Deck 17: Out of the Studio and Into the Light: Impressionism and Postimpressionism

Question 1

The favorite subjects of Mary Cassatt were ______.

A)men and boys shown in unguarded moments
B)women and children shown in unguarded moments
C)the city life in Paris
D)all of these are correct
E)none of these are correct

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Claude Monet attempted to ________ in his work Grainstacks (End of Summer).

A)convey the quality of light and atmosphere through color
B)convey the atmosphere of farm life
C)create a painting that looked like a photograph
D)both b and c are correct
E)none of these are correct

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which artist decided to sue the art critic John Ruskin for libel when Ruskin referred to Nocturne in Black and Fold: The Falling Rocket as "cockney impudence"?

A)Claude Monet
B)Vincent van Gogh
C)J.A.M.Whistler
D)Mary Cassatt
E)Edgar Degas

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following is true of Edouard Manet?

A)He came to be seen as the father of Impressionism.
B)He never took part in exhibitions arranged by the young Impressionists.
C)He was fascinated with the new medium of photography.
D)He was influenced by the younger Impressionists' style.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 5

Ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the floating world," set off a wave of _______________, of a love of all things Japanese in Western culture.

A)Impressionism
B)Postimpressionism
C)Pointillism
D)Japonisme
E)none of these are correct

Question 6

Who painted The Night Café, and said of it "I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime"?

A)Toulouse-Latrec
B)Gauguin
C)Degas
D)Van Gogh
E)none of these are correct

Question 7

Edgar Degas's artwork draws its power from a fusion of ______.

A)Ingres's line
B)the solid form of the Renaissance masters
C)the composition of the great Renaissance masters
D)the spontaneous realism of Impressionism
E)all of these are correct

Question 8

All of the following are true of Claude Monet's series of water lilies, such as Nympheas (Water Lilies) except ______.

A)the water lilies bloomed in his own gardens
B)he called them "decorations"
C)they are his most famous and popular works
D)they symbolize love
E)there is a visual play of color and painted line

Question 9

Postimpressionism refers to _______.

A)what the Impressionists painted after their first exhibition
B)the Italian movement that admired Impressionist works for the depiction of the passage of time
C)anything painted in the avant garde style
D)a group of unrelated artists who reacted to the ideas of the Impressionists
E)the movement occurring right now where there is a reaction against the Impressionist philosophy

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT true concerning Manet's Luncheon on the Grass?

A)The public and critics rejected it because they felt it was intended as pornography.
B)The composition was based on a design by Raphael.
C)Inspired by the Baroque artists, Manet used open brushwork to paint it.
D)It would be classified as Postimpressionist in style.
E)The figures were not modeled with a variety of value tones.

Question 11

Which artist cut off part of his ear and painted some of his greatest works while battling mental illness?

A)Van Gogh
B)Degas
C)Gauguin
D)Cezanne
E)Cassatt

Question 12

Like all of the Impressionists, Pierre-Auguste Renoir wanted to show the life he saw around him in Paris.But even more than the others, he was concerned with ______.

A)human misery
B)human interactions and moods
C)photography
D)insulting art critics with new work
E)none of these are correct

Question 13

All of the following are true of Paul Cezanne except ______.

A)he had the biggest impact on twentieth-century art
B)he used three of the most ordinary types of painting in his work
C)he reconceived the way pictures were made
D)he believed that perspective was a lie
E)he concealed his brushstrokes to create a smooth painted surface

Question 14

The Gates of Hell, originally designed as a doorway to be cast in bronze for a new Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, were sculpted by

A)Claude Monet
B)Toulouse-Lautrec
C)Auguste Rodin
D)Paul Gauguin
E)Michelangelo

Question 15

Begun in 1737, the __________________ , which contained officially sanctioned contemporary art, remained the only important public exhibition available to artists.

A)The Salon des Refusés
B)Salon
C)Louvre
D)French Academy
E)none of these are correct

Question 16

Which best describes Toulouse-Latrec's painting At the Moulin Rouge?

A)brightly lit
B)open-aired
C)aristocratic
D)claustrophobic
E)classical

Question 17

Georges Seurat created a method of painting called _________, which consists of tiny dots.

A)Impressionism
B)Postimpressionism
C)Pointillism
D)Japonisme
E)none of these are correct

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT true of Gauguin's painting Spirit of the Dead Watching?

A)It depicts his wife.
B)It is based on his wife's experience.
C)It shows a dead spirit.
D)It uses a traditional compositional form.
E)It is depicted in a rational space.

Question 19

Which of his own sculptures did Rodin refer to as "a huge knick-knack"?

A)The Gates of Hell
B)The Kiss
C)The Thinker
D)none of these are correct
E)all of these are correct

Question 20

The Salon des Refusés was ____________.

A)known as the Salon of the Rejected
B)where art not accepted by official Salon was exhibited
C)created by the French government
D)scoffed at by the public
E)all of these are correct

Question 21

Who is described as the "father of expressionism" in the text and why?

Question 22

What was so shocking and insulting about Gustave Courbet's Two Girls on the Banks of the Seine?

Question 23

Why did Gauguin believe that he needed to move to Tahiti?

Question 24

How did the Impressionists become known as the Impressionists?

Question 25

What past master influenced Manet? In what way did he do so?

Question 26

Images from Japan had an enormous impact on nineteenth-century art.Using specific examples, explain some ways that it influenced Western art.

Question 27

Painters in the nineteenth century often had a troubled relationship with the critics and the public.Using specific examples, describe this relationship.

Question 28

Photography was invented in the mid-nineteenth century.Describe the effect, especially on painting, that photography had on the art world in the mid- to late nineteenth century.

Question 29

Which Postimpressionist painter was most influential to the modern artists of the twentieth century? In what ways was that artist influential?

Question 30

Describe how art patronage changed in the nineteenth century.What happened in cities like Paris, London, and New York?