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