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Art Final Exam 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What art style is "Rouen Cathedral: The Portal"? | Impressionism |
| Rouen Cathedral | Claude Monet |
| The Thinker | Auguste Rodin |
| Mary Cassatt | American Impressionist artist, "Mother and Child" |
| Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1: The Artist's Mother | James Whistler |
| George Seurat used what technique? | Pointillism |
| Edvard Munch | Tragic events, "The Cry", "The Scream" |
| Diego Rivera | Mexican muralist, married to Frida Kahlo |
| Pablo Picasso | Inspired by African masks, realistic to cubist, blue period, "The Old Guitarist" |
| Who was not a (Post)-Impressionist artist? | Dali |
| Frida Kahlo | Mexican artist, self-portraits, married to Diego Rivera |
| Degas | Ballerinas |
| Henri Matisse | Fauve for "wild" use of color |
| Where are the Caves of Lascaux located? | France |
| What are shown on the Caves? | Animals, hunters |
| Is the Venus of Willendorf a painting or sculpture? | Sculpture |
| What does the Venus of Willendorf represent? | Fertility |
| Who was the first artist in history whose name is known? | Imhotep |
| Linear perspective | Technique that involves lines meeting at a vanishing point |
| Joseph Turner | "Snowstorm: Steamboat off a Harbor's Mouth" - inspired Impressionist movement |
| George Seurat | Pointillism |
| Name an Impressionist artist. | Manet |
| What movement/style did "D' Avignon" inspire? | Cubism |
| Describe Surrealism | Subject matters are unusual and illogical |
| Name a Mexican artist | Frida Kahlo |
| Diagonal Compostition | Mondrian, primary/black/white, geometric shapes/straight lines, nonobjective |
| Name a pop artist | Andy Warhol |
| Name an artist who paints in a nonobjective style | Piet Mondrian |
| Which art style was influenced by African art? | Cubism |
| Jackson Pollock | "Lavender Mist", drip paintings |
| Christo | Wrapped objects |
| Name an artist who has painted landscapes? | O'Keeffe |
| d'Avignon | Picasso, 1907, began Cubist movement |
| Cubism | Picasso, 1907, geometric shapes |
| Who was the most famous Surrealist artist? | Salvador Dali |
| Which artist's sculpture sold at Sotheby's auction house? | Giacometti |
| Frida Kahlo | Bus accident, self-portraits, married to Rivera |
| Characteristics of Guernica | Large, protest painting, neutral colors |
| Nude Descending the Staircase | Rhythm/motion, abstract, "an explosion in a shingles factory" |
| I and the Village | Chagall (Russian) |
| Oppenheim | Created Surrealist sculptures |
| Adams | Photographer of nature (Yosemite) |
| Dorothea Lange | Migrant Mother, photographer in Great Depression |
| Who married O' Keeffe? | Stieglitz |
| Rene Magritte | "Time Transfixed" - train from fireplace |
| What artist was influenced by the Great Depression? | Lange |
| The Steerage | Stieglitz |
| Bosch | Weird/puzzling symbols, "Garden of Delights" |
| Caravaggio | Churches sometimes refused his art |
| Arnolfini Wedding | Eyck, symbolism, realistic use of light |
| Descent from the Cross | Weyden, S-curve, Mary's hand is almost touching Adam's skull |
| The Tower of Babel | Resembles Colosseum, based on Old Testament, Bruegel |
| Albrecht Durer | Signed/dated work, documented himself in self-portraits, woodcut/copper engraving |
| Hans Holbein | Court painter to Henry VIII, skull on French Ambassadors, realistic fur/velvet |
| Baroque Art | 1600 in Rome, leading figures were architects, ornate |
| What artist shows his David in action? | Bernini |
| Venus of Willendorf | Fertility sculpture, found in Austria, limestone |
| Cromlech | Round grouping of stones |