Movements
Characteristics
Name that Artist
Artworks
History & Vocabulary
100

This art movement utilizes textural brushwork which captures fleeting moments of light.

What is Impressionism?

100

This art movement is a rebirth of classical (Greek and Roman) culture.

What is the Renaissance?

100

This ARTIST is known for developing the drip painting technique.

Who is Jackson Pollock?

100

Painted by Michelangelo, this ceiling depicts images from the book of Genesis.

What is The Sistine Chapel Ceiling?

100

This color choice uses only one color plus tints and shades. 

What is monochromatic?

200

This style is inspired by African masks and culture and showing multiple viewpoints at one time.

What is Cubism?

200

These artists and artworks show emotion that distorts form.

What is Expressionism?

200

This artist is known for creating the style that shows the subjects from multiple angles at once and uses geometric forms.

Who is Pablo Picasso?

200

(Two part question) This artwork shows an imaginative night sky was painted by this artist while he was in an insane asylum.

What is Starry Night by Vincent VanGogh.

200

This word describes the art created before written history. 

What is Prehistoric?

300

This age of art history was characterized by megalithic structures and belief that animals, nature, and man made objects can have magical or spiritual qualities.

What is Prehistoric?

300

This art of Greece and Rome saw idealized sculptural forms which highlighted the human body and power.

What is Classical Art?

300

This artist started the Impressionist movement.

Who is Claude Monet?

300

This grand fresco was painted in part to show superiority to the Sistine Chapel Ceiling. 

What is the Triumph of the Barberini.

300

This word refers to artists that are alive and working today.

What is contemporary?

400

This time period in art history is a continuation of Renaissance art but used dramatic lighting, diagonal lines, triangular compositions, showing the height of action in their images.

What is Baroque art?

400

This art movement occurred after Impressionism's fame and used similar techniques at a more exaggerated level.

What is Post-Impressionism?

400

This artist created prints based on popular culture of the 1960's.

Who is Andy Warhol?

400

The "Conversion of St. Paul" depicts the beginnings of this man's biblical story.

Who is Saul?

400

This word is used to describe an artwork which is painted on fresh plaster.

What is a fresco?

500

This art style turns the mundane and everyday into art, removing commercialized items from their regular setting.

What is Pop Art?

500

This art movement was considered a triumph of imagination, individualism, and focused on the power, beauty, and danger of nature as a metaphor for life. Many artists used their art as a means of political speech. 

What is Romanticism?

500

Composition in Red, Yellow and Blue was created by this artist, also known for his abstracted trees.

Who is Piet Mondrian?

500

This Medieval Church, often called Notre Dame, is actually named this. 

What is Chartres Cathedral?

500

The Book of Kells is an excellent example of this type of manuscript.

What is "Illuminated"?