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