Art History 202: Chapter 28

Which structure visually expresses its architect's approach, in which the building is conceived as a whole and molded as a sculptor might shape a figure from clay?

Antonio Gaudi's Casa Mila

Which style developed out of the Arts and Crafts movement and adapted natural forms to the needs of architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts?

Art Nouveau

Members of which movement dedicated themselves to producing functional objects with high aesthetic value for a wide public?

Arts and Crafts

Which leading French sculptor of the later 19th century was known for a Realist sensibility and an interest in the effect of light on sculpted surfaces?

Auguste Rodin

Which artist studied the photography of others, but also used the camera consistently to make preliminary studies for his own work?

Edgar Degas

Which artist produced both paintings and prints whose high emotional charge was a major source of inspiration for the German Expressionists in the early 20th century?

Edvard Munch

Which structure was built for the great exhibition in Paris in 1889 and was originally seen as a symbol of modern Paris?

Eiffel Tower

The color theory of 19th-century chemist Michel-Eugène Chevreul had particular influence on which Post-Impressionist artist?

Georges Seurat

Which artist was a leading practitioner of the pictorial style in photography who became famous for photographs with Symbolist themes?

Gertrude Käsebier

Which structure best embodies Louis Sullivan's dictum "form follows function," expressing the relationship between the building's interior and its exterior?

Guaranty (Prudential) Building

The clearly evident brushstrokes, the attention to light and atmosphere, and the loose handling of form in Impression: Sunrise qualify it as a prime example of which artistic style?

Impressionism

Which American artist principally painted women and children with a combination of objectivity and genuine sentiment?

Mary Cassatt

Which artist painted Summer's Day, a depiction of two well-dressed women in a boat, using the open brushwork and the plein air lighting characteristic of Impressionism?

Morisot

Which artist, known for his still lifes, bathers, and landscape paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire, declared he wanted to "make of Impressionism something solid and enduring"?

Paul Cezanne

Which style of art had its roots in Impressionist precepts and methods, though it was not stylistically homogeneous?

Post-Impressionism

Which movement included artists who express their individual spirit, rejecting the optical world of daily life in favor of fantasy and imagination, as seen in this work by Gustave Moreau?

Symbolism

Which style of art best describes James Ensor's large-scale, multi-figure canvasChrist's Entry into Brussels in 1889?

Symbolism

What aspect of The Tub reveals Degas's distinctly modernist exploration of the premises of painting?

The flatness and attention to the picture's surface

In Caillebotte's Paris: A Rainy Day, the setting is a junction of spacious boulevards, a result of what major urban initiative?

The redesigning of Paris under Napoleon III

Which artist explored the capabilities of colors and distorted forms to express his emotions as he confronted nature?

Vincent Van Gogh