1304 ART HISTORY EXAM 3 - Review
What did Courbet employ in the The Stone Breakers to convey the dismal nature of manual labor?
A palette of dirty browns and grays
The green color of this woman's face is probably a reference to in the painting, At the Moulin Rouge.
Absinthe
Which 19th-century artist painted dramatic landscapes of the western areas of the United States such as Yosemite?
Albert Bierstadt
What contemporary event is referenced by American Realist Winslow Homer in his Veteran in a Field?
American Civil War
Winslow Homer's Veteran in a New Field is a commentary on the aftermath of which conflict?
American Civil War
Which Art Nouveau architect invented new structural techniques to allow construction of buildings that are sculpted and organic in form?
Antonio Gaudí
François Rude's allegorical sculpture Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 was created to adorn which Parisian monument?
Arc de Triomphe
Victor Horta is an architect most associated with which style?
Art Nouveau
Which artistic movement arose out of the idea of John Ruskin and William Morris, with their emphasis on producing functional objects with high aesthetic value?
Arts and Crafts
William Morris's Green Dining Room exemplifies the design goals of which artistic movement?
Arts and Crafts
Which artist argued that art is truthful and photographs lie?
Auguste Rodin
Which of the following is not true Canova?
Became well known for his Realistic portraits of working class people
Which European artist created this Romantic transcendental landscape painting?
Caspar David Friedrich
Who is the subject of this painting by Édouard Manet?
Claude Monet
Which artist was the most prominent member of the Hudson River School of landscape painting?
Cole
In Women of Algiers, Delacroix's interest in what element of painting is on display?
Color
J. M. W. Turner's distinctive style is most recognizable in his use of which element of painting?
Color
This English artist painted rural scenes as a reaction against the industrialization of the English countryside.
Constable
Which artist is associated with the phrase "Show me an angel and I'll paint you one."
Courbet
Which artist is associated with the phrase "treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone?"
Cézanne
Auguste Rodin took his subject for the bronze Gates of Hell from the writings of which author?
Dante
The incorporation of Japanese aesthetics into European painting, a trend referred to as Japonisme, is evident in which artwork?
Degas, The Tub
What was the original title of Edvard Munch's powerfully emotional The Scream?
Despair
Which monument was built for a great exhibition in 1889 and was originally seen as a symbol of modern Paris?
Eiffel Tower
What art historical term describes Monet's practice of painting his works outdoors?
En plein air
Cloisonné is most associated with which artist?
Gauguin
Which architect designed the first large commercial buildings characterized by round arches, large windows, and a cast-iron interior skeleton?
Henry Hobson Richardson
These kinds of paintings were at the top of the hierarchy of subject matter in European Academies.
History Paintings
This group of American painters were based in New York and interested in capturing the wild landscape of the United States.
Hudson River School
The influence of which artistic movement is evident in Rodin's interest in the effect of light on the sculpted surface?
Impressionism
Which of the following is not true about Impressionism?
Impressionism was primarily concerned with depicting the struggles of working class peoples.
Which group's first exhibition was called the Exhibition of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, etc. Inc.?
Impressionist
Which painter of the French Revolution was able to revitalize his career by becoming First Painter to Napoleon?
Jacques-Louis David
Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of which art form?
Japanese woodblock prints
Which Neoclassical artist of the first part of the 19th century looked firmly to the arts of Greek antiquity for his subjects and compositions?
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Who was one of the first Romantic artists to depict the dark terrain of the subconscious?
John Henry Fuseli
This artist was influenced by ancient Byzantine mosaics.
Klimt
Which work by Manet do art historians regard as his critique of European painting since the Renaissance?
Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
The grand pictorial drama of Delacroix's painting Death of Sardanapalus is based on a literary work by which Romantic author?
Lord Byron
Which architect designed elegantly ornamented yet functional commercial buildings such as the Guaranty Building in Buffalo and the Sullivan Center in Chicago?
Louis Henry Sullivan
Who is sometimes described as the first modernist architect?
Louis Henry Sullivan
Spatial discrepancies, such as the relationship between the barmaid and her apparent reflection in a nearby mirror, are highlighted in which painting?
Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Which American Impressionist artist painted principally women and children?
Mary Cassatt
The Romantic notion of God as a mathematician seen in Blake's Ancient of Days is taken from the artistic tradition of which earlier period?
Medieval
Which artist first made it his artistic practice to omit the preliminary sketch and use premixed pigments?
Monet
This Impressionist artist would paint the same object or buildings dozens of time under varied lighting conditions.
Monet
How does Caillebotte suggest the transitory, impersonal nature of modern life in Paris?
Moving figures and cutoff buildings
Which photographer became well known for creating portraits of artists such as Delacroix, Daumier, and Courbet?
Nadar
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
In which work does van Gogh say that he is trying to "express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green"?
Night Café
The Thankful Poor by Tanner is an example of the typical Realist focus on what?
Ordinary people
Georges Seurat's painting technique relying on an optical effect involving spots of color is referred to by what term?
Pointillism
Although possessing the Realist passion for accuracy, Rosa Bonheur did not use this technique to portray what?
Political themes
Which artistic movement had its roots in Impressionist precepts and methods but could not be considered stylistically homogeneous?
Post-Impressionism
What instrument did Muybridge use to project a sequence of images onto a screen?
Praxiscope
In constructing the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, what cost-effective innovation did Joseph Paxton employ?
Prefabricated elements
The incorporation in Western art of stylistic elements from non-European cultures like Africa, Oceania and Native Americans.
Primitivism
Ingres's Apotheosis of Homer was inspired by which earlier work?
Raphael, School of Athens
In Gustav Klimt's The Kiss, how does the artist use flat patterning to distinguish between the male and female figures?
Rectangle shapes cover male, circles cover female
Art historians believe that the American artist Thomas Eakins modeled the TheGross Clinic on what?
Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
The leading French sculptor of the later 19th century was which Realist artist?
Rodin
Described as awe mixed with terror, the notion of the sublime had a role in which intellectual movement?
Romanticism
The brushwork and strongly foreshortened figures of Charging Chasseur reflect Géricault's emulation of which earlier painter?
Rubens
Géricault's gigantic painting Raft of the Medusa, with its writhing, tortured bodies, is his commentary on which contemporary sociocultural situation?
Slavery
Salon jurors regarded Courbet's depiction of the rural poor in The Stone Breakers as what?
Socialistic
The firm outlines surrounding areas of unmodulated color in Gauguin's Vison after the Sermon reflect his interest in which medium?
Stained glass
Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Henri Rousseau were leading artists of which movement that was concerned with extreme subjectivity and the wish to perceive a deeper reality?
Symbolism
The work of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, with its rejection of Realism and statuesque figures in a tranquil landscape, inspired the members of which movement?
Symbolism
This Romantic artist painted image of people with mental illnesses.
THÉODORE GÉRICAULT
The painting Where Do We Come From reflects Gauguin's move to which country?
Tahiti
What exhibition did Courbet stage as a form of protest against the Grand Salon of 1855?
The Pavilion of Realism
The results of the Spanish resistance to the invasion of their country by Napoleon's forces are highlighted in which painting by Goya?
Third of May, 1808
Which American Realist artist, having 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 produce documentary images of the immediate aftermath of Civil War battles?
Timothy O'Sullivan
Manet's controversial painting Olympia was loosely based on a work by which earlier artist?
Titian
Which of the following ideas was Vincent van Gogh trying to communicate in his Starry Night?
Vastness of the universe
Which artist explored the possibilities of bold colors and distorted forms, creating a textile effect with energetic and thick brushstrokes?
Vincent van Gogh
The metal relief etching entitled Ancient of Days is the work of which leading Romantic artist?
William Blake
Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionists, her paintings are inhabited by which social group?
Women and children at home
An image of a reclining woman in an "Oriental" setting is known as ...
an odelisque
