Art Flashcards
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| The central figure in a biblical Rubens painting is Salome, who is presenting the head of John the Baptist to this biblical king
Herod
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| A rich auburn is named for this Venetian artist, who favored that hair color in his paintings
Titian
$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew displays a painting on the monitor.</a>) This artist cleverly included a glimpse of his painting “The Dance” as part of a 1909 <a>still life</a>
Matisse
$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| It’s the nickname of painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos, acquired when he lived in Italy
El Greco
$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| The clouds undulate in van Gogh’s <a>painting</a> called “A Wheat Field with” <a>these</a> trees
cypresses
$200 ||| Category: ART ||| It can mean the closely woven durable cloth on which oil paintings are made or refer to the painting itself
a canvas
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| In Britain the last name of this British painter (1776-1837) means “police officer”
(John) Constable
$600 ||| Category: ART ||| Her dominant motifs, the animal bones & landscape of the Southwest, are seen <a>here</a>
Georgia O’Keeffe
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| This Belgian artist’s painting “Threatening Weather” includes a cloud shaped like a tuba
Rene Magritte
$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| The name of this heavily decorated & frothy 18th century style was coined by Maurice Quai as a term of ridicule
rococo
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Giotto’s realistic technique revolutionized painting & was a strong influence on this art era of the 1400s
the Renaissance
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| One exhibit at this country’s 1982 Sydney biennial was the creation of the largest indoor sand painting
Australia
$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| Hard to tell, but Frans Hals is said to have used 27 different shades of this–look at the garb of “Adriaen Van Ostade”
black
$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| “Revelations “, an exhibit of her photos of ’50s & ’60s weirdos, has been seen in San Francisco, L.A. & New York
(Diane) Arbus
$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| The first <a>civic sculpture</a> financed by federal & private funds was by this artist (notice it’s not hanging)
(Alexander) Calder
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| In the 1300s Italy gave birth to this art movement that would eventually sweep across Europe
the Renaissance
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Seen in the painting <a>here</a>, this Dutch artist loved the color yellow
van Gogh
$4000 ||| Category: ART ||| This artist used trowels, sticks & even basters to create some of his drip paintings, like “Cathedral”
Jackson Pollock
$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a landscape on the monitor.</a>) To show distance, the artist creates a place on the horizon where two parallel lines seem to <a>converge</a>, referred to by this 2-word term
the vanishing point
$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1865 he shocked Paris with “Olympia”, his painting of a reclining nude
Édouard Manet
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Romantic painters liked nighttime, as in Friedrich’s 1822 canvas showing this rising over the sea
the Moon
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| The Byzantines kept busy making these, in which small pieces form big pictures on floors, walls & ceilings
mosaics
$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| This British artist, known for a famous “Boy”, gave us the girl seen <a>here</a>
Gainsborough
$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| A woodcut is this raised type of printing, also a kind of map
a relief