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"Mademoiselle Pogany"

Sculpted five images of Mademoiselle Pogany over two decades; used no detail in sculptures

What movement: Brancusi

"Nude Descending a Staircase"

invented frottage rubbings

What movement: DuChamp

Expressionist who focused on suffering and the poor

What movement: Kollowitz

"Dance"

Used simplified forms and only three colors to portray the essence of joyful movement

Master of the "arabesque"

Later in his career, did paper cutout collages

What movement: Matisse

"Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon"

What movement: Picasso

Founded the Blue Rider

First to abandon any reference to recognizable reality in his work

Made "compositions" and "improvisations"

What movement: Kandinsky

Social realist who used art to highlight injustice & motivate reform. Black Mountain School.

What movement: Shahn

What movement: Manet

"The Fifer"

Life-size bird illustrations

"Art for art's sake"

Experimented in decorative design; precursor to modern abstraction

What movement: Whistler

What movement: Daumier

"Third Class Carriage"

What movement: Bonheur

Leading animal painter

One of the first women's rights advocates

What movement: Delacroix

Led Romanticism after Gericault's death

"Liberty Leading the People"

This painting represents the progressive unification of the social classes in France ready to rise up and usurp the power of the monarchs

"Death of Marat"

What movement: David

Received his first training in the Byzantine style

Used unnatural light of uncertain origin and harsh colors, distorted & elongated figures

What movement: El Greco

Byzantine artist who created religious egg tempera paintings on wooden panels

What movement: Duccio

Based his paintings on ancient myths, history and greek sculpture, but refused to paint "flying saints"

What movement: Poussin

"the Holy Trinity" fresco in the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella

What movement: Massacio

Early founder of renaissance painting, nicknamed "Sloppy Tom"

Mastery of perspective and use of single, constant light source

Illuminated "the Book of Kells" and the "Book of Hours"

What movement: Chagall

What movement: Di Chirico

"Judith Beheading Holofernes"

What movement: Caravaggio

Known for realistic royal portraits; humanized people and didn't use fussy accessories

What movement: Velazquez

Known for loose brushstrokes that up close, appear to melt into blurred dabs

"Fat is beautiful"

Invented "hunting picture" genre

Painted story quilts

What movement: Ruebens

What movement: Bearden

Portrayed street card games, children taking piano lessons, roosters, washtubs and voodoo women

"party paintings"; frilly and lighthearted

What movement: Fragonard

portrayed German and Jewish history from ancient times through the Holocaust

What movement: Keifer

"Birth of Venus"

Decorative linear style; tiptoeing maidens; throwback to Byzantine Art

What movement: Boticelli

100 Self portraits

What movement: Rembrandt

Large scale pornographic black and white photos

Unprecedented nude self-portraits

What movement: Becker

African-American social realist; depicted flattened and abstract struggles of blacks

What movement: Lawrence

Influenced by Tanner; semi-abstract, flat forms, hard edges, geometric shapes; bands of color radiate from the important objects in each painting

What movement: Douglas

Part of a 2 man team called SAMO

What movement: Basquiat

"Still life with wine glass and oysters"

What movement: Giacometti

Elongated sculpture inspired by African Art

Aussie Photojournalist; member of MAGNUM

Invented term "l'art brut"

Incorporated mud, ashes, chicken poop & built up a thick surface-then scratched in designs

What movement: DuBuffet

First important black painter, taught by who?

What movement: Tanner

What movement: Van Eyck

Invented oil painting

Earliest known painting where the sitter looked @ the spectator

Known for strong colors and convincing portrayal of texture

What movement: Titian

One of the first to abandon wood panels

Worked with Church as "Lewis and Clark"

Huge 9x12 canvases; drama king

What movement: Bierstadt

What movement: Cole

Leader of the Hudson River School

Brushstrokes were dots and dashes of primary colors--gave movement to sky and water. Created Fauvism and was an early Cubist.

Created Fauvism

Crystal palace is made of

Held the first World's Fair in London

First skyscraper

"Less is more"

Style with dramatic illumination and use of chiarrascuro. Caravaggio and El Greco.

Durand-Ruel

aka Action Painting

aka The New York School

Sloan was a newspaper sketch artist associated with which group?

Bellows was an ex-baseball player associated with which group?

Aka the American Scene School

What movement: Grant Wood

Robert Smithson

Another name for a buddhist temple

an exhibit in NY in 1913 that introduced Paris-based Modernism to America

low-relief sculpture that projects slightly from a background

the use of light and shadow to create a focal point or mood

The S-curve or twist of a human figure caused by placing the weight on one foot

a printmaking method in which line is drawn with a sharp pointed tool, creating burrs on the printing plate

Pigment mixed with melted wax and resin, then applied to a surface while hot

the technique of painting into freshly laid plaster

a watercolor medium made more brilliant by the addition of finely ground white pigment

the decoration of manuscript pages, often with gold leaf and brilliant colors

the thick, textured build-up of a picture's surface through repeated applications of paint

Damp paper pressed into the inked etched or engraved lines of a metal printing plate

a soft, smoky, hazy appearance with blurred images

mixture of glue, whiting, and water used as an undercoat for a painting

added to acrylic paint as an extender for thick, transparent glazes; increases gloss and handling time

a first firing of clay without glazes

low-fire pottery, usually red or tan

clay in unfired state

firing with insufficient oxygen, causes interesting color changes in glazes

scratching designs through colored slip to reveal the body color

clay diluted with water to the consistency of cream; used for joining or as an engobe

the application of melted wax to the foot or body of a clay object to resist glaze

mixture of clay and glaze with a specific, predetermined melting point; used in firing

a flat plaster of Paris block for drying clay

the principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath

Icocephaly

Croquis

Tessera

esquisse

traditional sizing for fabric support on panels

What movement: Gainsborough

A method of etching that relies on flecks of material such as sprinkled powdered resin or spraypaint; used to prevent acid from eating certain areas

printing process that creates prints when a greasy crayon is used to draw an image or design on a stone which is then wet with water and inked by a roller

Used natural color, stippled with white

Calder did what type of sculpture?

What would you mix acrylic paint with to make a glaze?

Two secondary colors mixed together make...

Sculpture

What type of architecture was used to build Stonehenge?

Who was known for painting large-scale passport photos of friends?

What would not be seen in a typical western watercolor?

Mexican Diego Rivera was known for painting what?

What can be added to Plaster of Paris to reduce density?

Which building was the start of the Baroque period?

Benin sculpture is in what medium?

Charcoal pens are made of what?

The Hagia Sophia's large interior space is possible via what type of architectural feature?

Who created the first bronze statue since Roman times?

David: What movement?

What era was characterized by these words: heroic, turbulent, poetic

even heat distribution, durable, cut resistant