HUM 120 test 3

What is NOT a feature of Neoclassicism?

Emphasis on sensuous curves and delicate figures

Which scientist was forced by the church to recant his own findings?

Galileo Galilei

Which of the following is NOT generally considered a painter of the Rococo style?

Greuze

Which artist—whose subject matter was individuals in ordinary settings—challenged, "Show me an angel and I'll paint one?"

Gustave Courbet

Which of the following authors was credited with inventing the modern novel with his Madame Bovary?

Gustave Flaubert

The turn from Romanticism to literary Realism is evident in the novels of which author?

Henrik Ibsen

Which Social Realist is primarily associated with the medium of lithography?

Honoré Daumier

How did Emile Zola view human beings, as depicted in his Naturalistic novels?

In full control of their destinies

What was a quality with which the principles of Romanticism were in agreement?

Individualism

What description of William Hogarth's work is accurate?

It was satirical.

Which of the following is considered a writer whose works formed the wellspring of philosophical thought in the era and was highly influential upon Jefferson as well as Montesquieu?

John Locke

Who argued that human beings can better the world through the use of certain innate capabilities of mind?

Kant

Whose "Ode on a Grecian Urn" concludes that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"?

Keats

In Voltaire's Candide, who is the character of Pangloss modeled on?

Leibniz

Which landmark work, by William Wordsworth, marked the birth of the Romantic movement in England?

Lyrical Ballads

In Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, the artist featured those whom he considered the heroes of revolutionary France, including which group?

Members of the middle and working classes

J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and Thomas Cole were all noted painters of what subject?

Natural landscapes

Many Enlightenment thinkers believed that human behavior was governed by what force?

Natural laws

What belief is reflected in Alexander Pope's saying, "A mighty maze! but not without a plan"?

Nature is rational, but divinely ordered.

London's Houses of Parliament are a landmark example of what style?

Neomedievalism

The French salon, center of intellectual debate, was usually organized by whom?

Noblewomen

Which of the following best describes the general philosophical mood of those writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (ca. 1650-1800) interested in social progress?

Optimistic

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, ________ emerged as the center of Western artistic productivity.

Paris

Which artist wished to "redo nature after Poussin," anticipating twentieth-century abstract art in his later works?

Paul Cézanne

Which artist became infatuated with unspoiled nature, especially as it existed in Tahiti (where he relocated after abandoning his job and family)?

Paul Gauguin

According to Hobbes, society must submit to rule by a strong individual for what reason?

People are by nature warlike and selfish.

What is a hallmark of Eugène Delacroix's style?

Pictorial license

What was a feature of Nietzsche's new morality?

Privilege for the "superman"

What was the primary motivating force for late nineteenth-century colonialism?

Raw materials and expanding markets

Questioning the value of reason for the advancement of the human condition, ________ argued that society itself corrupted humankind.

Rousseau

What idea was central to the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

Societies and their institutions corrupt human beings.

What was NOT a focus of artists in the Rococo style of painting?

Stark contrasts of light and dark

What characteristics are common to both Neoclassical art and classical music?

Symmetry and formal restraint

What does John Locke's conception of the tabula rasa support?

The idea that human knowledge derives from sensory experience

According to Locke's view of the social contract, ultimate power rests with whom?

The people

Which is true of the late eighteenth-century revolutions?

They put Enlightenment ideals into action.

Voltaire's Candide satirizes what idea?

This is the best of all possible worlds.

What was a primary goal of Diderot's Encyclopédie?

Transform society through knowledge.

Impressionist painters drew largely on what subject matter for their works?

Urban scenes

Goethe's hero, Faust, is symbolic of what Western ideal?

Urge to transcend limitations

Whose engravings exposed the social ills and class discrepancies of British society, even as they mocked universal human vices?

William Hogarth

Newton's Principia promoted the idea of a uniform and intelligible universe that operated as systematically as a well-oiled machine; his monumental work became the basis of modern ______.

physics

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels prophesized that a revolution would make the ________ the new ruling class.

proletariat

Goya immortalized the history of the French occupation of Spain in what landmark series of etchings and aquatints?

"The Disasters of War"

In Romanticism, what was the "sublime?"

Awe-inspiring nature

Which of the following artists' works greatly emphasized the sensuality of the body and were openly erotic?

Boucher

Which author offered realistic (and sentimental) depictions of nineteenth-century society in works such as David Copperfield?

Charles Dickens

The movement known as Impressionism took its title from a painting by which artist?

Claude Monet

What subject was depicted in the most famous paintings of Géricault and Goya?

Current events

In what way did Darwin contribute to the study of biology?

Developing the theory of natural selection

David's Oath of the Horatii is notable for which of the following?

Emphasis on reason and intellect over emotion and sentiment