Lives & Legends
This artist believed he was the reincarnation of his older brother, who died before he was born and shared his name.
Who is Salvador Dalí?
The dramatic use of light and shadow in a painting, especially associated with Rembrandt.
What is chiaroscuro?
This monumental anti-war painting was created in response to the bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War.
What is Guernica?
Rembrandt painted this type of painting close to 100 times over his life.
What is a self-portrait?
Both this Dutch Baroque painter and this contemporary American painter used lighting or color choices to focus attention on the psychological state of their subject.
Who are Rembrandt and Amy Sherald?
This artist's fortunes declined so much later in life that he had to sell his house and possessions, and he died largely forgotten.
Who is Rembrandt?
The technique of painting in shades of grey, used by Amy Sherald for skin tone.
What is grisaille?
In this famous group portrait, Rembrandt broke convention by showing a civic guard company caught in a moment of action rather than posed formally.
What is The Night Watch?
Amy Sherald's subjects usually do this directly toward the viewer, which makes you feel looked at rather than simply looking.
What is (making) eye contact / meeting the viewer's gaze?
This artist used a fragmented, multi-angle Cubist style, while this other artist restages classical poses in a completely realistic style.
Who are Picasso and Amy Sherald?
This artist worked as a waitress before becoming one of the most influential portrait painters in America.
Who is Amy Sherald?
A word for an artwork that shows a specific historical, political, or heroic event, a tradition Kerry James Marshall reworks.
What is history painting?
This painting shows a famous woman seated against a backdrop of blue.
What is Portrait of Michelle Obama (by Amy Sherald)?
This term describes Dalí's method of trying to trigger a controlled, self-induced hallucination to find hidden meanings in ordinary objects.
What is the paranoiac-critical method?
One of these two contemporary artists paints calm, single figures who look straight at you, and the other paints busy, crowded scenes full of narrative detail.
Who are Amy Sherald and Kerry James Marshall?
This artist's father, also an art teacher, reportedly gave up painting because he felt his teenage son had already surpassed him.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
The art movement, led partly by Picasso and Braque, that shows objects from multiple angles at once, broken into geometric planes.
What is Cubism?
This busy, detail-filled painting shows a barbershop and beauty salon and rewards long, close looking.
What is School of Beauty, School of Culture (by Kerry James Marshall)?
Kerry James Marshall paints skin in a very deep, intense version of this color, deliberately, as a stylistic choice.
What is black?
This 20th-century Spanish surrealist and this 20th-century American realist both used everyday or dreamlike scenes, but one distorted reality and the other painted it with cold precision.
Who are Dalí and Hopper?
This artist grew up studying art books as a child and noticed that Black figures were almost never at the center of Western painting, a gap that became his life's project.
Who is Kerry James Marshall?
The movement that tried to represent dreams and the unconscious mind, led by artists including Dalí.
What is Surrealism?
This painting's title comes from a historical accident, since it darkened so much over centuries that people assumed it showed a night scene, when it was actually painted in daylight.
What is The Night Watch?
This word describes an artist restaging a famous historical portrait pose with a different, contemporary subject, as done with the Napoleon painting.
What does it mean to reference or reinterpret a work?
Of every artist studied this course, this is the one whose personal life and public reputation are most actively debated today.
Who is Pablo Picasso?