He was a troubled artist who tried to express emotions through strong brushwork and arbitrary colors. His passion cost him an ear!
Who is Vincent Van Gogh
100
This art movement in the 20th Century used primarily films, photography, and painting to illustrate, sometimes disturbing, dream-like altered realities.
What is Surrealism?
100
The Greeks used this architectural feature for vertical support, but included decorative elements at the base and capital.
What are columns?
100
Picasso, one of the most influential proponents of cubism, was highly influenced by art from this continent.
What is Africa?
100
Prehistoric artists painted in these geologic features, probably for ceremonial purposes, but did not live there.
What are caves.
200
He is known for being an architect, inventor, engineer, painter, sculptor, scientist, and musician--a true "Renaissance Man". Sfumato and the use of perspective were his trademark painting techniques.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
200
These artists sought to rebel against the Academy in Paris by dismissing details, and painting "plein air" to capture the light in its changing states.
Who are the Impressionists?
200
This feature is considered the foundation of Rome's mastery and expanse of building projects across the ancient world. It allowed for larger structures such as aqueducts which delivered fresh water to cities.
What is a Roman Arch?
200
French painter Paul Gauguin moved to the South Pacific to find a more pure way of life and painted scenes of idyllic island life that used this type of unnatural color scheme.
What is arbitrary color?
200
Art historians work closely with these scientists who study the ancient and recent human past through material remains.
What is an archaeologist?
300
This Dutch Baroque artist is known for his piercing self-portraits, and featuring the highest paying patrons prominently in his paintings.
Who is Rembrandt van Rijn?
300
This movement, led by the portraitist Chuck Close, sought to capture scenes in hyper detail.
What is Photo Realism?
300
Pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and these structures, which transfers the thrust of the roof outward and down, were characteristics of Gothic style of architecture. It was said that they look like slender fingers holding up the sides of the walls of cathedrals.
What is a flying buttress?
300
Marcel Duchamp drew a mustache and goatee on a reproduction of this famous Renaissance painting and exhibited it as "L.H.O.O.Q." in 1919.
What is the "Mona Lisa"?
300
Art history sometimes overlaps with this field of study, which is the philosophical into the nature and expression of beauty.
What is aesthetics?
400
This Action Painter used gravity and motion to sling paint onto large canvases on the floor.
Who is Jackson Pollack?
400
This art movement utilized common commercial imagery and elevated it to high art. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Indiana were some of the leading artists of this movement.
What is Pop Art?
400
A contest to design these for the Baptistry of Florence was narrowly won by Lorenzo Ghiberti.
What are doors?
400
This painter, a member of the Blau Reiter movement in Germany, is considered to be the first purely abstract painter. His paintings have no visible subject matter and he often used color to interpret sounds or music.
Who is Wassily Kandinsky?
400
Art historians are concerned with this term for origin of an artwork, and the chronology of ownership.
What is provenance?
500
This Dada artist invented the "Readymade", and shocked the art world by submitting a urinal to a sculpture exhibition.
Who is Marcel Duchamp?
500
This artist, considered to be the first Impressionist, shocked the Paris Academy with his 1863 painting "Luncheon in the Grass", which features a normal picnic, except one of the participant has no clothes!
Who is Edouard Manet?
500
This influential school of design in Germany attempted to reconcile industrial arts with aesthetics. It was closed by the Nazi's in 1933.
What is Bauhaus?
500
Piet Mondrian made abstract paintings that simplified forms to flat geometric shapes using black, white, and these important three colors.
What are the primary colors; red, blue, and yellow?
500
Formal analysis deals with the visual qualities of an artwork itself, but this type of analysis involves looking outside the artwork in order to determine its meaning.