ART, ARCHITECTURE, FASHION, DESIGN Flashcards
The Burghers of Calais
Rodin
Sentimental bad taste
Kitsch
Museum of fine arts in Moscow, named for poet
Pushkin Museum
Painter influenced by aboriginal art
Picasso
Fashion designer - documentary called “The Last Emperor”
Valentino Garavani
Italian designer, icon of the Dolce Vita, bamboo bag, iconic moccasins
Gucci - Gucci loafer
Spanish painter of dark subjects - insanity, witches, creatures, corruption
Francisco Goya
Painted many versions of “The Peaceable Kingdom” in mid 19th c
Edward Hicks
English romantic landscape & seascape painter
JMW Turner
Rococo painter of beauty and feminine sensuality
Antoine Watteau
Late 18th century English portraitist of 1776-looking men and Marie-Antoinette-looking women
Thomas Gainsborough
Girl with a Watering Can
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
small grassy mound or clump of grass; or alternatively a low seat.
tuffet
Vanity Fair photographer
Annie Leibovitz
1913 first large modern art show in USA
The Armory Show
Enlarging nearest part of image to add depth
Foreshortening
Washington DC layout
L’Enfant
American balloon animal sculptor
Jeff Koons
Russian orchestrator
Rimsky-Korsakov
Heart Castle architect
Julia Morgan
Stained glass artist, design director at his father’s business
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Leader of French Romantic School
Eugene Delacroix
Lincoln Memorial sculptor
Daniel Chester French
Renaissance painter of mythology
Botticelli
English 1700s cartoonist/satirist
William Hogarth
Dean of Impressionists
Camille Pissarro
upholstered low couch or a smaller cushioned seat used as a table, stool or footstool
ottoman
The Spanish Dancer painter
John Singer Sargent
US designer with eponymous brand who also wrote and directed two Oscar-nom films
Tom Ford
French investor who bought Dior and is now CEO of LVMH
Bernard Arnault, 3rd richest man in the world
The Tribute Money, significant 1420s fresco, by
Masaccio
Nihilistic art movement
Dada
La Danse/Dance orangeish figures in a circle
Matisse
Michelangelo last name
Buonarotti
The Third of May 1808 painting of firing squad
Francisco Goya
Most famous artist born on Crete
El Greco
Photos of O’Keeffe
Alfred Stieglitz
Sculpture of men who made themselves hostages to free their city
The Burghers of Calais, Rodin
Luncheon on the Grass
Manet
Doonesbury cartoonist
Gary Trudeau
Italian sculptor of David (not M)
Donatello
Henry VIII portrait by
Hans Holbein the Younger
American artist known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images
Judy Chicago
Artist who wraps things in fabric
Christo
entertainment center
console
window attached to its frame by a hinge at the side
casement
Passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns.
Arcade
Male American painter living in Europe, known for portraits
John Singer Sargent
Velazquez masterpiece
Las meninas
Horseshoe crafter
Farrier
Adding a layer of glue to canvas so paint doesn’t sink in
Sizing
The Battle of San Romano, mid 15th c, three paintings significant in linear perspective
Paolo Uccello. Paintings coveted by Medici.
Chinese American designer, “Dolly Girl” brand
Anna Sui
The Blue Rider was named for a painting by
Kandinsky
“The Judgment of Paris” judging Roman Gods painting
Claude Lorrain
Leading painter of Spanish Golden Age
Diego Velazquez
couch-like sitting furniture or, in some countries, a box-spring based bed
divan - named for Persian offices
Giovanni Antonio Canal was the real name of this artist known for his paintings of Venice
Canaletto
Russian pioneer of abstract art
Wassily Kandinsky
Painter of “The Hunters in the Snow,” 1565
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Goya’s mistress
Duchess of Alba
the transverse part of a church beside the altar
transepts
Renaissance expressionistic artist
El Greco
Turn of 20th century US art group that portrayed daily life in NYC, often in poorer neighborhoods
The Ashcan School
unsupported overhang
cantilever
“Blue Boy” is a painting by
Thomas Gainsborough
Austrian erotic expressionist painter
Egon Schiele
Las Meninas painting by
Diego Velazquez
general word for the space between architectural elements like columns, beams
bays
20th century painter of flags
Jasper Johns
Renaissance friar artist
Fra Angelico
Rococo artist
Watteau
US painter of “The Gross Clinic,” 1875
Thomas Eakins
David vs. Delacroix
Napoleonic, epic, firmer lines vs. 50 years later, romantic, brushstrokes, color
Painter of “Death of the Virgin” 1606
Caravaggio
American female war and Depression photographer
Margaret Bourke-White
Art by artists without formal training, often discovered after death
Outsider Art/Art Brut
German Renaissance woodcut printer
Albrecht Durer
Painter of “The Peasant Wedding,” 1567
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
This architect partnered with Rudolph Schindler & pioneered steel-frame housing with the Lovell House
Richard Neutra
Minimalist German fashion designer, now label for Uniqlo
Jil Sander
Christina’s World
Andrew Wyeth
Painter of “Niagara”
Frederic Edwin Church
Italian painter of elongated figures
Modigliani
French fashion designer post WWI, popularized casual chic, jewelry, fragrance
Coco Chanel
Fashion designer best known for wrap dress
Diane von Furstenburg
Painter of Luncheon of the Boating Party (boater hats & undershirts at table)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“PRB” painters, British group
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
School of Australian impressionism named for German-sounding Melbourne suburb
Heidelberg School
French street photography pioner
Henri Cartier-Bresson
US designer in Jewish immigrant family, known first for jeans
Calvin Klein
Garfield cartoonist
Jim Davis
Style of painting with pronounced chiaroscuro
Tenebrism
Baroque painter of beauty and feminine sensuality
Peter Paul Rubens
NY fashion designer for simple, comfortable women’s wear, dressed Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Faye Dunaway
Geoffrey Beene
introduced “Le Smoking” tuxedo for women
Yves St. Laurent
Founded in 1939, this city’s Contemporary Arts Center was at the center of a 1990s 1st Amendment case
Cincinnati
Applying glaze on part of a painting
Scumble
French designer born in Algeria, tutored by Dior
Yves St. Laurent
The Night Watch
Rembrandt
Ballet painter
Degas
Cuban-American designer of Michelle Obama election-night dress
Narciso Rodriguez
American sculptor of “Spider,” 1996
Louise Bourgeois
Scandalous/modernist early 20th century Romanian sculptor
Constantine Brancusi
Venus of Urbino
Titian
Luxury Paris department store
Bon Marche
Cartoonist behind the Addams family
Charles Addams
Name for round work of art, mostly Renaissance
Tondo
Edward Hicks became a Quaker icon because of his paintings of
The Peaceable Kingdom and other religious and folk art
Crafter who builds wooden wheels
Wheelwright
Sculptor of American West
Frederick Remington
US designer known for her “essentials” line. “Queen of Seventh Avenue”
Donna Karan
2 Flemish Baroque painters
Rubens, van Dyck (was R’s assistant)
German creative director of Chanel and Fendi, white hair and sunglasses and starched collars
Karl Lagerfeld
sculpted female form serving as architectural support
caryatid (carry-at-id)
Sensual Baroque painter
Rubens
British pop artist, still painting swimming pools
David Hockney
American artist of Penn’s Treaty With The Indians, Treaty of Paris
Benjamin West
English designer for Givenchy then his own label
Alexander McQueen
Italian Baroque chiaroscuro painter
Caravaggio
Dutch etcher as well as painter
Rembrandt
US designer of over the top, colorful dresses, does a cartwheel at the end of her shows
Betsey Johnson
A sculptural embellishment of an arch.
accolade
brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical (fantasy/mythical) creatures
alebrijes
Founder of the Hudson River School
Thomas Cole
Artist of The Anatomy Lesson
Rembrandt
Elephant and Donkey cartoons
Thomas Nast
Term for non-mobile Calder works
Stabiles
Moulin Rouge artist
Toulouse-Lautrec
Dutch abstract artist with blotchy figures, sculptures
Willem de Kooning
French designer who democratized couture
Yves St. Laurent
Rembrandt portrait of his son at a lectern
Titus
ceiling that looks like recessed half-cylinder over a square
barrel vault
Realist movement showing rural US scenes
Regionalist
Court artist of Philip IV of Spain
Diego Velazquez
Rihanna’s fashion brand
Fenty
a parapet in defensive architecture is also called a
battlement
American designer who dressed Lucille Ball, Cher, Diana Ross, The Carol Burnett Show, Gypsy
Bob Mackie
Paintings titled “Nocturne,” “Symphony,” “Harmony” with colors
Whistler
Still painting swimming pools
David Hockney
“Bathers at Asnieres” artist
Georges Seurat
American female abstract sculptor, big black boxes
Louise Nevelson
American jeweller who founded store, created first retail catalog in US, introduced UK sterling silver standard
Charles Lewis Tiffany
Opposite sides add up to 7
Dice
Art movement depicting America as pastoral landscape to be discovered/explored
Hudson River School
Italian designer descended from Florence nobility; known for geometric prints in kaleidoscopic colors
Don Emilio Pucci
Dutch 1700s - “Self Portrait with a Sunflower”
Anthony van Dyck
18th century British horse painter
George Stubbs
Garden of Earthly Delights by
Hieronymous Bosch
bed with curved foot and headboards
sleigh bed
controversial Dior designer
John Galliano
Early 20th c female architect
Julia Morgan
Two phases of cubism
Analytic and synthetic
British fashion designer and animal-free advocate
Stella McCartney
US designer with line for Target and Brooks Brothers, Project Runway judge
Zac Posen
Invented oil painting
Jan van Eyck
Spiderman cartoonist
Stan Lee
19th century American illustrator and painter of seascapes, portraits, daily life
Winslow Homer
“The Dinner Party” installation is by
Judy Chicago
Thomas Gainsborough best known painting
“Blue Boy”
Designer known for Balloon Coat and Baby Doll Dress
Hubert Givenchy
English Romantic landscape painter
JMW Turner
“Sleeping Venus” painting, many imitators
Giorgione. Also known as the Dresden Venus, influenced Titian.
British neoclassical architect
John Nash
framed furniture across between daybed and bed
chaise lounge
Paintings of ordinary people in everyday life are also known as
genre paintings - esp 17th c Dutch/Flemish like Bruegel and Vermeer
Dutch Renaissance painter among the first to paint village life, non-religious scenes
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Court artist of Charles IV of Spain
Francisco Goya
Painter of “Children’s Games,” 1560
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Painter of Bal du moulin de Galette (people looking over bench at table)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
American seascape painter
Winslow Homer
Third Renaissance Great master
Raphael
Velazquez chiaroscuro style
Tenebrism
Home was a Paris literary/art gathering place in 1920s
Gertrude Stein
Nude Descending a Staircase
Marcel Duchamp
name for gaps in a battlement to allow launch of projectiles
crenels (crenellated)
early Dutch artist oil paint and perspective/subject innovator
Jan van Eyck
Originally term for full-size sketch for transfer to a wall
cartoon
red-brown color named for Venetian painter
Titian
“Gypsy Girl” Dutch portraitist
Frans Hals
Venetian Mannerist Painter
Tintoretto
Louis XV mistress, patron of Francois Boucher
Madam de Pompadour
1930s Farm Security Administration photographer
Dorothea Lange
French and Spanish jewelry designer, daughter of painter
Paloma Picasso
Impressionist painter of beauty and feminine sensuality
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
bed that folds into wall
Murphy bed
American Edwardian portrait painter
John Singer Sargent
a couch with a back that is traditionally raised at one end
fainting couch
upholstered sofa in the shape of a chair that is long enough to support the legs
chaise lounge
20th century abstract English sculptor
Henry Moore
painter of Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
Rembrandt
American grand landscape painter, namesake of Colorado 14er
Albert Bierstadt
topmost part of a column
capital
“Pogo” cartoonist
Walt Kelly
Austrian symbolist painter
Gustav Klimt
a deep buttoned sofa, usually made from leather, named for 18th c earl
Chesterfield
Praying desk with a knee bench
prie-dieu
semicircular recess with vault/dome behind the altar
apse
generic term for pool table & similar
billiards table
Painter of “Netherlandish Proverbs,” 1559
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
French-American feminist sculptor, installation artist, painter
Louise Bourgeois
Real name of El Greco
Domenikos Theotokopoulos
Death of Marat artist
Jacques-Louis David
Style using detail, color, movement, grandeur to create awe
Baroque
Dutch golden age mostly portraitist from Haarlem, close up people in ruffles and hats
Frans Hals
St Paul’s architect
Christopher Wren
vertical member projecting from a wall to stabilize it/resist lateral thrust
Buttress
US photographer of odd and disturbing people
Diane Arbus
NY designer, own label and creative director for Louis Vuitton
Marc Jacobs
Painter of “Washington Crossing the Delaware”
Emanuel Leutze
Painter of Belshazzar’s Feast
Rembrandt
Final expression of the Baroque movement
Rococo
Famous for Madonnas
Raphael
French fashion designer of the “New Look”
Christian Dior
Barrel maker
Cooper
series of balusters supporting a handrail
balustrade
Robert Doisneau b&w Paris photo of kissing on the street by cafe
Kiss by the Hotel de Ville
American artist who painted famous historical scenes such as The Death of Nelson, Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky
Benjamin West
Primitive/Naive post impressionist - lions and tigers
Henri Rousseau
American marine landscape painter
Winslow Homer
The Night Watch is in this museum
Rijksmuseum
Vogue and celebrity photo portraits
Richard Avedon
Dutch Renaissance artist of Blind Leading the Blind
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck - spoofed in Desperate Housewives. Woman in green holding hand of man in hat.
Museum named for him in Haarlem
Frans Hals
Spanish luxury fashion designer, the master of couture
Cristobal Balenciaga, has his own museum
American designer best known for bridal
Vera Wang
German-Am foremost painter of westward expansion landscapes
Albert Bierstadt
Royal photographer
Cecil Beaton
“Nighthawks” artist
Hopper
paint by fixing wax to a surface with heat
encaustic painting
Designer of “It’s a Jungle Out There” collection
Alexander McQueen
The Ambassadors (1553)
Hans Holbein the younger
Luncheon on the Grass
Manet
American landscape style known for effects of light on water and sky
Luminism
Dutch Abstract painter with black and white color blocks
Piet Mondrian
Parthenon statues in British Museum known as the
Elgin Marbles
pret-a-porter
ready to wear
1910s group of German artists central to founding Expressionism & abstraction
The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter)
Civil War photographer
Matthew Brady
Duomo architect
Brunelleschi
Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer
Rembrandt
The name of this art style is derived from a Paris shop opened in the 1890s by dealer Siegfried Bing
Art Nouveau
the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary
chancel
Paris contemporary art museum
Pompidou Center
gargoyles and similar sculptures
grotesques or chimeras
central part of a church where the laypeople go
nave
extension of wall at the end of a roof, originally built for defense
parapet
In 1983, became the first living fashion designer to be honored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a solo exhibition
Yves St. Laurent
Venezuelan fashion designer who dresses first ladies
Carolina Herrera
English painter of turbulent/pastel seascapes
JMW Turner
Raphael’s best known work
School of Athens
View of Toledo artist
El Greco
Premier turn of 20th c poster artist
Toulouse-Lautrec
Inner court of a Roman house; in a multi-story building, a toplit covered court rising through all stories.
Atrium
Me Myself And My Heroes etching
David Hockney
Painter of “The Tower of Babel,” 1563
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
American preppy/sailor designer
Tommy Hilfiger
The group led by Robert Henri & known as The Eight later became known as this school
Ashcan school
Around 1912 Robert Delaunay brought color to the forefront of this -ism, thereby creating Orphism
Cubism
impressionists who lived together
Van Gogh and Gauguin
The Man With The Golden Helmet
Rembrandt (probably)
American b&w photographer of nudes, self-portraits, celebrities
Robert Mapplethorpe
20th c painter descended from essayist with same name
Francis Bacon
Most significant Dutch Renaissance painter
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Van Dyck vs Van Eyck
Baroque, Renaissance
19th c US painter of Jolly Floatboatmen
George Caleb Bingham
1300s painting master
Giotto
Best known work is “School of Athens”
Raphael
French art movement toward realism during Romanticism, mostly landscape paintings of trees
Barbizon School
Painter of Luncheon on the Grass
Degas (painting is dark, looks almost primitive)
US designer born Karl Anderson, leads his own label, sells ready to wear and other thing
Michael Kors
“The Missouri Artist” who was also a politician
George Caleb Bingham
a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis to sand, cut, face etc
lathe
Creating a stone wall/building without any mortar
Dry stone
1600-10 Italian painter of chiaroscuro figures against dark backgrounds - eating, beheading, etc.
Caravaggio
Majas on a Balcony painting
Goya
Paintings incorporated everyday objects
Robert Rauschenberg
Painter of Alice and Elisabeth Cahen d’Anvers (“Pink and Blue”)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Craft of building a roof with dry vegetation
Thatching
Juliet Balcony is also called
Balconet
American 19th c maritime painter most central to Luminism
Fitz Henry Lane
Museum with colored ducts
Pompidou Center
individual molded shafts supporting a parapet or handrail
baluster
Ecstasy of St Theresa sculptor
Bernini
Washington portraitist
Gilbert Stuart
Leading Baroque sculptor
Bernini
Fool the eye style of painting
Trompe l’oile
Critic who loved Turner
John Ruskin
Artist whose name means Hollow Bone
Holbein
general word for architecture serving as defensive barricade
bulwark
Large French fashion house with brand ambassadors, fragrances
Dior
Designer for Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy
Hubert Givenchy
John Ruskin, 19th c author of “Modern Painters,” said art should be ____ ____ _____
“truth to nature” - loved JMW Turner
Painter of Washington Crossing the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze
Midwestern Muralist
Thomas Hart Benton
The Rake’s Progress series by
William Hogarth
Swiss cubist/figurative sculptor
Giacometti
Painter of “The Swing”
Jean-Honore Fragonard
Color block painter
Rothko
Gauguin profession before painting
Stockbroker
Japanese wood-block artist
Hokusai
Infinity Mirrors artist
Yayoi Kusama
19th-20th c American artist known for portraits of Philadephians
Thomas Eakins
Renaissance writers gave medieval architecture this barbarian name because they thought it ugly
Gothic
Italian word for bell tower
campanile
American designer, controversial, Goth and edgy statements and designs, “Lord of Darkness” for use of black
Rick Owens
$300 million worth of art was stolen from the Gardener Museum including the only marine painting by this Dutchman
Rembrandt
Dutch painter 15-1600s, copied his father’s works and made his own
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Italian billionaire fashion designer, took over her grandfather’s label
Miuccia Prada
This Flemish artist painted a unique triple portrait of England’s King Charles I around 1637
Anthony van Dyck - “Charles I in three positions” in one picture
Latin word for pride and mortality
Vanitas
“Girl with a Pearl Earring” artist
Vermeer
Painter of Girls At The Piano
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Luncheon on the Grass
Manet
German painter of American West
Albert Bierstadt
