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100
Van Gogh explored ways that colors and distorted forms can express emotions. The thickness, shape, and the direction of the brushstrokes create a tactile counterpart to the intense colors.
What is Vincent Van Gogh's Night Café (1888)?
100
A preliminary study for the sculptor’s Saint John the Baptist Preaching where Auguste Rodin depicted a headless and armless figure in midstride and demonstrates his mastery of anatomy and ability to capture transitory motion.
What is the Walking Man by Auguste Rodin(1905)?
100
A structure built for the great exhibition in Paris in 1889 and was originally seen as a symbol of modern Paris?
What is the Eiffel Tower?
100
A late-19th-century art movement that sought to capture a fleeting moment, thereby conveying the elusiveness and permanence of images and conditions.
What is Impressionism?
100
A movement where members dedicated themselves to producing functional objects with high aesthetic value for a wide public.
What is the Arts and Crafts movement?
200
George Seurat's color system involves diving colors into their component parts and applying those colors to the canvas in tiny dots.
What is pointillism?
200
An extremely bold work for a woman artist of this era because it portrays male nudity and the textures and movement are hallmarks of Rodin, but the conception of spiritual and physical union is Camille Claudel's own.
What is The Waltz by Camille Claudel (1895)?
200
In this Art Nouveau home built by Victor Horta, sinuous organic forms seem to grow everywhere in the light-drenched stairwell. Abstract motifs based on plant tendrils decorate every surface, even the column capitals.
What is the foyer and stairwell of the Tassel House, Brussels, Belgium?
200
The French fascination with all things Japanese. It emerged in the second half of the 19th century.
What is Japonisme?
200
An artist that painted Summer's Day, a depiction of two well-dressed women in a boat, using the open brushwork and the plein air lighting characteristic of Impressionism.
Who is Berthe Morisot?
300
The Symbolist painter represented the mythical one-eyed giant Polyphemus shyly observing the beautiful sleeping Galatea. The rich hues are a legacy of Impressionism.
What is Odilon Redon's The Cyclops (1898)?
300
The Gates of Hell (1880-1917) by Auguste Rodin was inspired by two different pieces of work by 2 different artists.
What is the Inferno by Dante and the Gates of Paradise by Ghiberti?
300
This work by Charles Rennie Mackintosh features functional and exquisitely Arts and Crafts decor, including stained glass windows and pristinely geometric furnishings.
What is the Ladies’ Luncheon Room in the Ingram Street Tea Room in Glasgow (1992-1995)?
300
French, "end of the century". A period in Western cultural history from the end of the 19th century until just before WW1, when decadence and indulgence masked anxiety about an uncertain future.
What is fin-de-siécle?
300
An artist that studied the photography of others, but also used the camera consistently to make preliminary studies for his own work.
Who is Edgar Degas?
400
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's painting of this popular Parisian dance hall is dappled by sunlight and shade, artfully blurred into the figures to produce the affect of floating and fleeting light that many Impressionists cultivated.
What is the Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette?
400
In the Burghers of Calais (1884-1889), Auguste Rodin commemorated an episode during this war where six Calais citizens offered their lives to save their city.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
400
A statement that expresses the relationship between the building's interior and its exterior and the Guaranty (Prudential) Building by Louis Sullivan embodies this.
What is "form follows function"?
400
A phenomenon of colored afterimages. When a person stares intensely at a color and then shifts to a white area, the fatigued eye momentarily perceives the complementary color.
What is successive contrasts?
400
An artist that produced both paintings and prints whose high emotional charge was a major source of inspiration for the German Expressionists in the early 20th century.
Who is Edvard Munch?
500
This made it possible to create posters such as the Jane Avril (1893) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec for advertisements.
What is multicolor lithography?
500
Augustus Saint-Gaudens chose a classical mode of representation of a woman of majestic bearing sitting in mourning. The gesture of the woman’s right arm reproduces a common motif in ancient Roman portraits of women.
What is the Adams Memorial (1886-1891)?
500
This structure visually expresses its architect's approach, in which the building is conceived as a whole and molded as a sculptor might shape a figure from clay.
What is Antonio Gaudi's Casa Milá?
500
Paneling on the lower part of interior walls.
What is wainscoting?
500
An aspect of The Tub that reveals Degas's distinctly modernist exploration of the premises of painting.
What is the flatness and attention to the picture's surface?