AP Art History : Identifying artists, works, or schools of twentieth- and twenty-first-century 2D art
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Example Question #441 : Ap Art History
The image above is part of a series of paintings called Water Lilies.
The series includes over 200 oil paintings and was created by which artist?
Vincent van Gogh
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Claude Monet
Paul Cézanne
Camille Pissarro
Claude Monet
This was the work of Monet, and is one of his most well-known collections.
All the painters listed, other than Renoir, died before most of the paintings in the series were created.
Van Gogh was listed due to the similar themes of nature, and the similar brushstrokes often employed by both.
Image is in the public domain, accessed through Wikipedia Media Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Monet_-_The_Water_Lilies_-_The_Clouds_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Example Question #451 : 2 D Art
The artist of the given piece was the first president of what artistic movement?
Vienna Secession
Nazarene Movement
Chelsea Arts Club
Glasgow School
Berlin Secession
Vienna Secession
While all of the answers are artists groups, it was the Vienna Secession that Klimt helped found in 1897. The group's members broke from the Association of Austrian Artists as a protest of that group's conservatism.
Work is in the public domain, image accessed through WikiArt: http://www.wikiart.org/en/gustav-klimt/portrait-of-adele-bloch-bauer-i-1907-1
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