Art history final
The American movement known initially as the Eight and then as the Ash Can School focuses on the___
Bleak and speedy aspects
Which of the Blaue Reiter artists found animals superior to humans as the subject for his art?
Franz Marc
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
Antoine Watteau's depiction of the amusements and entertainment of the upper classes is called?
Féte Galante
Jacques-Louis David painted?
Napoleon crossing the saint- Bernard pass
The American artist Thomas Eakins May have modeled the The Gross Clinic on
Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Described as awe mixed with terror, the notion of the sublime influenced ____.
Romanticism
In synthetic cubist works, such as____, artists constructed paintings and drawings from objects and shapes cut from paper or other materials
Still-life with chair-caning
John Henry Fuseli painted?
The nightmare
Thomas Cole painted ?
The oxbow
Which of the following ideas did Vincent Gogh attempt to communicate in the starry night?
Vastness of the universe
Who painted women adding a balance?
Vermeer
Hall of Mirrors
Versailles
Who said: "instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use color more arbitrarily so as to express myself forcibly.... I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green...."?
Vincent van Gough
In night of café Vincent van Goh has communicated the "madness" of the place by selecting and juxtaposing ______
Vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity
Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionists, her paintings are inhabited by ____.
women and children
Jacques-Louis David painted _____ to provide inspiration and encouragement to revolutionary forces.
Death of Marat
The photographer____ was hired to document the deplorable living conditions of the rural poor
Dorothea Lang
Which of the following works demonstrates the Futurist's interest in motion?
Dynamism of a dog on a leash
The artist whose work best spoke for the French Revolution was which of the following?
Jacques-Louis David
Who painted The Death of Marat?
Jacques-Louis David
Cassatt's style of work owes much to which of the following ?
Japanese woodblock prints
Impressionist artist, including degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of
Japanese woodblock prints
Who painted a self portrait that indicates social prominence?
Judith Leyester
In light of the 1848 revolution, Salon jurors considered Courbet's depiction of the rural poor in The STone Breakers as:
socialistic
____ explored ways to express in art the world of dreams and the unconscious.
surrealism
Napoleon converted La Madeleine in Paris from a church into a ____.
temple of glory for his armies
In contrast to artists of the French Academy, the Impressionists attempted to capture ____.
the fleeting aspects of reality
What message is portrayed in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?
the pervasive loneliness of modern humans
Who painted Return of Cythera?
Antoine Watteau
The Chrysler building by William Van Allen has elements from which of the following styles ?
Art Deco
The creation of _____ allows merchant firms to hold money on account instead of carrying precious metals as a form of payment for trade good?
Bank of Amsterdam
Art historians believe that Vermeer used tools, such as _____ to aid in his virtuous depiction of light?
Camera obscura
Winslow Homer's veteran in a New Field is a commentary on the aftermath of the
Civil war
Who painted "Vanitas Still Life"?
Claesz
Which of the following artists was the most prominent member of the Hudson River school of landscape painting?
Cole
A non objective work refers to work that
Has no reference to the external appearance of the physical world
The influence of_____ is evident in Ruben's heroic figures and foreshortened anatomy in his elevation of the cross
Michelangelo
Who painted The Night Watch?
Rembrandt
At the turn of the century, the French Academy was divided rather sharply between two doctrines. Which taught that color was the most important element?
Rubenistes
Who painted arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseilles?
Rubens
In Jan steen's "the feast of saint Nicolas", he alluded to____ by using children's activities to comment an adult behavior?
Selfishness
Why did Judith Leyester appear as elegantly attired, rather than in her own self-portrait?
She wanted to indicate her social prominence
Who studied with Eakins before moving to Paris?
Tanner
Gustave Courbet painted ?
The stone breakers
The real subject of monet's Rouen Cathedral's____
The sunlight of the portal
Francisco Goya painted?
Third of May
Who was the American leader that embraced Neoclassicism because of its associations with important virtues such as mortality, idealism, and patriotism?
Thomas Jefferson
In the artist's eyes, the Fate of the Animals was almost a premonition of which historical event?
World War I
Courbet's use of ____ in the The Stone Breakers further conveyed the dismal nature of manual labor?
a palette of dirty browns and grays
What style is described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?
cubism
The French viewing public were greatly horrified by Manet's Olympia because of her
defiant look
The Thankful Poor by Tanner reflects the typical Realist subject matter of ____.
ordinary people
