Famous Artists
Famous Paintings
Incredible Mediums
Movements
Where are they now?
100
This Dutch post-impressionist artist used color and brush strokes to set himself apart from the others. He cut off his ear and sent it to his ex-girlfriend after she broke up with him.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh
100
This painting: Blue and white swirls in the sky with stars, also with swirls around them. A tree/plant and a city along rolling hills (see photo reference).
What is Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
100
This simple medium, dated back to the beginning of time, can be full of color. Watercolors, acrylics, or oil are all popular versions of this medium.
What is paint
100
This art movement was constructed of getting everything exactly right, almost like a photograph
What is Realism
100
The Mona Lisa is the most popular piece in this museum.
What is The Louvre Museum in Paris
200
This famous American artist was well known for her paintings, especially of flowers and the New Mexico landscape.
Who is Georgia O'Keeffe
200
A man on a bridge, overlooking water with an orange and yellow sunset. He has his hands around his face and looks as if he is scared.
What is The Scream by Edvard Munch
200
This medium, able to be molded easily, only becomes strong after high-intensity heat.
What is clay or pottery
200
This art movement, shown through paintings and poetry at first, was inspired to show emotion and meaning rather than physical reality
What is Expressionism
200
The Creation of Adam, most commonly referred to as to its location, is permanently where?
What is the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, Rome.
300
Pop Art was a movement this artist helped start, motivating many people to use bright colors and strong content in their paintings. He lived in New York as an adult and had a strong influence on the artistic world.
Who is Andy Warhol
300
A woman, on the left, and a man, on the right, staring forward with a white house behind them, blue sky, and some trees. The man, wearing glasses, is holding a pitch fork and appears to be dressed in overalls. The woman has a brooch on her dress and looks off into the distance.
What is American Gothic by Grant Wood
300
Another old form of art, this was the first way the cavemen left their mark on the world by communicating what life was like for them. Today we use graphite and charcoal, as examples.
What is drawing
300
The concept of this movement is to show attitude! Created in the 1950's, this movement had a strong wave through America. One artist had a theory about this movement: Ordinary things done in an Extraordinary way. This movement also birthed the comic book.
What is Pop Art
300
Van Gogh, a Dutch painter, houses his most famous piece, The Starry Night, where? (Side note--he did not have any say as to where it is today).
What is the Museum of Modern Art in New York
400
This artist was quite the ladies man. He became well known for his influence on Cubism. This Spanish painter is well known for distorting the human face or figure in his paintings.
Who is Picasso
400
The most famous woman in all of the earth, she wears a dress and has an 'expression-less' look on her face as she stares forward. Some say she looks sad, others say she appears to be almost smiling. With her dark hair, she pops from the landscape background.
What is The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Di Vinci
400
This medium is the newest, and becoming the most popular, form of art. All you need is an Apple and an eye for creativity!
What are graphics
400
The aim of this movement was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality." Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself and/or an idea/concept.
What is Surrealism
400
Geurnica by Pablo Picasso, inspired by the bombing of Guernica in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, shows a chaotic scene of animals and people and is shown at?
What is Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain.
500
One of the most noted artists, scientists, architects, and inventors in history, this man became known as the Renaissance Man. One of his most famous masterpieces is the Mona Lisa
Who is Leonardo Di Vinci
500
These lovers, bathed in gold with much texture and pattern, are held in an embrace. They are surrounded by a gold background and a flowery ground. This painting is filled with emotion, pattern, and bright colors.
What is The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
500
The confusing type, this medium offers the artist to use painting, collage, and drawing all at once.
What is mixed-media
500
See this from many viewpoints: this movement suggested that objects should be analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form. Instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context
What is Cubism
500
The Last Supper, one of Di Vinci's most recognizable and religious pieces, depicts Jesus' last supper with his disciples. Instead of being shown in a Museum, this piece was painted on a wall and has gone through extensive restoration to be saved. Where is it at?
What is Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery in Milan, Italy
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