ARH123 Chapter 27 Quiz

The 19th-century revival of historical architectural styles led Barry and Pugin to rebuild the Houses of Parliament in London in what style?

Neo-Gothic

Realism

Replace idealistic images with real life events, Favored images of urban and rural working class life, First explicitly anti-institutional nonconformist art movement, Some artists painterly and/or reject conventional pictorial illusionism (not all)

Which Realist painter relies on a naturalistic style that does not romanticize or idealize the everyday lived realities that his contemporary subjects endured?

Gustave Courbet

Neoclassical

Ancient or moralizing subjects, Sculpturesque poses, Bold colors, Hard edge line, High polish (in sculpture), and Geometric forms (in architecture)

Neoclassical

Antonio Canova, Jacques-Louis David

Which photographer became known for creating portraits of artists such as Delacroix

Daumier, and Courbet?, Nadar

Romanticism

Francisco Goya, Eugene Delacroix, Albert Bierstadt

Rome Prize (Prix de Rome)

French scholarship for arts students that allowed them to stay in Rome for three to five years at the expense of the state

Realism

Gustav Courbet, Edouard Manet

Romanticism

Subject inspires emotion (fantasy, macabre, sublime), Dramatic, Visual Complexity, Painterly, Focus on color over line

Which American Realist artist who studied both painting and medicine believed that careful observation was a prerequisite for his art?

Thomas Eakins

Which early photographer used the new medium to produced documentary images of the immediate aftermath of Civil War battles?

Timothy O'Sullivan

John Singer Sargent's family portrait Daughters of Edward Darley Boit shows the influence of his careful study of which painter?

Velazquez

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

artists who chose to represent fictional, historical, and fanciful subjects, but with a significant degree of convincing illusion in the mid-19th century

Daguerreotype

earliest photographic process which fixed the image in a camera obscura using light sensitive chemicals

Hudson River School

group of American landscape painters

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

including Millais and Rossetti, rejected Realism and based their artistic philosophy on the writings of which individual?, John Ruskin

Which of the following is NOT a colorist painting

instead relying on form and line?, Ingres, Apotheosis of Homer

Paris Salon

official art exhibition of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the greatest annual or biennial art event in the Western world during the 19th century

École des Beaux-Arts

prominent French art school located in Paris and emphasizing classical influence

Sublime

referring to extreme natural forces that threaten or make insignificant human existence

Pavilion of Realism

solo exhibition organized by and for Gustav Courbet when some of his paintings were not accepted to the 1855 Salon

Phrygian cap

symbol of a freed slave in antiquity worn by Liberty in Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People

Crystal Palace

the glass-and-iron building designed by Joseph Paxton which housed the 1851 Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in London

In constructing the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851

what cost-effective innovation did Joseph Paxton employ?, Prefabricated elements

Who was the artist of the immense Romantic painting Raft of the Medusa

which took eight months to create?, Théodore Géricault