Quiz #5 Ch. 27-28

What did Courbet employ in the The Stone Breakers to convey the dismal nature of manual labor?

A palette of dirty browns and grays

Which 19th-century artist painted dramatic landscapes of the western areas of the United States such as Yosemite?

Albert Bierstadt

Which architect designed the interior support frame (armature) of the State of Liberty?

Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel

The Neoclassical portrait statue of Paulina Borghese in the guise of Venus was created by which sculptor?

Antonio Canova

Which Art Nouveau architect invented new structural techniques to allow construction of buildings that are sculpted and organic in form?

Antonio Gaudí

Which artist argued that art is truthful and photographs lie?

Auguste Rodin

Which European artist created this Romantic transcendental landscape painting?

Caspar David Friedrich

Who is the subject of this painting by Édouard Manet?

Claude Monet

Which artist was the most prominent member of the Hudson River School of landscape painting?

Cole

J. M. W. Turner's distinctive style is most recognizable in his use of which element of painting?

Color

Who was the leading figure of the Realist movement in art?

Courbet

Which Impressionist artist specialized in indoor scenes of bodies in motion, sometimes using a camera to make preliminary studies for his work?

Degas

The incorporation of Japanese aesthetics into European painting, a trend referred to as Japonisme, is evident in which artwork?

Degas, The Tub

Gustave Moreau's The Apparition treats which frequent Symbolist theme?

Femme fatale

Who was the architect responsible for the new layout of the city of Paris, begun in 1852, that is referenced in Caillebotte's Paris: A Rainy Day?

Georges Haussmann

Which photographer was famous for creating images with Symbolist themes?

Gertrude Käsebier

Which architect designed the first large commercial buildings characterized by round arches, large windows, and a cast-iron interior skeleton?

Henry Hobson Richardson

Which painter of the French revolution was able to revitalize his career by becoming First Painter to Napoleon?

Jacques-Louis David

Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of which art form?

Japanese woodblock prints

Which Neoclassical artist of the first part of the 19th century looked firmly to the arts of Greek antiquity for his subjects and compositions?

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Who was one of the first Romantic artists to depict the dark terrain of the subconscious?

John Henry Fuseli

Which work by Manet do art historians regard as his critique of European painting since the Renaissance?

Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe

In what medium did satirical artist Honoré Daumier create most of his works?

Lithography

Who is sometimes described as the first modernist architect?

Louis Henry Sullivan

Which American Impressionist artist painted principally women and children?

Mary Cassatt

The Romantic notion of God as a mathematician seen in Blake's Ancient of Days is taken from the artistic tradition of which earlier period?

Medieval

The tenets of Marxism and Darwinism had a role in the rise of which artistic movement?

Modernism

In which work does van Gogh say that he is trying to "express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green"?

Night Café

Which Symbolist painter produced the richly colored representation of The Cyclops?

Odilon Redon

Georges Seurat's painting technique relying on an optical effect involving spots of color is referred to by what term?

Pointillism

In Rossetti's Beata Beatrix, what did the artist include to commemorate his wife's death?

Poppy

What instrument did Muybridge use to project a sequence of images onto a screen?

Praxiscope

In constructing the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, what cost-effective innovation did Joseph Paxton employ?

Prefabricated elements

Ingres's Apotheosis of Homer was inspired by which earlier work?

Raphael, School of Athens

Salon jurors regarded Courbet's depiction of the rural poor in The Stone Breakers as what?

Socialistic

The firm outlines surrounding areas of unmodulated color in Gauguin's Vison after the Sermon reflect his interest in which medium?

Stained glass

Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Henri Rousseau were leading artists of which movement?

Symbolism

The painting Where Do We Come From reflects Gauguin's move to which country?

Tahiti

What do art historians regard as the real subject of Monet's Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun)?

The sunlight on the portal

Which American Realist artist, having studied both painting and medicine, believed that careful observation was a prerequisite for his art?

Thomas Eakins

Which early photographer used the new medium to produce documentary images of the immediate aftermath of Civil War battles?

Timothy O'Sullivan

Manet's controversial painting Olympia was loosely based on a work by which earlier artist?

Titian

Which Post-Impressionist painter was the first great master in the new art form of the poster?

Toulouse-Lautrec

Which of the following ideas was Vincent van Gogh trying to communicate in his Starry Night?

Vastness of the universe

John Singer Sargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit reveals his admiration for which earlier artist?

Velázquez

The metal relief etching entitled Ancient of Days is the work of which leading Romantic artist?

William Blake

The cathedral that is the subject of Monet's series of paintings showing the effects of light is located in which city?

Rouen

The brushwork and strongly foreshortened figures of Charging Chasseur reflect Géricault's emulation of which earlier painter?

Rubens

Géricault's gigantic painting Raft of the Medusa, with its writhing, tortured bodies, is his commentary on which contemporary sociocultural situation?

Slavery