European Renaissance
Italian artist, inventor, polymath, and sculptor. active during the High Renaissance. Known for his Vitruvian Man, the Mona Lisa, and the Last Supper.
What is Leonardo Da Vinci?
A reaction to the "senseless slaughter of the trenches in WW1" It was anti-war, anti-establishment, and anti-bourgeois. It aimed to destroy the traditional values of art and question everything after the atrocities of the war.
one example is Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917)
What is Dada?
Ancient Greek Tragedian. Wrote the Bacchae, Medea, and Orestes. his plays competed in the City Dionysia in Athens and give insight into the interpretation of Greek myths.
What is Euripides?
A playwright from the English Renaissance. Known as the Bard of Avon. Most known for his tragedies Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Othello.
What is William Shakespeare?
A style in art and literature in which ideas, images, and objects are combined in a strange way, like in a dream.
EX: Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory
What is Surrealism?
Greek Poet credited with the writing of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Scholars are not sure if he was one person or a group of poets.
What is Homer?
What is Michelangelo?
The first widespread cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement for African Americans By African Americans. It was part of shaking off the oppression of Jim Crow through self-expression and embracing African Heritage.
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington, and Ma Rainey
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A prolific poet from Ancient Greece. She is from the island of Lesbos. Most of her poetry is centered on love. Known as the tenth muse.
What is Sappho?
German Painter and Graphic Artist. Part of the German Renaissance. Mostly worked with wood engravings. His most well known work is Knight, Death, and the Devil. His watercolor works made him one of the first European landscape artists.
What is Albrecht Durer?
early-20th-century avant-garde art movement. Uses geometric shapes, simple generally monochromatic color schemes, flattened plane, and multiple perspectives in one image.
Pablo Picasso was one of the most famous artists of this movement.
What is Cubism?
A marble Statue of the First Roman Emperor found in the Villa of Livia. Depicts the emperor as a god and has a small statue of cupid with him to indicate his mythical divine ancestry.
What is Augustus of Prima Porta?
Italian Architect responsible for the dome of the Florence Cathedral.
What is Filippo Brunelleschi?
meant to look like something that was made by a machine. Symmetrical, geometric, streamlined, often simple, and pleasing to the eye.
The Empire state building was built in this style.
What is Art Deco?
Excavated in Rome in 1506. Depicts a Trojan priest and his sons being attacked by sea serpents for trying to expose the ruse of the Trojan Horse.
What is Laocoon and His Sons?