hum 120 exam 3
David's Oath of the Horatii is notable for which of the following?
Emphasis on reason and intellect over emotion and sentiment
What is NOT a feature of Neoclassicism?
Emphasis on sensuous curves and delicate figures
Which of the following is NOT generally considered a painter of the Rococo style?
Greuze
Which artist—whose subject matter was individuals in ordinary settings—challenged, "Show me an angel and I'll paint one?"
Gustave Courbet
Which of the following authors was credited with inventing the modern novel with his Madame Bovary?
Gustave Flaubert
The turn from Romanticism to literary Realism is evident in the novels of which author?
Henrik Ibsen
Which Social Realist is primarily associated with the medium of lithography?
Honoré Daumier
How did Emile Zola view human beings, as depicted in his Naturalistic novels?
In full control of their destinies
What was a quality with which the principles of Romanticism were in agreement?
Individualism
Whose "Ode on a Grecian Urn" concludes that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"?
Keats
In Voltaire's Candide, who is the character of Pangloss modeled on?
Leibniz
Which landmark work, by William Wordsworth, marked the birth of the Romantic movement in England?
Lyrical Ballads
What is a hallmark of Eugène Delacroix's style?
Pictorial license
What was NOT a focus of artists in the Rococo style of painting?
Stark contrasts of light and dark
What characteristics are common to both Neoclassical art and classical music?
Symmetry and formal restraint
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels prophesized that a revolution would make the ________ the new ruling class.
proletariat
Goya immortalized the history of the French occupation of Spain in what landmark series of etchings and aquatints?
"The Disasters of War"
In Romanticism, what was the "sublime?"
Awe-inspiring nature
Which of the following artists' works greatly emphasized the sensuality of the body and were openly erotic?
Boucher
Which author offered realistic (and sentimental) depictions of nineteenth-century society in works such as David Copperfield?
Charles Dickens
The movement known as Impressionism took its title from a painting by which artist?
Claude Monet
What subject was depicted in the most famous paintings of Géricault and Goya?
Current events
In what way did Darwin contribute to the study of biology?
Developing the theory of natural selection
What description of William Hogarth's work is accurate?
It was satirical.
In Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, the artist featured those whom he considered the heroes of revolutionary France, including which group?
Members of the middle and working classes
J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and Thomas Cole were all noted painters of what subject?
Natural landscapes
What belief is reflected in Alexander Pope's saying, "A mighty maze! but not without a plan"?
Nature is rational, but divinely ordered.
London's Houses of Parliament are a landmark example of what style?
Neomedievalism
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, ________ emerged as the center of Western artistic productivity.
Paris
Which artist wished to "redo nature after Poussin," anticipating twentieth-century abstract art in his later works?
Paul Cézanne
Which artist became infatuated with unspoiled nature, especially as it existed in Tahiti (where he relocated after abandoning his job and family)?
Paul Gauguin
What was a feature of Nietzsche's new morality?
Privilege for the "superman"
What was the primary motivating force for late nineteenth-century colonialism?
Raw materials and expanding markets
Voltaire's Candide satirizes what idea?
This is the best of all possible worlds.
Impressionist painters drew largely on what subject matter for their works?
Urban scenes
Goethe's hero, Faust, is symbolic of what Western ideal?
Urge to transcend limitations
Whose engravings exposed the social ills and class discrepancies of British society, even as they mocked universal human vices?
William Hogarth
