Matching - Artists and their time period/movement Quiz

Answer: Poussin

Baroque art can be classifed by three words, time, light, and space. Artists of the seventeenth century sought to capture a moment in time, and thus paintings, sculptures, and such look as though they are in motion. Light refers to two main Baroque artists - Rembrandt and Vermeer - as well as other things.

In Rembrandt's paintings, the light referred to salvation. In Vermeer's, it was the natural light provided by the sun or a lamp or whatnot. The Baroque period is also defined by passion v. reason.

The two main artists who were opposites in this time period were Rubens and Poussin. Rubens' work is passion, and Poussin's is reason. Rubens manipulated color in his work and his people are rather fleshy. Poussin used reason and nature to help viewers understand his work.

Henri Fuseli comes later, and he's famous for the painting called "The Nightmare." Miguel de Cervantes was the author of "Don Quixote," and Salvador Dali was a twentieth century Surrealist painter whose best known for "The Persistence of Memory."

Answer: proto-Renaissance

Donatello is famous for his statue of David, which was the first free-standing nude since antiquity. He also made a figure known as Zuccone ("pumkin-head"), which rests high up on Florence Cathedral.

Answer: Le Corbusier

The International Style follows the machine aesthetic, or the beauty of machines. Some of Le Courbusier's most famous building's are Domino House and Notre Dame de Haut. Frank Lloyd Wright was opposed to Le Courbusier, and his prestige comes from his Usonian homes, and his belief that "the hearth was the heart of the home."

Answer: Fauvism

Fauvism comes from a French word meaning "wild beast." The movement's original teacher was Gustave Moreau. Fauvists used bright, vivid colors, usually unnatural, and complementary colors to contrast.

Henri Matisse's "The Red Room" was originally blue, before he painted it green, and then finally chose the crimson hue that gave it its name.

Another well-known Fauvist is Andre Derain.

Answer: Georges Braque

Georges Braque is not as prestigious as Pablo Picasso, though they were contemporaries and worked together to develop Cubism.

Max Beckmann was an Expressionist, known for being a member of the group called Neue Sachlichkliet, or New Objectivity. His paintings reveal how the artist felt in regard to all the turmoil in Europe during the first World War.

Speaking of war, George Grosz is remember for his cartoons that ridiculed the war, including a sketch of a doctor giving a skeleton the A-OK to enter the war and fight for his country.

El Greco was a painter from the Spanish Renaissance. His painting "The Burial of Count Orgaz" shows the count's soul rising to heaven while his body is being placed in his coffin. It is a Catholic painting, with the Virgin Mary and other insignia.

Answer: Jean-Honore Fragonard

Jean-Honore Fragonard was taught by Chardin, a painter whose works try to teach morals.

The Rococo period occured during the eighteenth century in France, and was full of ludicrous sensuality and frivolity. The inside of Rococo buildings are very ornate, with gold gilding and many ostentatious decorations.

Elizabeth Louise-Vigee Lebrun was a contemporary of Fragonard's, but she was more of a naturalist painter than a Rococo one. She did some self-portraits, as well as some of Queen Marie Antoinette.

Louis Valtat was yet another Fauvist.

Vincent Van Gogh was a Post-Impressionist. He is a household name and his works were at times the most expensive paintings ever sold.

Answer: Paul Cezanne

There are four major Post-Impressionists: Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, and Georges Seurat.

Paul Cezanne was called the father of Cubism, as his works influenced Picasso. His paintings are very abstract. He desired to take what he depicted down to basic shapes: cones, circles, trapezoids, rectangles, all of that.

Mary Cassatt was a female Impressionist. Her works show home life and the "cult of domesticity." One of her paintings is of a mother giving her daughter a bath.

Kirchner was a German Expressionist. He did some paintings of streets in Berlin, and others.

Artemisia Gentileschi was a Baroque artist. She is known for her Night Paintings (influenced by Caravaggio) of Judith beheading Holnofernes, an Apocryphal myth.

Answer: Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp was a leading figure of the Dada movement. His works include a urinal and a coal shovel. He also did a painting, "Nude Descending the Staircase" and others.

The Dada-movement was anti-reason. The goal of a Dada artist was to addle the brains of the viewer. Most Dada works are not aesthetic; they lack beauty and sometimes even seem to not be art at all.

Georges de la Tour was an artist from the Baroque period. In Dan Brown's novel, "The Da Vinci Code," a de la Tour painting was mentioned: "The Penitent Magdalene." It's seen on the Disney movie "The Little Mermaid."

Peter Paul Rubens was yet another Baroque artist. His people are very fleshy, and from him we get the term, 'Rubenesque.' He's also known for his vibrant colors.

Paul Klee was a twentieth century Abstract Expressionist. He did a watercolor called "The Twittering Machine" and another called "Embrace."

Answer: R. Mutt

"Fountain" is a urinal Marcel Duchamp found in a store and turned sideways.

The artwork was attacked in January 2006 by a 77-year-old.

R Mutt is a fictitious name. It could be a reference to a vendor, Mott, or a comic strip called "Mutt and Jeff."

L.H.O.O.Q. is an imitation of the Mona Lisa, with a moustache.

Rube Golberg was a cartoonist whose characters created complex machines to perform simple tasks.

Answer: fifteenth century

The Limbourg brothers are remembered for their Book of Hours, which ran by the month. Each alternative month showed a scene from either the nobility or the peasantry. For instance, May showed royalty, and June shows the proletariat, busy at their deeds.