Database Learning Activity:
Art through Time
1. Please write which three sets of artists’ works were made during the same
year. In order to find this information in our database, please sort the
information by circa (either ascending or descending) and tell me which
pairs match the criteria.
ANSWER: Edgar Degas’ The Singer in Green and Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on
the Grande Jatte were made in 1884. Mary Cassatt’s The Child’s Bath and Edvard
Munch’s Starry Night were made in 1893. Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss and Claude
Monet’s Water Lillies were made in 1907.
2. How many works of art from the database are displayed at the Museum of
Fine Art in Houston, Texas? Which museum/display has the most works of
art categorized in the database? To find this information, sort the museum
column.
ANSWER: Three works of art (from the database) are displayed at the Museum of
Fine Art in Houston, Texas. The museum with the most works of art listed in the
database is the Art Institute of Chicago with five.
3. How many art museums are found in New York City, New York? To find this
information, filter the Location Displayed column for only New York City.
ANSWER: There are three museums found in New York City. There is the
Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern
Art.
4. According to the hyperlink found embedded in the Vatican Museum, what
are the four central stories available for close-up perusal on the Ceiling of
the Sistine Chapel? To find this information, filter for only Vatican Museum
in the Museum column. Then follow the hyperlink and read the information.
ANSWER: The Flood, Original Sin and Banishment from the Garden of Eden,
Creation of Adam, and Creation of the sun, moon, and planets.
5. Georges Seurat rendered his artistic subject by creating small, precise
brushstrokes of different colors in close proximity to one another to create
a blended appearance at a distance. What did critics name this new
technique? To find this information, follow the hyperlink associated with
George Suerat’s work A Sunday on Le Grande Jatte.
ANSWER: Critics named this technique Divisionism, or Pointillism.
6. What materials were used to make Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss? To find this
information, follow the hyperlink associated with this work.
ANSWER: The Kiss was made with oil paints, and with silver- and gold-leaf on
canvas measuring 180x180 cm.
7. Name three oil on canvas works of art by Georgia O’Keefe on permanent
display at the Georgia O’Keefe Museum in New Mexico. To find this
information, follow the link associated with Georgia O’Keefe’s Belladonna
in the database. It is not necessary to go to any other pages besides the
one provided in the database.
ANSWER: Any of these answers are acceptable: Series I – From the Plains, Untitled
(Red and Yellow Cliffs), My Last Door, Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico/Out
Back of Marie’s III, and Corn No. 2. The only answer that is not acceptable is
Untitled (Two Pears) as it is an oil painting on board.
8. Which three artists are still living and what are their major works of art
listed in the database. To find this information, filter the Died column for
only (-) which represents an unknown future date.
ANSWER: Frank Stella (Harran II), Robert Rauschenberg (Bed), and Andrew Wyeth
(Winter) are still alive.
9. Fill in the blanks from this sentence in the short biography of Wasily
Kandinsky (whose major work was Improvisation 30). To find this
information, follow the hyperlink associated with Kandinsky and his work.
Here’s the sentence: War themes were prevalent in many works of the
_____________ movement, usually in a more ___________ style.
ANSWER: First blank: German Expressionist Second blank: representational
10. Two artists share the last name Stella. What are their first names and major
works? In order to find this information, custom filter the database for
“ends with” Stella.
ANSWER: The two artists are Frank Stella (Hallan II) and Joseph Stella (Water
Lilly).