Quiz 2

Question 1

Group of young French artists active in Paris from 1888 until 1900, who played a large part in the transition from impressionism and academic art to abstract art, symbolism and the other early movements of modernism.

Answer 1

Nabis

Question 2

Process by which a duplicate metal sculpture is cast from an original sculpture. Intricate works can be achieved by this method.

Answer 2

Lost wax bronze casting

Question 3

Famous golden doors of landmark Baptistery of St. John, with panels depicting Biblical scenes.

Answer 3

Ghiberti, The Gates of Paradise

Question 4

The Inferno tells the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil.

Answer 4

Alighieri, The Inferno

Question 5

Japanese woodblock print

Answer 5

Hokusai, The Great Wave

Question 6

Unique natural stone that originates from dripstone deposits of limestone caves.

Answer 6

Onyx

Question 7

American painters who exhibited together only once, in New York City in 1908, but who established one of the main currents in 20th-century American painting.

Answer 7

The Eight

Question 8

Artistic movement in the United States during the late 19th-early 20th century that is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city’s poorer neighborhoods.

Answer 8

Ashcan School

Question 9

Gallery that was created and managed by photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

Answer 9

291 Gallery

Question 10

Honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others “to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition.”

Answer 10

National Academy of Design

Question 11

Quarterly photographic journal published by Alfred Stieglitz from 1903 to 1917.

Answer 11

Camera Work

Question 12

Use of visual styles that consciously echo the style of a previous architectural era.

Answer 12

Revival styles

Question 13

International trend in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920.

Answer 13

Arts and Crafts movement

Question 14

Modernist aesthetic emerged in the 1940s through 1970s, which pioneered new building technologies and structural systems such as the tube-frame structure.

Answer 14

Chicago School