unit 1

Question 1

leonardo da vinci

Answer 1

-“mona lisa”
-merchant’s wife
took him 4 years
kept the painting

Question 2

cole

Answer 2

-“the oxbow”
-american artist

Question 3

duchamp

Answer 3

-“the fountain”
-readymade: found objects exhibited as works of art
-art show in new york…rules: send in your art on time, send in the entry fee

Question 4

smithson

Answer 4

-“spiral jetty”
-quote: life goes on
-earth work

Question 5

warhol

Answer 5

-“marilyn diptych”
-pop art: art of popular culture
-warhol was obsessed with death and fame

Question 6

kruger

Answer 6

-“i shop therefore i am”
-workwork: a contemporary work of art whose imagery consists of words

Question 7

monet

Answer 7

-“impression sunrise”
-art critic disliked it as it was monet’s impression of a sunrise and monet just made that the name

Question 8

van gogh

Answer 8

-“starry night”
-painted from inside a mental institution
-impasto : thick application of paint
-sky= heaven, town= earth, syprus tree= jesus

Question 9

van gogh

Answer 9

-“night cafe”
-complementary colours
-quote: a night cafe is where you go to ruin yourself
-makes you feel uneasy

Question 10

seurat

Answer 10

-“a sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte”
-pointillism: applying small unmixed points or dots of paint

Question 11

duchamp

Answer 11

-“nude descending a staircase”
-an attempt to capture movement
-inspired by the first motion picture of the horse

Question 12

halsman

Answer 12

-“dali atomicus”
-quote: appreciate every moment

Question 13

bernini

Answer 13

-“apollo and daphne”
-motion through sculpture

Question 14

michelangelo

Answer 14

-“pieta”
-texture: the surface quality of a work
-22 years old when he made this
-made of marble

Question 15

oldenburg

Answer 15

-“clothespin”
-200 year anniversary of the declaration of independence
-Philadelphia

Question 16

wood

Answer 16

-“american gothic”
-realism: portrayal of people/things without distortion of abstraction
-the great depression
-the dust bowl

Question 17

pollock

Answer 17

-“untitled”
-suffered from severe alcoholism
-action painting: the process, not the product

Question 18

mondrian

Answer 18

-“composition with red yellow and blue”
-severe ocd
-quote: every painting is this”

Question 19

cara vaggio

Answer 19

“the calling of st. Matthew”

Question 20

leonardo da vinci

Answer 20

-“the last supper”
-painted on the wall of a cafeteria

Question 21

leonardo da vinci

Answer 21

-“madonna of the rocks”
-madonna= mary
-atmospheric perspective: objects in the background appear hazy or blurry to imply distance

Question 22

leonardo da vinci

Answer 22

-“proportions of the human figure”
-he could write with both hands and could write backwards

Question 23

vermeer

Answer 23

-“woman holding a balance”

Question 24

polykleitos

Answer 24

-“spear bearer”
-canon of proportion
-the spear was stolen
-back in greek culture they performed nude olympics
-first proportional statue

Question 25

munch

Answer 25

-“the scream”
-suffered from panic attack disorder
-wrote “a madman would paint this” but covered it up

Question 26

Van Eyck

Answer 26

Alfornini wedding portrait