Painting as a medium: paints, supports, brushes, and working processes.
Test your knowledge with these top questions!
Which printing method did Andy Warhol use to repeat photographic images in his paintings?
A stencil on mesh lets ink pass through selected areas, so Warhol could reuse one image with different colors.
Which objects often appear beside flowers in Georgia O'Keeffe's desert-inspired paintings?
In Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills, a skull and flower seem to float above the New Mexico landscape.
Which soup brand's cans appear in Andy Warhol's famous paintings?
Warhol first showed the soup paintings as 32 canvases, one for each flavor Campbell's sold at the time.
Georgia O'Keeffe's desert landscapes were inspired by which U.S. state?
Cerro Pedernal, a flat-topped mountain near her Ghost Ranch home, appears in many of her paintings.
The Problem We All Live With by Norman Rockwell depicts which girl integrating a New Orleans school?
Rockwell shows federal marshals escorting six-year-old Bridges, with their heads cropped out to keep attention on the child.
Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings took their theme from a speech by which president?
Rockwell turned Roosevelt's abstract ideals into everyday scenes, such as a town meeting for freedom of speech.
Georgia O'Keeffe painted skyscrapers in which city before making New Mexico her main home?
O'Keeffe lived high in the Shelton Hotel, whose city views helped inspire her New York paintings.
Norman Rockwell's Freedom from Want shows a family sharing which holiday meal?
Rockwell's cook posed as the woman serving the turkey in the painting.
Andy Warhol began a famous portrait series of which actress after her death in 1962?
Warhol based the portraits on a publicity photograph for Niagara, rather than a sitting with Monroe.
Georgia O'Keeffe's famous close-up paintings enlarge which natural subject?
By painting flowers on a large scale, O'Keeffe made viewers notice details they might miss in a small bloom.