Art App Quiz

• Rococo


  An art style stressing free, graceful movement; a playful use of line; and bright color
• Rocaille


  A French word for a decorative rocks and shells seen on grottoes and fountains in grand garden
• Rococo paintings


  • The Swing by Jean-Honore Fragonard
  • Marie Antoinette with a Rose by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun
• Neoclassic art


  An art style that borrowed from the early classical period of ancient Greece and Rome
• Neoclassic art


  • Artist of the day believed these events were equal and important to the rise and fall of Ancient Greece and Rome
  • They chose to show the events using an updated version of the styles of ancient Greece and Rome
• Neoclassic artists


  • Jacques-Louis David
• Salon


  An annual exhibition of art in Paris and London during the 1800s, a major social event where an artist's reputation often depended on whether their work was selected for showing
• Realism


  A style adopted by a group of artists in France who chose to represent contemporary subjects in realistic ways
• Trompe L'oeil


  A French word for something that fools the eye, a technique used extensively in wall paintings from the 15th century to create imitation architectural details
• En Plein Air


  A method of painting a scene directly onto the canvas in the open air, strongly associated with the impressionists
• Impressionist paintings


  • Poplars on the Epte
  • Star Starry Night
  • Woman with a Parasol
  • San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk
• Impressionism


  • The painting that gave Impressionism its name was the work of one of the movement's founders, Claude Monet
  • They will give the painting a sparkle and brilliance to match that of the sun
• Impressionist artists

  • Claude Monet
  • Pierre Auguste Renoir
• Fauvism


  An art movement in which artists used wild, intense color combinations in their paintings
• Fauvist paintings


  • Woman with a Hat by Henri Matisse
  • Le bonheur de vivre by Henri Matisse
• Fauvism


  • The most striking features of the works were their raw, sizzling colors
  • No effort had been made to paint realistic pictures
  • The artist's goal was to express their feelings through sharply contrasting colors and heavy outlines
• Cubism


  A style in which objects are shown from several different angles at once, based on Cezanne's notion that all forms in nature are made up of three shapes: the sphere, cone, and cylinder
• Cubist paintings


  • Houses at L'Estaque by Braque
  • Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Picasso
• Dada


  An anarchistic reaction to avant-garde idealism and the horror of war, founded on the belief that Western culture had lost its meaning
• Dada artworks


  • Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
  • L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp
• Surrealism

  A movement that proved the unconscious world of dreams for ideas, touched off by the works of Giorgio de Chirico
• Surrealist paintings

  • Pray For Rain Canvas
  • Chiki Ton Pays
• Abstract Expressionism


  An art style where paint was dribbled, spilled, or splashed onto huge canvases to express painting as an action, rejecting the use of subject matter
• Abstract Expressionism


  • The act of painting was so tied to their work that the Abstract Expressionists became labeled "action painters"
• Baroque


  Inspired in religion, over decorative
• Rococo


  Inspired in nature (floral), focused on royalties or aristocrats, plain
• Rococo artist


  • Jean-Antoine Watteau
• Neoclassical art


  Inspired by Greece (Greek) and Rome (Roman) art, revival
• Types of column


  • Doric
  • Ionic
  • Corinthian
• Neoclassical artist


  • Jacques Louis David
• Louis XIV


  Remembered for the flourishing of France
• Louis XVI


  Remembered for the downfall of France
• The Salon


  Chosen arts, in Paris and London in France
• Realism


  Contemporary (recorded in real time) subjects, subjects exist in the real world
• Trompe L'oeil


  French word for "something that fools the eyes", 4D or optical illusion art, realism in France
• Impressionist Painting


  En Plein Air (paintings done outdoors), paintings rejected in The Salon, art hung in a studio
• Impressionism


  Art that looks unfinished or not very realistic
• Impressionist artists


  • Claude Monet (focus on environment and color matching the sun)
  • Auguste Renoir (focus on portraits and people)
• American Painting in the 1800s

  Realism, focused on the daily lives of the people
• American artist


  • Thomas Eakins