Learning to Look Review Game
- Name 3 elements of art (color, line, shape, texture, line, space)
- What museum have we visited in the past? (MET)
- What museum are we visiting next week? (MOMA)
- What does the word “modern” mean? (new, up-to-date, current, contemporary)
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – Picasso
- How was this painting received by people who saw it? (shocked)
- The way Picasso painted the eye of the woman in profile, reminds us of what type of art? (Egyptian)
- What other type of art influenced some of the faces? (African masks)
- Is this more of a portrait or a figure painting? (figure painting)
- Did Picasso use one viewpoint or multiple viewpoints in this painting? (Multiple)
- True or False, the Triangle is the main shape used by Picasso here? (True)
The Sleeping Gypsy – Rousseau
- What is a gypsy? (nomadic person of unknown origin/bright clothing)
- What is the gypsy holding in her hand and what does it suggest? (a walking stick/has traveled far)
- This painting is done with a lot of detail, but what has Rousseau omitted? (footprints/suggests
dream)
- What is unusual about the lion in the painting? (gentle and tame, not ferocious)
- How did Rousseau paint the lion and gypsy to give them a primitive quality? (flat with no depth)
- What elements of art give this painting a peaceful, serene quality? (horizontal lines and mellow
colors)
I and the Village – Chagall
- What are surrealist artists famous for painting? (dreams or unconscious thoughts)
- Does this painting take place during the day or night? (night)
- What is strange or unusual about the big face? (green face, white lips, eye color switched)
- What might the color green represent? (grass, plants, leaves, living things)
- Why would Chagall have painted the woman milking the cow on TOP of the larger cow’s head?
(showing what’s on the cows mind? Dreaming/thinking about being milked)
The Hunter – Miro
- How did Miro convey meaning in this painting? (personal language of symbols)
- How did Miro illustrate the hot and sunny weather in Spain where he was born? (the yellow sky in
the top half of the painting)
- What did the bottom half of the painting represent? (the sandy beach)
- Point to the symbol for the hunter and tell us some of the symbols. (stick figure on left, smoking a
pipe, beard, mustache, fast beating heart)
-What do the letters SARD mean at the bottom right? (Sardine/fish that is drawn in symbols to the
left of the word)
-What does the large blue eye represent? (It’s Miro’s personal symbol/name in Spanish means HE
SEES/reminds us that the artist sees world more closely)
The Persistence of Memory – Dali
- Who is this a picture of (show photo)? (Dali)
- What is the name of this artwork? (Persistence of memory)
- The contrast between the fact that this is realistically painted and ______make for the strange mood? (illogical, weird objects)
- True or False, Many people think the whale like object is also a self portrait of the artist? (True)
- What might the ants and flies suggest? (decay, attacking time) and the watches? (the passage of time)
Broadway Boogie Woogie (Mondrian)
- “Art in which the elements, rather then a recognizable object is the main focus” is the definition of
what style of art? (abstract)
- Mondrian loved which of the following: food, wine, jazz music, books, traveling? (jazz)
- What is the main focus of this painting? (NONE! All parts hve equal importance)
Mural; One: Number 31 – Pollack
- What did Pollack call these types of work? (drip paintings or action paintings)
- How did Pollack paint these? (canvas on the floor, worked from all sides, dripping, pouring etc)
- Did Pollack plan each “move” in his paintings, quickly or slowly? (slowly, sometimes thought for hours)
- Describe the space in the work (dense, shallow)
- Name the two most important elements of art in this work (line and texture)
- Where did he place emphasis in the work? (all over, not one part)
Dance I (Matisse)
-Is this painting a portrait? (no/can’t identify). Is it a landscape? (no/doesn’t distinguish place)
-What type of painting is it? (figure painting/about human figure in general)
-How does Matisse suggest fast movement in this picture? (curved lines and broken ring of arms)
-What is the most important element of art in this picture? (color/vibrant/large areas of flat color)
- Does this painting have a sense of depth? (no/all figures the same size even though some are behind
others)
-What is over feeling of this picture? (joyful, energetic, full of life)
Lobster Trap and Fish Tail (Calder)
- What type of sculpture is this….with moving parts? (mobile)
- True or False – Calder is famous for painting large murals on the sides of buildings (False)
Bonus Questions:
- Who is considered to be the most famous Modern artist and was also a celebrity? (Picasso)
- You haven’t seen these two images before (show pics), but can you name the artists? (Picasso and Pollack)
- This is an atypical work by one of the artists we studied (show pic), but I did show it to you during class. Who painted this work? (Picasso)
- What was Miss Berger’s major in college? (art history)