Final Exam WH2 21 MC

Who was the architect responsible for the new layout of the city of Paris, begun in 1852, that is referenced in Caillebotte's Paris: A Rainy Day?

Georges Haussmann

Which Dada artist modified mass-produced objects into "readymades" given the status of art in the eyes of viewers?

Marcel Duchamp

Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space reveals the artist's concern with what?

Movement

Which painter made Parisian dance halls and clubs the subjects of many of his paintings, including Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette?

Renoir

Which painting genre was most useful for Cézanne's experiments with remaking Impressionism to emphasize the permanent rather than the transitory?

Still-life

Picasso's work entitled Still Life with Chair-Caning is representative of which style?

Synthetic Cubism

Which art critic asserted the importance of strict formalism, in which the emphasis is on the elements rather than the subject of an artwork?

Clement Greenberg

Which artist sought to create a universal means of expression by using only a palette of the three primary colors, gradations of black and white, and horizontal and vertical lines?

Piet Mondrian

What artist chose to employ the commercial printing technique of benday dots on a large scale?

Roy Lichtenstein

What printing method did Andy Warhol employ to create multiple images of the same object, such as a Coke bottle or a soup can?

Silk-screen

At the turn of the 20th century, artists who were viewed as being ahead of their time and who transgressed the limits of established art forms are referred to by what term?

Avant-Garde

Georges Seurat referred to his painting technique relying on an optical effect involving spots of color as ________________.

Divisionism

Vassily Kandinsky's move to abstraction rather than representation can be attributed to the scientific theories of which individual?

Einstien

In which work does van Gogh say that he is trying to "express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green"?

Night Cafe

Which 20th-century art movement sought to harness the communicative power of art to reach a wide audience?

Pop Art

Which artistic movement had its roots in Impressionist precepts and methods but could not be considered stylistically homogeneous?

Post-impressionism

Which Impressionist artist specialized in indoor scenes of bodies in motion, sometimes using a camera to make preliminary studies for his work?

Degas

What art historical term describes Monet's practice of painting his works outdoors?

En plein air

Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of which art form?

Japanese woodblock prints

The firm outlines surrounding areas of unmodulated color in Gauguin's Vison after the Sermon reflect his interest in which medium?

Stained Glass