PowerPoint Vocabulary Quiz
Period 4.5
16._____________________ - a very lasting method of wallpainting using watercolors on wet plaster
17.___________________ - current or belonging to the same period of time. Usually refers to
our present time, but can refer to two artists working during the same time period.
18._____________________ – An art movement and style of painting that started in France
during the 1860s. Impressionist artists tried to paint subjects showing the effects of sunlight on
things at different times of day giving the “impression” of the scene.
19.______________________ – a picture that shows a natural scene of the land or countryside.
20.____________________ – a pleasing arrangement of objects on the page that
considers the elements and principles of design.
21._______________________ – A large design or picture, most commonly created on the wall
of a public building.
22._______________________ – Art style where objects are broken apart and reassembled
showing multiple viewpoints; for example, from the front and the side at the same time.
23._______________________ - a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color
are applied in patterns to form an image.
24._______________________ - A twentieth century art movement where the images are as
confusing and startling as those of dreams. Surrealist works can have a realistic, though
irrational style, precisely describing dreamlike fantasies procedure of "free association" as a
means to eliminate conscious control in order to express the workings of the unconscious mind.
25.______________________ – a revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning
that originated in Italy in the 14th century marking the transition from medieval to modern times.
There were great advances in art and science.
26.________________________ - An art movement that had its origins in England in the 1950s
and made its way to the United States during the 1960s. Pop artists focused attention on
familiar images in popular culture such as celebrities, comic strips, magazine ads and
supermarket products.
27._________________________ – A collection of shapes that fit together to cover a surface
without overlapping or leaving gaps. Often a repeating geometric pattern.
28._______________________ – three-dimensional works of art. Works may be carved,
modeled, constructed, or cast. Sculptures may be either assemblage or relief and made in a
large variety of media.
29.__________________________ - Art that is or has been installed or arranged in a specific place.
Installations may be temporary or permanent, but most will be known in the future through
documentation.
30.____________________________ – French for “fool the eye”, extremely realistic images that create
an optical illusion of three dimensionality.
Powerpoint Artists Quiz
Period 4/5
Name: ______________
1.________________________ – American installation artist who creates room sized
artworks in bright colors that she photographs with live actors.
2. ________________________ - One of the first Impressionist painters best known for
painting water lilies and using his own garden as inspiration.
3._________________________ – Spanish painter credited with inventing Cubism. He
had a Blue Period and a Rose Period.
4._________________________ – Pop artist who made multiple prints of celebrities
and products to comment on popular culture.
5._________________________ – American painter who portrayed everyday American
life, the four freedoms and covers for Look magazine.
6._________________________ - – Italian Renaissance painter and inventor whose
two most well -known works are Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
7._________________________ – American painter known for abstracting and
enlarging flowers, skulls and scenes of the southwestern United States.
8._________________________ - 20th and 21st century American glass blower who
works in Seattle and has had many exhibitions in Columbus. He is known for his giant
chandeliers.
9._________________________ – Mexican mural painter who portrayed his culture
and labor struggles.
10.________________________ – Dutch painter and Post-Impressionist who painted
Starry Night and cut off part of his ear
11.________________________ – created impossible structures, illusions and
tessellations, usually as linoleum, woodcuts or lithograph (stone) prints.
12.________________________ – Mexican painter who did many self-portraits after a
terrible bus accident. She had a “unibrow.”
13.________________________ – Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor most wellknown for the Sistine Chapel ceiling, The David statue and various pietas.
14.________________________ – Chinese-American architect who designed the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame.
15.________________________ – Fiber artist who made large scale narrative quilts
about her life.
Word Bank
Period 4/5
Artists
Dale Chihuly
M.C. Escher
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Georgia O’Keeffe
Faith Ringgold
Claude Monet
I.M.Pei
Pablo Picasso
Diego Rivera
Sandy Skoglund
Norman Rockwell
Vincent Van Gogh
composition
fresco
Andy Warhol
contemporary
Cubism
Impressionism
landscape
mural
Renaissance
sculpture
Installation Art
Pointillism
Pop Art
Surrealism
tromp l’oeil
Tessellation
Word Bank
Frida Kahlo
Period 4/5
Artists
Dale Chihuly
M.C. Escher
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Georgia O’Keeffe
Faith Ringgold
Claude Monet
I.M.Pei
Pablo Picasso
Diego Rivera
Sandy Skoglund
Norman Rockwell
Vincent Van Gogh
composition
fresco
Frida Kahlo
Andy Warhol
contemporary
Cubism
Impressionism
landscape
mural
Renaissance
sculpture
Tessellation
Installation Art
Pointillism
Surrealism
tromp l’oeil
Pop Art