Art History

Describing a shift in the 1950s, where the simple artwork is left with the elements of art.

This art movement describes nonrepresentational or non-naturalistic forms of expression.

This Post-Renaissance movement paintings were based on classical themes and heroic ideals. 

Monasteries during this time period were art centers since they copied the Bible by hand.

The flying buttresses and gargoyles on the Notre Dame Cathedral is an example of this art.

This Post-Renaissance movement's use of light and multi-curved forms to create the composition.

When an artwork has no recognizable object or subject, and no reference to the natural world.

This art movement tried tohave paintings suggest multiple senses, such as showing motion.

Digital art created from the computer beginning from the mid-1950s to the present.

An art movement in which the abstracted image is represented by fragmented, geometric shapes.

This culture's pottery vessels were used and depicted scenes from their daily life.

A French method of painting where small dots of complementary colors were applied side by side.

This culture had religious stone temples decorated with symbols of their sun god. 

This Post-Renaissance movement paintings depicted everyday life of workers and peasants.

In the early 1900s this movement painted city street life (saloons, alleys, fights, and slums).

This post WWII art movement was concerned with optical illusions achieved by patterned shapes.

Arabesques and geometric designs are found in the architecture and rugs of this culture.

Purpose of "new art" was to modernize design, inspired by both organic and geometric forms.

The concept or idea behind an artwork is the real art, and the process is documented by photos.

The ___, or “rebirth”, in Italy marked achievements in art such as Perspective and Chiaroscuro.

This art movement draw ideas from psychology and the supernatural, to create dreamlike images.

The pre-historic Australian art made 32,000 years ago, and describes a creation story. 

Fresco mural paintings, public statues, and architecture were the art forms of this culture.

Paintings in this movement resembled impressionists in the use of bright colors plus feelings. 

Artists were known for their painted scrolls, lacquered wood carvings, and painted screens.

Found in France in 1940, contains 600+ animal paintings, and relates to hunting-magic ritual.

The purpose of this movement was to paint light off of surfaces by using short brush strokes.

This Native American culture was known for their wooden totem poles and canoes.

A comment on the contemporary, natural environment and on commercialaspects of our pop culture.

The tympanum found on churches and castles were a trademark of this time period.

Art was used for funerary purposes and the afterlife, and were limited to 6 colors.

Ceremonial masks, wooden figures, and bronze sculptures were art that were part of daily life.

This Post-Renaissance movement was decorative, ornamental, and rich in composition.

Characterizedby multicolored paint and expressiveabstract forms done quickly and spontaneously.

Bronze sculptures, gardens, calligraphy, and ceramic porcelains are art known of this culture.

This movement emphasized portraying what the artists felt, rather than what they viewed.

Artists from this movement painted everyday life during the Depression in the Midwest.

This pre-abstract art movement uses intense color to describe light, space, and the mood.

This Post-Renaissance movement paintings had dramatic action, energy and movement.

Sculptures, carvings, and temples reflect Buddhist beliefs of rebirth for this ancient culture.