Art History

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Characterizedby multicolored paint and expressiveabstract forms done quickly and spontaneously.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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