American Modernism
Abstract Expressionism
Pop Art
Video & Digital Art
Art & Money
100
This event, held in NYC in 1913, is often considered to have introduced American audiences to Modern art.
What is the Armory Show?
100
This painter became internationally known for his drip or action paintings.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
100
The prediction that everyone will have their "15 minutes of fame" is often attributed to this hugely influential Pop artist.
Who is Andy Warhol?
100
Known for his positive outlook on new technologies, this artist is often referred to as the "father of Video art."
Who is Nam June Paik?
100
An agency of the federal government founded in 1965, this funding body awards grants and scholarships to support American art and culture.
What is the National Endowment for the Arts?
200
Sometimes referred to as the "Immaculates" or "Cubo-Realists," this group of artists who focused on the clean lines of the modern, industrialized city are often considered to have formed the first American Modern movement.
Who are the Precisionists?
200
Artist Barnett Newman called his works that featured a unified color field interrupted by a vertical line by this term.
What is a "Zip" painting?
200
Together with his wife and creative partner, Coosje van Bruggen, this artist is famous for his massive or overstuffed outdoor sculptures.
Who is Claes Oldenburg?
200
The term for one method of exhibiting Video art, in which a designed environment is set up as an artwork within a gallery space.
What is an "installation?"
200
"Perfect Moment," a publicly-funded exhibition of this provocative photographer's work, was a central focus of the American culture wars of the 1980s and '90s, when people protested its portrayal of "sadomasochism, homoeroticism, [and] the exploitation of children."
Who is Robert Mapplethorpe?
300
Artists including Palmer Hayden, James Van Der Zee, and Jacob Lawrence are a part of this artistic movement that emerged in Harlem in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
The culmination of a lifelong project came in the form of a chapel in Houston, which houses fourteen canvases painted by this Abstract Expressionist.
Who is Mark Rothko?
300

Robert Rauschenberg developed this type of artwork, which incorporates various found objects into a painted canvas surface, creating a sort of hybrid between painting and sculpture.

What is a "combine?"
300
The availability of this technology to a wider consumer base in the mid-1960s enabled artists to challenge the authority of media companies and the government, who had previously controlled access to video production.
What is the Sony Portapak, the first portable video recording system?
300
This artist sold a stuffed shark floating in formaldehyde for at least $8 milllion in 2004, something critics stated was a symbol of how the contemporary art market had become a "cultural obscenity."
Who is Damien Hirst?
400
Grant Wood painted this iconic work, which depicts a husband and wife standing outside their home in Iowa and is emblematic of American Regionalism.

What is American Gothic?

400
A style of abstract painting characterized by large areas of flat, solid color.
What is Color Field painting?
400
Andy Warhol referred to his art studio as this.
What is "The Factory?"
400

Her video performances throughout the 1970s and '80s often put her life and body in danger, as it did in Rest Energy, in which her partner Ulay held a bow and arrow targeted at her heart.

Who is Marina Abramovic?
400

Mayor Rudy Giuliani threatened to defund the Brooklyn Museum in NY when they exhibited The Holy Virgin Mary, a provocative work that overlaid pornographic imagery and elephant feces onto its religious subject, which was made by this contemporary artist.

Who is Chris Ofili?
500
The first Mexican artist to have a work in the Louvre's collection, she explored themes involving identity, the body, and pain throughout her career.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
500

One of these art critics wrote a treatise called Modernist Painting while the other coined the term "Action Painter." Both of them were instrumental in America's embrace of Abstract Expressionism.

Who are Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg?
500
This California-based Pop artist developed a technique of photographic assemblage he termed "joiners," in which a series of sequential photographs are placed together to compose a single image.
Who is David Hockney?
500
Fluxus artist Allan Kaprow's "Hello," one of the earliest moments in the history of Digital art that involved people talking to each other via television screens, is an example of this type of performance-based artwork, in which the art depends on social participation.
What is a "Happening?"
500
Maya Lin's winning proposal for this minimalist memorial in Washington D.C. was considered highly controversial before eventually being embraced by the public.
What is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
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