Art in the Ancient World
The “Winged Victory of Samothrace,” now in the Louvre, was created to celebrate a victory at this type of event.
What is a naval battle?
This 19th-century landscape painting movement celebrated the natural beauty of the Catskills and the American wilderness.
What is the Hudson River School?
A skull shown in a still life or portrait served as this Latin reminder of mortality.
What is a memento mori?
In Peru, artists created enormous ground drawings of animals and shapes that can only be fully seen from the air.
What are the Nazca Lines?
They were a group of English artists, poets, and designers who formed a movement in 1848. They aimed to reform art by rejecting what they saw as the mechanistic and formulaic approach of the academic painting of their time.
What were the The Pre-Raphaelites
This English street artist, known for politically charged stencils and murals, gained worldwide fame while keeping his identity largely secret.
Who is Banksy?
The frescoes of Knossos belong to this Bronze Age civilization on Crete.
What is the Minoan civilization?
Grant Wood’s American Gothic models were not farmers at all but his sister and this man of this occupation.
What is a dentist?
In Renaissance paintings, this flower often appears near the Virgin Mary as a symbol of purity.
What is the lily?
Discovered in 1974, these guard the tomb of China’s first emperor —Qin Shi Huang.
What are the terracotta warriors?
The term “action painting” is most closely associated with this postwar American movement.
What is Abstract Expressionism?
This design movement of the 1920s and ’30s featured sleek geometry and luxury materials.
What is Art Deco?
Carved from a single block of basalt, this famous ancient Egyptian sculpture depicts a lion’s body with a human head.
What is the Great Sphinx of Giza?
This realist painter chronicled loneliness in modern city life in Nighthawks.
Who is Edward Hopper?
A dog frequently appears in Renaissance portraits of married couples, symbolizing this virtue.
What is fidelity (or faithfulness)?
This Mexican muralist worked in the US and Mexico. His large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art.
Who is Diego Rivera?
Originating in Italy before World War I, this movement glorified speed, technology, and modernity, often featuring dynamic compositions.
What is Futurism?
The ubiquitous company logo was designed by Rob Janoff in 1977.
The Apple logo?
It was the art period that ran roughly from 480 to 323BCE in Ancient Greece that was known for its idealized nude athletes and balance of form.
What is the Classical period?
This contemporary artist is known for massive installations of grouped flags, umbrellas, gates and wraps — all in vivid colors.
Who is Christo (or Christo and Jeanne-Claude)?
An extinguished candle in a 15th-century painting can symbolize this profound transition.
What is death (or the soul leaving the body)?
This Indian emperor, Shah Jahan, commissioned this edifice for his wife Mumtaz.
What is the Taj Mahal?
The Blue Rider group (Der Blaue Reiter) was co-founded by Franz Marc and this Russian painter.
Who is Wassily Kandinsky?
This term refers to the science of designing tools to maximize comfort and ease of use?
What is ergonomics?
This Mesopotamian gate, adorned with glazed blue bricks and striding lions, once stood at the entrance to Babylon.
What is the Ishtar Gate?
Known for vast color fields and emotional intensity, this painter’s works include No. 61 (Rust and Blue).
Question: Who was Mark Rothko?
A lute with a broken string in a still life was commonly used to suggest this theme of disrupted harmony or lost love.
What is discord (or broken harmony)?
Japan’s ukiyo-e printmakers often depicted this “floating world” of theater, pleasure, and entertainment.
What is Edo (or the pleasure quarters)?
Originating in the 1920s, this movement combined folk art influences with bright colors and dreamlike symbolism, most notably in Mexican muralism.
What is Magic Realism?
Architect Louis Sullivan famously was the first to say this to emphasize that the design of a building should be determined by its purpose.
What is “form follows function?”