BYPtoART - "Art Through the Ages"

Art

100

A person who walks around with a group at a museum and explains the works of art

Docent

200

What was the subject of most of John James Audubon's artwork?

Birds

300

These artworks, made with small pieces of tile, have been recovered in the ruins of Pompeii.  This city was buried under ash when Mt. Vesuvius erupted almost 2000 years ago.

Mosaics

400

This artist of the Renaissance painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

Leonardo da Vinci

500

The invention of THIS in the late 1800's (art made with a camera) helped begin the modern art movement where artists began making art that was not so realistic.  

Photography

Artists

100

This artist was one of the leading painters of the Baroque movement in the 1500's and 1600's.  He painted A LOT of self-portraits.

Rembrandt

200

This artist helped begin the Cubism art movement.  This was a way of making art by combining views of a  person or object from all angles and sides into one picture.

Pablo Picasso

300

This artist began in advertizing by making drawings of shoes for magazines.  Hint:  He also wore wigs sometimes.

Andy Warhol

400

This artist painted echo shapes to illustrate what sound could look like.  This was a very abstract thought!

Kandinsky (Kindergarten Art)

500

This artist once combined a lobster and a rotary telephone to make a very bizarre sculpture.

Salvador Dali

Movement

100

Art that was made BEFORE writing...drawings were recorded on the walls of caves.

Prehistoric Art

200

This art movement featured artists like Andy Warhol and typically shows bright flashy colors and famous icons of the 1950's and 1960's.

POP ART

300

Leonardo da Vinci was a major player in this art movement.  He kept thousands of pages of sketchbook ideas!  This word also means "Rebirth" in Italian.

Renaissance

400

Beyond the real and imaginary.  Dali was a major artist in this movment.  He painted dream-like landscapes.

Surrealism

500

This civilization used heiroglyphics as an early form of writing and they built pyramids for their pharaohs!

Egyptian Art

Vocabulary

100

This is the study of birds

Ornithology

200

When you make a portrait of a person's face from the side (seeing only one eye and one ear)

Profile

300

A large wall covering for the Middle Ages that had picture and words.  These also helped to keep the castle warm.

Tapestry

400

Art that is made NOW....most modern on our timeline.

Contemporary Art

500

A line of hereditary rulers in an area over a period of time.  The Ming ____________.

Dynasty

Fun Facts

100

Pablo Picasso (Cubist artist) and Salvador Dali (Surrealist artist) were both from this European country.

Spain

200

The two people that posed for this American painting by Grant Wood were actually the artist's sister and his dentist.  

American Gothic

300

This French Impressionist artist had a waterlily pond in his back garden where he frequently painted.  

Claude Monet

400

This type of very old vase was purchased at a flea market by a family and used as an umbrella holder in their home before they realized how valuable it was!!

Ming Dynasty Vase

500

These types of windows in buildings throughout the Middle Ages (typically found in Gothic cathedrals), would show pictures from religious books.  This was because many people during the Middle Ages did not know how to read. (Pictures told the stories!)

Stained-Glass windows