ARH 21
What formal choices did many Realist painters make to emphasize the dismal nature of manual labor?
a rough textured surface a palette of browns and grays visible and loose brushstrokes
Who among the following artists liked to paint images of the Romantic sublime landscape?
Friedrich
______________ 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 Gross Clinic after:
Rembrandt's 'Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp'
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
Winslow Homer's Veteran in a New Field is a commentary on the aftermath of the:
U.S. Civil War
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
Constable's Haywain avoids the _________, which was a characteristic of the agrarian working class of the 19th century.
civil unrest
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
How do the paintings of Goya reflect the interests of Romanticists?
he expressively depicts nightmarish and violent scenes
The French public was scandalized by Manet's painting Olympia because:
he model looked directly at the viewer
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 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 art should reflect the realities of the era in which it is made that an artist should commit to representing reality as it is seen
Gericault's Raft of the Medusa depicted dramatically which then-contemporary event?
the aftermath of a French shipwreck
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
Timothy O'Sullivan's photographs of the U.S. Civi War emphasized:
the human cost of war
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'
Eakins believed that ________ and scientific knowledge were prerequisites for his art?
visual observation
Muybridge used a _________________ to project his sequence of images onto a screen.
zoopraxiscope