Prehistoric/Antiquity/Medieval
Africa/Asia/Americas/Oceania
Europe: Renaissance - Romantic
Modern Western Art: Realism - Abstract Expressionism
Global Contemporary
100
The settled period of prehistory is known as?
Neolithic
100
What is meant by the hand gesture shown?
"Do not fear"
100
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
100
Which body part did Van Gogh lose in a manic episode (or fight with Paul Gaugin about the true inspiration in art)?
His ear
100
An artwork that has many pieces and components (and also takes up a large space) is called?
Installation
200
What is the likely function of works like the Venus of Willendorf?
Fertility (also tied to childbirth)
200
John Gast's work titled American Progress addresses which political ideal?
Manifest Destiny
200
What was the name of the powerful Florentine family responsible for commissioning many works in the Renaissance (including the Birth of Venus)?
The Medici
200
Who created the painting shown?
Edouard Manet
200
This symbol can be attributed to which artist?
Jean-Michel Basquiat
300
These prehistoric cave paintings are likely located in which modern-day country?
France (Upper Paleolithic Europe)
300
This mosque is located in which country?
Mali (city of Timbuktu)
300
Which biblical scene is being shown in the painting by Dutch Renaissance artist Hieronymus Bosch?
Last Judgement
300
Which key figure in Dadaism first debuted as a Cubist painter? (Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 - 1912)
Marcel Duchamp
300
Which New York based Pop Artist was famously shot (but not killed) by Valerie Solanas for exploiting artists and their work?
Andy Warhol
400
The lapis lazuli in the Standard of Ur was brought from where?
Afghanistan
400
Name one way that the Aztec Calendar stone described the end of world (it names 5 events where the world is destroyed)
Hurricane Winds; Devoured by Jaguars; Flooding; Rain of Fire; Earthquakes
400
Which influential Italian Baroque artist famously killed another man at a tennis court due to a dispute over a woman or over gambling debt (not entirely certain)?
Caravaggio
400
Courbet's 1848 painting titled Stonebreakers was the created the same year as which important written publication?
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel's Communist Manifesto
400
Which Black Feminist Artist staged sit-ins at the Whitney to protest a lack of female representation in art?
500
How was purple (tyrian) dye collected during antiquity (color of royalty)?
Extracted from carnivorous sea snails (very stinky process)
500
Which avatar of the Hindu Protector God Vishnu is prominently shown in many of the relief carvings at Angkor Wat?
(hint: eighth and most celebrated avatar who killed the tyrannical King Kamsa in the Hindu Vedas)
Krishna (obviously...)
500
Paintings from Romantic period that depict the Middle East (like La Grande Odalisque) are called
Orientalist
500
Everyone in your group pretend to be an action painter!
GO!!!
SWING THOSE ARMS!!!
500
The color field painter known for works like the one shown is ...?
Mark Rothko