Art Appreciation
In this artist's work, we see the Renaissance concept of perspective, in which surrounding space and objects are depicted from a single point of view, fully developed:
Masaccio
When did portraiture become an important theme its own right?
Roman art
The Cuneiform symbol for mountains is:
Three half circles
When did landscape become seen as an important theme in visual art worthy to stand on its own?
17th and 18th centuries
These highly complex abstracted "dot paintings" are from a culture that is tens of thousands of years old, yet still intact, after the British colonists after Lieutenant James Cook arrived in Australia in 1770 and the British colonists tried to destroy it, regarding these peoples like animals. The people who create these "dot paintings," whose creation mythology they refer to as "the Dreamtimes," are:
Aboriginal
This term refers to a mid-20th Century style of art in which artists sought to express their feelings with the paint, rather than by using the paint solely to represent something else. The canvases were typically large, and the brushstrokes wild and thick and immediate, creating really expressive painting surfaces, rather than illusions of other things. The emotions they expressed were often intense, and raw, feeling like they come from one's inner psyche, not from one's controlled mind, thought the paintings themselves were highly controlled.
Abstract Expressionism
This term is used to describe the work of Jackson Pollock, in which he gesturally dripped paint on the surface of the canvas. The gesture of the paint expressed feelings rather than depicted subject matter.
Action Painting
This film is about the contemporary, activist Chinese artist gives us one of the most powerful artist'svoices of the East, bringing attention China's "police state" and working to bring freedom to his society:
Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry
The Bayeux Tapestry is an example of:
All of the above
This artist was influenced by mass-media advertising in American culture. In the "A Closer Look," we saw how this artist referred to advertising images and celluloid film in his work, and the "reverence" that American culture held for its celebrities.
Andy Warhol
This artist created one of one of the largest sculptures ever to be made in modern times, an "Angel", standing 66' tall, and 177 feet across. The British artist who created this work, "The Angel of the North", whose work encourages us to "aspire to be much more than just human," is:
Antony Gormley
This term refers to a wide range of design fields, such as photography, architecture, interior design, landscape design, civic design, industrial design, fashion design, textiles design, jewelry design, graphic design, ceramics, etc., which are responsible for creating and populating our surroundings with aesthetically pleasing objects that serve a utilitarian function.
Applied arts
This term refers to an influential design style, popular between World War I and World War II, which combined geometric patterning with organic forms, Machine Age imagery and materials, with traditional craft motifs and lavish ornamentation, bringing them together in a purposefully eclectic, exciting and elegant combination.
Art Deco
William van Alen's Chrysler Building of 1930 is an example of:
Art Deco
This movement was an international movement, most popular between about 1880 and 1910, which sought to harmonize man-made creations with the curved lines of the natural environment, often drawing inspiration from the lines and movements of plants and flowers. In part, it was a reaction to academic art of the 19th century and the increasingly manufactured surroundings that accompanied the industrial revolution. This movement encompassed art, architecture, industrial design, and the decorative arts, purposefully encouraging a way of life that harmonized our manufactured surroundings with natural forms, attempting to combine the purposeful aesthetic expression of the fine arts to the applied arts in every form.
Art Nouveau
Alphonse Mucha's 1897 Nestle's for Infants poster is an example of:
Art Noveau
An approach to sculpture in which artists use multiple man-made objects to construct the sculpture.
Assemblage
A style that was dominant in European art during the 17th Century, beginning around 1600 and continuing into the early 18th Century. It is characterized by intense, rich, deep color, strong value contrasts (lights and darks,) excessive detail and ornamentation, bold scale, and an appeal to evoke emotion and passion, unlike the calm rationality of the preceeding Renaissance. The
Baroque
This is a term that refers to sculpture that happens on the surface of an otherwise flat object:
Bas-relief
Marianne Brandt's 1924 Tea Set is an example of:
Bauhaus
This art is from the Eastern Roman Empire, which begins in the early 4th Century AD and lasts until the Early Renaissance. It reflects an Earthly desire for the spiritual and heavenly, and the mysteries of Christianity. It uses flat shapes, gold leaf, and iconic images of the Christian religion.
Byzantine art
This leather and molded plywood chair, an iconic design for mid-20th century Modern design, was designed by:
Charles and Ray Eames
In the series of works shown in the A Closer Look, this artist's work rarely has a single focus point, drawing the viewer's eye through the space of the paintings, and allowing the viewer to organize the visual experience through personal acts of perception and movement.
Claude Monet
This term refers to two or more people working together to create, produce, or conduct something.
Collaborative
A term that refers to objects that are made primarily for utilitarian function, and involve a high degree of skill in working with a particular medium or material. Tapestry, Weaving, Ceramics, and Jewelry are examples.
Crafts
This 1937 painting, Guernica, by Pablo Picasso, is an example of:
Cubism
This term refers to an early 20th Century style of art in which the subject was shown from multiple points of view, at the same time, presenting to the viewer the many ways they "know" the subject, all at once, rather than giving us a "snapshot moment". Objects may be shown from the top view, and both side views, all at once--in a way we couldn't actually see if looking at it from a single point of view. This "simultaneity of vision" is a hallmark feature of this style. Pablo Picasso was a key figure in this movement.
Cubism
One of the earliest known systems of writing, distinguished by its "wedge-shaped" marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus.
Cuneiform
The Mona Lisa, a portrait of the wife of a wealthy Renaissance merchant's wife, was painted by:
Da Vinci
This artist painted the scandalous painting "Luncheon on the Grass" in 1863, which depicts two men completely clothed, one woman totally nude, and the other wading in water wearing only a slip, having a picnic together. At a time when the only acceptable female nudes in art required a narrative or symbolic pretext, such as a mythological story or an allegorical concept, this scene abandoned that artistic convention and challenged conventional morals. The scandal surrounding this work and its break with conventions of "taste" and morality, became an important factor in establishing this work as a foundational work of Modern art. The artist who painted this painting is:
Eduard Manet
This iconic monument, the Gateway Arch, representing the American expansion Westward, was designed by industrial designer and architect:
Eero Saarinen
This artist painted a scene about a prominent social figure who was a great benefactor to the poor. In the painting in the "A Closer" look, we see what is likely a portrait of the artist himself looking directly at the viewer.
El Greco
This 1934 print, Death and the Mother, by Kathe Kollwitz, is an example of:
Expressionism
Art that is characterized by a "looking inward' and representing the intense emotions, feelings, or psychological state of the artist in the presence of the subject matter. Color, shape, and gesture are typically exaggerated in order to make more vivid the artist's particular vision.
Expressionist
A term that is used to refer to art that is made, typically, for the purposes of personal expression, with aesthetic goals in mind, as opposed to arts that are made for utilitarian function such as crafts or applied arts.
Fine Art
A term that is used to refer to art that is made, typically, for the purposes of personal expression, with aesthetic goals in mind, as opposed to arts that are made for utilitarian function, such as crafts or applied arts. Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture are examples.
Fine Art
This residence, commonly known as Fallingwater, built in 1935 in Bear Run, Pennsylvania, was designed by:
Frank Lloyd Wright
This 1830 painting, Liberty Leading the People, by Eugene Delacroix, is an example of:
French Romanticism
This painting style, popular throughout the first half of the nineteenth century in France captured the drama and emotion of the French Revolution of 1830. Its roots were in eighteenth-century Britain. It emphasized emotional expressiveness and the unique experiences and tastes of the individual. Paintings from this period paintings typically explore dramatic subject matter taken from literature, current events, the natural world, or the artist's own imagination, with the goal of stimulating the viewer's sentiments and feelings:
French Romanticism
This 1893 painting, The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner is an example of:
Genre
These Fantasy Coffins celebrate the life of the deceased. In this area, the funeral is seen as the culmination of a person's entire life, and the importance of having a really special coffin for their loved ones' funerals is so great that many families are willing to go into great death for this. These Fantasy Coffins are made in:
Ghana
In this artist's work, we see major shifts in the goals of art, in which the following things become important: the expression of human emotions and psychological intensity, a point of view that is from a human perspective, figures and forms painted in an observational manner (rather than "flat" and symbolic,) and the absence of hierarchical scale that previously portrayed important religious figures larger than the rest of us humans.
Giotto
This Spanish artist from the late 18th and early 19th Century created a series of 80 etchings (prints), titled Lost Caprichos (meaning the "caprices" or "follies,") to expose the persistence of the strange customs in his country, Spain, at that time.
Goya
The Kaaba is the building at the center of the most sacred mosque of the Islamic faith. Muslims pray in the direction of this mosque every day, and if physically and financially able, are required to make at least one pilgrimage to this mosque in their lifetime. The "turning inward" aspect of this pilgrimage is seen by many as a rehearsal for the day of judgement. The pilgrimage to this mosque is called the:
Hajj
This is a term used to describe a practice by artists, in which figures or objects of greater importance are depicted unnaturally larger than figures or objects of lesser importance. The relative size difference communicates the importance of the elements to the viewer.
Hierarchical scale
The wildly imaginative painting, the Garden of Earthly Delights, which depicts fantastical scenes of people with fantastical creatures doing strange things, as humanity progresses from the Garden of Eden, through Earth with Earthly temptations, and in Hell, and is dated 1504 (really, somewhere between 1490 and 1515). It was painted by Renaissance painter:
Hieronymous Bosch
This 1831 print of King Louis Phillipe as Gargantua feeding off of the toil and labor of the peasants was drawn by:
Honore Daumier
The American landscape painter, Thomas Cole, of the 19th century, was a key figure in which movement:
Hudson River School
Regarding the manner, or style, in which he painted, this artist said: "I want to express my feelings, rather than illustrate them."
Jackson Pollock
This group of 85 Hindu and Jain monuments were built in India between the 10th and 12th centuries. More than 20 remain today. The temple of Kama, the largest of these monuments, was built in the shape of the Himalayan mountains, which is believed to be the home of the Gods. Carvings depicting joyful sexual acts cover the walls of these buildings, celebrating and encouraging the source of creation, a power possessed by the woman, and one of the four proper goals in life. This monument group is called:
Khajuraho
This illustration, Rosie the Riveter, from the cover of a 1943 issue of the Saturday Evening Post was created by:
Norman Rockwell
Art that draws attention to the life experiences and condtions of the working class or poor, and the societal institutions and structures that keep such injustices in place.
Social Realism
This building in India is one of the most famous buildings in the world, known and beloved for its extraordinary beauty. It was designed to be a tomb for the Muslim ruler's wife, who died giving birth to his 14th child. The Arabic script on the building's exterior describes the afterlife in beautiful terms.
Taj Mahal
On the equinox, people still flock to "The City of Gods," dating back to the 2nd century BC, which was the center of Mexican culture. The Aztecs believed it was a sacred place where the sun and moon were created. This city is:
Teotihuacan
The main purpose of a Prayer Rug is:
To assist in prayer, in the Islamic world. It is laid on the ground facing the direction of Mecca, to pray on, and helps to align the intentions of the worshipper to God.
This term refers to art that is so extremely realistic that it "fools the eye."
Trompe l'oeil
This artist once said "God is a lighthouse in eclipse." The spiritual infused and pervaded his approach to art and life. Nature and God were very closely linked for this artist.
Van Gogh
This ink drawing, Sower with Setting Sun, is by an artist whose work we've seen on several occasions. The expressive lines, marks, and other stylistic features seen in this drawing are characteristic of the artist who created it. Please select the artist:
Van Gogh
Which artist is credited with widely promoting the value of purely abstract, non-objective art?
Wassily Kandinsky
This 1786 illustration of Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing, was painted by:
William Blake
The study of beauty. In art this involves responses to visual stimuli which call forth intellectual and emotional responses to objects that are perceived.
aesthetics
Nudes in art are not considered pornography if or when:
all of the above
What is the primary subject of this 1836 painting by Thomas Cole, The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, After a Thunderstorm)?
the sublime in nature
The primary purpose of Egyptian pyramids was:
to serve as a type of "resurrection machine" to house and launch the spirit of the deceased Pharoah to his afterlife with the gods
In the "A Closer Look," we saw that this artist used images of animals to symbolically to represent biblical concepts in his 1504 engraving of Adam and Eve.
Albrecht Durer
This painting 1280, Madonna and Child, Enthroned, (also called Maesta) is an example of:
Byzantine art
This 1434 painting, Wedding Portrait of Arnolfini and his Wife, by Jan van Eyck is an example of:
Early Netherlandish, Northern, or Dutch Renaissance art
This 1885 painting, Love and Pain, by Edvard Munch is an example of:
Expressionism
This movement was an important 19th century American art movement, which comprised dozens of painters who painted often Romantic landscape scenes, in which nature and the landscape were imbued with the lofty and powerful sense of the sacred or sublime:
Hudson River School
This term refers to an image which comes to represent, in one image, important values of a time period, and symbolically represents something much larger that just the particular subject it captures, becoming part of a culture's common visual language.
Iconic image
An art style of the late 19th Century, principally in France, in which artists try to capture in paint the fleeting effects (or impressions,) of light, shade, and color on landscapes or natural forms, using loose brushshrokes or daubs of paint.
Impressionism
This artist was an important social realist, who documented and chronicled the experiences of the history of his culture, which were not previously known to the general public.
Jacob Lawrence
This writer and art critic wrote a revolutionary little book in the 1970's called Ways of Seeing, which challenged and upended the traditional formalist perspective on the nude in art presented in art history, and examined the socio-political context and impact of artists' representation of the nude female body in Western art:
John Berger
This c 1827 illustration of the Ruby Throated Hummingbird was created by:
John James Audubon
The 1883 Brooklyn Bridge was designed by:
John Roebling and Washington Roebling
Please select the painting which is all of the following: abstract, non-objective, Abstract Expressionist.
Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, and Red, from 1962
This term refers to the Middle Ages. In European history, this period lasted roughly from the 5th century to the 15th century AD. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, and phased out with the High Renaissance.
Medieval
This term refers to art that is realistic tends to refer to art that aims to, to a large extent, capture and reproduce appearances faithfully.
Realistic
This term refers to a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe in the late 1700's, lasting through about 1850, which reacted against the industrial revolution and scientific rationalization of nature, along with blind adherence the established societal rules, focusing instead on imagination, emotion, spirituality, and the sublime in nature and the human spirit.
Romantic Age
A stone coffin, typically designed to be displayed above ground and adorned with sculpture.
Sarcophagus
The Kaaba is the building at the center of the most sacred mosque of the Islamic faith. Muslims pray in the direction of this mosque every day, and if physically and financially able, are required to make at least one pilgrimage to this mosque in their lifetime. The "turning inward" aspect of this pilgrimage is seen by many as a rehearsal for the day of judgement. This mosque is located in:
Saudi Arabia
In the 1970's a great Chinese mausoleum from around 200 BC was uncovered, revealing a terra cotta "army" of more than 7,000 soldiers ready for battle, and "court" of people to serve him, including dancers, government official, singers, animals, and entertainers, highly detailed clay sculptures of those individuals needed to continue to serve the spirit of the deceased Emperor, Qin, in his afterlife. Each sculpture of each individual was unique, looking like an individual person with a unique face and body. The Emperor's name, and this massive burial site is referred to as:
Shuihuangdi
This term refers to what a work of art depicts, what we are looking at.
Subject
This period was a period of European history, beginning around 1400 AD and concluding around 1525 AD. The word literally means, re-birth, and what are reborn in the in this period are ideas from "Classical Antiquity," art, architecture, literature, philosophy, science, and a humanist approach to understanding the world, mainly from the Ancient Greek humanist culture.
The Renaissance
This box from Ancient Sumeria around 2600 BC was carried like a banner, which depicts a battle scene on one side and a banquet on the other, made of wood with inlaid stone. It is:
The Standard of Ur
This is a term that refers to art which visually strips away all non-essentials to reveal the essence of the subject:
Abstract
On the inside of the Lascaux caves, we see images of:
All of the above
This term refers to what a work of art is "about," the underlying meaning of the work of art.
Content
This term refers primarily to crafts, often but not always hand-made, which are responsible for populating our homes and surroundings with objects which have a high level of aesthetic function and purpose, even though created for utilitarian use. Examples include blacksmithing work, jewelry, woodworking, pottery, stained glass, textiles arts, wallpaper, etc.
Decorative arts
This artist was an important Mexican muralist in the 1930s. In his work, he talks about culture and the experience of the common man, the human experience in a machine age, and the dislocations caused by technology and expanding modern economies.
Diego Rivera
This artist painted the Expressionist image, the Scream, which has become such an iconic that when it was stolen, M&M's launched a mass-media campaign offering two million M&Ms for its return. It has been referred to widely in popular media, including McCauly Caulkin taking this pose for the movie poster of Home Alone, and even Homer Simpson has been seen imitating this pose. In his own lifetime, this artist's work had been declared "an insult to art."
Edvard Munch
This term refers to art that imitates nature in a more or less mimetic (copying) fashion, though it does not always reflect details accurately, or match colors with precision.
Naturalistic
In his treatment of space, this artist rejects the conventions of the day in depicting three-dimensional space, which relied on mathematical perspective used since the Renaissance for depicting three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface. He was an avid collector of African art, and these, along with a recent exhibition of African and Iberian sculptures influenced this work.
Pablo Picasso
This term refers to a period from about 35,000BC to 8,000BC, characterized by the use of stone tools.
Paleolithic
The painting "Guernica," a profound social and political statement presented at the 1937 World Fair which is often regarded as one of the most important paintings of the 20th century, depicted the horrific aftermath of when the Spanish dictator Franco allowed his own people to be bombed by the German Luftwaffe, and the entire historic town of Guernica to be bombed and decimated, just for the sake of an experiment by a Hitler, his military ally, to see if air bombing could wipe out an entire city, for later use by the Nazis. The artist who painted this painting is:
Picasso
This artist captured his own image throughout his life over and over again, having drawn or painted around 90 penetrating self-portraits, capturing his life in an autobiography of pictures:
Rembrandt Van Rijn
This term refers to a school of design from founded in 1919 by German architect Walter Gropius, whose craft-based curriculum sought to produce designers whose vision would marry fine art and design, function and beauty, with clean lines and simple forms, reflecting modern values. This style of design was highly influential in Modernist art, architecture, industrial design, and the applied arts which followed. This term, which is the same name as the school, is often used to refer to clean, simple designs which reflect the "look" of the work from this school.
The Bauhaus
Which of these paintings is "miniature", (despite the level of detail!), a calendar page out of a Duke's prayer book, providing us a genre scene of wintry every day life:
The Limbourg Brothers, Illuminated Manuscript, Tres Riches Heures, February, Life in the Country, 1411-1416
This term refers to a period in European history from around 1500 to around 1800, which encompassed the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Age of Discovery, the Scientific Revolution, the Reformation, a developing capitalist and knowledge-based economy, with mass literacy, and a hope and faith in the progress for human-kind possible through mankind's own efforts.
The Modern Age
This river valley gave rise to one of the one of the greatest civilizations more than 5,000 years ago, Ancient Egypt, which gave us intricate artwork, created the world's first national government, created a 365 day calendar, and developed a form of writing called hieroglyphics, leaving behind a written as well as image-based record of their society. This river valley culture created pyramids and burial chambers filled with items to serve the spirit of the deceased Pharoah in his afterlife with the gods.
The Nile
Genre images capture:
scenes of everyday life, giving us a glimpse into "slice of life" moments that we may relate to