KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Guide to Art History |
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KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Guide to Art History follows the development of painting, sculpture, architecture, and more by the greatest artists of the world. Whether you're a student, game show contestant, or curious art connoisseur, you'll find the answers to your art history questions in these pages. Meet the artists, sculptors, and architects whose works have potrayed and made history. Discover museums, galleries, and movements.
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Art History: Art in the History of the Greeks.
Most notable of the Greek artistic achievements were the temples, identified by "architectural
order" as either Doric, Ionic, or...?
— Corinthian.
Art History: Sculptors: Art from Stone.
Lord Elgin gave his name to the group of sculptures he took to London from the...?
— Parthenon.
The Minuteman statue, his first, led to many commissions, including the heroic figure of
Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial.
— Daniel Chester French.
Art History: Brush-on Artists.
What artist painted The Night Café? (He painted Starry Night while in an asylum in France and is said
to have sold only one picture, The Potato Eaters, in his lifetime.)
— Vincent Van Gogh. Six months after his 1890 suicide, his devoted brother Theo, who often
supported him, died.
In the history of art, Homer is famous for seascapes and Sargent is famous for portraits, John Constable is known
for... ?
— Landscapes.
The Netherlands produced Northern Europe's major painters of the Late Renaissance. This
master explored moral choices with his Land of Cockayne, depicting men who have become
slaves to their appetites. In 1565, he showed man's relations to the seasons in his The Return of
the Hunters.
— Peter Bruegel the Elder.
Art History: A Question of Artistic Technique.
Aquarelle is another name for...?
— Watercolor.
Historically, mother-of-pearl was often used to decorate this tough material of paper pulp, in Victorian times.
— Papier-mâché.
Art History: Realism and Impressionism as Movements in the History of Art.
In a denouncement of Romanticism, artist Gustave Courbet condemned the use of art subjects drawn
from history, mythology, and religion, saying, "I cannot paint an angel because I have never seen
one." In 1849, he put his feelings on canvas with The Stone Breakers, showing two men working
on a road. The style was...?
— Realism.
Artists Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins were outstanding among American Impressionists. This
Paris-trained American painted "decorative" pictures, and was accused by British critic John
Ruskin of "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face."
— James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
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Table of Contents
Art in the Old Stone Age |
5 |
The Greeks |
7 |
The Romans |
10 |
Middle Ages |
11 |
The Renaissance |
13 |
The Baroque |
18 |
Rococo |
20 |
Art in the Modern World |
21 |
Realism and Impressionism |
23 |
The Revolt Against Realism— Post-Impressionism and The Fauves |
26 |
Other Schools and Styles |
29 |
Modern Architecture |
33 |
Photography: Art through Technology |
36 |
Artists in Books and Movies |
39 |
A Question of Technique |
40 |
Artists and Their Works |
42 |
Museums and Galleries |
50 |
Sculptors |
54 |
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World |
57 |
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