The Dada sculpture "Fountain" is actually one of these.
What is a urinal?
100
Andy Warhol made repetitive images of this actress after her death, capitalizing on her fame.
Marilyn Monroe
100
His work, which often showed the loneliness of modern life in cities, was called Social Realism
Who is Edward Hopper?
100
Abandoning the gallery altogether, this form of contemporary art — practiced by artists such as Robert Smithson — exists directly in the natural world.
What is Land Art or Earth Art?
100
It is an outdoor, post modern piece designed by Maya Ying Lin, and its polished, black marble surfaces help drive home its emotional expression.
What is the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial?
200
Dream analysis inspired the artists of this movement.
What is Surrealism?
200
This artistic style took images from culture and advertising, or low-brow sources, and used them in artworks.
What is Pop Art?
200
These artists created "nonsense" anti-art as a protest against the logic and reason that led us into WWI.
What is Dada?
200
In this kind of Abstract Expressionism, an artist creates a painting by dripping and flinging paint onto a large canvas, relying on chance. He/she is more interested in the act of creating the painting than in the end result.
What is action painting?
200
His work, which often involves a re-imagining of canonical works of Western art history with elements of "African-ness" is a prime example of post-colonialism in contemporary art.
Who is Yinka Shonibare?
300
With the "sound poem," Dada artists introduced this kind of art that is DONE, not shown.
This usually uses time, space, the performer's body, and a relationship with the view.
What is performance art?
300
Marcel Duchamp came up with this WORD for his artistic process: selecting a manufactured object, signing it, naming it, and calling it art.
What is a "readymade?"
300
This is an American movement that focused on localized subject matter and was not as interested in abstraction.
What is American Regionalism?
300
In this kind of Abstract Expressionist painting, we see large, abstract canvases with large planes of pure color.
What is color field painting?
300
This word is used to describe the non-Western artistic influence on the Impressionists, which happened after trade was reopened with this country in 1853.
What is Japonisme?
400
This artist changed the WAY he painted by putting the canvas on the ground and spattering paint on it.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
400
This word means taking something existing, and including as a part of a new artwork in a new context. Artists have done this for centuries.
What is appropriation?
400
This massive painting by Picasso is an international anti-war symbol.
What is Guernica?
400
A Russian born synesthete, he called his paintings "Compositions". He is (perhaps) the first abstract expressionist, demonstrating more emotion than realistic imagery with his bold use of color and line.
Who is Wassily Kandinsky?
400
Georges Seurat is credited as the father of this Post-Impressionist style?
What is pointillism?
500
This artist caused a "sensation" with his painting of the Virgin Mary that included elephant dung.
Who is Chris Ofili?
500
He painted fuzzy squares in the Postwar Avant-garde style of Abstract Expressionism.
Who is Mark Rothko?
500
Modern Artists wanted art to be considered art if:
A. The elite would buy it
B. A gallery would accept it
C. The artist says it is art
What is "C" -- the artist says it is art.
500
It is the style of Modern art, pioneered by Picasso and Braque, that fragments images into geometric patterns, making them 2 dimensional and showing many perspectives at once.
What is Cubism?
500
Grant Wood painted a farmer and his daughter in his most iconic painting.