This style focuses on subjects from consumer culture such as advertising, mass production, and even comic books.
What is Pop Art?
100
This artist created a simple composition of an Airplane Flying; but you might not be able to tell.
Who is Kazmir Malevich?
100
Subjects from this style focused on the unconscious mind and dreams; such as Dali's melted clocks in "The Persistence of Memory"
What is Surrealism?
100
Duchamp called his Fountain this, because it was an industrially produced item.
What is a readymade?
100
Meaning "forward thinking" this term from French military usage was applied to artists who rejected all traditional definitions of art.
What is avant-garde?
200
This was primarily an Italian movement, which focused on dynamic images that evoked movement, such as Boccioni's "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"
What is futurism?
200
He created a jetty at the Great Salt Lake, and gave it the appropriate title of "Spiral Jetty"
Who is Robert Smithson?
200
The artists of this group chose their name because the subjects of their paintings typically included abstract colors and animals; Franz Marc and Vassily Kandinsky are its founders.
What is Der Blaue Reiter?
200
Georges Braque used this kind of cubism when he made "Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass," which incorporated drawn portions, newspaper, and wallpaper; a collage.
What is synthetic cubism?
200
This is the art exhibition that brought the European Avant-Garde to the U.S. in 1913.
What is the Armory Show?
300
This is a Dutch movement which focused on simple compositions of primary colors and squares; it's title means "The Style"
What is de Stijl?
300
He created a cubist view of 5 prostitutes on Avignon street.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
300
Adolf Hitler hated the subject and styles of modern art, so he created this show to exhibit its inferiority to realistic painting.
What is the Degenerate Art Show, or Entartete Kunst?
300
Jackson Pollock's paint drips or Willem de Kooning furious brushstrokes are known as [blank] abstraction.
What is gestural abstraction? Or "action painting"
300
Helen Frankenthaler's technique of simply pouring paint on un-primed canvas was called this.
What is color field painting?
400
This painting style is not just painting in squares, artists like Picasso said they were painting various views at once.
What is cubism?
400
He was the most famous Fauvist painter, and created brightly colored paintings such as "Woman in a Hat" and "Red Room"
Who is Henri Matisse?
400
The subjects from this style can be anything from feminist to political to performance art, and has no definable medium.
What is postmodernism?
400
The broad planes of color that Barnett Newman or Mark Rothko painted are known as [blank] abstraction.
What is chromatic abstraction?
400
Frank Stella was part of this style, which sought to completely remove the artist's touch from the composition.
What is post-painterly abstraction?
500
This was an American art movement that rejected abstraction in favor of local subject matter like those of Grant Wood and Aaron Douglas.
What is Regionalism?
500
He created huge oil paintings of dramatic comic book scenes, such as "Hopeless"
Who is Roy Lichtenstein?
500
Meaning "new objectivity" this group comprised of German veterans of WWI, and they depicted the war with a critical eye.
What is Neue Sachlichkeit?
500
Also known as Site-Specific or Environmental art, this type of art utilized the natural environment as its medium.
What is Earthworks?
500
Miriam Schapiro called her sewn pieces this, to make the point that women had been making collage for generations before Picasso did in the early 20th century.