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Alex Zhang

Consumer educationIn development

The Art History App

Art history in five-minute lessons, built like a language-learning app: a structured path from prehistoric art to the modern era, with XP, streaks and hearts.

Role
Founder
Timeline
2026

01/Overview

Most people meet art history as a textbook full of dates. This app treats it like a language instead: short daily lessons on a single path, starting with cave paintings and working forward one movement at a time.

02/How a lesson works

How a lesson works

Each unit introduces a movement, then asks you to use what you just saw.

Spot it
Pick the work that belongs to the movement.
Match it
Pair artworks with artists, dates or ideas.
Build the sentence
Assemble a short description from word tiles.

03/Collection

Collection

The lessons draw on 435 works, all public domain or openly licensed, each sourced and credited from Wikimedia Commons.

04/Status

Status

In development, with a public waitlist. Planned for iOS and Android, free at launch.

To confirmConfirm your role, the stack, and how much of the lesson engine is built.