Artists and Their Creations Flashcards

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Dali’s famous paintings x4

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The Persistence of Memory; the Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory; On Dream (where the tigers jump out of shells); Galatea of the Spheres

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Who painted the Nighthawks painting, where is it, and what is the sign advertising on it?

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By Hopper
In School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Cigars

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What did Chagall paint (1 thing)

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I and the village

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What is the painting that Mrs. Cook hates, with the fallen girl in it, called, and who painted it?

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  • Christina’s World
  • by Wyeth
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Who painted the picture of the 2 farmer people looking depressingly at the viewer, and what is that painting called?

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  • Wood
  • American Gothic
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Who painted Guernica, and what is it about?

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  • Picasso
  • about WWII Nazi attack on Basque
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which artist founded suprematism (the kind of modern art that’s like a black square that people hate)

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Malevich

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who painted Satan Devouring his Children

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Goya

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What did magritte paint? 5 things

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corde sensible (weird cloud in cup painting); the art of living (bloated head man); golconde (his apple man, all in the sky); the son of man (his apple man); and the ceci n’est pas une pipe (“this is not a pipe”, but it’s a painting of a pipe lmao)

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what element of magritte’s style appeared in, like, 90% of his paintings

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a dude in a bowler hat

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who painted liberty leading the people??

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DELACROIX

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who painted the school of athens (the one from the goose meme) and where is it?

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Raphael; in the apostolic palace in the vatican

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who painted les maninas (the one with all the royal people sitting behind a closed door, as if the viewer were a maid looking in to serve them)

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Velázquez

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what did botticelli paint (2 things)

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primavera; the birth of venus

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who painted luncheon on the grass (the one with the 2 practically naked ladies and fully clothed men (ofc smh))

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manet, with an a

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what was the difference in style between manet and monet?

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manet was a realist; monet was an impressionist

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who painted the arnolfini wedding portrait (where the people look sad and they’re in a room, in that one museum you actually saw it in talking about the symbolism of the green-dress lady’s dog meaning faith)

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Jan van Eyck (yes, from 6 of crows, ik T-T)

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4 of Rodin’s sculptures

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The Kiss; The Burghers of Calais; The Thinker; the Gates of Hell

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who painted the most famous version of the judgement of paris

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rubens

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donatello’s 2 sculptures

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equestrian statue at gattamelata; the bronze david

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caravaggio famous paintings: 2

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Young Sick Bacchus (vine cat meme); david holding head of goliath (violence),

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what is special about the pieta sculpture, 3 things

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  • in st peter’s basilica in the vatican
  • by michelangelo
  • only work he ever signed
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who painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, and in what style

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picasso; cubism

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2 of bernini’s scupltures

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the ecstasy of saint teresa; apollo and daphne (in the borghese gallery, remember?)

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who made the gates of hell painting? The really huge one?
Michelangelo
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who sculpted bird in space
brancusi
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identify this early 20th Century art movement that emphasized the use of bold color & who invented it
fauvism, by matisse
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who painted the portrait of GW hanging in the white house
wheatly
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Hogarth 2 famous paintings
the gate of calais; the rake's progress
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who painted the swing (that pic from frozen that anna poses like in a really cringe way)
fragonard
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who painted the nude descending the staircase
duchamp
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name & painter of that one shocking painting were the dude is leading a medical demonstration for Jefferson college medical students
eakins; the gross clinic
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name this american watercolorist & the title of the painting he made of a lone boat on a rough sea
homer; the gulf stream
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identify this Art Nouveau painter who painted The Kiss
klimt
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Name this American who spent time in Paris exhibiting with the Impressionists, the painter of many scenes featuring women and children like The Child's Bath.
Cassatt
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Name this Finnish-American architect who may be best known for St. Louis’s landmark Gateway Arch
Saarinen
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which artist took pictures of landmarks in Yosemite and is known for his grayscale photos of the US West
Adams
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who photographed the Migrant Mother
Lange
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which architect uses reflective metal, such as in Bilbao's Guggenheim & LA's Disney concert hall
gehry
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Who painted that pretty portrait of a red haired French socialite in a black dress and what is that painting called
Sargent; Madame X
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who painted at the moulin rouge
Toulouse-Lautrec
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Who painted the Oath of the Horatii
Jacques-Louis David
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who painted The Blue Boy?
Gainesborough
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what is Roy Lichtenstein's famous work?
Whaam! pop art :)
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who built that huge Colossus of Rhodes statue, and of whom is it??
Chares of Lindos did it, of Helios
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what is the name of that Velazquez work about the royalty that get peeked at through the door?
Les Maninas
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who made all those ~snazzy~ woodcuts?
Durer
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painter of Oath of the Horatii (the 3 warriors reaching for the sword)
David
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Who designed Mt. Rushmore?
Borglum
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What is the name of the set of Japanese paintings that include that huge wave, and who is it by?
36 Views of Mt. Fuji by Hokusai
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Who painted the famous Card Players painting?
Cezanne