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1
Q

“Abstract Painting: 1966”

A

Ad Reinhardt

American

Abstract Expressionism

(Loved painting in black)

2
Q

“Monarch of the Glen”

A

Sir Edwin Landseer

English

Animalier

3
Q

“Racing Thoughts”

A

Jasper Johns

American

Pop Art

(Includes a depiction of Mona Lisa in black in white)

4
Q

“A Bigger Grand Canyon”

A

David Hockey

English

Pop Art

5
Q

“A Burial at Ornans”

A

Gustave Courbet

French

Realism

“Shows an altar boy holding a censer near a crucifix, while a crowd listens to a priest at the artist’s grand-uncle’s funeral”

6
Q

“A Stag at Sharkey’s”

A

George Wesley Bellows

American

Ashcan

7
Q

“A Wood Gatherer”

A

Hokusai

Japanese

Ukiyo-e

8
Q

“Allegory of Good Government”

A

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Italian

Gothic

(First panoramic city and country views since antiquity)

(Located in Siena)

9
Q

“Andrea Doria as Neptune”

A

Bronzino

Italian

Mannerism

(name on wood behind him)

10
Q

“Angelus Novus”

A

Paul Klee

Swiss

Expressionism

11
Q

“Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard”

A

Fra Lippo Lippi

Italian

Early Renaissance

(shows demon chewing on chains)

12
Q

“Assumption of the Virgin”

A

Correggio

Italian

Mannerism / High Renaissance

(ceiling of the dome of the Cathedral of Parma)

13
Q

“Attic”

A

Willem de Kooning

Dutch-American

Abstract Expressionism

(Inspired by closing of Wanamaker’s Department Store)

14
Q

“Avery Fisher Hall of the Lincoln Center”

A

nyc

Max Abramovitz

American

Architecture

15
Q

“Azuma House in Osaka”

A

osaka #japan

Tadao Ando

Japanese

Architecture

16
Q

“Benefits Supervisor Sleeping”

A

Lucian Freud

British

Realism

(Sold for a record for a living artist)

(Shows really fat woman Sue Tilley nude on a couch)

17
Q

“Betrayal of Christ”

A

Giotto

Italian

Renaissance

(first true Renaissance artist)

(night scene showing mob with Judas with gold cloak)

(Man with dagger slices ear off servant)

(in the Arena Chapel)

18
Q

“Black Friday”

A

Willem de Kooning

Dutch-American

Abstract Expressionism

19
Q

“Both Members of this Club”

A

George Wesley Bellows

American

Ashcan

(A boxing match depicts a white boxer and the black fighter Joe Gans. Its title satirically refers to the practice of fighters not truly being part of private sport groups.)

20
Q

“Broken Obelisk outside Rothko Chapel”

A

houston #texas

Barnett Newman

American

Color Field Painting

21
Q

“Cain, or Hitler in Hell”

A

George Grosz

German

Dada

(Taught the Harlem Renaissance artist Romare Bearden)

22
Q

“Cestello Annunciation”

A

Sandro Botticelli

Italian

Renaissance

(boat in background)

23
Q

“Church of the Light in Ibaraki”

A

Tadao Ando

Japanese

Architecture

24
Q

“Cliff Dwellers”

A

George Wesley Bellows

American

Ashcan

(New York City)

25
Q

“Clock with Heads of Prophets in the Florence Cathedral”

A

Paolo Uccello

Italian

Early Renaissance

26
Q

“Cloud Shepherd”

A

Hans Arp

French/German

Sculpture

27
Q

“Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Change”

A

Jean Arp

French/German

Abstract

28
Q

“David H. Koch Theater of Lincoln Center”

A

nyc

Phillip Johnson

American

Architecture

29
Q

“Deer in the Forest”

A

Franz Marc

German

Blue Rider

30
Q

“Domine, quo vadis?”

A

Annibale Carracci

Italian

Baroque

31
Q

“Earthen Bound”

A

Kenneth Noland

American

Color Field

32
Q

“Elegy to the Spanish Republic”

A

Robert Motherwell

American

Abstract Expressionism

(First of the series included a Harold Rosenberg poem)

33
Q

“Empress of India”

A

Frank Stella

American

Minimalism

(Puts 4 canvases in V shapes together)

34
Q

“Fate of the Animals”

A

Franz Marc

German

Blue Rider

(Shows effects of logging and industrialization)

35
Q

“Fighting Forms”

A

Franz Marc

German

Blue Rider

(Clashing swirls of red and black)

36
Q

“Five Famous Men”

A

Paolo Uccello

Italian

Renaissance

(Shows Manetti, Bruno, Giotto, Donatello, and himself)

37
Q

“Fizzles”

A

Jasper Johns

American

Pop Art

(Accompanies Beckett story)

38
Q

“Flagellation of Christ”

A

Piero della Francesca

Italian

Renaissance

(shows Pontius watching Jesus being whipped)

39
Q

“Fool’s House”

A

Jasper Johns

American

Pop Art

(broom, towel, cup all labeled)

40
Q

“Fortitude Panel”

A

Sandro Botticelli

Italian

Renaissance

(first work)

41
Q

“Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood in the Florence Cathedral”

A

Paolo Uccello

Italian

Early Renaissance

42
Q

“Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle”

A

Correggio

Italian

Mannerism / High Renaissance

(Part of the ‘Loves of Jupiter’ series)

43
Q

“God is Not Cast Down”

A

Kazimir Malevich

Russian

Suprematism

44
Q

“Grazing Horses”

A

Franz Marc

German

Blue Rider

45
Q

“Hierarchial Birds”

A

Mark Rothko

American

Color Field

46
Q

“Holy Trinity at Sta. Maria de Novella”

A

Masaccio

Italian

Renaissance

(“I once was what you are and what I am you also will be”)

(Kneeling donors flank entrance to the vault)

47
Q

“Homage to the Square series”

“Homage to the Square: Soft Spoken”

A

Josef Albers

German-American

Geometric Abstraction

48
Q

“Indefinite Divisibility”

A

Yves Tanguy

French

Surrealism

49
Q

“Indian Love Song”

A

Kenneth Noland

American

Color Field Painting

50
Q

“Land’s End”

A

Jasper Johns

American

Pop Art

51
Q

“Landscape with a Footbridge”

A

Albrecht Altdorfer

German

Renaissance

(The first oil landscape)

52
Q

“Large Interior, Notting Hill”

A

Lucian Freud

British

Realism

53
Q

“Last judgment Frescos at Orvieto Cathedral”

“Resurrection of the Flesh”

A

Luca Signorelli

Italian

Renaissance

54
Q

“Le pont de l’Europe”

A

Gustave Caillebotte

French

Impressionism

(brown dog, top hat, parasol, bowler hat gazing out)

55
Q

“Leda and the Swan”

A

Correggio

Italian

Mannerism / High Renaissance

(Part of the ‘Loves of Jupiter’ series)

56
Q

“Light in August”

A

Willem de Kooning

Dutch-American

Abstract Expresionism

57
Q

“Madonna del Latte”

A

Correggio

Italian

Mannerism / High Renaissance

58
Q

“Madonna of the Star”

A

Fra Angelico

Italian

Early Renaissance

59
Q

“Maesta with Twenty Angels and Nineteen Saints”

A

Duccio

Italian

Sieniese

60
Q

“Man and Woman at a Casement”

A

Fra Lippo Lippi

Italian

Early Renaissance

61
Q

“Man Proposes, God Disposes”

A

Sir Edwin Landseer

English

Animalier

62
Q

“Menil Collection in Houston”

A

houston #texas

Renzo Piano

Italian

Architecture

(used ferroconcrete “leaves” on roof)

63
Q

“Michael Jackson and Bubbles”

A

Jeff Koons

American

Art, I gues

64
Q

“Mountains and Sea”

A

Helen Frankenthaler

American

Abstract Expressionism

(Robert Motherwell’s wife)

(Helped organize school of Color Field painters in DC with Kenneth Noland)

65
Q

“Movement in Squares”

A

Bridget Riley

British

Op art

66
Q

“Murals for the ‘Four Seasons Restaurant’ at the Seagram”

A

Mark Rothko

American

Color Field Painting

(Purpose was “something that will ruin the appetite of every son-of-a-bitch who ever eats in that room.”)

67
Q

“The Cardboard Series”

“Nabisco Shredded Wheat”

A

Robert Rauschenberg

American

Abstract Expressionism

68
Q

“National Monument in Amsterdam”

A

amsterdam #netherlands

Pieter Oud

Dutch

De Stijl

(Abandoned De Stijl to work on this)

69
Q

“Ognissanti Madonna”

A

Giotto

Italian

Renaissance

(“The All Saints Madonna”)

70
Q

“Old Testament Trinity”

A

Andrei Rublev

Russian

Icons / Frescoes

(considered greatest medieval Russian frescoer)

71
Q

“Onement 1”

A

Barnett Newman

American

Color Field painting

(Painted large vertical lines called “zips”)

72
Q

“Painted Bronze”

A

Jasper Johns

American

Pop Art

(Ballantine Ale)

73
Q

“Peasant Woman with Buckets and Child”

A

Kazimir Malevich

Russian

Suprematism

74
Q

“Pedagogical Sketchbook”

A

Paul Klee

Swiss

Expressionism

(Student manual of the Bauhaus)

(Opens discussing transformation of a dot into linear dynamics)

(Translated into English by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy)

75
Q

“Peonies”

A

Cy Twombly

American

Abstract Expressionism

76
Q

“Periscope (Hart Crane)”

A

Jasper Johns

American

Pop Art

77
Q

“Phaedrus”

A

Cy Twombly

American

Abstract Expressionism

(all white)

(kissed by Rindy Sam)

78
Q

“Pier and Ocean”

A

Piet Mondrain

Dutch

De Stijl

79
Q

“Pink Lady”

A

Willem de Kooning

Dutch-American

Abstract Expressionism

80
Q

“Playing Forms”

A

Franz Marc

German

Blue Rider

81
Q

“Pompidou Centre in Paris”

A

paris

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers

Italian / British

Architecture

(pipes on the outside)

82
Q

“Portrait of Elaine”

A

Willem de Kooning

Dutch-American

Abstract Expressionism

(His wife, apparently she painted too)

83
Q

“Prado Altarpiece”

A

Fra Angelico

Italian

Early Renaissance

84
Q

“Prager Street”

A

Otto Dix

German

New Objectivity

85
Q

“Profit 1”

A

Jean-Michel Basquiat

American

Neo-expressionism

(Sold for $5.5M in 2003)

86
Q

“Putto with Hunting Trophy”

A

Correggio

Italian

Mannerism / High Renaissance

87
Q

“Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing”

“Cranes”

A

Hokusai

Japanese

Ukiyo-e

88
Q

“Radiant Baby”

A

Keith Haring

American

Pop / Street art

89
Q

“Realistic Manifesto”

A

Naum Gabo

Russian

Constructive Art

(Divorces art from mainstays as lines and volume)

(“at the workbench, at the office, at work, at rest, and at leisure; work days and holidays, at home and on the road, so that the flame of life does not go out in man.”)

(“to you artists … for whom art is not just a pretext of talking but a source of real joy”)

90
Q

“Reclining Figue”

A

Henry Moore

English

Sculpture / Modernism

91
Q

“Red Egg”

A

Oskar Kokoschka

Austrian

Expressionism

(Chicken representing Czcechoslovakia laid it)

(Giant Mussolini and Hitler heads)

92
Q

“Revoling Torsion at St. Thomas Hospital”

A

Naum Gabo

Russian

Constructive Art

(named “constructivism”)

(created “kinetic art”)

93
Q

“Rocket to the Moon”

A

Romare Bearden

African-American

Collage

94
Q

“Santa Trinita Maesta”

A

Cimabue

Italian

Mosaics

(teacher of Giotto)

95
Q

“Shadow Country”

A

Yves Tanguy

French

Surrealism

96
Q

“Siege of Asola”

A

Tintoretto

Italian

Renaissance

(The canvas portrays two scenes. From the left to the middle is, in the foreground, a clash of knights occurred during the siege of the Venetian town of Asola by the troops of the Austrian emperor Maximilian I in 1516. Among the clashing soldiers is the banner of Asola, the fortress itself being shown in the background.

On the right is depicted to homage of the citizens of Asola to the Venetian provveditore (curator) Francesco Contarini, the nobleman who organized the city’s defence and forced Maximilian’s troop to withdraw.)

97
Q

“Solar Eclipse with Mona Lisa”

A

Kazimir Malevich

Russian

Suprematism

98
Q

“St. Andrew led to his Martyrdom”

A

Guido Reni

Italian

Baroque

99
Q

“St. Cecilia”

A

Guido Reni

Italian

Baroque

(Blind saint looking into air playing violiun)

100
Q

“St. George and the Dragon”

A

Paolo Uccello

Italian

Early Renaissance

(swirly cloud)

101
Q

“Still Life with Ginger Pot”

A

Piet Mondrain

Dutch

De Stijl

102
Q

“Stormtroops Advancing Under Gas”

A

Otto Dix

German

New Objectivity

103
Q

“Struck From the List”

A

Paul Klee

Swiss

Expressionism

(Painted after losing job at Bauhaus)

104
Q

“Suprematist Composition: White On White”

A

Kazimir Malevich

Russian

Suprematism

105
Q

“The Annunciation at St. Mark’s Convent”

A

Fra Angelico

Italian

Early Renaissance

106
Q

“The Artist’s Studio: A Real Allegory”

A

Gustave Courbet

French

Realism

(black hat with white dog near peasants)

(Charles Bauldilaire stands right of central)

(nude model behind artist)

107
Q

“The Awakening Conscience”

A

William Holman Hunt

English

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

108
Q

“The Battle of Eylau”

A

Antoine-Jean Gros

French

Neoclassical

109
Q

“The Battle of San Romano”

A

Paolo Uccello

Italian

Early Renaissance

(Shows knights in a 1432 battle)

(Nicolo da Tolentino is on horseback)

(Bernardo della Ciarda gets unseated)

110
Q

“The Blue Guitar”

A

David Hockney

English

Pop Art

(Volume of Wallace Stevens insired etchings)

111
Q

“The book ‘Art as Art’”

A

Ad Reinhardt

American

Abstract Expressionism

112
Q

“The Bride of the Wind”

A

Oskar Kokoschka

Austrian

Expressionism

(Self portrait with Alma Mahler)

(They’re in a cocoon as a storm rages)

113
Q

“The Bridge at Mantes”

A

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

French

Realism

114
Q

“The Bridge at Narni”

A

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

French

Realism

(it’s broken)

115
Q

“The Butcher’s Shop”

A

Annibale Carracci

Italian

Baroque

116
Q

“The Calabash”

A

Romare Bearden

African-American

Painting

117
Q

“The Card Players”

A

Theo van Doesburg

Dutch

De stijl

118
Q

“The Death of a Miner”

A

Ben Shahn

Lithuanian-American

Social Realism

119
Q

“The Deliverance of Arsinoe”

A

Tintoretto

Italian

Mannerism / Renaissance

120
Q

“The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife”

A

Hokusai

Japanese

Ukiyo-e

(Damn it Japan. Stop with the stereotypes.)

121
Q

“The Expulsion of the Demons from Arezzo”

A

Giotto

Italian

Renaissance

(Part of the St. Francis cycle)

122
Q

“The Flight into Egypt”

A

Annibale Carracci

Italian

Baroque

123
Q

“The four lions in Trafalgar Square”

A

london

Sir Edwin Landseer

English

Animalier

124
Q

“The Green Violinist”

A

Marc Chagall

Russian

Surrealism

125
Q

“The History of the True Cross series”

“The Dream of Constantine”

A

Piero della Francesca

Italian

Renaissance

126
Q

“The Judgment of Hercules”

A

Annibale Carracci

Italian

Baroque

(Inspired Caravaggio’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt)

127
Q

“The Kill of Deer”

A

Gustave Courbet

French

Realism

(Man cracking whip)

128
Q

“The Lamp”

A

Romare Bearden

African-American

Collage

(Celebrates 30th anniversary of Brown v. Board)

129
Q

“The Last of England”

A

Ford Madox Brown

British

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

(White Cliffs of Dover in the background)

(Inspired by the departure of Thomas Woolner)

130
Q

“The Legend of St. Francis at Peruzzi Chapel”

“Apparation at Arles”

A

Giotto

Italian

Renaissance

131
Q

“The Loves of the Gods at the Farnese Gallery”

A

Annibale Carracci

Italian

Baroque

132
Q

“The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence”

A

Bronzino

Italian

Mannerism

(laurel wreaths and over grills)

133
Q

“The Monument to the Third International”

A

stpetersburg

Vladimir Tatlin

Russian

Constructivism

(This artist’s reliefs at the 0.10 (zero ten) exhibit in 1915 helped define Russian futurism, an important precursor to constructivism.)

134
Q

“The Music Lesson”

A

Jan Vermeer

Dutch

Baroque

(white jug on rug)

(playing the ‘virginal’)

(woman seen in reflection)

135
Q

The artist who went under the name “The Old Man Mad About Art”

A

Hokusai

Japanese

Ukiyo-e

Painted One Hundred Views of Fuji under this name

136
Q

“The Open series”

“Summer Open with Mediterranean Blue”

A

Robert Motherwell

American

Abstract Expressionism

137
Q

“The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti”

A

Ben Shahnah

Lithuanian-American

Social Realism

(Includes depiction of Judge Webster Thayer)

(Lawrence Lowell wears cap and gown)

(Incorporated into a mosaic at Syracuse University)

138
Q

“The Procuress”

A

Jan Vermeer

Dutch

Baroque

(features white and blue porcelain)

(one of three Vermeer signed, along with ‘Geographer’ and ‘Astronomer’)

139
Q

“The Red Stairway”

A

Ben Shahn

Lithuanian-American

Social Realism

(one leg)

(Something to do with Nuremburg maybe?)

140
Q

“The Resurrection”

A

Piero della Francesca

Italian

Renaissance

(Aldous Huxley called Jesus ‘athletic’)

(soldier at bottom is legless)

(Christ’s wound dripping blood)

141
Q

“The Scapegoat”

A

William Holman Hunt

English

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

142
Q

“The School of Love”

A

Correggio

Italian

Mannerism / High Renaissance

(Shows Mercury teaching Cupid to read)

143
Q

“The Sea of Ice”

A

Caspar David Friedrich

German

German Romantic

(HMS Griper in painting)

144
Q

“The Shape of Content”

A

Ben Shahn

Lithuanian-American

Social Realism

(Lectures)

145
Q

“The Soldier Drinks”

A

Marc Chagall

Russian

Surrealism

(Based on memories of the Russo-Japanese War)

146
Q

“The Stations of the Cross”

“The First One”

A

Barnett Newman

American

Color Field Painting

147
Q

“The Story of Virginia”

A

Sandro Botticelli

Italian

Renaissance

148
Q

“The Surrender of Barcelona”

A

Percy Wyndham Lewis

English

Vorticism (spinoff of Cubism)

149
Q

“The Triumph of Music”

A

Marc Chagall

Russian

Surrealism

(Hangs at the Lincoln Center)

(notice the ‘starburst’ chandelier in picture, they recede into ceiling during performances)

150
Q

“The White Paintings”

“Seven Panels”

A

Robert Rauschenberg

American

Abstract Expressionism

151
Q

“The Women of Algiers”

A

Eugene Delacroix

French

Romanticism

(Picasso painted 15 versions of this after Matisse’s death)

(Black servant woman looks at the title women)

(Title chicks are smoking a hookah)

( Unworn red slipper is in front of jeweled necklace wearing figure)

(Mirror reflects to door)

152
Q

“The Yellow Cow”

A

Franz Marc

German

Blue Rider

(At MOMA)

153
Q

“Trench Warfare”

A

Otto Dix

German

New Objectivity

154
Q

“Trial by Jury” or “Laying Down the Law”

A

Sir Edwin Landseer

English

Animalier

155
Q

“Venus and Mars”

A

Sandro Botticelli

Italian

Renaissance

(Shows naked Mars letting satyrs play with armor and weapons)

(Satyrs steal lance and blow a hunting horn into his ear)

(Wasp nest on right side refers to coat of arms of Vespucci family, which some say means Simonetta Vespucci was the model)

156
Q

“Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time”

A

Bronzino

Italian

Mannerism

(blue cloth)

(hourglass)

(foot from Monty Python)

(honeycomb)

157
Q

“Vir heroicus sublimis”

A

Barnett Newman

American

Color Field Painting

(How do people get famous from this?)

158
Q

“Vivian Beaumont Theater of the Lincoln Center”

A

nyc

Eero Saarinen

Finnish

Architecture

159
Q

“War Cripples”

A

Otto Dix

German

New Objectivity

160
Q

“Warning of the Ships”

A

Paul Klee

Swiss

Expressionism

161
Q

“Woman series”

“Woman and Bicycle”

A

Willem de Kooning

Dutch-American

Abstract Expressionism

(Inspired by Mesopotamian fertility idols)

(Exhibited at Sidney Janis gallery)

(Koonig quit doing them but resumed when he saw a cigarette ad)