Artists

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Above is a photo of a detail of the famous bronze sculptures of the East Doors of the Baptistery of St. John in Florence. Which of the following artists is responsible for the great sculptural achievement?

Mark Rothko

All of the following are considered Realist painters EXCEPT Andrew Wyeth Winslow Homer Thomas Eakins Mark Rothko

Vincent van Gogh

All of the following are painters of the Dutch Golden Age EXCEPT Rembrandt Frans Hals Johannes Vermeer Vincent van Gogh

Mark Rothko

All of the following artists are associated with Cubism EXCEPT: Juan Gris Georges Braque Pablo Picasso Mark Rothko

Monet

All of the following artists are considered Post-Impressionists EXCEPT Van Gogh Cezanne Gauguin Monet

Gustave Courbet

All of the following artists belonged to the Romantic movement in art EXCEPT Francisco de Goya Theodore Gericault Eugene Delacroix Gustave Courbet

Morris Louis

American artist __________________________(1912 - 1962) discovered his style when he saw what Helen Frankenthaler was doing. Her work, he said, was "a bridge between Pollock and what was possible." He perfected the spontaneous-but-composed method of staining canvas.

Camille Claudel

Auguste Rodin is thought by some to be the equal of Michelangelo. However, some think that his assistant of 15 years acted as his muse. This person who also became a great sculptor is which of the following?

Mies van der Rohe

Buildings designed by ______________________ are characterized by steel and glass

Auguste Rodin

By the 19th century, sculpture had declined into little more than decorative public monuments. The artist who is credited with reviving sculpture as a medium worthy of an original artist is which of the following?

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Die Brücke was the earliest German group to seize the avant-garde spirit. It was founded in 1905 by _________________________. The name means "bridge." The artists believed their work would be a bridge to the future.

Pablo Picasso

Even in his younger days, the Spanish artist, _______________________________ could paint like an old master. He said that by the age of ten, he was unable to scribble like a child. His father, drawing teacher and animal painter, was highly enthusiastic about his realistic and perfect pictures.

Pablo Picasso

For ___________________, depicting ordinary life in an unusual way first meant capturing the world of poor people, beggars, and circus artists in sad-blue and pink shades, hence allusions to his "Blue Period" and his "Pink Period." At this time, he had so little money himself that he sometimes had to use his own pictures and drawings as fuel for the stove to heat his Paris studio.

Vincent van Gogh

For almost his entire life, which artist was afraid that he was incapable of painting properly and referred to his early drawings as "scribbles?"

Jan Vermeer

Glowing fabrics, gleaming reflections on porcelain jugs or pearl necklaces, and completely calm and balanced interiors are the trademarks of the Dutch painter, ______________________. Almost all his pictures - there are only 36 of them, spread all over the world - show scenes from everyday life.

Giorgio Vasari

In the 16th century, the "father of art history" used the term "Gothic" as a term of ridicule to describe late medieval art and architecture. This artist, writer, and historian was which of the following?

Xu Bing

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Chinese artists in touch with their country's traditions began to make a mark on the postmodern international scene. One work of art is A Book from the Sky which presents an enormous number of wood-block-printed texts in characters that look Chinese but that the artist invented. This artist is which of the following?

Claes Oldenburg

Involved from 1959 to 1965 with Happenings, an early form of performance art, American sculptor ____________________ developed three-dimensional, large-scale blowups of familiar objects.

J.M.W. Turner

John Ruskin's book "Modern Painters" is mainly a defense of

Ellsworth Kelly

More than a brush, the tools of the Hard Edge painter's trade are quick-drying acrylic paint and masking tape for clear, crisp outlines. American artist ___________________________outlined his shapes so sharply, they looked like razor cuts.

Dorothea Lange

Of the following social protest artists, which one was a photographer who highlighted poverty among the dispossessed during the Depression?

Roy Lichtenstein

Once Rauschenberg and Johns re-introduced recognizable imagery, the stage was set in the early 1960s for artists to draw their subjects directly from popular ("pop") culture. With a resounding WHAAM! Whose comics-derived paintings took direct aim at the abstract art of the '50s?

Eugène Atget

One of the first photographers to record everyday objects as mysterious and evocative and who is hailed by Surrealists as a forefather is which of the following?

Charlie Chaplin

One of the greatest exponents of silent comedy was British-born ________________________ (1889-1977), whose persona of the Little Tramp, wearing a baggy, ill-fitting suit. He made many films documenting dehumanizing effects of modern industry.

Ukiyo-e

Paul Gauguin's Self-Portrait: "Les Miserables" displays the influence of which form of popular oriental art?

Henry Moore

Postwar sculptors worked with new materials like scrap metal, new techniques like welding, and new forms like assemblage and mobiles. Although abstraction was their dominant mode, the chief feature of their art was experimentation. Who was England's most famous sculptor?

Giotto di Bondone

The 14th century painter who first introduced natural space into his work was ______________ (1267 - 1337).

Constantin Brancusi

The 20th century modernist sculptor who shaved away detail almost to the vanishing point as in his Bird in Space sculpture is which of the following artists?

Romare Bearden

The African-American artist who began as a Social Realist in Harlem during the 1930s, portraying card games on the street as well as roosters and washtubs to "paint the life of my people" is which of the following?

Edward Hopper

The American painter of the 20th century whose paintings of people in hotel rooms, offices and bars look like "snapshots" of the everyday American world is which of the following?

Ben Shahn

The American painter who used photographs as a point of departure for semi-abstract figures that expressed social injustice, and whose major work was The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti is which of the following?

Walter Gropius

The Bauhaus school of design was founded by

Pieter Bruegel The Elder

The Dutch painter, _______________________________ painted landscapes, giving us a bird's-eye view of the everyday life of simple country people or stories from the Bible. His entertaining depictions of peasant life earned him a nickname 'peasant Bruegel' but he only left behind about forty pictures overall.

Jan Van Eyck

The Dutch painter, __________________achieved mastery in oil painting, a technique almost unknown until then, in his lifelike portraits and glowing images of Madonnas, and so for a long time, he was considered to have invented it. He created the famous Ghent Altar with this brother Hubert.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The Expressionist artist who distorted figures into grotesque, jagged forms to portray their inner corruption is which of the following artists?

Ernst Barlach

The First World War deeply affected German artists. One of the most moving expressions of this feeling is War Monument, a sculpture now in the Güstrow Cathedral. It is a floating human form suspended above a tomb suggesting a dying soul at the moment when it is about to awaken to everlasting life. This work was made by which of the following artists?

Peter Paul Rubens

The Flemish Baroque painter turned unbending Renaissance models from antiquity into ample women and characters who enjoyed life. His style is still used to describe voluptuous women, borrowing from his paintings. He was a skillful linguist and also such a respected diplomat that he was knighted. Who was he?

Jean-Antoine Watteau

The French Rococo painter _________________________was a great admirer of Italian clowns. His costumed figures usually act out their little dramas in park-like landscapes. It is only at second glance that isolated, lonely figures can be made out in the cheerful pictures.

Claude Monet

The French painter, _________________________________, was more interested in sunlight than anything else. Capturing changing moods at various times of the day and year was more important to him than a photographically precise likeness of the world.

Paul Cezanne

The French painter, _______________________________assembled his landscape paintings as if from a construction kit, in order to show the "simple beauty" of the South of France. In doing so, he influenced the Cubist painters, but also Claude Manet, Edgar Degas and Pablo Picasso, to a greater extent than any other artist, and has since been seen as the most important pioneer of Modernism.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Italian sculptor, painter, master builder and poet _______________________________ was the greatest genius of the Renaissance, alongside Leonardo da Vinci. His sculptures and frescos are among the most magnificent works of art in the world.

Shoji Hamada

The Japanese potter who gained international fame and received official recognition in Japan as a "Bearer of Important Intangible Cultural Properties," more commonly called a "Living National Treasure" is which of the following?

Gustave Courbet

The Parisian public was shocked by the monumental paintings of this French artist, for not even ugliness could intimidate him. Visitors to his studio must have had the fright of their lives. They would certainly not have expected to encounter a wild-looking bull thrashing around with its tail as they went in. It was just that this French painter occasionally preferred somewhat different models from the usual ladies and gentlemen. Who was he?

Francisco de Goya

The Spanish painter who fiercely opposed tyranny of any sort, and was disgusted with the vices of church and state, all of which was reflected in his paintings exposing the evil of human nature is which of the following?

Sigmund Freud

The Surrealists were influenced by the work of

John Marin

The above is a painting by the artist who was a dominant force toward abstraction. It is Pine Tree, Deer Island, Maine, done in 1928. This artist is which of the following?

Hiëronymus Bosch

The above is the center panel of the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1500, Museo del Prado, Madrid. It was painted by one of the artists of the Northern European "Renaissance." This artist is which of the following?

Giorgio De Chirico

The above painting is The Red Tower, painted by an artist who is hailed by the Surrealists as their precursor. This artist is which of the following?

Hans Holbein the Younger

The artist _____________________________, who came from Augsburg, painted Renaissance merchants, noblemen, church dignitaries, scholars, and scientists in Basel. Reformation iconoclasm drove him to England, where he painted his most important picture, The Ambassadors. However, he also witnessed religious conflict as court painter to Henry VIII.

Aubrey Beardsley

The artist of the late 19th century whose illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salome typified fin-de siècle decadence is which of the following?

Thomas Eakins

The artist who believed in stark realism and was denounced as a "butcher" for his graphic portrayals such as The Agnew Clinic, was which of the following?

Robert Longo

The artist who calls himself "the anti-Christ of media, coming back at the culture that created me" and who transforms commercial images into high-impact, billboard-sized paintings that project the menace and violence of the city at night is which of the following?

El Greco

The artist who painted Mary Magdalen in Penitence, 1580 - 85, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, had a personal style of great expressiveness shown in using anti-naturalistic colors, deliberately distorted figure proportions, and seemingly unreal pictorial space. This artist was:

René Magritte

The artist who painted disturbing, illogical images such as The False Mirror, with startling clarity to compel a new vision of reality beyond logic was which of the following?

Paul Gauguin

The artist who strove to find the proverbial "noble savage," or natural person, in his art was which of the following?

Grandma Moses

The artist whose first solo exhibition in a New York City gallery in 1940 was called "What a Farm Wife Painted" was:

Édouard Manet

The classically trained artist whose art was situated between Realism and Impressionism and who preferred to paint from life and complete his paintings in one sitting is which of the following?

Frank Stella

The contemporary artist who emphasizes a painting as an independent object in his canvases and was known for his mechanical drawing, using rulers, squares, and French-curve templates to sketch on graph paper is which of the following?

Judy Chicago

The feminist artist who produced the installation art, The Dinner Party, 1979 is which of the following?

Frank Lloyd Wright

The image above depicts a home most likely created by which of the following architects?

Pablo Picasso

The image above is a painting by which of the following artists?

Albrecht Dürer

The image above is an example of a woodcut done by one of the foremost printmaking artists whose works represented a watershed in the history of printmaking. This artist is which of the following?

Jan van Eyck.Jan Vermeer

The image above, The Arnolfini Marriage (1434), was painted by which of the following artists?

Takashi Murakami

The internationally known contemporary Japanese artist who coined the term "superflat," which describes both the aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of post-war Japanese culture and society is which of the following?

Georges Seurat

The inventor of Pointillism achieved a hitherto unknown luminosity and harmony in his paintings dab by dab. With his new painting technique, the French painter _______________________________ laid the foundations for Neo-Impressionism.

Dante Gabriel Rosetti

The most important of the Pre-Raphaelites pointed the way to English Art Nouveau with his linear style and highly individual depictions of people. His career got off to a great start with his first large oil painting, The Girlhood of Mary Virgin, that was much praised by the critics - until they noticed three small letters, PRB, in the bottom left-hand corner of the picture. When the press found out that this was an abbreviation for the secret Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who wanted to thoroughly shake up British art, he suddenly became the target of abuse from all sides. Who was he?

David Smith

The most important sculptor associated with The New York School was ______________________. "When I begin a sculpture, I am not always sure how it is going to end," he said.

William Hogarth

The painter, _______________________, was a moralist through and through. He wanted to improve 18th-century English society by depicting the wretched lives of whores and drinkers. This painter and copperplate engineer is seen as the father of English caricature, thanks to his biting and humorous social satire.

Chu-Jan

The painting above is Storied Mountains and Dense Forests, an ink and colored painting on silk by which of the following artists?

Josef Albers

The patron saint of Hard Edge painting was German-American painter and color theorist ____________________(1888-1976). After teaching at the Bauhaus, he came to the United States and taught a course called "Effect Making" at the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina.

Louis Sullivan

The person who is considered the "father of the skyscraper" is which of the following?

Chuck Close

The photo-realists usually specialize in one subject. The photo-realist who paints large scale shots of faces by building the image out of such things as fingerprints or stamp pads is which of the following?

Leonardo da Vinci

The psychoanalytic approach to art considers the underlying unconscious meaning of a work. This can involve both an analysis of the artist's personality in relation to the work and the consideration of a work independently of the artist. The first psychoanalytic study of an artist was Sigmund Freud's psychobiography of ______________________.

Luca della Robbia

The use of glazed terracotta spread to the Mediterranean basin in the wake of the Arab expansion but was used mostly for utilitarian objects such as tiles and bricks. The Florentine artist who developed a technique for glazed terracotta to use for statues and other pieces of art is which of the following?

Hieronymus Bosch

The work of ________________________ is known for its use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral subjects

Gustav Klimt

This artist did good business with art even as a child. At the age of 15, he was already creating portraits from photographs, working with his brother Ernst, with whom he later produced a number of paintings as state commissions. Even though his style became increasingly more 'unrealistic' when painting clothes and backgrounds, he usually painted the faces of his subjects with photographic accuracy to the end. Who was he?

Frank Lloyd Wright

This house was designed by

Diego Rivera

This mural in the Palacio National in Mexico City is the work of

Henry Moore

This sculpture, Oval with Points, 1968-70, was done by England's most famous sculptor who built on the biomorphic shapes of the Surrealists like Arp and Miró. His large, open shapes are semi-naturalistic, perforated by holes that are as important as the solid parts of his work. This sculptor is which of the following?

Eugène Delacroix

Théodore Géricault launched Romanticism in France with his painting, The Raft of the Medusa. However when he died which of the following artists became the leader of the Romantic movement?

Kane Kwei

Today's African artists tend to use new forms and materials within older functional categories. The artist of the Ga people who created caskets intended to reflect on the deceased's life and occupation is which of the following?

Edgar Degas

Unlike other Impressionists, ______________________ showed no interest in painting outdoors.

William Hogarth

Visualizing morality through satire was the taste of the newly prosperous and confident middle class in England in the 18th century. The artist, who painted the picture above, An Election Entertainment, expressed this view. This artist is which of the following?

J.M.W. Turner

What British landscape painter, commonly called the "painter of light," is considered a Romantic precursor of the Impressionists?

Andrew Wyeth

What artist created this painting?

Renoir

What artist created this work? This painting, "The Two Sisters, on the Terrace," is typical of the work of his. He is renowned for his use of Impressionist techniques to portray feminine beauty.

Christo

What artist installed more than 7,000 vinyl "gates" along pathways in New York City's Central Park?

Piet Mondrian

What artist is known for his painting of grid patterns, with blocks of white and color divided by black lines?

Paul Gauguin

What nineteenth century artist is renowned for his primitivist paintings set in Tahiti?

Edward Steichen

What photographer assembled and curated the exhibition "The Family of Man"?

Max Ernst

When _________________________decided to become a painter without ever having trained as an artist, he wanted to let other people see the hidden, mysterious world of his childhood, all the fairy-tale creatures concealed in the woodwork, the forests and the clouds.

Grant Wood

Which artist adopted the most primitive style among American Scene realists? His greatest inspiration, he said, came from when he was milking a cow, but he produced his homages to the heartland from a Connecticut studio.

Michelangelo

Which artist's body of work included works such as the renovation of Palazzo dei Conservatori and Saint Peter's Basilica?

Edgar Degas

Which of the following Impressionists called sculpture "a blind man's art?"

Luis Bunuel

Which of the following applied the methods of Surrealism to films?

Walter Gropius

Which of the following architects led the Bauhaus trend in architecture toward functionalism?

Paul Cezanne

Which of the following artists attempted to apply the principles of classical composition to Impressionism?

Paul Gauguin

Which of the following artists became a central figure in the movement called Synthetism or Symbolism?

Willem de Kooning

Which of the following artists developed a gestural abstractionist style as seen in his Woman I?

Robert Rauschenberg

Which of the following artists developed a hybrid form of art which he called "combines?"

Jackson Pollock

Which of the following artists is associated with Action Painting?

Eugène Delacroix

Which of the following artists is credited for leading the French Romantic Movement and for his expressive brush strokes and emphasis on color rather than clarity of outline and form?

Leonardo da Vinci

Which of the following artists is credited for the creation of the work above?

Robert Rauschenberg

Which of the following artists is noted for his creation of "combines," in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations.

Paul Cezanne

Which of the following artists is often cited as a precursor of the Cubists?

Georgia O'Keefe

Which of the following artists is renowned for large format paintings of blossoms, presenting them as if seen through a magnifying lens?

Caravaggio

Which of the following artists like to choose tension-filled Biblical scenes as his subject matter?

Frida Kahlo

Which of the following artists painted numerous self-portraits because, as she said, "I am the subject I know best"?

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Which of the following artists was associated with the 19th Century Barbizon School?

Raphael

Which of the following artists was known for "painting not with paint, but with flesh?"

Georges Seurat

Which of the following artists was the inventor of Pointillism and achieved a hitherto unknown luminosity and harmony in his paintings dab by dab, laid the foundation for Neo-Impressionism and was rejected by the Salon?

Matisse

Which of the following artists worked with paper cutouts?

Chuck Close

Which of the following artists would NOT be considered a "narrative artist?" Chuck Close Leon Golub Jennifer Bartlett Sue Coe

George Segal

Which of the following artists would NOT be considered a minimalist artist? Donald Judd Carl Andre George Segal Richard Serra

Claes Oldenburg

Which of the following artists' work is characterized by large public art installations that are associated with the Pop Art Movement?

George Grosz

Which of the following choices names the New Objectivity artist who produced paintings and drawings, such as Fit for Active Service, that were caustic indictments of the military in response to World War I?

Renoir

Which of the following impressionist painters is most closely associated with subjects that were voluptuous, peach-skinned female nudes, café society, children and flowers?

Renzo Piano

Which of the following persons is an outstanding contemporary architect who has won the Pritzker Prize, the "Nobel Prize" of architecture?

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Who is best known for his work in stained glass (1848-1933). He is the American artist most closely associated with the Art Nouveau movement. His designs make extensive use of floral patterns and curvilinear shapes.

John Sloan

Who started as a newspaper sketch artist (1871 - 1951) who was accustomed to racing to a fire or train derailment to record the scene in a straightforward but dramatic fashion?

Francis Bacon

Who was called "The Pope of Paint" and known for his twisted, horrifying figures that look like melting monsters?

Andy Warhol

Who was the artist who with his pictures of soup tins and bank notes, and brought everyday world into museums?

Man Ray

_____________________ thought of himself primarily as a painter, but he is best known as an avant garde photographer. He is widely considered one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century.

Vincent van Gogh

_________________________ is sometimes called an post-Impressionist because he wanted his paintings to express his inner feelings

Marcel Duchamp

created a new art form that he called ready-mades

John Constable

is most well-known for his paintings of landscapes

Matthew Brady

was most known for his war photography