Antoine-Jean Gros’s 1804 painting of the Pest House at Jaffa depicts this leader in a Christ-like pose.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
100
This art movement sought to “get rid of the innumerable museums which cover [Italy] with innumerable cemetaries.”
What is Futurism?
100
This Mexican artist was commissioned by Henry Ford to produce a series of frescoes celebrating the Detroit auto industry
Who is Diego Rivera?
100
This artist produced a series of paintings and etchings called Marriage à-la-mode which showed the breakdown of traditionalv values in 18th-century England
Who is William Hogarth?
100
This installation by Judy Chicago from 1979 features elaborate place settings for feminist icons throughout history.
What is "The Dinner Party"?
200
This painter denied the obvious influence of African masks and statuary in paintings like his Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, 1908.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
200
This art movement called for the “abolition of logic…social hierarchy…memory…[and] the future.”
What is Dada?
200
This Italian Poet wrote a manifesto extolling the benefits of speed, machines and… Car crashes
Who is F. T. Marinetti?
200
This is the title of Eugène Delacroix’s famous 1830 painting of a woman carrying the French flag at the front of a crowd marching over a barricade
What is "Liberty Leading the People"?
200
This group of artist/activists became known for a feminist brand of institutional critique through projects like the 1985 poster “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?”
Who are the Guerrilla Girls?
300
This painter’s “Death of Sardanapalus,” 1838, depicts an Assyrian king watching while all the concubines in his harem are executed
Who is Eugène Delacroix?
300
This American modernist architect said “form ever follows function.”
Who is Louis Sullivan?
300
This artistic movement believed that certain techniques like “exquisite corpse” and “automatic dictionary” could help reveal insights from the unconscious.
What is Surrealism?
300
This artist and manifesto author stated “Let each man proclaim: there is a great negative work of destruction to be accomplished. We must sweep and clean.”
Who is Tristan Tzara?
300
This artist’s painting “At the Opera,” 1879, stands out for its depiction of a woman “actively looking.”
Who is Mary Cassatt?
400
This painter left his position at the Paris stock exchange, first to live with Van Gogh and later to visit Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands where he produced primitivist fantasties populated with nude young women.
Who is Paul Gauguin?
400
This American artist famously erased a Willem De Kooning drawing and claimed the result as an artwork of his own.
Who is Robert Rauschenberg?
400
In the pointilist depiction by this painter, some of the visitors to a Paris park appear to be reduced to machine parts.
Who is Georges Seurat?
400
This radical art movement sought to reinvent art for the post-revolutionary moment in Russia, but was eventually swept aside in favor of Socialist-Realism.
What is Constructivism?
400
This feminist art historian argued that “Difference is not essential but understood as a social structure which positions male and female people asymmetrically in relation to language, to social and economic power and to meaning.”
Who is Griselda Pollock?
500
This art movement gained its name from angry critics who derided its constituent artists as "wild beasts"
What is Fauvism?
500
This painting was created in 1915 by Kazimir Malevich, who sought to attain “the zero of painting”
What is "Black Square"?
500
This sculpture of a clothes iron adorned with spikes by Man Ray exemplifies the Dada interest in rendering machines useless for their original tasks
What is "The Gift," 1921?
500
This painting by Gustave Courbet was completed in 1849, the year after the publication of the “Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
What is "The Stonebreakers" (1849)?
500
Many people believe this performance artist was murdered by her husband, artist Carl Andre.