Vocabulary
Name the Artwork
Name the Artist
Architecture
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Word Association
Name the Art Movewment
100
The ability to "see" music and "hear" color.
Synesthesia
Vasily Kandinsky "Improvisation 28" 1912, oil on canvas
100
"Narcissus Garden,” by Yayoi Kusama, original installation and performance 1966, conceptual art
100
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David was the teacher of this artist who painted in the Neoclassical style but utilized a mannerist technique in his "Grand Odalisque."
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
100
This mural by Diego Rivera features 3 eras of Mexican history including the conquest and colonization of Mexico by Spain, the Porfirio Diaz dictatorship and the Revolution of 1910.
“Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park,” by Diego Rivera 1947, fresco
100
Vietnam War
100
Abstract Expressionism
Willem De Kooning
Jackson Pollock
200
word used for a romantic and untamed landscape in contrast to the "pastoral"
sublime
Thomas Cole "The Oxbow" 1836, oil on canvas
200
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Gustave Courbet
200
He said "Form follows function."
Louis Sullivan
200
The personification of this creates a pyramidical structure with the figures of fallen revolutionaries and those taking up arms in a romanticist painting by Eugene Delacroix depicting the July Revolution in France in 1830.
Liberty
200
This surrealist artist created "Object" in response to Picasso's statement that "anything looks good in fur."
Meret Oppenheim
200
Tahiti
200
Pop Art
Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein (comics)
300
a type of woman in a harem as a slave, particularly in Turkey
Jean-Auguste Ingres, "La Grande Odalisque" 1814 oil on canvas
300
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Claude Monet
300
His Virginia house called "little mountain" is modeled after the neoclassical style.
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
300
This was the general idealization that God's will was for western expansion in the United States and was a theme in Thomas Cole's "The Oxbow".
Manifest Destiny
300
This sculptor worked in Rodin's studio and created a simplified carving with the same name as Klimt's work "The Kiss."
Constantin Brancusi
300
Gold Leaf
300
Rococo
400
when the entire surface of the artwork is filled with details
horro vacuii
Diego Rivera "Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park" 1947 fresco mural
400
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Robert Smithson
400
Big Ben is located here.
Palace of Westminster (House of Parliament)
400
This female religious is considered one of the first feminists of the America's.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
400
This artist may have been inspired for painting "Goldfish" from a trip to Morocco where the people would stare into fishbowls daydreaming in a meditative state which seemed lost to the bustling, busy life of Europeans.
Henri Matisse
400
Earth Day
400
Surrealism
Salvador Dali
Frida Kahlo
500
a type of hairstyle
Coiffure
Mary Cassatt, "The Coiffure" 1890-91 drypoint, aquatint
500
500
Andy Warhol
500
Located south of Pittsburgh, PA, this Frank Lloyd Wright house incorporates nature and the natural surroundings.
500
She was the court painter to Marie Antoinette.
Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun
500
This symbolist painting was a prelude to Expressionism and was painted as part of a series called "The Frieze of Life" and may have been inspired by an exhibit of a Peruvian mummy in Paris.
"The Scream" by Edvard Munch 1910
500
Train Station
500
Impressionism
Cassatt, Degas, Monet, Renoir
600
the act of blending paint to lessen or element the appearance of brushstrokes to give flat paintings the illusion of 3D
modeling
Edouard Manet "Olympia" 1863 oil on canvas
600
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Jacob Lawrence
600
This whimsical post-modern architecture designed house in Delaware has large windows for the birdwatching husband and a music room for the musician wife.
600
Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" is a response to environmental concerns and coincides with this first "day" holiday in 1970.
Earth Day
600
This post-impressionist painting was inspired by Japanese woodblock, specifically "The Great Wave" by Hokusai.
600
Laure
600
Realism
Courbet
Millet
700
This is a style of art that focuses on geometric form and viewing the perspective of subjects from all sides.
Cubism
700
700
Alfred Stieglitz
700
700
Helen Frankenthaler's technique with color field painting include using this material that was not primed, allowing color to run and bleed into the work.
Canvas
700
By adding the image of the black maid, Laure, in this work, Manet was creating a genre scene that reflected modern Parisian life and the issues of racism and stereotypes of the time.
"Olympia" 1863
700
Lamentation
700
Romanticism
Fredrich
Turner
Gericault
800
This was an early form of photographic medium that did not have negatives but was on a metallic surface and it is named for its inventor.
Daguerrotype
800
800
Meret Oppenheim
800
The front facade of this department store building was art nouveau inspired, decorative exterior elements that called shoppers in off of the Chicago sidewalk.
800
This building uses a technique of cantilevered steel-supported porches allowimg an interaction with a natural stream and waterfall.
800
This artist created the work below as Communist Propaganda highlighting the "success" of the 5 year plan when it was actually a failure.
800
Umbilical Cord
800
Neo-Classicism
Jacques-Louis David
900
This is a European intellectual movement emphasizing reason, individualism, and scientific skepticism over tradition and superstition.
The Enlightenment
900
900
Piet Mondrian
900
This building includes a steel frame with glass curtain wall and bronze veneer and is oiled every year to keep from oxidizing.
900
This artist omits faces and individuality in his "The Migration Series" to show the collective African American experience of being second class citizens as Blacks migrated to the North after WWI.
900
This artist showcased "Fountain" in a response to the Art Academie's and Salon's opinions about what makes art art.
Marcel Duchamp
900
Sugar cane
900
Enlightenment (with Baroque technique)
Joseph Wright of Derby
1000
Westminster Palace is said to celebrate this movement in a "revival" sstyle.
Gothic Revival
1000
1000
Helen Frankenthaler
1000
This home was built by slave labor that conflicted with Jefferson’s democratic ideas which conflicted with the architect's democratic ideas.
1000
This artist contradictorily juxtaposes a jungle and sugarcane focusing on the stereotypes of African-Hispanic heritage in Cuba.
1000
This artist's painting "Improvisation 28" was a spiritual representation of the pursuits of salvation in Christianity and inspired by the stories from Revelation.
Vasily Kandinsky
1000
Segregation
1000
Post-Impressionism
Van Gogh
Cezanne
Gaughin