Deck 21: Toward the Modern Era 1870 1914

Question 1

Which Norwegian artist's works show a preoccupation with fear and death?

A) Nolde
B) Munch
C) Heckel
D) van Gogh

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What is notable about the composition of Edgar Degas' The Rehearsal ?

A) The borders of the canvas cut off figures, making the painting resemble a photograph.
B) It was the first painting of a ballet rehearsal.
C) The look of pain and tedium are noticeable on the dancers' faces.
D) Degas used only five colors to paint this work.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What term for this period reflects the new mood of cheerfulness in some European cities?

A) the Edwardian period
B) the Belle Époque
C) the Victorian period
D) the Modern Era

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What elements are often seen in Auguste Renoir's paintings?

A) dancers in the various stages of rehearsal and performance
B) members of the middle class in leisure-time activities
C) intimate scenes of domesticity
D) sensual nudes in landscapes

Question 5

Which post-Impressionist left France for what he saw as the "primitivism" of Central America and Tahiti?

A) Gauguin
B) van Gogh
C) Cézanne
D) Matisse

Question 6

What is the purpose of the symphonic poem (such as Richard Strauss' Don Juan )?

A) to tell a story through musical sound
B) to combine verse with music
C) to portray the feelings of the characters
D) to recreate the effect of the Greek chorus

Question 7

Which European city was the center of artistic activity in the later 19^th century?

A) London
B) Paris
C) New York
D) Vienna

Question 8

Which Dutch post-Impressionist painter typifies the stereotype of artist as tortured genius?

A) Matisse
B) Munch
C) van Gogh
D) Nolde

Question 9

Which French sculptor of the late 19^th/early 20^th century focused on representing human figures?

A) Fumeo
B) Levy
C) Bellver
D) Rodin

Question 10

What was the main focus of the women's movement during the late 19^th century? 

A) equal pay for equal work
B) freedom from domestic responsibilities
C) the right to vote
D) equal representation in government

Question 11

How did Déjeuner sur l'Herbe break with the stylistic traditions of the past?

A) The painting began with a white background, to which darker colors were added.
B) The painting included both male and female nudes.
C) The painting used a pyramidal arrangement for the figures.
D) The painting's subjects were expressionless.

Question 12

Which two French composers are associated with Impressionism in music?

A) Chopin and Liszt
B) Ravel and Debussy
C) Massenet and Meyerbeer
D) Satie and Poulence

Question 13

Which of Monet's paintings exemplifies his emphasis on conveying light and color?

A) A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
B) Two Girls at the Piano
C) Water Lilies
D) Mont Sainte-Victoire

Question 14

Who was the author of Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-1892)?

A) Nietzsche
B) Dostoyevsky
C) Descartes
D) Proust

Question 15

Who painted Déjeuner sur l'Herbe ( Luncheon on the Grass ), which shocked Parisians for its content and style?

A) Monet
B) Manet
C) Cézanne
D) Gauguin

Question 16

Who painted Impression, Sunrise , from which the entire Impressionist movement received its name?

A) Gauguin
B) Degas
C) Monet
D) Seurat

Question 17

What 19^th-century composer wrote the "Path é tique" Symphony?

A) Tchaikovsky
B) Stravinsky
C) Debussy
D) Mahler

Question 18

What were the usual subjects of the paintings of Mary Cassatt?

A) flowers
B) Parisian cityscapes
C) women and children
D) men and women dancing

Question 19

How do Mary Cassatt's paintings show the influence of Japanese art?

A) they portray scenes of Japanese landscapes
B) they use flat planes and broad areas of color
C) they use pen and ink to create simple images
D) they focus on moments of meditation

Question 20

What was Friedrich Nietzsche's view of the condition of Western civilization during the 1880s and 1890s?

A) Humans were not able to live happily in a secular society.
B) The chaos of the times was due to industrialization.
C) Stability could be gained by a return to Classical models and ideals.
D) People were enslaved by religion and democracy

Question 21

What French author (1871-1922) is associated with "stream-of-consciousness" writing?

A) Zola
B) Proust
C) Ibsen
D) Hugo

Question 22

Subtitled "Pictures from Pagan Russia," which ballet score describes a springtime ritual culminating in the sacrifice of a human victim?

A) Boléro
B) Pierrot Lunaire
C) Das Lied von der Erde
D) The Rite of Spring

Question 23

According to the text, why was C é zanne such an important post-Impressionist painter?  What is it about Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire that makes it nonrealistic? What geometric shapes are apparent? How can Cézanne be seen as a predecessor to Cubist and Abstract Art?

Question 24

What was the reaction of the Paris audience in 1913 to the first performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring ?

A) delight
B) sadness
C) outrage
D) indifference

Question 25

Which painting technique is Paul Cézanne's clearest move toward Modernism?

A) a drastic collapsing of space that blurred foreground and background
B) applying paint in small dabs of pure color to create a larger image
C) incorporating the limited field of the camera to frame his intimate depictions of dancers
D) juxtaposing complementary colors to reproduce the experience of vision

Question 26

What innovation did Sch ön berg introduce to vocal music?

A) synthetism
B) sprechstimme
C) serialism
D) inversion

Question 27

What is the name of the apartment building designed by Gaudí that is characterized by organic shapes and hardly any straight lines?

A) La Sagrada Familia
B) Casa Milà
C) Crystal Palace
D) Eiffel Tower

Question 28

What is innovative about Proust's Remembrance of Things Past ?

Question 29

Which author wrote about passive and empty characters who often live in a provincial world?

A) Ibsen
B) Twain
C) Chekhov
D) Caird

Question 30

Who developed the cubist technique in early 20^th-century art?

A) van Gogh and Gauguin
B) Seurat and Boccioni
C) Picasso and Braques
D) Kandinsky and Toulouse-Lautrec

Question 31

Which composer pioneered the twelve-tone technique of organizing music?

A) Schönberg
B) Stravinsky
C) Mahler
D) Ravel

Question 32

What Russian novelist was able to combine both realism and psychological understanding in his Crime and Punishment ?

A) Mikhail Lermontov
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Anton Chekhov
D) Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Question 33

Who were Gilbert and Sullivan? What was their contribution to culture?

Question 34

What are the central characteristics of Fauvism? What was it about the use of color and form in Matisse's Red Room (Harmony in Red) that would cause critics to call him a "wild beast"?

Question 35

Why was Ibsen such an important dramatist? What themes do his plays explore?

Question 36

An Alpine Symphony , which musically depicts a mountain-climbing expedition, detailing adventures on the way, and culminating in the arrival at the summit, was composed by ___________. 

A) Richard Strauss
B) Georges Bizet
C) Gustav Mahler
D) Claude Debussy

Question 37

Who composed La Mer , which tries to evoke in music the general atmosphere of the sea rather than literal sounds of the ocean?

A) Strauss
B) Stravinsky
C) Debussy
D) Puccini

Question 38

Who created the painting known as Improvisation 28 , which reflects the artist's interest in non-representational art driven by color, line, and shape?

A) Cézanne
B) Kandinsky
C) Matisse
D) Kirchner

Question 39

Which novel explores the oppressed role of women in family life and was banned upon its publication in 1899?

A) Ibsen's A Doll's House
B) Chopin's The Awakening
C) Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames
D) Proust's Remembrance of Things Past

Question 40

According to Sigmund Freud, what factors other than reason and logic influence human behavior?

A) the environment
B) the subconscious
C) the superego
D) genetics