Art Periods/Movements
What is The Renaissance?
This movement originated in America in the late 1950s and sought to connect the traditions of fine art with pop culture.
What is Pop Art?
The Starry Night, 1889.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
Created self-portraits that explored her cultural identity.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
Mona Lisa, 1503.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Movement focused on depicting light, time of day, and change. Characterized by looser brushstrokes and lighter colors.
What is Impressionism?
Art created today!
What is Contemporary Art?
Terrified of grasshoppers and walking barefoot.
Salvador Dali
Created large-scale paintings of flowers and the American South West.
Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
Water Lilies, 1906.
Who is Claude Monet?
Movement originated in Paris. Known for being light, whimsical, and decadent. This style featured highly decorative and ornamental elements within paintings and architecture.
What is Rococo?
Much of the art created during this time period was not meant to be viewed by mortals. This art was mainly designed to benefit a divine or deceased recipient.
What is Ancient Egyptian Art?
One of the founders of Cubism
Who is Pablo Picasso or Georges Braque?
Known for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
Campbell's Soup Cans, 1962.
Who is Andy Warhol?
This movement was known for being extravagant and grand. Paintings during this time often featured intense, dramatic lighting.
What is Baroque?
Characterized by breaking objects and figures down into distinct areas or planes. Viewed as a revolutionary new approach to representing reality.
What is Cubism?
This artist gradually lost their sight. As a result, paintings created later in their life had brighter colors and more textural paint.
Who is Claude Monet?
Painter known for using a dramatic lighting technique called "chiaroscuro." He was also known for his fiery temper and was forced to leave Rome after an argument turned into a swordfight.
Who is Carravaggio?
The Swing, 1767.
Who is Jean-Honoré Fragonard?
The word for this movement is French for "the wild beasts."
What is Fauvism?
Characterized by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity.
What is Abstract Expressionism?
A major figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
This artist often had many projects going at once. He only created a few finished works in his lifetime, but he has many unfinished pieces.
Who is Leonardo DaVinci?
Oath of the Horatii, 1784.
Who is Jacques-Louis David?