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
$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| Otto Van Veen–<a>here</a>’s his “Lamentation”–taught this greatest northern Baroque painter–<a>here</a>’s his
Rubens
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Manet didn’t exhibit with this group but his sister-in-law Berthe Morisot did
the Impressionists
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Meyer portrayed the dignity of these people, from the French for “country”, as seen <a>here</a>
peasants
$3000 ||| Category: ART ||| Robert Motherwell painted over 100 versions of “Elegy to” this “Republic” that Picasso mourned too
the Spanish Republic
$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| Bocklin’s <a>“Isle of the Dead”</a> exemplifies this “ism” that used external <a>objects</a> to represent ideas & emotions
symbolism
$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| A visit to the Alhambra led this 20th c. Dutch artist to optical oddities like water that flows up as well as down
M.C. Escher
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| One of the few portraits of colonial craftsmen is Copley’s painting of this silversmith
Paul Revere
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Andy Warhol made an 8-hour film of one facade of this New York City landmark
the Empire State Building
$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| They were first partnered in 1857; their sons carried on the print firm until 1907
Currier & Ives
$4000 ||| Category: ART ||| The book “Iowans of Impact” calls him “Anamosa’s famous artist”
Grant Wood
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| This Chinese dynasty that reigned from 1368 to 1644 was known for beautiful vases
Ming
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Dante Gabriel Rossetti wanted to take art back to “pre-“ this Renaissance master born in 1483
Raphael
$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| We’re not joshing–in 1769 this portrait painter got knighted
(Joshua) Reynolds
$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| Roger Fry of the Met coined this term for the works of artists like Cezanne & Gauguin
Postimpressionist
$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| “The Regatta at Argenteuil” shows this Frenchman’s love of water subjects, like lilies
Monet
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Georges Rouault liked to include some tragic ones of these in his works; Red Skelton specialized in them
clowns
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| A Gerrit Dou work is sometimes known as “The Mother of” this painter with whom Dou studied in 17th century Leiden
Rembrandt
$4500 ||| Category: ART ||| 19th c. painter Thomas Cole lived in Catskill, N.Y. on this river, whose “School” he helped found
the Hudson River
$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| A note formerly on the back of “Figure de fantasie” by this Rococo painter says it was done in one hour
Fragonard
$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| This Venetian, said his pupil Palma Giovane, “used his fingers more than his brush” to finish his lush works
Titian
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Ceramics is the art of making objects, even dreidels, out of this material
clay
$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| Someone tearing the L.A. Times into strips may be practicing this art form with a hyphenated French name
papier-mâché
$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| The name of this type of paint that contains egg yolks almost sounds like a Japanese dish, but don’t eat it
tempera
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| This movement began in 1950s Britain, but it’s based on American mass media & advertising images
Pop Art
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| Around 1450, with big commissions drying up, sculptors turned to these head-&-shoulders portrait pieces
busts
$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| Noun for a work in which ideas are personified, like the book “Pilgrim’s Progress” or <a>de Troy’s</a> <a>“Time Unveiling Truth”</a>
allegory
$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| This “Rake’s Progress” satirist was a British patriot, as seen in his 1748 work “O the Roast Beef of Old England”
(William) Hogarth
$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| The puzzling, distorted <a>skull</a> in his 1533 portrait <a>“The Ambassadors”</a> may refer to his name, meaning “hollow bone”
(Hans) Holbein (the Younger)
$200 ||| Category: ART ||| <a>This</a> impressionist was as skilled at painting <a>people</a> as he was at painting fields & sunsets
Renoir
$600 ||| Category: ART ||| Life in the tenements of New York was a favorite subject of this Robert Henri “School”
the Ashcan School
$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| First name of the son <a>seen</a> <a>here</a> in a 1655 portrait by his father
Titus
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Ususally an altarpiece, it’s a painting consisting of 3 separate panels
a triptych
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| He advocated sfumato, a subtle blending of tones, saying light and shade should blend like smoke as seen <a>here</a>
Da Vinci
$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| Andre Breton hailed this man’s art as “the most hallucinatory known until now”
Dalí
$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| Aptly, Georgia O’Keeffe’s first one-woman show was at this man’s 291 Gallery
Alfred Stieglitz
$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| Courbet was the leader of this movement; verism is an extreme form of it
realism
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| As a youngster, Claude Monet did these exaggerated portraits popular with today’s street artists
caricatures
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| “The Portrait of a Lady on a Balcony” done around 1504-14 & hanging in the Louvre is better known as this
the “Mona Lisa”
$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| The Van Eyck bros. weren’t the 1st to use these paints, though sometimes creditied with it; they date back much earlier
oils
$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| Gustave Moreau was well known as a painter of this Biblical dancer
Salome
$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| As it’s what J.M.W. Turner did best, “Hannibal & His Army Crossing the Alps” is set during one of these
a snowstorm
$200 ||| Category: ART ||| In the cathedral at Chartres, most of this translucent artwork from the 13th century is still in place
stained glass
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Joseph Stella is known for a series of paintings of this amusement park at the southern end of Long Island
Coney Island
$600 ||| Category: ART ||| (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at Rembrandt’s house in Amsterdam) Rembrandt used metal plates & this oak press to make copies of this type of artwork
etchings
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| 19th century sculptor William Rush is famous for this pair of figures he did for a theater in Philadelphia
Comedy & Tragedy
$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| Maurice Utrillo’s White Period featured streets of this Paris area, also home to Amelie & Toulouse-Lautrec
Montmartre
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Legend says that ancient Greek Zeuxis painted a bunch of these so realistically, birds tried to eat them
grapes
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1884 Rodin was commissioned to create a monument to “The Burghers of” this French seaport
Calais
$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| A seascape by this American artist is seen here
Winslow Homer
$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| Disciple Paul Signac helped Georges Seurat develop this signature painting technique
Pointilism
$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| Born in Greece, this 20th century Italian artist often painted hallucinatory images of empty towns
Giorgio de Chirico
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1936 Time Magazine featured this mustachioed Surrealist on its cover
Salvador Dali
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| In Masaccio’s “Expulsion from Paradise”, an archangel with a sword hovers over this pair
Adam & Eve
$1200 ||| Category: ART ||| The Nabis were painters in Paris who emulated the primitive style of this artist who left France for Tahiti in 1891
Paul Gauguin
$1600 ||| Category: ART ||| This artist born in 1471 probably learned everything from his father, a goldsmith, also named Albrecht
Albrecht Durer
$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| This Swedish-born artist is known for his giant versions of common objects, like burgers or ice cream cones
Claes Oldenburg
$200 ||| Category: ART ||| In his “Homage to Picasso”, Spanish artist Juan Gris tried his hand at this movement
Cubism
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Batik is painting on cloth to which this substance has been applied
Wax
$600 ||| Category: ART ||| A sculpture by Daniel Chester French can be seen if you look carefully on the back of this current U.S. bill
$5 (Lincoln Memorial in the background)
$1500 ||| Category: ART ||| They were first partnered in 1857 & their sons carried on the print firm until 1907
Currier and Ives
$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1766 Etienne-Maurice Falconet was called to Russia to make a huge equestrian sculpture of this man
Peter the Great
$2000 ||| Category: ART ||| “100 Soup Cans”
Andy Warhol
$800 ||| Category: ART ||| “Guernica”
Pablo Picasso
$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| “Water Lilies”
Claude Monet
$None ||| Category: ART ||| This technique, from Latin for “to look through”, began in Western painting in works like the one seen here
Perspective
$200 ||| Category: ART ||| This art practiced by William Blake precedes “Printing” in the name of a U.S. bureau
Engraving
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| To film Jackson Pollock at work, you’d say, “Lights! Camera!” this type of painting
Action
$600 ||| Category: ART ||| In the 1880s this artist with “noir” in his name broke with impressionism & began using more black
Pierre Auguste Renoir
$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| Your initial impression might be that he was England’s greatest seascape painter
J.M.W. Turner
$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| Last name of former husband & wife Walter & Margaret, known for painting large-eyed waifs
Keane
$None ||| Category: ART ||| The Italian name of this 15th century masterpiece is “L’Ultima Cena”
"The Last Supper"
$200 ||| Category: ART ||| You can’t make a genuine tempera painting without breaking these
eggs
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| Surrealists used odd juxtapositions in this form whose name is French for “gluing”
collage
$600 ||| Category: ART ||| Edward Steichen led the movement to recognize as art these images, whose name means “drawn with light”
photographs
$1800 ||| Category: ART ||| 17th century Flemish master known for painting women like the one seen <a>here</a>:
Peter Paul Rubens
$1000 ||| Category: ART ||| In 1920 this impressionist, known for his water lilies, painted another plant, “Wisteria”
Claude Monet
$200 ||| Category: ART ||| In Hieronymus Bosch’s 3-panel “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, it’s the garden on the left
Garden of Eden
$400 ||| Category: ART ||| This style of Picasso & Braque was broken into 2 phases, analytic & synthetic
Cubism