AH Chap 26-28
Exposure to the art treasures of Italy on the Grand Tour played a major role in the rise of __
classicism
Who liked to paint images of the Romantic transcendental landscape?
Caspar David Freidrich
"I want to make of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums" -?
Cezanne
Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships?
Cezanne
The __ is a free variation on Palladio's Villa Rotonda
Chiswick House
The leading figure of the Realist movement was
Courbet
A major force of political, social, and economic change in the 18th century was the __
Industrial Revolution
__ artists disdained Realism as trivial
French symbolist
__ is sometimes describes as the first modern architect
Louis Henry Sullivan
The influence of __ is evident in Rodin's interest in the effect of light on the sculpted surface
Impressionism
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
Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of
Japanese prints
The philosopher __ believed that the human capacity for feeling, sensibility, and emotions came before reason
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
__ was one of the first Romantic artists to depict the dark terrain of the subconscious
John Henry Fuseli
The American artist Thomas Eakins may have modeled The Gross Clinic on
Rembrandt's Anatomy Lessons of Dr. Nicholas Tulp
Although Francois Rude's sculptures La Marseillaise for the Arc de Triomphe are neoclassical in style, the dramatic motion made it typical of
Romanticism
Described as awe mixed with terror, the notion of the sublime influenced __
Romanticism
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
Winslow Homer's Veteran in a New Field is a commentary on the aftermath of the __
civil war
Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionists, her paintings are inhabited by
domestic scenes
In the Apparition, Moreau portrayed a __, a theme that appealed to the artist and many of his friends
femme fatale
Antione Watteau's depiction of the amusements and entertainments of the upper classes is called a
fete galante (amorous festival)
Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in what ways?
he depicted modern life in an intellectual way
Timothy O'Sullivan's photography aimed to impress on people
high price of war
In the absence of a contrived pose, Vigee-Lebrun's Self-Portrait characterized the new __ in art
naturalism
The Thankful Poor by Tanner reflects the typical Realist subject matter of
ordinary people
Napoleon converted La Madeleine in Paris from a church into a
temple to the glory of the great army
Gericault's Raft of the Medusa immortalized
the aftermath of a French shipwreck
Julia Margaret Cameron used a short focal length lens that allowed only a small area of sharp focus. What kind of effect would a lens like this produce?
the blurriness added a dreamlike tone to the photographs
In contrast to artists of the French Academy, the Impressionists attempted to capture
the moment- momentary, sensory effect of a scene
The real subject of Monet's Rouen Cathedral is
the sunlight on the building's main portal
Courbet's use of __ in The Stone Breakers further conveyed the dismal nature of manual labor?
A palette of dirty browns and grays
Napoleon's favorite sculptor was
Antonib Canova
Which architect conceived the building as a whole and molded it almost as a clay sculpture?
Antonio Gaudi
In Klimt's The Kiss, the patterning has clear ties to the __ movement
Art Nouvau movement & Arts and Crafts movement
Members of the __ movement dedicated themselves to making functional objects w/ a high aesthetic value
Arts and Crafts
Jacques Louis David painted the __ to provide inspiration and encouragement to revolutionary forces
Oath of Horatii
Thomas Jefferson's redesign of Monticello was influenced by __ and the Chiswick house?
Palladio's Villa Rotonda
The group of philosophers known as the __ believed that the ills of humanity could be remedied by applying reason and common sense to problems
Philosophies
Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality were most typical of which of the following styles?
Symbolists
Who studies with Eakins before moving to Paris?
Tanner
Who was the most prominent member of the Hudson River School of landscape painting?
Thomas Cole?
The American leader __ embraced Neoclassicism because of its associations with important virtues such as morality, idealism, and patriotism
Thomas Jefferson
Although __ painted familiar Impressionist subjects, his exaggeration of each element created a new tone
Toulouse-lautrec
Sargent's technique of applying paint in thin layers was influenced by
Velasquez
"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
A leading advocate of the Enlightenment in France was which of the following?
Voltaire
How does Casa Mila represent Antonio Gaudi's ability to conceive a building as a whole and mold it almsot as a sculptor would create a figure from clay?
approached architecture as if buildings were organic, living forms; freeform (molded not built)
Thomas Eakins believed that __ and scientific knowledge were prerequisites for his art
careful observation
Constable's Haywain avoids the __, which was a characteristic of the agrarian working class
civil unrest
In Rosetti's Beata Beatrix, the artist incorporated a __ to commemorate his wife's death
poppy
In Pilgrimage to Cythera, by Watteau, the elegant and sweet __ are hallmarks of the artist's style
poses
Muybridge used a __ to project his sequence of images onto a screen
praxiscope
Although possessing the Realist passion for accuracy, Rose Bonheur did not depict __
problematic social and political themes
The French viewing public were greatly horrified by Manet's Olympia because of her __
profession and her look of indifference & shamelessness
The __ were the defenders of academism who insisted that line was superior to color
pussinistes
In light of the 1848 revolution, Salon jurors considered Courbet's depiction of the rural poor in The Stone Breakers as
socialist
What ideas did Vincent van Gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night?
vastness of the universe
In Night Cafe the artist has communicated the "madness" of the place by selecting and juxtaposing
vivid hues