The Baroque
Random Art questions
The 1800's
The 1900's
Ancient Art
20th Century Art
100
This artist is known for his many self-portraits and thick paint application
Rembrandt
100
Word for the material and/or method an artist uses (plural is media)
medium
100
This Post-Impressionist artist is known for his many self-portraits (and insanity)
Van Gogh
100
Salvador Dali was a leading figure in this movement, which explored dreams and the unconscious mind
Surrealism
100
Venus of Willendorf, once thought to be the oldest art object, is from this era (Old Stone Age)
Paleolithic
100
Andy Warhol was an important artist within what movement?
Pop Art
200
This artist painted Girl with the Pearl Earring
Vermeer
200
The first ever "movie" showed what animal running?
Horse
200
This artist is considered the father of Impressionism
Monet
200
Regionalism was all about the identity of people
from this country
The United States
200
Stonehenge is from this early era ("new stone age")
Neolithic
200
Mark Rothko worked in this abstract style: "_____-field painting"
Color-Field Painting
300
This Italian Baroque painter was known for his dark, grisly images
Caravaggio
300
What colors are across the color wheel from one another?
complementary
300
This artist shocked the world with "Olympia"
Manet
300
One of the first story-based silent films was about astronomers travelling where?
The Moon
300
Classical Greek statues used this type of pose, meaning "counterpoised"
contrapposto
300
This abstract artist created "action painting"
Jackson Pollock
400
This Spanish 
artist painted Las Meninas
Velazquez
400
What type of paint never fully cures, even when it feels dry?
watercolor
400
This guy painted working class people, such as the Stonebreakers
Courbet
400
This photographer is known for his black and white landscapes
Ansel Adams
400
This Roman temple has the largest unreinforced concrete dome
Pantheon
400
Chuck Close was a pioneer of this painting style: "_____realism" (two choices)
Hyperrealism or Photorealism
500
This artist painted Raising of the Cross (hint: NOT PeeWee Herman)
Peter Paul Rubens
500
What is the largest art museum in the world, located in Paris?
The Louvre
500
Artists who wanted a career in art had to go to this art school in France. 
The French Academy
500
Duchamp was a leading figure in this art style, which celebrated poor taste and the absurd
Dada
500
What style of Ancient Greek sculpture was known for its drama? (It came after Archaic and Classical)
Hellenistic
500
This Kerry James Marshall painting is making a reference to what famous Renaissance piece? (artist or title) 
Holbein, "The Ambassadors"