Movements
This art movement is defined by emotion that is expressed through the use of implied line and vivid color.
What is Romanticism?
This artist was part of the Harlem Renaissance and was inspired by Art Deco, Egyptian wall painting, Modernist abstraction, and African Art.
Who is Aaron Douglas?
This artwork was lost when Marcel Duchamp moved to America, but it was no problem because it's a 'readymade'.
What is Bicycle Wheel?
This building in Greece was dedicated to the Goddess Athena.
What is the Parthenon
This painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner was inspired by a book about the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
What is Slave Ship?
This movement was a period of artistic expression and cultural activity among African Americans between the end of World War I and the onset of the Great Depression.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This artist lived in New York City and painted urban genre scenes.
Who is Isabel Bishop?
This absurdist, nonsensical, Dada sound poem.
What is Karawane?
These can be seen from the windows of the Hall of Mirrors.
What are the Gardens of Versailles?
This painting by Eugène Delacroix features a bare-chested woman carrying the French Flag during the July Revolution of 1830.
What is Liberty Leading the People?
This art movement is a branch of Baroque art and is defined by extravagant displays of wealth and debauchery by the aristocracy.
What is Rococo?
This artist was at the forefront of the Abstract Expressionist movement and focused on material experimentation.
Who is Helen Frankenthaler?
This piece by Henri Matisse depicts multiple figures dancing, listening to music, and other leisurely activities.
What is Joy of Life?
Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda has this order of columns on the outside of the building.
What are Corinthian order columns?
Edmonia Lewis's sculpture, Forever Free, was made in response to this piece of legislation.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This art style was inspired by the Classical world and depicted strictly ordered scenes with heroic subjects.
What is Neoclassicism?
This artist was a Surrealist and painted Bird Bath/Baño de pajaros in 1974.
Who is Leonora Carrington?
This artwork by Jean-Honoré Fragonard features an illicit dalliance between two aristocrats and is ultimately a commentary on the Church's lack of action against immoral behavior.
What is The Swing?
Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda was built for this American University.
What is the University of Virginia?
Regions impacted by the mass dispersal of Africans by trade in enslaved people or by choice.
This art movement was established to appeal to the mind.
What is De Stijl?
This artist painted by dripping paint onto a canvas on the floor.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
This piece by Pablo Picasso was inspired by African artworks and introduced Europe to simplified forms and bodies as geometric shapes.
What is Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
Louis XIV is standing in this famous French building in Hyacinthe Rigaud's portrait of the "Sun King".
What is the Palace of Versailles?
This artist fought against prolific forged copies of his work, leading to the Engraving Copyright Act of 1734.
Who is William Hogarth?