Prehistory
This type of design is classified by flat, 2D imaging and design commonly attributed to the Great Hall of Bulls and the Anthropomorphic Stele.
What is low-relief?
This type of structure is a rectangular shaped step tower, most commonly seen in a temple dedicated to Anu.
What is a ziggurat?
This style of work is seen in the Last Supper, a Renaissance mural painted using an experimental technique on a refectory wall.
What is a fresco?
Artists of this technique often used this painting technique on canvas for its versatility, rich color, and ability to create depth and texture.
What is oil painting?
This printmaking technique allows the artist to carve a design into a block of wood or linoleum, roll ink over the raised surface, and transfer the image to paper.
What is a relief print?
This well-known prehistoric art is comprised of a silhouette of a head of two horns and was one of seven found in the Huns Mountains in Namibia.
What is the Apollo 11 Stones?
This type of ancient civilisation’s art was comprised of realism, idealism, harmony, and fluid poses.
What is Roman art?
This Dutch artist depicted himself alongside his wife Saskia in a lavish tavern scene, raising a glass in celebration.
Who is Rembrandt van Rijn?
This painting depicts a Rococo garden scene with a woman on a swing, highlighting playful aristocratic leisure, delicate color, and fluid composition.
What is The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard?
This Spanish Cubist painter founded Cubism and painted works like Les Demoiselles d’Avignon with geometric figures.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
Discovered south of the Solomon Islands, the Terra Cotta fragments were of these people.
Who are the Lapita people?
This famous low-relief Egyptian piece was found with some of the earliest hieroglyphics inscriptions ever found.
What is the Palette of King Narmer?
This fresco presents a grand, symmetrical hall with coffered arches and vanishing-point perspective, where robed philosophers gather in discussion, debating in small groups, writing or teaching, and arranged around a central staircase that draws the eye inward.
What is The School of Athens?
This painting by Édouard Manet shows a nude woman confidently confronting the viewer while two clothed men observe, challenging traditional academic standards.
What is Olympia?
This Surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí depicts melting clocks in a dreamlike landscape, exploring time and the subconscious.
What is The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí?
This Neolithic “marker” was made from exogenous sandstone and found in modern-day Saudi Arabia.
What is the Anthropomorphic Stele?
This stele comprised of limestone inspired Egypt to worship only Aten, the sun god, while displaying daughters to show divine right to rule.
What is Akhenaten, Neferiti and three daughters?
This theme is reflected in William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode, which depicts 18th-century British society, prioritising status and wealth over love through an arranged marriage.
What is aristocracy?
This Impressionist painting captures the play of light on water with loose brushwork, depicting the harbor of Le Havre in the morning haze.
What is Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet?
This 1917 work features a porcelain urinal presented as an art object, challenging notions of what constitutes art.
What is Fountain by Marcel Duchamp?
The Jade Cong is a 4000 year old piece from Liangzu, China and is made of many larger and smaller towering rings, symbolising a connection between two things.
What is the earth and the heavens?
The Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur was found in modern day in Iraq displaying a peaceful and war side. This type of division best displays contrasts between two things.
What is hierarchy and war? Also accept: Peace and society
The Sistine Chapel ceiling displays many forms of expression, combining these three classical ideals with a dramatic, complex, and psychologically intense narrative.
What is realism, symbolism, and dramaticism?
This movement challenged academic traditions, emphasized personal perception, and paved the way for modern art by focusing on color, light, and everyday life.
What is impressionism?
This mid-20th-century movement in New York emphasized large-scale abstraction, spontaneous techniques, and the artist’s gesture, shifting the center of the art world from Europe to the United States.
What is Abstract Expressionism and its significance in transforming modern art?