Arts and Music Atlas

Works, Makers, Traditions
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Scored quizzes drawn from the atlas. Pick a topic, a difficulty and a length, and see where you stand.

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Art Forms: Origins
5 questions
Where the atlas's art forms began: opera in Florence, the symphony's four movements, Schubert's Lied, and the calligraphy of Wang Xizhi.
Lines, Light and Lead: The Fifth Depth Wave Quiz
4 questions
Four questions from the wave that gave Calligraphy its first native-language aliases, gave Drawing a named masterwork, and recorded a genuine open question about when, or whether, Postmodernism ended.
Names Without Authors: The Sixth Depth Wave Quiz
4 questions
Four questions from the wave that gave Textile Arts and Theatre their first notable examples, both works with no single credited maker, gave De Stijl its founding theory's English name, and recorded two genuine open questions about movements whose own primary source names no settled end date.
New Forms and Old Forms Made New
5 questions
Five questions drawn from the wave that minted Photography, Ceramics and Textile Arts, and gave Architecture its first architects.
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architect and His Buildings
6 questions
Six questions on Frank Lloyd Wright, his mentor Louis Sullivan, and the buildings this wave researched in depth: Fallingwater, the Guggenheim, Robie House, Unity Temple and Taliesin.
New Movements and the Artists Who Made Them
5 questions
Five questions from the Cubism, Surrealism and Art Deco movements, and the Rembrandt, Hokusai, Kahlo, Picasso and Welles depth added to this wave.
Building the Modern: Architecture Movements, Printmaking and Jazz
5 questions
Five questions on the four architecture movements, the rediscovered art form of printmaking, and jazz, added to the atlas in this wave.
Movements, Makers and Their Critics
5 questions
Five questions on the movements this wave deepened, the seven artists it minted, and the real historiographic disputes their stories carry.
The Impressionist Roster, and Two Movements That Broke With It
5 questions
Five questions on the eight Impressionist painters this wave completed, and on Fauvism and Dada, the two movements that broke furthest from what came before.
New Forms, New Movements: The Depth Wave Quiz
5 questions
Five questions on the art forms and movements minted and deepened in this wave: collage, fresco, mosaic, Realism, Futurism, Constructivism and Pop Art.
Manifestos and First Marks: The Third Depth Wave Quiz
4 questions
Founding manifestos, defining techniques and the world's oldest known paintings, drawn from this wave's own research into the Art Forms and Movements axes.
Open Questions and Green Bugattis: The Fourth Depth Wave Quiz
4 questions
A dating dispute, a periodization puzzle, the oldest notated melody and a painter's own car, drawn from this wave's research into the Art Forms and Movements axes.