Quotes
Artists
Philosophers
History
100
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Who is Thomas Merton
100
Vegetarian Vegetable from Campbell's Soup II (1969)
Who is Andy Warhol
100
Distinguishes between Absolute Beauty and Relative Beauty
Who is Francis Hutcheson
100
Started in France after the 1848 Revolution.
What is the Realism Movement.
200
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson
200
Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare (1857)
Who is Gustave Courbet
200
Believes art involves imitation
What is believed by Aristotle
200
Group of English poets, artists and critics who felt the only true art was High Renaissance.
What is the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
300
"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
Who is Henry David Thoreau
300
The Blind Man's Meal (1903)
Who is Pablo Picasso
300
“Tragedy is an imitation, not of persons but of action and life, of happiness and misery"
What is said by Aristotle
300
Invention in 1840. Helped to spur the realism movement.
What is photography
400
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
Who is Vincent Van Gogh
400
First Steps, after Millet (1890)
Who is Vincent van Gogh
400
"The mind is a complex energy-system, the structural investigation of which is the proper province of psychology"
What is said by Sigmund Freud.
400
Period denoting the apogee of the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance.
What is the High Renaissance.
500
"Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist in the representation of real and existing things."
Who is Gustave Courbet
500
Weaning the Calves (1879)
Who is Rosa Bonheur
500
"Beauty is produced by the similarity and contrast between the imitation and its original."
What is said by Francis Hutcheson
500
High Renaissance period is traditionally taken to have begun.
What is 1490's.
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