Visual Art Movements
During this time period, wall and tomb paintings were the most common form of visual art.
What is Ancient Art?
What is Realism?
Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Hamlet are plays written by this theatre innovator.
Who is Shakespeare?
These Medieval Statues are created to look like grotesque creatures and disfigured humans as a way to ward off evil spirits.
What are Gargoyles?
Located in Giza, Egypt, this sculpture has the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh.
What is The Great Sphinx?
This is a period of "Rebirth" where an interest in learning and values arose.
What is Renaissance?
During Greek and Roman theatre, actors wore these in order to play different characters and be seen better by the audience.
What are Masks?
Known as the "Father of Realism," this playwright wrote plays that portrayed realistic people and situations on stage.
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
This is the open-air performance structure used by the Ancient Greeks.
What is a Theatron?
This type of media was commonly used by the Greeks in order to create figure pottery, and it is identifiable by its red-orange color.
What is Terra-Cotta Clay?
This is the period in time when art highlighted emotion, individualism, and the glorification of nature.
What is Romanticism?
This is a dramatic play whose emotional plot is more important than the characters.
What is Melodrama?
According to Greek history, this man became the first actor after he stepped out of the Chorus.
Who is Thespis?
This performance space was utilized by The Lord Chamberlain's Men, and it burned down twice!
What is The Globe Theatre?
Michelangelo painted a masterpiece on the ceiling of this famous church in Italy.
What is The Sistine Chapel?
The painters Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Rubens were painters during this artistic period.
What is Baroque?
In America, this was the most popular form of theatre during the 1920s and 1930s.
What is Broadway Theatre?
One of the most influential surrealist artists, this person's work explored ideas of gender, race and class.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
Often "broken" in Epic Theatre, this is the imaginary divide between the actors and the audience.
What is the Fourth Wall?
This is Henrik Ibsen's famous play that portrays a woman leaving her husband and family, and it helped kickstart the Realistic Movement in theatre.
What is A Doll's House?
This is an artistic movement which emerged as a reaction against the ideas the naturalism of Impressionism.
What is Post-Impressionism?
During the Neo-Classical period, this was the idea that a play was grounded in reality, and it involved no supernatural elements.
What is Verisimilitude?
This artist is credited with founding Impressionism.
Who is Claude Monet?
During the Middle Ages, plays were often performed on this mobile stage in order to attract the attention of large crowds.
What is a Pageant Wagon?
This play, by Betolt Brecht, depicts a group of travelers during wartimes, and is considered a masterpiece of Epic Theatre.
What is Mother Courage and Her Children?