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Realism and Impressionism
Post-Impressionism and Symbolism
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Fauvism and Cubism
Futurism and Dada
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His painting Luncheon on the Grass created a scandal when it was shown at a Parisian Salon in 1863 and is considered by many to be the first modern painting.

Who is Édouard Manet?

100
This artist pioneered the technique of Poinitllism, the process of painting with small, dot-like brushstrokes of complementary colors.
Who is Georges Seurat?
100
Inspired by the writings of John Ruskin -- who believed the arts should serve a social purpose -- this designer and social activist pioneered the British Arts & Crafts movement.
Who is William Morris?
100

Leader of the Fauvist movement, his works include The Open Window (1905), The Green Line (1905), and The Joy of Life (1905-06).

Who is Henri Matisse?
100
Founder of Futurism, this writer wrote several manifestos throughout his life defining the parameters of the movement.
Who is Filippo Tommaso Marinetti?
200
This Impressionist painter studied the movement of human forms by doing a series of paintings of ballet dancers.
Who is Edgar Degas?
200
Vincent van Gogh is often associated with this technique, where thick layers of pigment would be applied so thickly it would create a raised texture on the canvas.
What is impasto?
200
This movement wanted to reject the overdesigned aesthetics of the Victorian era and initiate "a return to simplicity."
What is the Arts & Crafts movement?
200
In this painting of his own studio, Henri Matisse unifies the canvas with a single dominant color.

What is The Red Studio?

200

This Futurist, known for his sculptural works that studied motion in space, including Development of a Bottle in Space (1912) and Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913), died during military training at the age of 33.

Who is Umberto Boccioni?
300
This practice -- initiated by Claude Monet and other Impressionists -- involves leaving the studio and working outdoors to capture landscapes and natural light.
What is plein-air painting?
300
This artist -- referred to as the "prince of mysterious dreams" -- often based his paintings off works by writers like Edgar Allan Poe and created an eerie lithograph of a hot air balloon merged with an upward looking eye, a combination of earthly, technological, and divine elements.   
Who is Odilon Redon?
300
This architect -- associated with the Art Nouveau style -- built projects including the Church of the Holy Family and Park Guell in Barcelona, which mixed styles of Gothic and Medieval architecture with organic forms.

Who is Antoni Gaudí?

300
A retrospective of the work of this Post-Impressionist artist at the 1907 Salon d'Automne inspired Fauvist George Braque to advance his geometric, Cubist style. 

Who is Paul Cézanne?

300

This venue, still standing a hundred years later in Zürich, Switzerland, was the founding site of Dadaism.

What is the Cabaret Voltaire?

400
A critical review of this painting was the subject of the court case Whistler v. Ruskin.

What is Nocturne in Black and Gold by James McNeill Whistler?

400
A cultural insider and outsider, this French artist documented and participated in late-19th century Parisian nightlife and particularly portrayed life in Montmarte and at the Moulin Rouge. 

Who is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec?

400
This Czech artist -- whose Art Nouveau work was initially not well-known but has become emblematic of the style -- produced a lot of graphic design for commercial use, like product packaging and advertisements. 
Who is Alphonse Mucha?
400
This stage of Cubism is characterized by its incorporation of collage, non-art or "found" objects, and "trompe l'oeil" textures.
What is Synthetic Cubism?
400

Hannah Höch pioneered this technique to disrupt media narratives -- particularly seen in Cut with the Kitchen Knife (1919-20) -- by taking various pieces of text and image from newspapers and magazines and reassembling them into a collage.

What is photomontage?
500

This early form of photography, invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, involves using a salt solution to achieve more clarity in the final image.

What is the daguerreotype?
500
Symbolism was highly influenced by the work of this Austrian theorist, who believed that the mind comprises both a consious sphere of rationality and an unconscious sphere of hidden desires and fears.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
500
In Germany, this term meaning "youth style" was adopted to describe their form of Art Nouveau.
What is "Jugendstil?"
500

Artists including Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Fernand Léger, and Jean Metzinger worked independently of Braque and Picasso and formed their own Cubist group, known as this.

What is the Salon Cubists?
500
This is the title of the Futurist manifesto written by two musicians who sought to create sounds of modern life through electrical instruments called "noise intonators."

What is the Art of Noises?