Deck 16: Realism, Impressionism, and Beyond

Question 1

__________ believed symbols and dreams were key to understanding a person.

A) Friedrich Nietzsche
B) Henry Tanner
C) Emile Durkheim
D) Sigmund Freud
E) Niels Bohr

Answer 1

D

Question 2

__________ asserted that all forms in nature are geometric shapes.

A) Paul Gauguin
B) Vincent Van Gogh
C) Georges Seurat
D) Henry O. Tanner
E) Paul Cezanne

Answer 2

E

Question 3

George Bernard Shaw famously opposed __________.

A) realism
B) art for art's sake
C) expressionism
D) futurism
E) cubism

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The "father" of the modern skyscraper is __________.

A) Frank Lloyd Wright
B) Louis Sullivan
C) Hector Guimard
D) Victor Horta
E) Antoni Gaudi

Question 5

Symbolist playwrights,such as Maurice Maeterlinck,emphasized __________.

A) rationality
B) personal expression
C) intuition
D) objectivity
E) art for art's sake

Question 6

The innovative film __________ financially destroyed D.W.Griffiths.

A) Quo Vadis
B) The Great Train Robbery
C) The Birth of a Nation
D) Intolerance
E) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Question 7

Kate Chopin is an example of a(n)__________ novelist.

A) expressionist
B) classical
C) realist
D) aestheticist
E) symbolist

Question 8

Henrik Ibsen is called the master of __________ drama.

A) realist
B) expressionist
C) symbolist
D) classical
E) modernist

Question 9

The "Decadents" celebrated __________.

A) industrial life
B) medieval life
C) art for art's sake
D) technological progress
E) the German Reich

Question 10

Skyscrapers could not be built until __________ could be designed.

A) parking garages
B) mass transportation
C) security systems
D) elevators
E) fire alarms

Question 11

The "stream of consciousness" technique is employed by __________ writers.

A) realist
B) impressionist
C) naturalist
D) aestheticist
E) cubist

Question 12

The Pre-Raphaelites were interested in the __________ function of art.

A) didactic
B) expressive
C) political
D) religious
E) memorializing

Question 13

__________ believed modern European civilization was "sick" and spent much of life living and painting elsewhere.

A) Georges Seurat
B) Thomas Eakins
C) Paul Gauguin
D) Vincent Van Gogh
E) Paul Cezanne

Question 14

The Impressionists sought to portray __________.

A) charming scenes for a wide audience
B) morally uplifting scenes
C) realistic depictions of everyday life
D) the fundamentals of human perception
E) mythological and narrative scenes

Question 15

The mid-nineteenth century painter __________ can be seen as an early commentator on urban alienation.

A) Honoré Daumier
B) Claude Monet
C) William Holman Hunt
D) Henry O. Tanner
E) Auguste Rodin

Question 16

Realism emphasizes __________.

A) subjective impressions
B) mythological content
C) academic training
D) individual expression
E) truth to life

Question 17

The __________ movement celebrated speed and technology,and sought to destroy the past.

A) expressionism
B) impressionism
C) post-impressionism
D) futurism
E) cubism

Question 18

The Barbizon School celebrated __________.

A) urban life
B) subjective impressions
C) rural life
D) narrative content
E) individual emotion

Question 19

The first well-known African-American painter was __________.

A) Thomas Eakins
B) William Holman Hunt
C) Henry O. Tanner
D) Edouard Manet
E) Daniel Hudson Burnham

Question 20

The plays of August Strindberg are particularly influenced by the studies of __________.

A) Carl Jung
B) Friedrich Nietzsche
C) Ernst Toller
D) Sigmund Freud
E) Albert Einstein

Question 21

__________ was a dancer who gained notoriety for barefoot,highly emotional dancing.

A) Kate Chopin
B) Isadora Duncan
C) Edith Wharton
D) Gertrude Stein
E) Christina Rossetti

Question 22

The Pre-Raphaelite movement rejected the emphasis on history painting at the __________.

Question 23

The composition of Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe is based on a drawing by __________.

Question 24

__________ was the standard type of harmony in musical compositions prior to the late nineteenth century.

Question 25

The choreographer whose direction of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring caused a riot was __________.

A) Sergei Diaghilev
B) Claude Debussy
C) Isadora Duncan
D) Vaslav Nijinksy
E) Luigi Capuana

Question 26

The controversial filmmaker __________ refined or invented almost every filmmaking technique.

A) Mark Sennett
B) Edwin S. Porter
C) D. W. Griffith
D) Charles Pathé
E) Thomas Edison

Question 27

The first public projection of movies on a large screen was organized by __________.

A) Thomas Edison
B) the Leigh Sisters
C) the Lumière Brothers
D) Edwin S. Porter
E) Thomas Arnat

Question 28

Remembrance of Things Past is the magnum opus of __________.

A) Gustave Flaubert
B) James Joyce
C) Marcel Proust
D) Edith Wharton
E) Gertrude Stein

Question 29

Mr.Zero is a character in Elmer Rice's play entitled __________.

A) The Bank
B) Man and the Masses
C) The Ghost Sonata
D) The Adding Machine
E) The Hairy Ape

Question 30

The treatment of space by Cubist painters is sometimes understood in relationship to the Theory of __________ in physics.

Question 31

.The naturalist writer who was influenced by scientific determinism was __________.

A) Edith Wharton
B) James Joyce
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Virginia Woolf
E) Emile Zola

Question 32

The foundations of modern dance are found in __________.

A) ballet
B) ballroom dancing
C) ritual dance
D) folk dance
E) social dance

Question 33

Irregular rhythm and __________ define Claude Debussy's work.

Question 34

Jean-Francois Millet was a member of the __________ School.

Question 35

The style of Georges Seurat is called __________.

Question 36

"The emancipation of dissonance" was the concept of __________.

A) Arnold Schoenberg
B) Igor Stravinsky
C) Richard Wagner
D) Maurice Ravel
E) Georges Bizet

Question 37

The ideas of Sigmund Freud were controversial because of their emphasis on human __________.

Question 38

Early photographers in Paris spent much of their time making studies of nudes for use by __________.

Question 39

Virginia Woolf was a master of __________.

A) atonalism
B) symbolism
C) naturalism
D) stream of consciousness
E) realism

Question 40

"Slave morality" was criticized by __________.

Question 41

Henri Matisse's Blue Nude tries to express the artist's feelings about the nude as an object of aesthetic interest.

Question 42

Prior to the invention of the modern camera,what device did artists use to copy nature accurately?

Question 43

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's work was concerned with social commentary on urban alienation.

Question 44

Art Nouveau grew out of the English __________ Movement.

Question 45

The Eiffel Tower was meant to criticize France's transformation into an industrial society.

Question 46

The international socialist movement supported the German Reich.

Question 47

What was Louis Sullivan's famous maxim?

Question 48

Futurist poets rejected logical sentence structure,as well as standard grammar and syntax.

Question 49

The work of Arthur Schoenberg grew out of German __________.

Question 50

Fillipo __________ coined the term "futurism" in his manifesto expressing the goals of the movement.

Question 51

Kate Chopin's novel The Waves is an example of realism.

Question 52

What is the famous "slogan" of aestheticism?

Question 53

Twentieth century composers were less concerned with resolving dissonance in their work than were nineteenth century composers.

Question 54

Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment suggests morality and respectability are the same.

Question 55

Emile Zola,a typical naturalist,believed that human nature was completely determined by heredity.

Question 56

Art Nouveau rejected all aspects of modernity.

Question 57

Berthe Morisot was an original member of the __________.

Question 58

What was the name of the Venice chapel Henri Matisse decorated at the end of his life?

Question 59

Robert __________ created The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari,a masterpiece of expressionist film.

Question 60

From where did Anton Chekhov obtain his subject matter and themes?

Question 61

Consider the speed of technological developments during this period.Choose a work of any medium or movement,and discuss how it was influenced by or reflects upon technology.If you choose a skyscraper,for example,you might point out that its very existence is based upon the technology of steel frameworks,and also that its design reflects a society increasingly oriented around technology.

Question 62

Choose a realist work in any medium.Discuss how it records the everyday or the ordinary,citing specific elements you can see in the work.Then,examine the political implications of this in nineteenth century society.For example,you might relate the piece to socialism,or conversely,to nationalism,both of which celebrated "ordinary people" but with very different political goals.

Question 63

What do you make of the notion of an "avant-garde"? Which works seem like they could be considered avant-garde,and how do you define the term? Does the work have to be self-consciously political? Do you think focusing on avant-garde art might shift attention from equally good or important types of art?