1. An easy one to start. Monet was the leader of the ___________? One word.
Answer: Impressionists
The Impressionists were concerned with the effects of light. They used discontinuous strokes of color, which were to be combined by the eye.
2. Matisse
Answer: Les Fauves
Les Fauves took great liberty with color and form, critics labeled them the 'Wild Beasts' (les fauves).
3. Titian
Answer: Venetian School
The Venetian artists of the 16th century were know for the rich glowing tones of their paintings.
4. Marcel Duchamp
Answer: Dada
The Dada creed was 'everything the artist spits is art'. Some of it was pretty strange.
5. Kandinsky
Answer: der Blaue Reiter
Der Blaue Reiter( the Blue Rider) were a group of German artists who created an abstract variety of expressionism in the early 20th century.
6. Picasso
Answer: Cubism
The Cubists abandoned the traditional conventions of perspective, space and construction.
7. Gustave Courbet
Answer: Realists
The Realists, in the 19th century, pictured life as they saw it, in all its harsh realities.
8. Jean Honore Fragonard
Answer: Rococo
Rococo was popular in France during the reign of Louis XV. The artists usually depicted playful pastoral scenes.
9. Theodore Rousseau
Answer: Barbizon School
A group of French painters, in the mid 19th century, left Paris to paint in the forest of Fontainebleau. They became known by the name of a near-by town, Barbizon.
10. Salvador Dali
Answer: Surrealists
Surrealism was an art movement that started in the 1920's, the artists attempted to give free rein to the subconscious.
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