?
Is well known for his portraits of his patrons, and he is also recognized as having been the greatest colorist of the Renaissance artists...
Who is Titian Vecelli?
Often combined the snapshot style of photography with a Japanese-like perspective...
Who is Edgar Degas?
Art that aimed to protest against everything in society and to lampoon and ridicule accepted values and norms...
What is Dada?
Known for beig the icon of Pop Art
who is Andy Warhol?
Around 4000 BCE, this less complex platform by Sumerians in Mesopotamia...
What are Ziggurats?
The Italian word fumo, meaning smoke, uses mellowed colors and a blurred outline...
What is sfumato?
water-based opaque paint..
What is gouache?
The importance of The Armory Show in New York...
the new center of progressive artistic activity
Used stencils that had been originally used to produce commercial signs to create his own artistic messages.
Who is Robert Indian?
Figures are presented so that each part of the body is shown as clearly as possible...
What is Fractional Representation?
Ghiberti’s panel design depicts the sacrifice of Isaac, the winner of a competition held in Florence in 1401...
Who is Lorenzo Ghiberti?
Power of French aristocracy...
What was the Rococo style associated with?
Artists influences by theories of Sigmund Freud, attempted to portray innder workings of the mind in artworks. They were known was...
What is... Surrealists?
Followed Kandinsky’s dictum that art, like music, could be free from the limitations of pictorial subject matter...
What is Abstract Expressionist?