Art History

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

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

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

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

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

Characterizedby multicolored paint and expressiveabstract forms done quickly and spontaneously.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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's use of light and multi-curved forms to create the composition.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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