Quiz 5
Thomas Eakins believed that ____ and scientific knowledge were prerequisites for his art.
observation
In light of the 1848 revolution, Salon jurors considered Courbet's depiction of the rural poor in The Stone Breakers as ____.
socialistic
Napoleon converted La Madeleine in Paris from a church into a ____.
temple of glory for his armies
Which of the following architects 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 Nouveau
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?
Ethereal, dreamlike images
Who among the following artists liked to paint images of the Romantic transcendental landscape?
Friedrich
The ____ were the defenders of academism who insisted that line was superior to color.
Poussinistes
Described as awe mixed with terror, the notion of the sublime influenced ____.
Romanticism
Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality were most typical of which of the following styles?
Symbolists
Who studied with Eakins before moving to Paris?
Tanner
Members of the ____ movement dedicated themselves to making functional objects with a high aesthetic value.
Arts and Crafts
Timothy O'Sullivan's photography aimed to impress on people ____.
the high cost of war
Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionists, her paintings are inhabited by ____.
women and children
Muybridge used a ____ to project his sequence of images onto a screen.
zoopraxiscope
Napoleon's favorite sculptor was _____.
Canova
____ artists disdained Realism as trivial.
Symbolist
Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?
His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men such as Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul
The influence of ____ is evident in Rodin's interest in the effect of light on the sculpted surface.
Impressionism
Antonio Gaudi longed to create an architectural style that was both modern and appropriate for his native country of Spain. How does Casa Milá represent his ability to conceive a building as a whole and mold it almost as a sculptor would create a figure from clay?
It is a free-form mass wrapped around a street corner.
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 woodblock prints
____ is sometimes described as the first modern architect.
Louis Henry Sullivan
In contrast to artists of the French Academy, the Impressionists attempted to capture ____.
the fleeting aspects of reality
Which of the following artists was the most prominent member of the Hudson River School of landscape painting?
Cole
The leading figure of the Realist movement was ____.
Courbet
Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships?
Cézanne
Who said: "I want to make of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums"?
Cézanne
____ was one of the first Romantic artists to depict the dark terrain of the subconscious.
Henry Fuseli
Sargent's technique of applying paint in thin layers was influenced by ____.
Las Meninas
The American artist Thomas Eakins may have modeled the The Gross Clinic on ____.
Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Although François Rude's sculptures La Marseillaise for the Arc de Triomphe are neoclassical in style, the dramatic motion made it typical of ____.
Romanticism
Although ____ painted familiar Impressionist subjects, his exaggeration of each element created a new tone.
Toulouse-Lautrec
Which of the following ideas did Vincent van Gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night?
Vastness of the universe
Courbet's use of ____ in the The Stone Breakers further conveyed the dismal nature of manual labor?
a palette of dirty browns and grays
Constable's Haywain avoids the ____, which was a characteristic of the agrarian working class.
civil unrest
Winslow Homer's Veteran in a New Field is a commentary on the aftermath of the ____.
civil war
The French viewing public were greatly horrified by Manet's Olympia because of her ____.
defiant look
In The Apparition, Moreau portrayed a ____, a theme that appealed to the artist and many of his friends.
femme fatale
The Thankful Poor by Tanner reflects the typical Realist subject matter of ____.
ordinary people
In Rossetti's Beata Beatrix, the artist incorporated a ____ to commemorate his wife's death.
poppy
Although possessing the Realist passion for accuracy, Rosa Bonheur did not depict ____.
social and political theme
Géricault's Raft of the Medusa immortalized ____.
the aftermath of a French shipwreck
The real subject of Monet's Rouen Cathedral is ____.
the sunlight of the portal
In Night Café the artist has communicated the "madness" of the place by selecting and juxtaposing ____.
vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity
