ART HISTORY II Final Exam

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The american movement known initially as the Eight and then as the Ash Can School focused on the _________________.

Bleak and seedy aspects of city life

Antonie Watteau's depiction of the amusements and entertainments of the upper classes is called a _________.

Fete galante (amorour festival)

Which of the Blaue Reiter artists found animals superior to humans as the subject for his art?

Franz Marc

What is the mural-painting technique involving the application of permanent lime proof pigments, diluted in water, on freshly laid lime plaster?

Fresco Painting

Her work is often described as autobiographical because of 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

Jacques Louis David painted the ________ to provide inspiration and encouragement to revolutionary forces.

Oath of Horatti

The thankful Poor by Tanner reflects the typical Realist subject matter of ________

Ordinary People

The american artist Thomas Eakins may have modeled the gross clinic on

Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp

In contrast to artists of the French Academy, the Impressionists attempted to capture _____________.

The fleeting of the universe

What message is portrayed in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?

The pervasive loneliness of modern humans

The cleaning of Michelangelo's sistine chapel ceiling initially shocked art historians because it revealed ______.

Vivid Colors

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 gogh

In Night Cafe, Vincent van Gogh has communicated the "madness" of the place by selecting and juxtaposing _______________.

Vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity

what style is described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?

Cubism

The persistence of memory artist is?

Dali

The french viewing public were greatly horrified by Manet's Olympia because of her __________.

Defiant look

The photographer _______ was hired to document the deplorable living conditions of the rural poor.

Dorothea Lange

Which of the following works demonstrates the Futurists' interest in motion?

Dynamism of Dog on a Leash

A nonobjective work refers to work that _______.

Isn't related to objects in the visible world

The artist whose work best spoke for the French Revolution was which of the following?

Jacques-Louis David

Cassatt's style of work owes much to which of the following?

Japanese prints

In the documentary the Rape of Europe, what was the nickname of the M.F.A.A.S. division that protect art?

Monuments Men

Described as awe mixed with terror, the notion of the sublime influenced _____

romanticism

In Jan Steen's The Feast of Saint Nicolas, he alluded to _____ by using children's activities to comment to adult behavior.

selfishness

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

socialistic

courbet;s use of ______ in the stone breakers further conveyed the dismal nature of manual labor?

A palette of dirty browns and greys

The creation of which of the following allowed merchant firms to hold money on account instead of carrying precious metals as a form of payment for trade goods?

Banks of Amsterdam

Art historians believe that Vermeer used tools, such as the ______, to aid in his virtuoso depiction of light.

Camera obscura

What is Florence's Landmark Cathedral?

Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

Which of the following artists was the most prominent member of the Hudson River School of landscape painting?

Cole

what is the name of this place designed by Francois de Cuvilles?

Hall of mirrors

The influence of ________ is evident in Ruben's heroic figures and foreshortened anatomy in his Elevation of the cross.

Michelangelo

what is the name of the artist that painted, Arrival of Marie de' Medici at Marseilles?

Peter Rubens

In Synthetic Cubist works, such as __________, artists constructed paintings and drawings from objects and shapes cut from paper or other materials.

Picasso's "Still Life with Chair-Caning"

What is the name of the artist that painted, Vantas Still Life?

Pieter Claez

What is the name of this Theodore Gericault Painting?

Raft of the Medusa

What is the name of the artist that painted, the Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (Night Watch)?

Rembrandt

At the turn of the century, the French Academy was divided rather sharply between two doctrines. Which doctrine taught that color was the most important element?

Rubens' doctrine

Why did Judith Leyster appear as elegantly attired, rather than in an artist's smock as Rembrandt did, in her own Self portrait?

She wanted to indicate her social prominence

____________ explored ways to express in art the world of dreams and the unconscious

Surrealism

Who studied with Eakins before moving to Paris?

Tanner

the artist Delaunay shared with Futurism a fascination wit ___________.

Technological innovation

Napoleon converted La Madeline in Paris from a church into a _______.

Temple of glory for his armies

Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of _______.

The Japanese woodblock prints

The real subject of Monet's Rouen Cathedral is ___________.

The sunlight of the portal

Which of the following ideas did Vincent van Gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night?

The vastness of the universe

The American leader ____ embraced Neoclassicism because of its associations with important virtues such as morality, idealism, and patriotism.

Thomas Jefferson

Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionist, her paintings are inhabited by ___________.

Women and children

In the artist's eyes, Fate of the Animals was almost a premonition of which historical event?

World war I

The Chrysler Building by William Van Alen has elements from which of the following styles?

art deco

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

civil war


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