He created an abstract landscape of a sunset over water - critics didn't like the blotchy strokes of paint to show the ripples on the water.
Who is Claude Monet?
100
Scene: Adam and Eve are married in a garden, people frolic with human-sized birds, and people are tortured by musical instruments.
What is the Garden of Earthly Delights?
100
This period is considered the first anti-art movement, the "Fountain" belongs in this category.
What is Dada?
100
This is probably the most popular painting medium, artists like its slow-drying quality which allows for great detail and luminous color.
What is oil paint?
100
This term refers to art and artists of the 20th century who were forward thinking and tested the tradition of artistic styles.
What is avant-garde?
200
He is responsible for creating one of the most important sculptures of the 20th century by choosing a urinal and naming it "Fountain."
Who is Marcel Duchamp?
200
Scene: French soldiers execute Spanish peasants in the dark countryside.
What is Third of May, 1808?
200
This movement emphasized the emotional response of the viewer; Eugene Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People" belongs in this category.
What is Romanticism?
200
Artists like Judy Chicago transform entire spaces with this technique.
What is Installation?
200
This term refers to a three-paneled painting.
What is a triptych?
300
This artist created a political statement with a very long title: Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany.
Who is Hannah Hoch?
300
Scene: Two "women of ill-repute" sit with two students who are playing hooky in a park.
What is Luncheon on the Grass?
300
This movement contained subject matter than explored dream worlds and the unconscious experience - like those works by Salvador Dali.
What is Surrealism?
300
This is a technique uses cut pieces of paper from photographs and magazines.
What is photomontage?
300
This painting medium is made from pigments mixed with egg yolk.
What is Tempera?
400
This artist documented the migration of Southern African-Americans traveling to other parts of the United States looking for better opportunity.
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
400
Scene: Place settings are individualized for 39 women from history.
What is The Dinner Party?
400
Art from this movement asks the question: What is more important? The object, or what the object says?
What is Conceptual Art?
400
The Impressionists used this technique which required them to paint outside, quickly, in order to observe the effects of light.
What is plein air?
400
This was an art exhibit that began in 1864 - it displayed works that did not make it into the official annual exhibition.
What is the Salon des Refuses?
500
This artist explores the connection between image and language with one, or maybe it's three chairs.
Who is Joseph Kosuth?
500
Scene: clocks are melting over an endless landscape, with swarming ants and flies.
What is The Persistence of Memory?
500
Kazimir Malevich invented this term to describe his own non-objective style.
What is Suprematism?
500
Jackson Pollock's technique can be called this - as you can see the direction of the movement of the artist's brush.
What is Action Painting or Gestural Abstraction?
500
This is the German title for the Degenerate art exhibition.