Movements
This art movement centers on breaking perspective, shattering a single viewpoint of something and assembling multiple views into one image.
What is cubism?
The father/founder of Impressionism.
Who is Monet?
Fragonard's flirty Rococo painting of a young woman and her two loves is titled after the activity she is engaged in.
What is "The Swing?"
What is photography? or What is Daguerreotypes?
This art technique utilizes everyday print media, that when cut and reassembled, create new images and challenge the notion that art need to be made with widely inaccessible materials.
What is collage?
This 18th century art movement celebrates sexy, flirtatious and mythical fantasy subject matter in pastels for the burgeoning middle class.
What is Rococo?
This artist's surreal self-portraits are filled with symbolic imagery that narrates her life.
Who is Kahlo?
Fuseli's terrifying Romantic painting features a women with an incubus sat atop her...
What is "The Nightmare"?
Who is Paul Gauguin?
While American Abstract expressionism tends to represent large concepts and universality through abstract and non-representational compositions, European Abstract Expressionism still focuses on this.
What is the figure?
This Italian art movement features energetic and dynamic compositions, embracing aggression, engineering, youth, and industry.
What is Futurism?
Founder of the Russian style Suprematism.
Who is Malevich?
This Romantic painting by Copley was based on a real shark attack that occurred in the Hudson Bay...
What is "Watson and the Shark"?
This female Impressionist often paints women and children, demonstrating why representation is powerful in the arts.
Who is Mary Cassatt?
This interior space represents the mimicry of Versailles and court culture by the French middle/upper class.
What is Salon de la Princess?
This post WWI art movement often features nonsensical, humorous, illogical, and violent subject matter in anti-bourgeois media and techniques.
What is Dada?
Swiss, Symbolist painter of "The Scream."
Who is Edvard Munch.
This house by Frank Lloyd Wright incorporates the waterfall into its architectural design...
What is "Falling Water"?
Artists often borrow from art of the past, as architects also did during Romanticism to provide a revival style of which Medieval period?
What is Gothic Revival?
Art is often considered above and separate from craft. This turn-of-the-century art style included everything from architecture and painting, to jewelry and signs.
What is Art Nouveau?
This art movement hosts several artists with very unique styles. Their shared quality is further abstracting the use of color.
What is Post-Impressionism?
Abstract Expressionist painter who developed a technique of soaking raw canvases in diluted oil paints to create dreamy compositions.
This Fauvist masterpiece by Henri Matisse employs bright color and playful contrasts to amplify the emotional power of nude figures frolicking and lounging in an wooded space...
What is "Joy of Life"?
During this movement, black artists like Aaron Douglas use silhouettes, a portrait style very popular in the 19th Century South, to tell African American histories.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This piece was criticized as, "a subject with very little appeal" which revealed that most people have a bias for "beautiful" art rather than art with a social message.
What is the "Stone Breakers"?