SAU Contemporary Art Ch. 1-5

Van Gogh's use of color and perspective can best be described as

expressive

The formal qualities of Matisse's harmony in Red (The Dessert) emphasized its

flatness

When did the 1260 years of papal supremacy begin, and when did it end?

538 - 1798

Which artist did Rodin credit with liberating him from academicism?

Michelangelo

Neoclassicism and Romanticism have their roots in the Enlightenment values of, respectively,

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What were the printmaking techniques most favored by Romantic artists?

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What does Brancusi's Bird in Space represent?

A bird's trajectory through the air

What is a Gesamtkunstwerk?

A total work of art

The most influential non-Western source material for European modernists was

African art

Rousseau's paintings were appealing to a younger generation of artists that was interested in

"Primitive" art

To what tradition does Matisse's Blue Nude: Memory of Biskra belong?

The odalisque

What term best describes Gauguin's use of color in Vision After the Sermon?

Arbitrary

In The Great Controversy (in reference to the French Revolution) what metaphor does Egypt and Sodom stand for?

Atheism and licentiousness

The motif in Matisse's The Dance (II) can also be found in his

Bonheur de Vivre

Who gave the "Impressionists" their name?

Claude Monet

Under what reign was the most terrible tortures and persecution done of the Protestants?

During the glorious reign of Louis XIV

Art criticism emerged as a response to

The public exhibition of art at Salons

Millet's treatment of his peasant subjects

Ennobled them

The invention of photography both responded to and fueled a desire for

Escapism

Which of the following figures exerted a strong influence on Art Nouveau architects Gaudy and Horta?

Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le0Duc

Which of the following was not a source for the Art Nouveau movement?

History painting

Romantic art is distinguished from academic art by its emphasis on

Individual expression over emulation

Ruskin may have responded favorably to Turner's The Burning of the Houses of Parliament because it

It evokes the awesomeness of nature? Idk

John Ruskin disapproved of Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, because

It was not a faithful representation of nature

Which of the following most clearly distinguished Art Noveau from the Arts and Crafts movement?

Its embrace of technology

Next to photography, what art form exerted the greatest influence on the nineteenth-century advance of modernist form?

Japanese woodcut prints

What role did Aestheticism advocate for art?

None

Pictorialism emerged in response to the criticism that photography was

Not a legitimate art form

What does the term divisionism refer to?

Paintings constructed of small, dotlike brushstrokes

Why do early photographic street scenes appear to be unpopulated?

Photosensitive materials were too slow to catch rapidly moving subjects

The Calotype superseded the Dagerrotype because of its

Reproducibility

Symbolism is a direct descendant of

Romanticism

Which of the following paintings has been posited as a catalyst for Ensor's The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889?

Seurat's La Grande Jatte

The bourgeois patrons who emerged in the eighteenth century were most likely to collect

Small works with themes suitable to a domestic interior

The Arts and Crafts movement can best be understood as a response to

Synthetism

During the French Revolution what was said of the institution of marriage?

That marriage was viewed as the sacrament of adultery

Prophetically who are the two witnesses?

The Old and New Testament

Who introduced Matisse to Picasso?

The Steins

In Austria, Art Nouveau was centered around

The Vienna Secession

What feature more than any other gave the Fauves their name?

Their use of intense, arbitrary color

What do Courbet's and Manet's painting techniques have in common?

They foreground the two-dimensionality of the medium

Who was Vlaminck's greatest influence?

Vincent Van Gogh

Which of the following was an impediment to Gauguin's quest for an "authentic" culture?

Western colonialism

Matisse's Four Backs grows progressively more

abstracted

Munch's The Scream can best be described as an expression of

anxiety

Eakins commitment to Realism prompted him to

dissect cadavers.

The expansion of colonialism led to the emergence of what photographic genre?

ethnographic

In contrast to the Impressionists, Cezanne's paintings emphasize his subjects,

mass and volume

The architecture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh combines

modern innovations and traditional forms

The nude female figures in Matisse's Luxe, calme et volupte signify

nature

Toulouse-Lautrec is best known for his representation of

performers in Montmartre dance halls.

In contrast to traditional monumental sculpture, Rodin's The Burghers of Calais emphasizes the

spaces between the figures

Courbet's A Burial at Ornans was radical in its time because of combined

the scale of history painting with ordinary subjects