Week 10 Art History

What formal choices did many Realist painters make to emphasize the dismal nature of manual labor?

-A palette of browns and grays -Visible and loose brushstrokes -A rough textured surface

Whereas Neoclassical artists were influenced by the Enlightenment ideals of reason and rationality, Romantic artists sought out what in their work?

-Emotion -Personal freedom -Imagination

Which of the following characterizes French Realist artist Gustave Courbet's attitude about art?

-That art depicting religious ideologies or abstract ideals from mythology were not relevant to modern artists -That an artist should commit to representing reality as it is seen -That art should reflect the realities of the era in which is made

Why did Millet's The Gleaners get a negative response from the Parisian art world of the 19th century?

-The dignity millet gave to the activity of gleaning -The recent legal disputes regarding peasants' gleaning rights -The artist imbued a noble monumentality to the rural poor

In what ways did certain early uses of photography in the 19th century correspond to the tenets of Realism?

An emphasis on scientific objectivity, empiricism, and positivism

Who among the following artists liked to paint images of the Romantic sublime landscape?

Friedrich

How do the paintings of Goya reflect the interests of Romanticists?

He expressively depicts nightmarish and violent scenes

( ) was one of the first Romantic artists to depict the dark terrain of the subconscious.

Henry Fusili

Which French Neoclassical artist aligned himself with Napoleon in order to resurrect his career following the French Revolution?

Jacques Louis-David

Who is credited with the invention of photography in the late 1830s?

Louis Daguerre

American Realist painter Thomas Eakins may have modeled his painting The Gros Clinic after:

Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp

In light of the 1848 revolution, Salon jurors considered Courbet's depiction of the rural poor in The Stone Breakers as:

Socialistic

Which of the following was a significant group of U.S. landscape painters in the 19th century, whose work provided a specifically American take on the landscape tradition?

The Hudson River School

What do Delacroix's painting Death of Sardanapalus and Ingres painting Grande Odalisque have in common?

They both use a Romantic idiom to depict the erotic exoticism of the "Orient"

Muybridge used a ( ) to project his sequence of images onto a screen.

Zoopraxiscope

Julia Margaret Cameron used a short focal length lens that allowed only a small area of sharp focus, producing a(n) ( ) effect.

Ethereal and subjective

The painting The Burial at Ornans by Gustave Courbet reflect the typical Realist subject matter of:

Everyday life of common people

Constable's Haywain avoids the ( ), which was a characteristic of the agrarian working class of the 19th century.

Civil Unrest

The Daguerreotype was easily reproducible, allowing for the quick spread of visual information.

False

Gericault's Raft of the Medusa depicted dramatically which then contemporary event?

The aftermath of a French shipwreck

Timothy O'Sullivan's photographs of the U.S. Civil War emphasized:

The human cost of war

All of the following transformations dramatically re-shaped life in Europe during the 19th century:

The invention of the printing press

The French public was scandalized by Manet's painting Olympia because:

The model looked directly at the viewer

Winslow Homer's Veteran in a New Field is a commentary on the aftermath of the:

U.S. Civil War

Eakins believed that ( ) and scientific knowledge were prerequisites for his art?

Visual observation