Art History - Chapter 28
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
Members of the ____ movement dedicated themselves to making functional objects with a high aesthetic value.
Arts and Crafts
Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships?
Cézanne
Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?
His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men like Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul.
The influence of ____ is evident in Rodin's interest in the effect of light on the sculpted surface.
Impressionism
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
____ artists disdained Realism as trivial.
Symbolist
Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality were most typical of which of the following styles?
Symbolists
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
In The Apparition, Moreau portrayed a ____, a theme that appealed to the artist and many of his friends.
femme fatale
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
In contrast to artists of the French Academy, the Impressionists attempted to capture ____.
the fleeting aspects of reality
The real subject of Monet's Rouen Cathedral is ____.
the sunlight of the portal
Who said: "I want to make of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums"?
van Gogh
Who said: "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. . . ."?
van Gogh
In Night Café the artist has communicated the "madness" of the place by selecting and juxtaposing ____.
vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity
Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionists, her paintings are inhabited by ____.
women and children