People
Places
Types and Forms
Famous works
Mis.
100
Creator of the Mona Lisa
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
100
Monument in Washington DC featuring the names of 60,000 people.
What is the Vietnam Memorial?
100
The art and science of making objects from clay
What is ceramics?
100
Neolithic structure of megaliths arranged in ceremonial pattern.
What is Stonehenge?
100
Consists of pigment, a binder, and a vehicle.
What is paint?
200
Creator of the piece Pieta
Who is Michelangelo?
200
Built by Ictinus and Callicrates
What is the Parthenon?
200
A type of relief print made from a plank of relatively soft wood
What is woodcut?
200
Painting by Jasper Johns
What is Three Flags?
200
Typically attend a school, college, or university and develop a sophisticated knowledge of art and its history.
What is a trained artist?
300
Architect of the most recent portion of the Des Moines Art Center
Who is Richard Meier?
300
Includes zones showing the creation
of the world from Genesis, prophets and sibyls, groups of Old Testament figures, and the last judgement.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
300
A full-sized drawing made as a guide for a large work in another medium.
What is a cartoon?
300
Collection of photographs by Carrie May Weems
What is The Kitchen Table Series?
300
Lines, shapes, mass, space, time, motion, light, colors, and textures.
What are elements?
400
Created the first form of writing, the wheel, and the plow.
Who are the Mesopotamians?
400
Location of Waterfall by Olafur Eliasson
What is the Garden of Versailles?
400
Art that depicts natural objects in simplified or exaggerated ways which may not be recognizable at first.
What is abstract art?
400
Room in the Palace of Versailles designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart
What is the Hall Of Mirrors?
400
Curving triangle sections that support domes
What are pendentives?
500
Learned metalsmithing when she decided to make her own wedding ring because she was bored with the options in stores and market.
Who is Margaret De Patta?
500
Location in France of artwork containing horses, rhinos and tigers.
What is Chauvet Cave?
500
Early photographic process in which a treated metal plate was exposed to light and the chemical reaction created the first satisfactory photographic images.
What is a daguerreotype?
500
Piece by Claude Monet
What is Impression Sunrise?
500
Also known as the New Stone Age, started out in Iraq when people turned into village farmers and herders.
What is the Neolithic period?