This started 2.6 billion years ago: the beginning of the Stone Age
What is the Paleolithic Era
100
This art work made for the gods was commonly found on papyrus and appeared 2-dimensional.
What is Ancient Egyptian art?
100
This artist was the leading figure of the artists disparagingly nicknamed Fauves ("The Wild Beasts")
Who is Henri Matisse?
100
Polyclitus was a famous ancient artist in this country
What is Greece?
100
This time period in Europe spanning the late 13th century to around 1700 (but peaked in the late 1400's) was a period of rebirth in the arts, philosophy, math and science.
What is the Renaissance?
200
Famous round sculpture of a fertility goddess
What is the Venus of Willendorf?
200
This collection of art was made to lead people into the afterlife.
What is the Book of the Dead?
200
Edvard Munch strongly influenced this art movement that bridged the late 1800's into the 1900's.
What is Expressionism?
200
The Athenians used this 3-dimensional art form.
What is sculpture?
200
This disease killed 50% percent of the European population in the Renaissance.
What is the bubonic plague
300
Cave in France with walls covered in art
What is Lascaux
300
This river was crucial to the survival of Ancient Egyptian Civilization in an almost entirely barren desert.
What is the Nile River?
300
This famous artist* was one of two founders of Cubism.
*and who Mrs. R. swears is an A******!
Who is Pablo Picasso?
300
In Ancient Greece and Rome, this modern day math subject was a great, innovative discovery that changed art and architecture.
What is geometry?
300
This type of painting is made from watercolors painted quickly onto wet plaster walls.
What is a fresco?
400
Also, in the French caves, this is one of the oldest forms of art found
What are hand prints?
400
This monumental sculpture has the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh.
What is the Sphinx?
400
This Edvard Munch painting with a wavy orange sky and bridge from foreground to the distant background depicts a man reacting to the anxieties of modern life.
What is The Scream?
400
One of Ancient Greece's powerful leaders, he spread philosophy and art to all the lands he conquered.
What is Alexander the Great?
400
Leonardo da Vinci and Masaccio (which means "Sloppy Tom") were two Renaissance artists from what country?
What is Italy?
500
Because THIS method of communication did not yet exist, art historians can only make an educated guess as to the purpose and meaning of art from the Paleolithic Era
What is writing?
500
The Washington Monument is an example of this tall, 4-sided, pointed, stone shaft-like structure that originated in Ancient Egypt.
What is an obelisk?
500
Expressionist painters used bold colors, lines and simple shapes to depict this invisible subject matter.
What is emotion?
500
The Ancient Greek word for art meant "The excellence of reaching one's full potential"
What is "arete"
500
Advances in this field helped Renaissance artists to make more realistic art.