Art that blurs the boundary between "high art" and mass media/popular culture.
What is Pop Art?
100
An alcoholic with an erratic personality, best known for his role in the emergence of abstract expressionism.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
100
A Frenchman best known by his pseudonym who played a key role in the emergence of the International Style.
Who is Le Corbusier?
100
Dada was a direct response to the massive horrors of this epic conflict.
What is World War I?
100
This iconic American image by Grant Wood depicts the artist's dentist and daughter in front of their Midwestern farmhouse.
What is American Gothic?
200
Art (primarily painting) that was made to show the artist's unconscious and generally resulted in aggressive, "messy" compositions (emerged in the mid-1940s).
What is Abstract Expressionism?
200
A sculptor who invented "mobiles" and "stabiles."
Who is Alexander Calder?
200
Vladimir Tatlin's idealistic--and never realized--design for a rotating building to celebrate a new socialist society.
What is Monument to the Third International?
200
This conflict motivated artists to support Lenin through radical design.
What is the Russian Revolution?
200
The title of this mural-size action painting suggests a season and the jazz music that often inspired the painter.
What is Autumn Rhythm?
300
Art in which the idea is paramount to any tangible object (if there is one at all).
What is conceptual art?
300
A French emigre to the U.S. who is credited with inventing the readymade.
Who is Marcel Duchamp?
300
The best-known De Stijl architect whose Schroder House exemplifies his very modern, sleek approach.
Who is Gerrit Rietveld?
300
This movement emerged in the 1970s and propelled "minority" artists making political work into the limelight.
What is feminism?
300
The image for this painting was taken from a comic book and depicts a woman in great distress.
What is Drowning Girl?
400
Art motivated by Freudian psychoanalysis and absurdity that took the form of both photorealistic "dreamscapes" and poetry and images made "automatically".
What is Surrealism?
400
An American sculptor who moved from Minimalist objects to massive outdoor "earthworks" in the West--notably Utah.
Who is Robert Smithson?
400
The painter who influenced Rietveld's design of Schroder House.
Who is Piet Mondrian?
400
Abstract expressionist art was taken on a world tour by the U.S. government as exemplary of freedom under this form of social organization.
What is democracy?
400
This object undoes distinctions between painting and sculpture and includes a stuffed rooster.
What is Odalisk?
500
A branch of the Russian avant-garde dedicated to the development of a new socialist society; artists made utilitarian designs for architecture, clothing, and propaganda posters.
What is Constructivism?
500
An American artist who caused great controversy with her collaboratively-produced installation about women in history.
Who is Judy Chicago?
500
The non-traditional German art school headed by Walter Gropius that encouraged radical art and architecture.
What is the Bauhaus?
500
Along with earthworks, this approach to art making was intended as an attack on art world politics (esp. the market and consumer culture).
What is conceptual art?
500
An example of Mondrian's work that reduced painting to its most base elements: primary colors and perpendicular lines.