From A to Z
This urban planning practice shaped skyscrapers and city demographics alike
What is zoning?
du Bois split his time between New York and this "City of Light"
What is Paris?
He swapped beats for brushstrokes in what he called "symphonic constructions"
Who is Vasily Kandinsky?
Flappers lopped off their locks in this short, sassy hairdo
What is a bob?
Fitzgerald fans will turn scarlet at this painting of a crimson-clad flapper
What is Woman on Sofa?
This Murphy painting depicts assorted metal parts, resembling a disassembled machine
What is Watch?
Bold angles, loud color schemes, and the Chrysler Building define this style
What is Art Deco?
Art collector Whitney lounged boldly in a turquoise pair of this "rebellious" garment
What are pants?
This movement jazzed up art and literature while celebrating Black culture
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
It's where you’d be just as likely to find a flapper as a French horn
What is a jazz club?
Clubgoers groove in this Motley painting where everyone's "painting the town red"
What is Saturday Night?
These Tewa artists crafted pottery with contrasting shades and textures of black
Who are Maria and Julian Martinez?
This group of artists opted for "urban realism," taking their easels to the street
What is the Ashcan School?
Preceding the flapper, these first wave feminists mixed progress with propriety
Who is the New Woman?
By Man Ray, it's a 1922 photogram with a playful visual rhythm of curves and angles
What is Rayograph?
Flappers did away with this restrictive garment of clothing
What is the corset?
This subregion of Oceania created shields painted in black, red, and white
What is Melanesia?
This Abstract Expressionist style is characterized by deep, flat washes of color
What are color field paintings?
Surrealists used this subconscious creative method to transcend rational thought
What is automatism?
Woman on a Sofa pays homage to an earlier work by this Ashcan School leader
Who is Robert Henri?
Black spirituals lay the framework in this biblical narrative painting by Douglas
What is Let My People Go?
Spring Sale atBendel’s captures a woman performing this knee-knocking dance
What is the Charleston?
In this Benton painting, a trapeze artist and a flapper appear in dizzying shades of red
What is City Activities with Dance Hall?
This 1923 painting, rendered in shades of muddied yellow and grey, has little depth
What is Boy Stealing Fruit?
Sumerians built these stepped temples — the original "pyramid scheme"
What are ziggurats?
Featured on Life magazine, this illustrated "it girl" made golfing look glamorous
Who is the Gibson Girl?
In Arthur G Dove's work, this jazz rhythm technique shaped biomorphic abstraction
What is syncopation?
This 1925 book featuring a flapper icon was the basis for a Marilyn Monroe picture
What is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?
Charles Demuth breaks it down in this red-gold-gray number
What is I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold?
It's one of Tintoretto's favorite techniques, manipulating shadow to create contrast
What is chiaroscuro?