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