Rutgers
This UPenn alumna is the Art History department's undergraduate director.
Who is Carla Yanni?
You might say this Dadaist enjoyed some toilet humor.
Who is Marcel Duchamp?
The full name of Rutger's on-campus art museum.
What is the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum?
This type of painting is applied directly to the plaster of a wall
What is a fresco?
The Art History department's newest full-time faculty member, who specializes architecture, urbanism, and African American cultural studies.
Who is Amber Wiley?
This innovator of abstract art kept her work private for most of her life, but her first major solo exhibition in the United States is currently on view at the Guggenheim
Who is Hilma af Klint?
This museum updated its public admissions policy last year to some outcry. But don't worry, the "pay-as-you-wish" policy still applies to NY residents and students from Connecticut and NJ.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
An Italian term denoting high-contrast lighting in painting or photography
What is chiaroscuro?
This "quiet" statue that watches over Voorhees Mall was gifted to Rutgers in 1928, in honor of the school's Dutch heritage.
This married couple from Mexico were some of the most famous artists of the 20th century, and featured each other in many of their own works
Who are Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera?
Over the summer, this world famous museum was featured in the new music video for APES**T by The Carters
The Louvre
A classical pose, in which one's weight is shifted onto one foot while the opposite leg is bent
What is contrapposto?
A mid-20th century avant-garde art movement strongly associated with Rutgers, known for art events known as "happenings".
What is Fluxus?
This 4-inch tall prehistoric figurine was excavated near the village of Willendorf, Austria.
What is the Venus of Willendorf?
This building's original complex was designed for Cosimo de'Medici and is now a museum of Renaissance works, not to mention one of the most popular tourist attractions in Florence
What is the Uffizi Galley?
A type of Buddhist temple of shrine with a distinctive dome structure
What is a stupa?
What is Old Queens
As of 2018, this became the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction
Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci (?)
Found in Taipei, Taiwan, this museum "has a permanent collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of ancient Chinese imperial artifacts and artworks", spanning 8,000 years
What is the National Palace Museum?
Latin for "spoils" this word refers to the reuse of architectural or sculptural pieces in buildings, outside of their original context
What are spolia?