Identify the movement in art that swept across France during the 1860s as a reaction against Romanticism. Members of this movement were Degas, Monet and Renoir.

Edgar Degas is usually associated with what nationalistic and artistic movement?

Name the type of 19th century French painting characterized by analytical observation of nature and rendering of transitory visual impressions with an emphasis on light. Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro practiced this art style.

Which 19th Century art movement is associated with painters such as Pierre Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet?

Name the post-World War I literary and artistic movement which sought a reality through the expression of subconscious thought and feeling. Salvador Dalí is a famous artist of this movement.

Identify the art form that emerged between World War One and World War Two in which dreams and fantasy are explored.

An art movement that flourished in the early 1900s developed in reaction to impressionism. Van Gogh's painting "The Starry Night" is a good example of this art form. Name it.

Name the style of 20th century painting in which the artist distorts form, color and space in order to destroy external reality and reach for truth or emotional essence. Hyman Bloom and Karl Zerbe were prominent in the "Boston" version of this style.

Give the term for the work of certain painters whose styles, though dissimilar, flowed from Impressionism. Seurat, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin were the principal artists.

Paul Cezanne was the spiritual father of what 20th century artistic movement further developed by Picasso, Gris and Braque?

What art movement was influenced by primitive African tribal masks and the still lifes and landscapes of Paul Cezanne and the art of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso?

What name, taken from the Portuguese word for grotesque or irregular, is applied to the dynamic and expressive art style that dominated European art 1600–1750?

What style of music and art was common in Europe from the late 1500s to about 1750, following the Renaissance? This period featured elaborate ornamentation on a grand scale. This style includes works from Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and Rembrandt.

This artistic style's key artists included Hans Arp, Max Ernst, and Marcel Duchamp. What is this style of art that has a name meaning "hobby-horse" in French?

Jean Arp and Marcel Duchamp were associated with an art protest movement which ridiculed the idea that art was something profound. Name it.

In the 1950s and 1960s, a number of artists became interested in the images of mass media, advertising, comics and consumer products. This style of art was in direct contrast to abstract painting. Name this style of art.

Identify the American art movement that arose in the 1950s in opposition to seriousness in art. Andy Warhol was its most famous practitioner.

This group of artists flourished in the early 20th century and were closely associated with Henri Matisse. What name was given to this group that included Braque and Rouault?

Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, and Maurice Vlaminck were among the first painters in what post‑impressionist style?

What term beginning with the letter M is applied to art subjects that represent death figures and dances which represent death?

It comes from the Latin word for "emptiness." What is the name for a painting that reminds the viewer of the emptiness and meaninglessness of his or her own life, and often incorporates reminders that the viewer will eventually die?

What is the three‑syllable word that deals with the philosophy of beauty and is especially concerned with the standards of value in art?

Identify the French term beginning with the letter A that refers to experimental, usually unconventional and highly innovative, works in the arts.

The term "classical" usually refers to the art of what two ancient civilizations?

Identify the Renaissance artist known for the use of graceful, rhythmic lines evident in such works as La Primavera and The Birth of Venus.

Who was the 15th–16th century Florentine painter who depicted both religious and mythological subjects in a decorative style of linear design in such works as The Birth of Venus?

Identify the Russian‑born 20th‑century American artist who in the 1950s began assemblages of "found" objects usually sprayed black or gold; her works include Sky Cathedral and Transparent Horizon.

With what genre of art is Russian‑born American artist Louise Nevelson most closely associated? One of her works is displayed in the Kentucky Center for the Arts.

Who was the German‑American architect and director of the Bauhaus who perfected the simple, unornamented skyscraper, including the American Life Building in Louisville?

Mies van der Rohe was the director of this architectural school from 1930 until its closing in 1933. What is this German architectural movement, first led by Walter Gropius?

This artist equated herself with Saint Sebastian and Christ in the self‑portrait The Broken Column. She also created self‑portraits with Cropped Hair and with Thorn Necklace, as well as with her pet monkey Fulang‑Chang. Name the artist of What the Water Gave Me and My Birth.

Identify the Mexican artist, wife of painter Diego Rivera, about whom the movie Frida was made.

What Mexican muralist was married to Frida Kahlo?

The mural at Rockefeller Center in New York was destroyed by its sponsors because it contained a portrait of Lenin. Who was the controversial Mexican artist who painted it in 1933?

He devoted himself to painting both the altar and ceiling of the Chapel at Saint Peter’s in Rome between 1508 and 1512. Name him.

From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the “women come and go, talking of” what famous artist?

This artist spent much of her career in France where she associated with the French Impressionist Edgar Degas. Name this American artist best known for her paintings of mothers and children.

Give the first and last names of the female artist born in 1844 who is credited with helping to bring Impressionism to the United States during the late 19th century.

Identify the 20th‑century Surrealist artist whose drawings and paintings are often featured with melting clocks.

Identify the 20th‑century artist, a leader of the Surrealist movement, who created The Persistence of Memory.

Identify the French Romantic painter who is best remembered for such provocatively nationalistic works as Liberty Leading the People.

What French artist painted Massacre at Chios and Liberty Leading the People?

Name the French Impressionist painter who used vibrant, luminous colors in his scenes of Parisian life in such works as Young Girl Combing Her Hair and Luncheon of the Boating Party.

Identify the Impressionist artist who was best‑loved for his subjects—children, flowers, and lovely full‑figured women—especially female nudes set in rich landscapes, such as in his After the Bath.

Identify the 19th‑century Dutch Post‑Impressionist painter and son of a Protestant minister, whose work reflected his early theological training and experience as a minister. One of his works is entitled Starry Night.

Lust for Life is the story of this artist’s life. Name the artist who painted Sunflowers.

Identify the 18th–19th century American artist best known for his color and psychological insight in more than 1000 portraits, especially those of George Washington.

What celebrated 17th‑century Spanish painter, a long‑time employee of the royal court, is best remembered for his painting Las Meninas?

Diego Velázquez depicted himself painting in the background of this masterpiece focused on the Infanta Margarita and her retinue. Name the work.

Name the foremost Flemish artist of the seventeenth century, whose works included paintings depicting the life of Marie de Medici and such joyous works as Venus and Adonis.

This artist, known as "The Father of Flemish Painting," established a style of portrait painting that was a standard for centuries. He painted Adoration of the Lamb. Identify him.

What Flemish artist collaborated with his brother to paint an altarpiece, but is more famous for one of the first oil paintings depicting a man and his bride with their hands clasped? Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece and The Arnolfini Wedding?

Identify the Northern Renaissance artist who was a master woodcutter and engraver. His works include Praying Hands, Apocalypse, and The Knight, Death, and the Devil.

Name the 15th–16th century painter regarded as the most influential artist of the German School; his works include the series Apocalypse and St. Jerome in His Cell.

Who was the artist credited with painting Arrangement in Grey and Black, otherwise known as The Artist’s Mother?

This American‑born, French‑educated artist produced most of his works in shades of black and white. Name the artist of The White Girl and Arrangement in Grey and Black.

Name the Chinese‑American architect famous for his glass pyramid designs for the Louvre and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Name the sculptor of the following works produced in the late 1800s: The Burghers of Calais, Cupid and Psyche, and The Thinker.

Identify the 20th‑century Japanese‑American abstract architect and sculptor, who has won international acclaim and designed the UNESCO garden in Paris.

What American painter of the early 1800s founded the Hudson River School of landscape painting?

This American primitive painter depicted life, seasons, landscapes, and people of New England very simply. Give the common name for this artist who began her career when she was eighty years old.

In Sandro Botticelli’s famous 1480 painting Birth of Venus, in what is Venus standing?

This painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli is also known as Allegory of Spring. He painted this tempera panel painting in 1482. Name the painting that depicts a group of mythological figures in a garden.

Name the collection of ancient Greek sculptures that includes 56 pieces from the frieze of the Parthenon believed to be the work of Phidias. They were brought to Britain between 1801 and 1805 by Thomas Bruce.

What painting material is made by taking a pigment, dissolving it in water, and mixing it with an albuminous or colloidal medium?

Egg yolk serves as a common binder for what paint medium?

What is the Greek word for an image used specifically for panel paintings and mosaics made under the influence of the Greek Orthodox Church?

What is the two-syllable term used in art for a pointed instrument used to engrave into a softer surface?

What is the general art form in which designs or pictures are cut into plates or blocks?

This type of paint lies flat on a paper's or canvas's surface instead of becoming enmeshed in its fiber. Its name is a French word derived from the Italian for "puddle." Give the word for watercolors made opaque by mixture with a white pigment like gum arabic.

What type of painting is largely known for its depictions of inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects such as a vase of flowers or a bowl of fruit?

What three-letter art term designates a particular shade or tint of a given color?

A darker shade of color is produced by adding what pigment?

Translations of this Italian word include "dough," "kneading," "paste," and "mixture." It allows brushstrokes and palette knife marks to remain visible. What is this technique of thickly laying paint onto a surface?

Perhaps the most famous example of this illusionistic painting technique occurs in Mantegna's The Lamentation over the Dead Christ. It uses the rules of perspective—specifically, linear perspective—to distort or reduce the parts of an object that aren't parallel to the picture plane. Give the word for this technique of replicating three-dimensional volume in a two-dimensional artwork.

What is the term for a painting technique in which tiny dots of color are juxtaposed on a canvas to build up the form, a technique developed by Seurat and Signac?

A single image formed from the assembling of several drawings or photographs is called a what?

This Italian word means "mercy" or "pity." It is the title of the only sculpture Michelangelo ever signed. What is the word for a representation of the Virgin Mary holding Christ's dead body?

What is the name of a sculpture, depicting grotesque human or animal shapes, that is commonly found on Gothic cathedrals?

Identify the 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter and son of a Protestant minister, whose work reflected his early theological training and experience as a minister. One of his works is entitled "Starry Night."

THE NIGHT CAFE AND PORTRAIT OF DR. GACHET are among some of his most famous paintings. Name the Dutch postimpressionist painter of SUNFLOWERS.

Identify the French artist that is most closely associated with Arles and Expressionism. Some of his most famous works include DR. GACHET, STARRY NIGHT and SUNFLOWERS.

LUST FOR LIFE is the story of this artist's life. Name the artist who painted SUNFLOWERS.

What artist's life was immortalized by Kirk Douglas in the Irving Stone film LUST FOR LIFE?

Van Gogh's painting "The Starry Night" is a good example of this art form. Name it.

This 1888 painting was created on the cobblestoned Arles street it depicts. It contrasts the yellow exterior of a restaurant with its orange patio, white tables, and blue nocturnal sky. Give the title of this Vincent van Gogh work.

What Vincent Van Gogh painting of flowers sold for 53.9 million dollars to Alan Bond?

Give the term for the work of certain painters whose styles, though dissimilar, flowed from Impressionism. Seurat, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin were the principal artists.

Taking its name from a term used by Roger Fry to refer to a group of 19th century painters, this art movement rejected Impressionism. It included Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Picasso. Name the movement.

Which art movement is associated with such painters as Pierre Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas?

Name the French Impressionist painter who used vibrant, luminous colors in his scenes of Parisian life in such works as YOUNG GIRL COMBING HER HAIR and LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY.

Identify the Impressionist artist who was best-loved for his subjects - children, flowers and lovely full figured women, especially female nudes set in rich landscapes, such as in his AFTER THE BATH.

He painted A GIRL WITH A WATERING CAN. Identify the French artist whose painting, DANCE AT THE MOULIN DE LA GALETTE sold for an extremely high price.

This group portrait includes 14 people and a terrier. Set at the Maison Fournaise, it mixes Impressionistic and more realistic elements. Give the name of this Pierre-Auguste Renoir masterpiece.

Identify the 20th century Surrealist artist whose drawings and paintings are often featured with melting clocks.

Identify the 20th century artist, a leader of the surrealist movement, who created THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY.

Many critics have claimed a prone creature in the center of this painting was a strangely-proportioned self-portrait of its artist. Name this 1931 painting by Salvador Dali whose most recognizable objects were allegedly inspired by the sight of cheese left in the sun.

Give the title of this Salvador Dali painting sometimes nicknamed "Melting Clocks."

Name the post-World War I literary and artistic movement which sought a reality through the expression of subconscious thought and feeling. Salvador Dali is a famous artist of this movement.

He devoted himself to painting both the altar and ceiling of the Chapel at Saint Peter's in Rome between 1508 and 1512. Name him.

This Italian word means "mercy" or "pity." It is the title of the only sculpture Michelangelo ever signed. What is the word for a representation of the Virgin Mary holding Christ's dead body?

From THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK, the "women come and go, talking of" what famous artist?

It was named for Pope Sixtus the Fourth who began construction in 1473 and is used by the College of Cardinals when it meets to elect a new pope. Name this famous papal structure.

Identify the Renaissance artist whose name completes the title of the Royal British Columbia Museum's 1998 exhibit BLANK: SCIENTIST, INVENTOR, ARTIST.

The Duke of Milan commissioned it to decorate a convent's dining hall. Name this Leonardo da Vinci mural showing Christ's final meal with his disciples.

DaVinci's famous painting of the Last Supper is in the small chapel of Santa Maria delle Grazie. In what Italian city is that chapel located?

Identify the first and last name of the artist, known for his skill in reflecting sunlight on canvas. He gained success with his painting of "Camille" which now hangs in Bremen, Germany.

Give the name of the artist who painted IMPRESSION: SUNRISE and WATERLILIES.

This artist of The Thames below Westminster returned to Paris to paint Boulevard des Capucines. He centered one of his painting series on the U.K.'s Houses of Parliament and another on France's Rouen Cathedral. Who was this Impressionist painter of Haystacks?

Monet painted series of paintings of the same scene. What type of flower did he paint that were on his pond in Giverny?

Identify this French painter whose work spanned two art movements and included such pieces as OLYMPIA and LE DEJEUNER SUR L'HERBE.

Name the French artist whose paintings include OLYMPIA, BALCONY, and LUNCHEON ON THE GRASS.

The central figure resembles the champagne bottles on the counter and wears a disinterested expression which contrasts with her concerned reflection in the mirror behind her. A trapeze artist's legs can be seen dangling in which Manet masterpiece?

Identify the Mexican artist, wife of painter Diego Rivera, about whom the movie "Frida" was made.

What Mexican muralist was married to Frida Kahlo?

She also created self-portraits with Cropped Hair and with Thorn Necklace, as well as with her pet monkey Fulang-Chang. Name the artist of What the Water Gave Me and My Birth.

A self-portrait with a hummingbird was produced by Frida Kahlo near what capital city?

A museum in her honor was opened in 1997 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Give the name of the American artist known for her desert scenes and opulent flower paintings.

Which art movement is associated with such painters as Pierre Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas?

What type of dancers were most often painted by the artist Edgar Degas?

Identify the French Impressionist artist famous for his portraits, his renditions of the crowds at the racetrack and his paintings of ballerinas.

Name this Impressionist artist of The Dance Class.

Identify the Renaissance artist known for the use of graceful, rhythmic lines evident in such works as LA PRIMAVERA and THE BIRTH OF VENUS.

Identify the artist whose real name is Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi. More commonly known by his nickname, Italian for "Little Barrel," this man painted THE BIRTH OF VENUS.

In Sandro Botticelli's famous 1480 painting BIRTH OF VENUS, in what is Venus standing?

Name this painting that depicts a group of mythological figures in a garden.

Identify the Northern Renaissance artist who was a master woodcutter and engraver. His works include PRAYING HANDS, APOCALYPSE, and THE KNIGHT, DEATH, AND THE DEVIL.

Name the artist of THE WHITE GIRL, and ARRANGEMENT IN GRAY AND BLACK.

Who was the artist credited with painting "Arrangement in Grey and Black" otherwise known as "The Artist's Mother?"