ISMS
Baroque
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
100

This ISM consisted of a revival classical art to emphasize virtue and create a distinction between masculine and feminine.

What is Neoclassicism?

100

Developed by Caravaggio, this feature is characterized by predominantly dark tones and shadows with dramatically contrasting effects of light.

What is tenebrism?

100

The fetes galantes is a feature of this 18th-century art movement.

What is Rococo?

100

As a reaction to Neoclassicism, Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa relies on this new ISM to play with the viewer's emotion.

What is Romanticism?

100

In Barcelona, this architect created works like Casa Milà (aka La Pedrera) to break with the linearity inherent in Haussmanization.

Who is Antoni Gaudì?

200

This ISM was was the result of the Salon des Refusés.

What is Impressionism?

200

In order to make painting more profitable, Rembrandt looked to this kind of portraiture.

What is the group portrait?

200

This important 18th-century event allowed Italian artistic ideals to migrate throughout Europe, predominantly in Britain. 

What is the Grand Tour?

200

This movement which started in Paris and was adopted with zeal in Barcelona, created grid-like cityscapes with wide avenues.

What is Haussmanization?

200

This artist struggled with the duality of her indigenous and German backgrounds?

Who is Frida Kahlo?

300

This ISM is synonymous with Art Nouveau in a Catalan context.

What is Modernisme? (with an e)

300

This kind of painting depicts scenes of everyday, contemporary life.

What is Genre painting?

300

This artist painted a series of works that depicted the devastating effects of syphilis.

Who is William Hogarth?

300

The dates in Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, July 28, 1830 and Francisco Goya's Third of May, 1808 allude to this defining aspect of Romanticism.

What is journalism?

300

This art movement, born out of disgust, was a direct response to the tragedies of WWI.

What is Dada?

400

This ISM was named after French Art Critic Louis Vauxcelles who referred to the artists of the Salon of 1905  as “wild beasts.”

What is Fauvism?

400

Bernini's David captures this important feature of Baroque art.

What is movement?

400

Works like William Blake's Europe Supported by Africa and the Americas were inspired by this 18th-century movement.

What is the Enlightenment?

400

In an attempt to help photography be considered a true art form, Oscar Rejlander composed his The Two Paths of Life, a work based on this famous work? 

What is Raphael's School of Athens?

400

This movement is strongly associated with dreams and the hidden meanings in the unconscious mind.

What is surrealism?

500

This ISM was inspired by the post-WWII desire to depict America as the land of the free.

What is Abstract-Expressionism?

500

By depicting himself painting a canvas, while staring out at the viewer, this painter allowed the viewer to imagine themselves as the subject of his work.

Who is Diego Velazquez?

500

Giambattista Tiepolo did a series of works depicting the story of Rinaldo and Armida, from this popular work of the period.

What is Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered)?

500

The main feature of the Gothic revival in architecture in Britain and the United States is this. 

What is the pointed arch?

500

Jackson Pollock's method of dripping, flinging and scattering paint onto canvases spread across the floor is also know as this.

What is action painting?