The 20th Century: 2
Greek and Roman Art
Renaissance and Baroque
The late 18th and early 19th Centuries
The 20th Century: 1
100
Conceptual Art
What is the 1960s art movement that emphasized ideas and process over the actual art object.
100
Contrapposto
What is the sculptural pose which shifted weight onto one leg.
100
Chiaroscuro
What is the use of dramatic lighting (especially in art of the Baroque period.)
100
Rococo
What is the an art movement made popular by the French aristocracy and characterized by its whimsical subject matter.
100
Fauvism
What is the early 20th Century art movement that used color in expressive and imaginative ways.
200
Readymade
What is a manufactured object that an artist transforms into his/her own artwork.
200
Hellenistic Period
What is the latest period of Greek Art characterized by expressive and dramatic gestures and subject matter.
200
Genre painting
What is the depiction of everyday life in the art of the Northern Renaissance
200
Romanticism
What is the art movement that emphasized the emotional and the power of nature
200
Futurism
What is the early 20th Century Italian art movement that celebrated new technology, speed and motion
300
Performance Art
What is the art movement that took the human body as its medium.
300
Influential Greek belief
What is importance of the individual
300
Humanism
What is a philosophy formed during the Renaissance that is concerned with the interests, achievements and capabilities of humans over the concepts of theology (religion.)
300
Impressionism
What is a French art movement from 1870 characterized by use of everyday subjects and focused on light and mood.
300
Earthworks
What is large outdoor sculpture forms made of natural materials (such as rocks, plants, etc.)
400
Abstract Expressionism
What is an art movement developed in NYC in the 1940s that emphasized spontaneous personal expression.
400
Archaic Period
What is earliest Greek period influenced by Egypt and the Near East.
400
Renaissance
What is the "rebirth" period in Europe from the 14th - 16th Centuries characterized by a renewed interest in human-centered arts, literature, science and philosophy.
400
Realism
What is the representational art movement influenced by the invention of photography and the ordinary as its subject matter.
400
Feminist Art
What is the art movement that gained momentum in the 1970s and promoted artworks that express the experience of women (and often addressed gender inequality.)
500
Minimalism
What is a nonrepresentational art movement that took only visual elements as its subject.
500
Roman portrait sculpture
What is less idealized than Greek sculpture and characterized by realism in its depictions of aging men.
500
linear perspective
What is the system for creating the illusion of depth of 3D space on a 2D surface based on converging parallel lines.
500
Neoclassicism
What is an art movement that relied on Roman allegories to promote the messages of the French Revolution
500
Cubism
What is the early 20th Century French art movement characterized by its use of fractured space based on simultaneous views of often geometric subjects.