Vocabulary
This type of art is often confused as modern art.
What is contemporary?
This artist (not to be confused with the ninja turtle) painted himself in the Last Judgement (1534-41)
Who is Michelangelo?
This terrorist attack resulted in increased surveillance and an influx of political art.
What is 9/11?
This popular drawing medium is actually burnt wood.
What is charcoal?
Ancient Egyptians used this body part as a unit of measurment.
What are hands?
This type of line communicates strength and authority.
What is horizontal?
This artist was commissioned and later decommissioned by Rockefeller for being a communist.
Who is Diego Rivera?
This type of art is meant to heavily influence society.
What is propaganda?
This type of sculpture pioneered by Marcel Duchamp has been historically controversial.
What are readymades?
This color is associated with energy, excitement, strength, anger, and love.
What is red?
This principle of art is defined as the appearance of oneness or harmony in a work.
What is unity?
In this installation, artist Teresa Margolles used water from washed corpses to create bubbles.
What is En el aire/ In the Air?
The photograph Vietnamese Girl Kim Phuc
Running after Napalm Attack (1972) made this unpopular war even more unpopular.
What is the Vietnam War?
Kara Walker used this substance in her large sphinx sculpture.
What is sugar?
Artists used this disease as shorthand for moral corruption.
What is syphilis?
This type of perspective uses lack of focus and sharpness to show something is far away.
What is atmospheric perspective?
This artist cut down a large tree to create the Neukom Vivarium (2006)
Who is Mark Dion?
Pablo Picasso created this piece as a response to the Spanish government’s unethical bombing tests.
What is Guernica?
Motoi Yamamoto used this ingredient in his Return to Sea Project (2010).
What is salt?
This WWII painting has recently become famous as a meme.
What is The 2000 Yard Stare?
These hand symbols are used frequently in Hinduism and Buddhism.
What is mudra?
This 3D printed piece involved extracting DNA from objects around the New York City metroplex.
What is Stranger Visions?
This coalition of African American artists created art during the civil rights movement.
What is AfriCOBRA?
What is film/what are movies?
Artists used this to symbolize the divine being in Late Antiquity/Early Medieval Period.
What is the Hand of God?