Time Periods & Movements
This artist painted Yellow, Red, Blue in 1925 during the rise of the Bauhaus and abstract art movements.
Who is Wassily Kandinsky?
The melting clocks in The Persistence of Memory symbolize the fluidity of time in this movement.
What is Surrealism?
Found in France, this Paleolithic cave features painted images of hands and animals, demonstrating early symbolic art.
What is Pech Merle Cave?
This polytheistic religion from India features gods such as Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma, representing creation and balance.
What is Hinduism?
This technique uses light and dark contrast to create the illusion of three-dimensionality in two-dimensional art.
What is chiaroscuro?
Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon helped introduce this movement that shattered traditional perspective and embraced geometric abstraction.
What is Cubism?
Roy Lichtenstein’s Girl in Mirror reflects this 1960s movement that draws from commercial art and popular culture.
What is Pop Art?
This ancient artifact helped scholars decode Egyptian hieroglyphs by providing translations in three scripts.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This funerary text from ancient Egypt served as a guide for the deceased in the afterlife.
What is The Book of the Dead?
This method uses a single vanishing point to create depth, introduced during the Renaissance by artists like Masaccio.
What is one-point perspective?
Completed in 1766, The Swing exemplifies the lavish and playful nature of the Rococo period.
What is Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing?
Painted in 1876, Renoir’s Bal du Moulin de la Galette captures a vibrant, festive scene of modern Parisian life using this technique characterized by short, visible brushstrokes.
What is Impressionist brushwork?
This architectural masterpiece in Istanbul transitioned from a Byzantine cathedral to an Ottoman mosque, to a museum, and has an oculus in the roof.
What is Hagia Sophia?
These Native American spirit figures are represented in Hopi culture through carvings, rituals, and dances.
What are Kachina dolls?
Common in Chinese and Japanese art, this perspective relies on a bird’s-eye view to suggest depth without vanishing points.
What is isometric perspective?
This 1931 work by Salvador Dalí epitomizes the dreamlike and bizarre qualities of Surrealism during the interwar period.
What is The Persistence of Memory?
Known for its delicate, pastel hues and ornamental detail, this painting, The Swing, is an example of this late Baroque style.
What is Rococo?
This Hindu sculpture depicts a deity performing a cosmic dance, representing creation, preservation, and destruction.
What is Shiva as Lord of the Dance?
This Hindu deity, known for destroying and transforming, plays a central role in the cyclical nature of the universe.
Who is Shiva?
This Renaissance innovation creates the illusion of distance by making colors and details fade into the background.
What is atmospheric perspective?
A hallmark of Futurism, this 1913 sculpture celebrates motion, speed, and industrialism.
What is Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space?
In Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Picasso drew inspiration from this type of non-Western art for its raw emotional power.
What is African tribal art?
This engraved Nazca geoglyph, a giant depiction of an animal visible from above, reflects the Nazca civilization's connection to astronomy and ritual.
What is the Monkey, Nazca Peru?
This stone stela narrates key moments from the Enlightened One's life, symbolizing Buddhist principles.
What is The Life of Buddha Stela?
This type of line, used in drawing and engraving, creates texture and tone by varying thickness or direction.
What is an engraved line?