Basics
Egyptian artists used this representation technique, showing heads in profile but torsos in full frontal view.
What is fractional representation?
An African American sculptor, she was a pioneering figure in early 20th-century art and often explored Pan-African themes.
Who is Meta Warrick Fuller?
This modernist design style, known for sleek geometry and decorative luxury, influenced everything from posters to architecture in the 1920s.
What is Art Deco?
In Thomas Hart Benton’s City Activities with Dance Hall, what instrument is the man playing in the lower left corner?
What is a saxophone?
In Pop Art, what silk-screened object did Andy Warhol famously reproduce multiple times to mock consumer culture?
What is a Campbell’s soup can?
Caravaggio and his followers used extreme contrasts between light and dark, a technique called this.
What is chiaroscuro?
Brooklyn-born, he captured New York society with humor and social critique, blending Ashcan realism with decorative elements.
Who is Guy Pène du Bois?
This American movement depicted streamlined industrial forms like factories and skyscrapers with sharp clarity and minimal detail.
Precisionism
The design of the Chrysler Building by William Van Alen is a hallmark of which architectural style known for geometric ornamentation and machine‑age imagery?
What is Art Deco?
During the 1920s, this Harlem nightclub was a hotspot for jazz musicians and inspired many visual artists.
What is The Cotton Club?
In this African kingdom, bronze portrait heads were often created for altars to reinforce the power of the king, or oba.
What is Benin?
A member of the f/64 group, she focused on sharply detailed, straight photography and helped redefine plant portraiture in the U.S.
Imogen Cunningham
Emerging in Weimar Germany, this movement rejected emotional expressionism for unsentimental depictions of everyday life and social realities.
New Objectivity
City Activities with Dance Hall by Thomas Hart Benton uses this compositional trait — shapes and figures that guide the eye in a curving, rhythmic flow — to reflect the social energy of modern urban life.
What is rhythmic composition?
In Islamic architecture, what wall in a mosque indicates the direction of prayer toward Mecca?
What is the qibla wall?
This structural feature allowed Gothic cathedrals to have higher walls and larger windows by transferring weight outward.
What are flying buttresses?
A Southwestern landscape inspired this painter, whose work blends realism with modernist abstraction and emphasizes magnified natural forms.
Georgia O’Keeffe
While not purely visual art, this broad cultural movement influenced American visual art by celebrating Black identity and modern life in Harlem.
Harlem Renaissance
In Charles Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, what color are the flags in the background?
What is red?
In the 1913 Armory Show, Marcel Duchamp displayed this painting, which caused a scandal because it depicted a nude in an abstract, geometric form.
What is Nude Descending a Staircase?
This 18th-century Neoclassical artist painted republican virtues and later created propagandistic canvases for Napoleon.
Who is Jacques-Louis David?
This Missouri-born artist combined modernist forms with American regionalism to depict dynamic urban and rural scenes, often in a curvilinear style.
Thomas Hart Benton?
This Bauhaus‑linked approach in photography celebrated unexpected perspectives and rejected traditional painterly techniques.
What is Neues Sehen / New Vision?
In James Van Der Zee’s Couple, Harlem, what is the pattern on the man’s tie?
What is polka dots?
Who are the best acdec coaches? (HARD!!)
Smith & Westbrook