'H'ighly 'I'nfluential Art Terms Quiz

Answer: Happenings

Kaprow viewed the Happenings movement as a combination of assemblage and environment art. Related to performance art and theater, the artist frequently interacted with his or her own art piece and sometimes played a part within it. Other adherents included Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg and the composer John Cage.

Answer: Australia

As strange as it may seem, the Heidelberg School was one of the most prominent schools of art in Australia's short history. It took its name from a painting camp at Eaglemont in Heidelberg, Victoria. A short-lived but influential school, the Heidelberg painters followed a similar philosophy as the Impressionists, but made their work distinctively Australian.

Answer: Horizon

Naturally, a horizon-line would only be applicable with a perpective painting...it's where the sky and Earth appear to meet on a painting. The vanishing point normally would fall at or near the center of the painting.

Answer: 1495-1520

During the so-called 'High Renaissance' artists such as Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael flourished...it was the climactic period of Renaissance art. I must say though that this period gets entirely too much attention, naturally based on the fact that the three artists mentioned above worked during that short time. Great artists were active during the entire Renaissance period!

Answer: Hatching

Hatching, a simple way of creating tone in an artistic work, is also called 'hachure' (French term). Cross-hatching is a technique of creating even deeper tone by crossing previous hatching at a differing angle.

Answer: Intonaco

This somewhat thick (approx. 1/8 in.) layer is put on fresh and moist, and pigments must be applied immediately, before the lime gets dry and begins to crust up.

Answer: Icon

The original Greek term is 'eikon' which means 'likeness', and serves to describe the many religious portraits created between the 9th and 15th centuries in the Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox sphere.

Answer: Monet

Monet's painting 'Impression, Sunrise' got the honor of receiving special attention from art critic Louis Leroy, who wrote a satirical article about the exhibit, focusing specific attention on the term 'Impression'. Little did he realize he was helping bolster the launch of the most revolutionary art movement since the beginning of the Renaissance!

Answer: Impasto

Titian is credited with inventing the impasto technique and it has been used by hundreds of great artists ever since, perhaps most adeptly by Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

Answer: False

In fact, India ink, also known as Chinese Ink, originated in China where it has been used for centuries in calligraphy scroll-works. It came to be known as 'India Ink' only because the pigments used to create the ink once it arrived in the West were acquired from India. Next up...a combination of the letters 'J', 'K' and 'L'. See you there and thanks for playing!