This 1930 painting by Grant Wood depicts an elderly couple posed outside their farmhouse.
What is American Gothic?
100
This artist was a founder of French Impressionism, the name for the style coming from his painting, Impression, soleil levant.
Who is Claude Monet
100
This painter, along with Georges Braque is credited with the invention of Cubism, a style that used fragmented perspective and shading.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
100
Most famed for his self-portraits that honestly depict the ravages of a lifetime on his face. This artist is considered the master of "chiaroscuro."
Who is Rembrandt van Rijn?
100
This oil portrait on a wood panel is the "best known, most visited and most parodied piece of art in the world". It is believed to be an image of Lisa Gharardini and was painted in the early 1500s by Leonardo DaVinci.
What is the Mona Lisa.
200
She is recognized as the "mother of American modernism."
Her best known paintings are abstracted close-ups of flowers.
Who is Georgia O'Keefe?
200
Both Picasso and Matisse are said to have remarked that this artist was "father of us all." Indeed this painter bridged the gap between the 19th century Impressionism and 20th century Cubism.
Who is Paul Cezanne?
200
Surrealist Salvador Dali's most famed work that portrays melting clocks as a symbol for the unrelenting passage of time.
What is The Persistence of Memory
200
This "one eared" dutch painter left a prolific 2,100 or so artworks behind at the time of his suicide at age 37. Most of his 860 oil paintings were made during the last 2 years of his life.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
200
This 15th century painting by Sandro Botticelli is frequently nicknamed "Venus on the Half Shell"
What is The Birth of Venus?
300
This Lithuanian-born American artist is best known for his social realism. His 23 gouache paintings of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial communicated the political concerns of his time.
Who is Ben Shahn?
300
Nearly half of this Impressionist painter's subjects were ballet dancers.
Who is Edgar Degas?
300
Francisco Goya started as a royal court portrait painter but later his work focused on disturbing aspects of life, including this well known image of an execution during Spain's Peninsular War
What is the 3rd of May?
300
A present day novel and film of the same name have added to the popularity of this mid 17th century portrait by Jan Vermeer
What is Girl with the Pearl Earring?
300
From 1508-1512 this artist labored to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Who is Michelangelo Buonarroti?
400
A major figure in Abstract Expressionism, this artist developed a style known as "drip painting".
Who is Jackson Pollock?
400
Both Henri Matisse and Andre Derain worked during 1905 in a new style dubbed "wild beasts" for it's radically bold use of color.
What is fauvism?
400
This 1656 oil painting by Diego Velazquez, is believed to include an image of the artist himself amongst the room full of young ladies and royal servants.
What is Las Meninas?
400
His 16th century Renaissance works typically show a harmony between man and nature so that neither appears more important than the other. Categorized as a genre painter his works show scenes of ordinary folk in daily life activities.
Who is Pieter Brueghel?
400
He painted the Holy Trinity fresco that resides in Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy which is famed for it's accurate application of linear perspective combined with realistic figures.
Who is Masaccio?
500
This 1942 Edward Hopper oil painting shows customers sitting at the counter of an all-night diner.
What is Nighthawks?
500
Georges Seurat used this style of painting using dots of different colors side by side that would be optically blended by the viewer.
What is Pointililsm?
500
This artist painted several self-portraits in the fauvist style early in his career that one might even classify as cubist. He later went on to produce works categorized as Magical Realism and Surrealism.
Who is Joan Miro?
500
This Hieronymus Bosch triptych is described as both harmonious and horrible because it shows a central view of earth flanked on each side by panels of Heaven and Hell.
What is The Garden of Earthly Delights?
500
Known for depicting detailed emotion on his figures, this artist died on his 37th birthday. His best known work is titled The School of Athens.