art history test 3

Which of the following artists created a modern American art style combining Synthetic Cubism with jazz tempos and his perception of the fast-paced American culture?

Stuart Davis

By 1924, most artists associated with Dada joined the ______________________ movement.

Surrealism

Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality is most typical of which of the following styles?

Symbolism

Matisse believed painters should choose compositions and colors that express their feelings.

true

Midwestern Regionalism embraced the modernist abstraction of Europe and New York

true

The Bauhaus sought to encourage the elimination of the boundaries traditionally separating architecture and art from craft.

true

Thomas Eakins believed that knowledge was a prerequisite for his art.

true

Which of the following techniques was used by Courbet in The Stonebreakers to convey the drudgery of manual labor?

use of a palette of dirty browns and grays

Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures?

Alexander Calder

Which of the following artists conceived the building as a whole and molded it almost as a clay sculpture?

Antonio Gaudi

Henry Fuseli represented what was called the "sublime" in eighteenth-century art.

true

Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color as well as the interrelatedness of such properties?

Cézanne

Which of the following statements about Dada is true?

Dada had no fixed ideas

Throughout history, artists have regularly served political ends by using their art to make visual statements. Which of the following artists has created an overtly political statement with his/her work?

Dorothea Lange

Which of the following works demonstrates the Futurists' interest in motion?

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

Who among the following artists liked to paint images of the Romantic transcendental landscape?

Friedrich

Rosa Bonheur's most famous work, The Hourse Fair, features dramatic lighting, loose brushwork, and a rolling sky. These characteristics may indicate an andmiration for which of the following artists?

Géricault

Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?

His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men like Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul.

In Klimt's The Kiss, the artist has captured the flamboyance and decadence of the period. How is this painting a visual manifestation of the fin de siecle?

It captured a decadence conveyed by opulent and sensuous image.

Antonio Gaudi longed to create an architectural style that was both modern and appropriate for his native country of Spain. How does Casa Milá represent his ability to conceive a building as a whole and mold it almost as a sculptor would create a figure from clay?

It is a free-form mass wrapped around a street corner.

promoted automatism, the creation of art without conscious control.

Joan Miro

The mood in The Thankful Poor by Tanner is one of quiet devotion, not far removed from the Realism of which of the following artists?

Millet

_______________ sought to purge his art of every direct or overt reference to objects in the external world.

Mondrian

The work of Neue Sachlichkeit, Max Beckmann and ________________________ commented on the realities and effects of World War I.

Otto Dix

Henry Moore championed abstraction as the sculptor's proper goal.

true

In his painting, _________________________, Thomas Eakins portrayed things as he saw them and not as the public may have wanted to see them portrayed.

The Gross Clinic

Muybridge used his device, the zoopraxiscope, to project a series of images. Based on the mostion studies he performed, he proved that he brain holds whatever the eye sees for a fraction of a second after the eye stops seeing it. The illusion of motion was created, which also resulted in which of the following?

The illusion of continuous change

In The Night Café, the artist has shown us a benign scene yet the scene has a sense of charged energy and oppressive atmosphere. How did the artist communicate this?

Through us of vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity

The term "sublime" was considered to inspire which of the following?

awe mixed with terror

One aspect of Rodin's work that ties him to Impressionism is __________________________.

breaking up the surface into intersecting planes

Which of the following conditions is characteristic of the 19th century agrarian working class and is missing from The Haywain by Constable?

civil unrest

Monet's Rouen Cathedral is a series that observed the same viewpoint during _______________________.

different times of the day

Berthe Morisot focused her work in the only area allowed her as a woman in upper-class French society, which was _______________________.

domestic scenes

Julia Margaret Cameron used a short focal length lens that allowed only a small area of sharp focus. What kind of effect would a lens like this produce?

ethereal, dreamlike images

Barbara Hepworth was a a Berlin Dadaist.

false

Cassatt is categorized as a Symbolist.

false, redon

Gauguin said, "I want to make of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums."

false,Cézanne

Historians generally agree that Vincent van Gogh attempted to communicate the birth of a galaxy in his Starry Night.

false,vastness of the universe

Her work is often described as autobiographical because of her unflinching self-portrait portrayals. She gives the viewer a personal glimpse into herself and suffering. Which of the following artists does this describe?

frida kahlo

The work of female artist _________________ explored the human psyche, was frequently autobiographical, and also at times deeply nationalistic in nature.

frida kahlo

Manet's Olympia horrified the French public, not only because of the portrayal of a naked prostitue as a work of art, but also due to which of the following?

her look of cool indifference and shamelessness

Although many artists dealt with the theme of war or other societal ills, ________________ believed above all in the expressive use of color, saying that the whole arrangement of his pictures were expressive.

matisse

Magritte's The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images challenges the viewer's reliance on the conscious and the _________________ in the reading of visual art.

rational

Gericault's Raft of the Medusa represents which of the following?

the aftermath of a nineteenth-century French shipwreck and was considered an attack on government ineptitude

According to your textbook, which of the following messages is portrayed in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?

the pervasive loneliness of modern humans

What is the most important feature of Sullivan's Prudential Building that distinguishes it from earlier structures?

the reflection of the subdivision of the interior spaces in the outer structure.

A nonobjective work refers to work that has no reference ot the external appearance of the physical world.

true

Cassatt's style of work owes much to Japanese prints.

true

Courbet preferred to paint realistic scenes as he saw them.

true

Degas' technique of using spacial projections and off-center empty space to create illusions and direct the viewer's attention was influenced by 18th century woodblock prints.

true