Hum Fiero Ch. 13

Which philosopher wrote The Subjection of Women, in which he condemned the subordination of women to men as a chief hindrance to human improvement?

John Stuart Mill

What feature was a concentration of the Postimpression style?

Formal language of art

Select all that apply What benefits came from the use of cast iron in architecture?

-Taller structures -Wider structures

Select all that apply What aspects of Le Moulin de la Galette are Impressionistic?

-The flickering light of late afternoon sun -The casual setting of Parisian society

Select all that apply Which statements about Impressionist art are true?

-The subject matter involved leisure and urban pleasures. -They rejected traditional themes for contemporary ones.

Select all that apply Which subjects were examined in nineteenth-century Realist literature?

-The subjugation of women -The plight of the working class -The social consequences of middle-class materialism

Select all that apply What characteristics are found in Paul Cezanne's still life painting, The Basket of Apples?

-Three-dimensionality -Pictorial unity

Which novel by Flaubert tells the story of a middle-class woman who desperately seeks to escape the boredom of her mundane existence?

Madame Bovary

Impressionist painters were generally most interested in which of the following subjects? (Made with Review quiz)

Leisure activities

What printmaking process offered an inexpensive means for inserting illustrations in nineteenth-century newspaper, magazines, and books?

Lithography

Which nineteenth-century philosopher and poet envisioned the emergence of a "superman" (Übermensch) who would save humanity from decadence and decline?

Nietzsche

An accurate, matter-of-fact depiction of villagers shopping at a market would fit which of the following styles?

Realism

In the mid-nineteenth century, an early form of photography, the ___________ produced an image using a light-sensitive metal plate and common chemicals.

daguerreotype

Those who organize, manage, and assume the risks of a business are known as ______.

entrepreneurs

Discoveries in the physics of ________ profoundly influenced late nineteenth-century art. (Made with Review quiz)

light

French artist Honoré Daumier produced more than 4,000 ______ for Paris newspapers and journals.

lithographs

Select all that apply Which were inspirations for Claude Debussy, as heard in his Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun?"

-Symbolist poetry -Indonesian music

Select all that apply Which statements about American painter Thomas Eakins are true?

-He became an influential art instructor -He trained in Europe

Select all that apply Which statements about Vincent Van Gogh and his artwork are true?

-He painted landscapes, still lifes, and portraits featuring flat, bright colors. -He favored short, choppy brushstrokes.

Select all that apply What factor was a main driver of colonialism by industrialized European nations in the nineteenth century?

-A need for raw materials -New markets for manufactured goods

Select all that apply Which subjects did Daumier commonly use for for his lithographs?

-Advancing technology of modern life -The streets of Paris -The law courts

Select all that apply Which of the following statements about Nietzsche are true?

-He rejected organized religion and claimed, "God is dead." -He criticized democratic institutions.

Select all that apply Which is true of Paul Gauguin's life?

-He was deeply inspired by nature. -He roomed with Van Gogh in Arles. -He abandoned his wife, children, and job.

Select all that apply Which statements about Daumier and his art are true?

-His lithographs were precursors of political cartoons. -He drew attention to and ridiculed human weaknesses.

Select all that apply Which statements about Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec are true?

-His work was influenced by the flat shapes of Japanese woodblock prints. -He pioneered the art of modern poster design.

Select all that apply What forms did Nietzsche use to express his philosophical ideas?

-Aphorisms -Maxims

Select all that apply In The Day of the God (Mahana no Atua), Gauguin's use of bright blues, yellows, and pinks suggest the influence of what artistic style(s)?

-Art Nouveau -Japanese prints

Which characteristics are part of Realism? (Click/drag)

-Demoralizing situations -Environment molds people's destinies -Social criticism and consequences -Unsentimental depictions of life

Which characteristics are part of Romanticism? (Click/drag)

-Emotional expression -Nationalism and heroism -Nature and the sublime -Refuge from industrialization

Select all that apply What three countries were involved in a triangular trade pattern in opium and tea during the nineteenth century?

-India -China -Great Britain

Select all that apply What characteristics describe Georges Seurat's painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte?

-It provides a comforting alternative to the chaos of experience. -Isolated, self-contained figures seem aloof and devoid of human feeling.

Select all that apply What traits can frequently be seen in the Impressionist works of Mary Cassatt?

-Large areas of brilliant color -Unusual perspectives -Indoor scenes

Select all that apply What were the major features of Impressionist art?

-Luminosity -Interaction of light and form -Synthetic pigments

Select all that apply What characteristics apply to Impressionism?

-Nature rendered in short strokes of brilliant color -Painterly spontaneity -Celebration of leisure activities of urban life

Select all that apply What influenced Edgar Degas' paintings, such as the deliberately random view in Two Dancers on a Stage?

-Photography -Japanese woodcuts

Select all that apply Which features describe Postimpressionist art?

-Pictorial invention -Art for art's sake -Emphasis on color and composition

Select all that apply What themes and subjects of Romanticism and Neoclassicism did Realist painters abandon?

-Remote, exotic, and heroic -Sentimentality

Select all that apply What did Gustave Courbet banish from his paintings?

-Sentimentality -Artifice

Select all that apply Which was an influence on Thomas Eakins's selection of subject matter?

-Sports -Scientific anatomy

The operas of which composer paralleled the Realist movement in painting? (Made with Review quiz)

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Which of the following is NOT true of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche? (Made with Review quiz)

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Van Gogh's work features all of the following EXCEPT which feature? (Made with Review quiz)

A smooth veneer

What is called for in The Communist Manifesto?

Abolishment of private ownership

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels demanded the forcible overthrow of what?

All existing social conditions

Georges Seurat believed that, to best reflect how the eye perceives color, paint should be which of the following? (Made with Review quiz)

Applied as dots of pure color

What ornamental style became popular in the late nineteenth century?

Art Nouveau

What aspect of Edgar Degas's composition, Two Dancers on a Stage, implies the influence of photography?

Asymmetrical arrangement of figures

Which sculptor captured the physical vitality of the human figure?

Auguste Rodin

Who was the leading European sculptor of the late nineteenth century?

Auguste Rodin

How did Paul Cezanne challenge traditional distinctions between foreground and background in his painting, Mont Sainte-Victoire?

By applying colors of the same intensity to different parts of the canvas

European industrialization and the unequal distribution of wealth contributed to a widening gap between what two segments of society?

Capitalist entrepreneurs and working classes

What new structural medium dramatically changed the history of architecture in the nineteenth century?

Cast iron

Like Symbolist poetry, the music of which late nineteenth century composer engages the listener through nuance and atmosphere?

Claude Debussy

What was NOT a feature of the music of Debussy? (Made with Review quiz)

Close imitation of the clarity of the classical sonata form

The American skyscraper was the prime architectural expression of what modern feature?

Corporate power

In painting, ________ led the Realist movement with canvases depicting the activities of humble and commonplace men and women. (Made with Review quiz)

Courbet

Paxton's ________, the world's first prefabricated cast-iron structure, offered a prophetic glimpse into the decades that would produce steel-framed skyscrapers. (Made with Review quiz)

Crystal Palace

The work of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge had a major impact on the art of which of the following? (Made with Review quiz)

Degas

What does Daumier's Third Class Carriage emphasize? (Made with Review quiz)

Dehumanizing reality of travel for the poor

In Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary, what is the result of Emma's attempts to live out fantasies from her favorite romance novels?

Destruction

What type of approach best describes Naturalist authors, such as Emile Zola?

Deterministic

What author, in his works, suggests that a sentimental faith in kindness and good cheer are the best antidotes to the bitterness of contemporary life?

Dickens

Brady's photos from the Civil War, including Dead Confederate Soldier with Gun, exemplifies the significance of what style of photography?

Documentary

Which adjective best describes Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

Dreamlike

What painting illustrates Edouard Manet's habit for challenging established norms of the art world?

Déjeuner sur l'herbe

Who initiated the variant form of literary Realism known as naturalism?

Emile Zola

How can Vincent Van Gogh's use of color in his painting Starry Night best be described?

Expressive

True or false: Most of the colonial territories saw a marked increase in productivity and originality following colonization.

False

What was the major theme of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House?

Female liberation

Monet avoided which element in his work, Impression: Sunrise?

Fixed contours

How can the atmosphere of Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte be described?

Frozen (In the work, each figure assumes a preordained place, isolated from the next figure as if it were frozen in time and space.)

Which Russian author's work was influenced by his experience while in exile working hard labor in Siberia?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Millet's painting Gleaners depicts what menial task of the rural proletariat, or peasants?

Gathering bits of grains left over after harvest

Who rejected the formlessness of Impressionism and combined formal pictorial construction with unorthodox painting technique?

Georges Seurat

Which nineteenth-century composer was known for his Realist operas?

Giacomo Puccini

What two architectural styles of the past and future does the the Eiffel Tower link?

Gothic and International

What subject is central to Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment?

Guilt

Which artist said "Show me an angel and I'll paint one"? (Made with Review quiz)

Gustave Courbet

Who is considered the leading Realist of nineteenth-century French painting?

Gustave Courbet

How did Monet's application of color differ from traditional methods previously used?

He ignored the use of brown underglazes

Whose art captured the seamy side of Parisian life—the life of cabaret dancers and prostitutes?

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Who is the nineteenth-century Norwegian dramatist who shocked the public with controversial subjects including insanity, incest, and venereal disease?

Henrik Ibsen

What aspect of Paul Cézanne's paintings identify him as a bridge between nineteenth-century and twentieth-century art?

His focus on the formal elements of painting

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette exemplifies which Parisian artistic movement?

Impressionism

How does The Gulf Stream demonstrate Winslow Homer's criticism of imagery depicting African-Americans as merry and content?

It serves as a metaphor for the isolation and plight of black Americans after the Civil War.

Why was Edouard Manet's Olympia considered offensive to public taste when it premiered?

It signaled the viewer's voyeurism.

Which artist was referred to as "the peasant painter"?

Jean-François Millet

Which of the following pairs, linking artist with subject matter, is NOT correct? (Made with Review quiz)

Manet and birds

What phrase was used in North America to describe and justify a policy of unlimited expansion?

Manifest destiny

Which author, as humorist, journalist, and social critic, offered entertainment and vivid insight into the dynamics of a unique time and place: the American South just prior to the Civil War.?

Mark Twain

Which Impressionist artist brought a unique sensitivity to domestic themes featuring mothers and children?

Mary Cassatt

Winslow Homer objected to what depiction of African Americans in art?

Merry and content slaves

The French artist whose painting gave a name to the Impressionist school was which of the following? (Made with Review quiz)

Monet

What set Monet apart from his predecessors who also deviated from academic techniques?

Monet interpreted form as color itself.

Charles Dickens vividly portrays the slums, orphanages, and boarding schools of London in what novel?

Oliver Twist

What is shocking about Manet's depiction of the female figure in his painting, Déjeuner sur l'herbe?

Ordinary, naked appearance

Who of the following is considered the first modernist painter?

Paul Cézanne

What is Georges Seurat's novel use of tiny dots painted side by side that gave the impression of solid form called?

Pointillism

Which best describes the style of Art Nouveau?

Seductive, ornamental forms

In Ibsen's A Doll's House, why does Nora leave Torvald? (Made with Review quiz)

She wishes to stand alone and make her own decisions??????

The railroad was made possible by the combined technologies of what elements?

Steam power, coal, and iron

In terms of industrialization, the "haves" and "have-nots" referred to which of the following?

The technologically advanced and the technologically backward

What novel wrestles with the realities of greed, hypocrisy, and issues of racism in American society during the mid-nineteenth century?

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

What monument, constructed for the Paris World Exhibition of 1889, became a symbol of early Modernism?

The Eiffel Tower

What technological phenomenon facilitated economic and political expansion in the early nineteenth century?

The railroad

Realism in nineteenth-century literature was concerned with honest depictions of what themes?

The plight of working-class men and women

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels envisioned the new ruling class to be which of the following? (Made with Review quiz)

The proletariat

Which Russian novelist renounced his wealth and went to live and work with peasants?

Tolstoy

True or false: Impressionism was never a single, uniform style.

True

How did John Stuart Mill view the position of women in nineteenth-century society?

Unwilling subjects of more powerful males

What is a type of late nineteenth-century opera that presents a realistic picture of everyday life?

Verismo

Tolstoy's historical fiction, ______, exposed the privileged position of the Russian nobility and the exploitation of the peasantry.

War and Peace

Which writer initiated a variant form of literary Realism known as naturalism? (Made with Review quiz)

Zola

In capitalism, those who provide money to finance business are known as ______.

capitalists

In his work Olympia, Edouard Manet offended public taste by replacing the traditional goddess figure with a ______.

courtesan (a high-class prostitute)

Monet's seascape painting, Impression: Sunrise, emphasizes ______ one sees.

how

the working class

proletariats

The advancing technology of ______ made the skyscraper possible.

steel