EDISS Flashcards
Although specialising in dog portraiture, which American fashion photographer is best known for his controversial set of nude images taken in 1975 of a then ten-year-old Brooke Shields?
Gary GROSS
: Housed in the cathedral of his native city in Veneto, Castelfranco Madonna, is one of the best-known paintings by which Italian Renaissance artist?
GIORGIONE
Yves Klein was the leading member of which French artistic movement founded in 1960 by the art critic, Pierre Restany?
NOUVEAU REALISME
Portrait of Monsieur Bertin is one of the best-known paintings by which French artist born in 1780?
INGRES
Which Austrian painter and draughtsman is best known for his expressive psychologically insightful portraits, his lack of critical acclaim during his lifetime, and his affair with the wife of Arnold Schoenberg which led to his suicide?
Richard GERSTL
Mountains and Sea (1952), her first professionally exhibited work, is generally identified as which American artist’s most well-known painting?
Helen FRANKENTHALER
Which American artist produced a series of more 240 drawings of the German model Helga Testorf, collectively known as The Helga Pictures, between 1971 and
Andrew WYETH
Which Italian painter is best known for his 1911 futurist work, The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli
Carlo CARRA
Housing a comprehensive survey of six centuries of Flemish and Belgian painting, in which city can one visit the Groeningemuseum?
BRUGES
Which American artist (1928-1994) is generally considered the leading international exponent of “minimalism,” and its most important theoretician through such seminal writings such as “Specific Objects” (1964)?
Donald JUDD
Florence Baptistry is renowned for its three sets of artistically important bronze doors with relief sculptures. The north and east doors were created by Lorenzo Ghiberti; who created the south doors?
Andrea PISANO
What term was coined by Germano Celant in 1967?
ARTE POVERA
Which painting by the Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico, features a Greek sculpted head, a surgeon’s glove and a green ball
THE SONG OF LOVE
Jean-Michel Basquiat first achieved fame as part of which informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, post-punk, and street art movements had coalesced?
SAMO
Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue is a series of four large-scale paintings painted between 1966 and 1970 by which American artist in reference to Edward Albee’s, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
BArnett newman
