ART HISTORY 115
Gauguin left Paris in 1882 to live among the peasants in ______.
Pont Aven, Britanny
The Rococo was a style of painting as well as interior decoration.
TRUE
A Netherlandish painter interested in folk customs and the daily life of humble people and peasants was ______.
BRUEGEL
During the Rococo period, Louis XV successfully curtailed the power and freedom of the French aristocracy.
FALSE
Even before Poussin and Claude, landscape had been considered among the most noble subjects in art.
FALSE
Genre scenes are first painted during the Baroque period.
FALSE
Il Gesu's ceiling was left plain and unadorned because of Jesuit proscriptions against ostentation.
FALSE
Michelangelo was a brilliant painter, sculptor, and architect, but saw himself primarily as a painter.
FALSE
Pieter Bruegel the Elder never traveled outside the Netherlands.
FALSE
Pollock's gestures are recorded on his paintings' surfaces, but the surfaces of David Smith's sculptures are perfectly smooth
FALSE
Rembrandt spent several years in Rome absorbing the lessons of the Italian Renaissance and Mannerism.
FALSE
Rococo painting in France represents the triumph of Poussinistes over Rubenistes.
FALSE
The first art academy ( the Accedemia del Disegno) was established in Florence in 1563.
TRUE
Whistler's primary concern in Symphony in White (fig. 25.27) is ______.
"art for art's sake" beauty
The Machine Age refers to the period ______.
BETWEEN WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II
Picasso employed a monochromatic palette for his paintings of society"s outcasts during the ______.
BLUE PERIOD
The Medusa painted by Gericault was ______.
A FRENCH GOVERNMENT SHIP
The Louvre was built as ______.
A PALACE
A unicorn could only be captured by ______.
A VIRGIN
Picasso, in tandem with ______, developed Analytic Cubism around 1910.
BRAQUE
Vanishing Point is-The point at which the orthogonals meet and disappear in a composition done with scientific perspective.
TRUE
After 1882 Cezanne lived most of his life in isolation near his hometown of _______.
AI-EN-PROVENCE
Julia Margaret Cameron, Sister Spirits (fig. 25.36)
ALBMEN PRINT
An American Place gallery was opened in 1928 by ______.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
Turner's The Slave Ship
ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT a. relates to an actual event b. poses questions of interpretation c. uses color as a vehicle to evoke emotions
In Degas' The Orchestra of the Paris Opera (fig. 25.12), the influence of Japanese prints is apparent in the ______.
ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT a. sharp contours and flat forms b. skewed viewpoint and compressed space c. arbitrarily cropped figures
Intense beams of light are used by Caravaggio to ______.
ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT a. suggest a divine presence {yes, and... b. model figures, to make them solid and corporeal c. heighten drama and theatricality
For the design of St. Charles Borromaeus (fig. 22.16), Johann Fischer von Erlach "uses aspects of major works of the canon of Western architecture," including ______.
ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT a. the façade of Borromini's Sant'Agnese b. the Pantheon's portico c. the Column of Trajan
Raphael's School of Athens borrows ______.
ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT a. from Michelangelo figures of expressive energy and physical power b. from Bramante, lofty and imposing architecture inspired by Imperial Rome c. from Leonardo individual figures fused into small groups that are then combined into a large group
Smithson, Spiral Jetty (fig. 29.27)
ALTERED LAKE
Gersaint, for whom Watteau painted Gersaint's Signboard (fig. 22.4), was ______.
AN ART DEALER
______ is a Romantic sculptor famous for depicting savage struggles between animals.
ANTONIE-LOUIS BARYE
When Monet painted a series (thirty haystacks, for instance), he claimed (despite Gustave Geffroy and others) that while composition changed very little, the changing ______ made every picture different.
ATMOSPHERIC AND LIGHT CONDITIONS
Boccioni, Unique Forms (fig. 27.23)
BRONZE
The process that Michelangelo used for his sculptures can best be seen in the __________.
Awakening Prisoner
The Kaisersaal in the Residenz in Wurzburg (fig. 22-22) was designed in part by _________.
BALTHASAR NEUMANN
The architect who designed the colonnade and piazza in front of St. Peter's was ______.
BERNINI
Juan Sanchez Cotan's Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber (fig. 19.33) is a haunting Spanish example of ______.
Both still life and bodegone
Jacob Lawrence, In the North (fig. 28.54)
CASEIN TEMPERA ON HARDBOARD
Pietro da Cortona, Allegory of Divine Providence (fig. 19.11)
CEILING FRESCO
The Great Fire of London of 1666 proved a boon to the career of ______.
CHRISTOPHER WREN
Architecture by Palladio displays the quality referred to as __________ .
CLASSICISTIC
Hamilton, Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? (fig. 29.19)
COLLAGE
Picasso, Guitar, Sheet Music, and Wine Glass (fig. 27.7)
COLLAGE
______ connects Fauvism to the tradition of Van Gogh, Gauguin, Monet, Delacroix, and Titian
COLOR
Inspired by Duchamp's ready-mades, Rauschenberg fashioned ______ like Odalisk (fig. 29.10), innovative works that merged painting, sculpture, collage and found objects.
COMBINES
A combination of graphite and clay used by Seurat for his drawings
CONTE CRAYON
The Self-Portrait by Parmigianino is unusual because it records his image from a __________.
CONVEX MIRROR
Judd. Untitled (fig. 29.23)
COPPER
Watteau sets a famous fete galante on ______, an island associated with love and the birth of Venus.
CYTHERA
The precedent for the radical distortions of space in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (fig. 27.5) may have been supplied by ______
Cezanne
The Bavarian pilgrimage church called Die Wies (fig. 22-19) was designed by _______.
Domenikus Zimmermann
In his design for the Laurentian Library vestibule , Michelangelo succeeded in using a classical architectural vocabulary in a way that architects of antiquity would have used it.
FALSE
The Style of Louis XIV is a good example of ______.
Classicism
The "Isenheim Altarpiece" includes an enormous graphic account of the __________.
Crucifixion
Augustus Washington, John Brown (fig. 25.31)
DAGUERREOTYPE
An invisible complement is implied in Bernini's work depicting __________.
DAVID
In a characteristically witty challenge to assumptions of and about art, ______ invented the "assisted Readymade".
DUCHAMP
Kandinsky's Sketch for "Composition II" is entirely abstract and nonrepresentational.
FALSE
Le Corbusier's Ronchamp (fig.s 29.41 and 29.42) demonstrates his continuing attachment to the "machine aesthetic."
FALSE
Luther stressed the importance of indulgences, and the intervention of clerics and saints.
FALSE
Mannerist architecture is known for its logic and structure.
FALSE
The artist who was immersed in controversy at the Pennsylvania Academy for advocating study of the live nude model was _____.
EAKINS
The Symbolist poets and painters reacted against the Naturalism found in the novels of ________.
EMILE ZOLA
Johns, Three Flags (fig. 29.11).
ENCAUSTIC ON CANVAS
Hendrick Goltzius, Farnese Hercules (fig. 20.14)
ENGRAVING
Hogarth, He Revels (The Orgy) (fig. 22.13)
ENGRAVING
The painter Parmigianino was also very interested in the technique of __________
ETCHING
Rembrandt, Hundred Guilder Print (fig. 20.24)
ETCHNG AND DRYPOINT
"The Last Supper" by Leonardo DaVinci was a technical success.
FALSE
All Realists painted en plein air.
FALSE
Analytic Cubism adopted the vibrant colors of Fauvism.
FALSE
Arp arranged the papers of his collages according to numerical ratios he found in Vitruvius.
FALSE
Because of his unconventional subject matter and style, Courbet was never allowed to exhibit at the Salon.
FALSE
Bramante completed the construction of St. Peter"s in Rome.
FALSE
Donatello's relief scultpture of "St. George Slaying the Dragon" exemplifies "schiacciato" which means flattened out relief.
FALSE
One of the most debated works of the Renaissance, Donatello's bronze David, once stood on a high pedestal in the courtyard of the Medici palace. The David may be the first free standing, life-size nude statue made since antiquity.
TRUE
Smithson's Spiral Jetty (fig. 29.27) can be considered Minimalism because of its pared-down geometric form, and because Smithson assiduously avoids references to environmental, ontological and political issues.
FALSE
The New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's program for economic recovery and domestic reform, provided NO support for artists.
FALSE
The architecture of Michelangelo, Della Porta and others shows a trend toward flatter, more static facades
FALSE
The goal of Harlem Renaissance artists was to make art that was indistinguishable in form and theme from the best European and American Modernism.
FALSE
The painter Titian worked primarily in tempera.
FALSE
The palace and gardens of Versailles are located in downtown Paris.
FALSE
Though popular in France, Rococo never spreads to other parts of Europe.
FALSE
~Romanticism opposed nationalism.
FALSE
Jan de Heem painted still->life paintings that are designated as pronk, or notable for______.
FLAMBOYANCE AND LAVISH DISPLAY
Rachel Ruysch is best known for her paintings of ______.
FLOWERS
Flavin, the nominal three (fig. 29.24)
FLUORESCENT TUBES
Insisting that his paintings alluded to nothing and were "of" no more than the physical thing that met the eye, ______ said, "What you see is what you see."
FRANK STELLA
Goya's The Third of May depicts ______
FRENCH TROOPS IN SPAIN
Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam
FRESCO
In works like Hare, fig. 18.13, Durer's precise rendering of nature's details of appearance and texture recalls the style of the ______.
Flemish masters
Meret Oppenheim, Object (fig. 28.22)
GAZELLE FUR-COVERED TEACUP, SAUCER, AND SPOON
The Brooklyn Bridge, a stupendous engineering feat, features arches drawn from ______.
GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
London's Houses of Parliament (fig. 24.29) is an example of ______.
GOTHIC REVIVAL
Varvara Fedorvna Stepanova, Design for Sportswear (fig. 28.30)
GOUACHE AND INK ON PAPER
The principles of Morris & Co. (shaped by Ruskin and then later adopted by the Arts and Crafts movement) included all of the following EXCEPT ______.
Greco-Roman motifs
Architects who can be described as "rational, geometric, and functional" include both ______.
Gropius and Behrens
Dada, a word chosen randomly from a dictionary, translates to ______.
HOBBYHORSE
The dome of the Parma cathedral by Correggio is painted in a technique called __________ .
ILLUSIONISTIC PERSPECTIVE
Eiffel Tower (fig. 25.42)
IRON
In Friedrich's Abbey in an Oak Forest (fig. 24.8), a monk _____
IS BURIED
Abstract Expressionism developed out of Surrealism, but unlike its predecessor, Abstract Expressionism ______.
IS GENERALLY NONREPRESENTATIONAL
Our vantage point in Degas' The Orchestra of the Paris Opera (fig. 25.12) is not a traditional one in western art, but approximates the view of a theatergoer in the pit.
TRUE
Pictures by Velazquez and Murillo are often painterly, with free and loose brushwork.
TRUE
Which of the following pairs (artist—avant-garde movement) are mismatched? ______.
JOHNS-SPIRAL
The photographer ______ is remembered as a Pictorialist with an aesthetic vision shaped by the Aesthetic Movement.
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON
Tiepolo worked on The Marriage of Frederick Barbarossa in the _______.
Kaisersaal, Wurzburg
The interior of Il Gesu uses __________ for emotional and expressive purposes.
LIGHT
Daumier, It's Safe to Release This One (fig. 25.4)
LITHOGRAPH
The medium used to reproduce Toulouse−Lautrec"s posters
LITHOGRAPHY
A covered gallery space that has at least one open side is called a __________ .
LOGGIA
______ use of sharp contrasts of light and dark, and his detailed naturalism, ultimately derive from Caravaggio.
La Tour's
Tatlin's Constructivist Productivism called for an aesthetic revolution that would redesign everything to be more ______.
MACHINELIKE
The French sculptor who produced three- dimensional works inspired by ancient Greek sculpture was ______.
MAILLOL
Beginning in the 1520s, the artificial style known as __________ began to seen in Florence.
MANIERA
Brancusi, Newborn (fig. 27.35)
MARBLE
Michelangelo, Awakening Prisoner
MARBLE
Alessandro Algardi, The Meeting of Pope Leo I and Attila (fig. 19.32)
MARBLE RELIEF SCULPTURE
______ is an Impressionist famous for sanctifying images of mothers and children.
MARY CASSATT
Less is ______" was the motto of Mies van der Rohe, a High Modernist.
MORE
Technique used to create photomontage
MULTIPLE-NEGATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe (fig. 28.55)
MURAL (FRESCO)
The photographer who used multiple cameras to study animal and human locomotion was _____.
MUYBRIDGE
Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere sponsored several important projects in the last quarter of the century. One of these was the building at the Vatican of a new chapel for the Pope, called the Sistine Chapel after Sixtus IV.
TRUE
~Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus (fig. 24.20), a story of sex and violence, is set in the ancient Near East, and based on a Romantic poem.
TRUE
In Homer's Snap the Whip, the children's game can be seen as symbolic of ______.
NATIONAL UNION AFTER CIVIL WAR
Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait (fig. 19.6)
OIL ON CANVAS
Giorgione, The Tempest
OIL ON CANVAS
Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV (fig. 21.10)
OIL ON CANVAS
Rembrandt, Return of the Prodigal Son (fig. 20.26)
OIL ON CANVAS
Claude Lorrain, Pastoral Landscape (fig. 21.8)
OIL ON COPPER
Leonardo, Mona Lisa
OIL ON PANEL
Man Ray, The Gift (fig. 28.21)
PAINTED FLATIRON AND TACKS
Artemisia Gentileschi's father was a ______.
PAINTER
The Bibliotheque Ste. Genevieve is located in _______.
PARIS
Rosalba Carriera, Charles Sackville(p. 769)
PASTEL ON PAPER
PIERRE
PAUL PUDGET, MILO OF CROTONA (FIG. 21.20) ->MARBLE
Leonardo, Embryo in the Womb
PEN DRAWING
Raoul Hausmann, ABCD (fig. 28.4)
PHOTOMONTAGE
The art movement that imitated mass media and commercial imagery was ______.
POP ART
Until the second quarter of the nineteenth century, nearly all American paintings were ______.
PORTRAITS
The nude woman in Manet's Luncheon (like Olympia) was assumed to be a ______.
PROSTITUE
Pietro da Cortona's stunningly illusionistic ceiling, Allegory of Divine Providence (fig. 19.11), pays tribute to ______.
Pope Urban VIII
Realism arose simultaneously with the______.
REVOLUTION OF 1848
The painter who authored "The Discourses" and gave regular lectures on art theory at the British Royal Academy was _____.
REYNOLDS
______ was a painter in the color-field school of Abstract Expressionism.
ROTHKO
Millet's The Sower (fig. 25.3) is ______.
Realist in its subject matter and Romantic in its sensibility
Which of the following pairs (artist—avant-garde movement) is mismatched? ______
Richard Serra—Pop Art
Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans (seen in fig. 29.16)
SILKSCREENS
Rembrandt, Portrait of Saskia (fig. 20.21)
SILVERPOINT ON PARCHMENT
Which of the following is NOT prized by Romanticism? ______.
STANDARS AND LOGIC
The materials used for the Schlesinger Meyer Building
STEEL FRAME FACED WITH TERRA COTTA
Inspired by Piranesi, Sir John Soane's Consols Office (fig. 24.30) was Neoclassical and ______.
SUBLIME
Romare Bearden's collage The Prevalence of Ritual: Baptism combines a fractured Cubist composition with a concern for issues of African-American identity.
TRUE
Sir Christopher Wren showed very little interest in architecture until he was about 30 years old.
TRUE
A painting by Poussin (fig. 21.7) shows ______ on the island of Patmos.
St. John
Fluxus artist Nam June Paik constructed Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S. (fig. 29.31) out of neon, steel and ______.
TELEVISION MONITORS
Media used by Munch for The Scream
TEMPERA AND CASEIN
Antoine Coysevox, Charles Le Brun (fig. 21.19)
TERRA COTTA
Clodion, Nymph and Satyr Carousing (fig. 22.12)
TERRA COTTA
Bernini, Head of St. Jerome (p. 687)
TERRA COTTA BOZETTO
Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print (fig. 20.24) draws its subject matter from ______.
THE GOSPEL OF ST. MATTHEW
The "picture-within-the-picture" in Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance depicts ______
THELAST JUDGMENT
The great eighteenth century master of Italian illusionistic ceiling decorations was _______.
TIEPOLO
The format for most northern altarpieces was the __________ arrangement.
TRIPTYCH
Watteau, Seated Young Woman (fig. 22.3)
TROIS CRAYON DRAWING
British Realism (e.g., the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) can be seen as a reaction against industrialization, materialism and the complexity of modern life.
TRUE
Donatello's innovations in Florence soon became known elsewhere in Italy, leading to commissions in other cities, such as Siena and Padua. His career was long and productive making him the most influential sculptor of fifteenth century Italy.
TRUE
Figures in Leonardo's Adoration of the Magi are united by gesture, gaze, chiaroscuro, and their pyramidal arrangement.
TRUE
Hals' Banquet of the Officers of the St. George Civic Guard (fig. 20.16) is an especially lively group portrait made up of twelve "speaking likenesses."
TRUE
Hartley's Portrait of a German Officer (fig. 27.39) is an unconventional portrait inasmuch as the sitter is absent.
TRUE
Hector Guimard designed entrances to the Paris Metro stations for the Paris Exposition of 1900.
TRUE
Iconology considers meaning (iconography) in a specific historical context.
TRUE
In the Rococo era, the status of interior design and decorative arts approached that of Fine Art.
TRUE
The Mona Lisa's sitter is represented at half-length and in a three-quarters pose.
TRUE
Picasso, Violin (fig. 27.8)
construction
Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographs (like fig. 28.20) are considered Surrealist because they ______.
contain the strange and unexpected
Italian word for "set against." a Composition developed by Greeks to represent movement in a figure. the parts of the body are placed asymmetrically in opposition to each other around a central axis, and careful attention is pains to the distribution of weight.
contrapposto
In Venice, Canaletto specialized in ______, views of city landscapes, which were often purchased by young Englishmen as souvenirs of the Grand Tour.
VEDUTE
The Villa Rotonda by Palladio is located in the city of
VICENZA TOLEDO ROME
The painter who employed colors based on a personal system of symbolism was ______.
Van Gogh
Julio Gonzalez, Head (fig. 28.13)
WELDED IRON
Smith, Cubi (fig. 29.6)
WELDING AND BURNISHED STAINLESS STEEL
______ was a visionary British artist and poet who resisted the stultifying effects of civilization and its institutions.
WILLIAM BLAKE
______ applies the Neoclassical vocabulary of history painting to genre paintings of American subjects.
WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT
Ando Hiroshige, Plum Estate (fig. 25.13)
WOODBLOCK PRINT
The primary goal of Art Nouveau was to _______.
raise the crafts to the level of fine art
In his Last Supper (fig. 15.29.), Castagno focused attention on the three key characters by______.
accentuating the marble panel behind them
Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel (fig. 27.32)
assemblage
Die Brucke artists adopted the medium of woodcut (e.g., fig. 27.13) because ______.
both it lent itself to curvilinear grace and elegance and of its expressively raw and organic qualities are correct.
Vermeer may have employed a ______, a drawing device that transferred an external scene to the inside of a light->proof box.
camera obscura
According to legend, some of the subjects of Rembrandt's Night Watch (fig. 20.23) were dissatisfied with the group portrait because they felt it______.
featured some company members, and obscured others
To Poussin, an "ideal" landscape (such as fig. 21.7) would be ______.
heroic, serene and classically balanced
Durer's Self-Portrait (fig. 18.16) is patterned after ______.
images of Christ
A plein-air painting ______.
is executed outdoors, on-the-spot
The spatial composition of the Last Supper by Tintoretto was affected by __________.
its placement on the wall to the right of the altar
Leonardo unsuccessfully used __________ for the painting of the Last Supper.
oil-tempera combination Correct
The point of view in Aldorfer's Battle of Issus (fig. 18.21) is ______.
omniscient, from high above
The pose and proportions of the lovelorn man in A Young Man Among the Roses (fig. 18.25) are derived from ______.
the Mannerists of the School of Fontainebleau
Rosa Bonheur's Plowing in the Nivernais (fig. 25.6) is Realist (in the Courbet sense of the term) except for ______.
the careful, deliberate composition, and the avoidance of the unseemly
A lute, seen in fig. 20.15 and 20.35, traditionally signifies ______
the harmony between lovers
An important theme in Warhol's art is ______.
the impact, ubiquity and repetitive sameness of advertising and consumer culture
In his Women Series, de Kooning "did the unthinkable" in that ______.
the paintings were representational
By the late 1960's, the Post-Minimal aesthetic operated on an enormous scale, not only far beyond the confines of the gallery but far away from the art world, and in many instances in uninhabited remote areas. Several artist began sculpting with earth, snow, volcanoes, lightning, and deep-sea sites, their work often temporary and existing today only in photographs and drawings.
true
Formalist painting emerged in the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, the early 1950's and enlarge part as a reaction to it.
true
Pop Art is a style of art that emerged in New York in the 1960's - The style got its name because it derives it imagery from popular or vernacular culture
true
The most famous art critic in the United States was in the 1940'sand well into the 1960's was Clement Greenberg, who wrote art reviews for The Nation and The Partisan Review.
true
While Pop Art emerged in America in the early 1960's it had already appeared in London in the mid 1950's.
true
In William Holman Hunt's The Awakening Conscience (fig. 25.23), the room is full of ______
vulgar products of crass consumerism
Schiele, Self-Portrait with Twisted Arm (fig. 27.19)
watercolor and charcoal
Hammons, Higher Goals (fig. 29.35)
wood poles, basketball hoops, bottle caps, and other objects
