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
