Deck 13: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism

Question 1

Although the artist Manet shared common aims with Realist artists, his A Bar at the Folies Bergère reflects the influence of _____.

A)Symbolism
B)Romanticism
C)Pointilism
D)Impressionism

Answer 1

D

Question 2

_____ is the label given to artists whose styles were rooted in Impressionism but were stylistically different.

A)Jugendstil
B)Symbolism
C)Primitivism
D)Post-Impressionism

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The subjects of Edvard Munch's art largely dealt with _____.

A)the urban landscape
B)industrialization
C)emotions associated with love and death
D)the classical past

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Similar to the _____ movement, Impressionism took its subjects from everyday life.

A)Symbolist
B)Realist
C)Post-Impressionist
D)Nabi

Question 5

The artist ____ moved to Tahiti to remove himself from the materialism of Europe.

A)Paul Gauguin
B)Berthe Morisot
C)James Abbot McNeil Whistler
D)Henri Rousseau

Question 6

_____ was a new artistic movement that appeared at the end of the 19th century and rejected the subjects of the everyday world.

A)Symbolism
B)Realism
C)Impressionism
D)The Barbizon School

Question 7

Despite his lack of formal artistic training, the Symbolist artist _____ had a strong sense of design.

A)Paul Cézanne
B)Henri Rousseau
C)Victor Horta
D)Georges Seurat

Question 8

European culture at the end of the 1800s is called _____.

A)Jugendstil
B)post-industrialism
C)the symbolist era
D)fin-de-siècle

Question 9

____ was one influence on Gauguin's use of flat color planes with strong contours.

A)En plein air
B)Pointilism
C)Van Gogh
D)Cloisonné metalwork

Question 10

Impressionists deviated from Realists in their desire to convey _____.

A)the working class
B)politically charged ideas
C)impermanence
D)classical influence

Question 11

Cézanne believed that Impressionism was lacking _____.

A)vivid brushwork
B)a vibrant color palette
C)the artist's distinctive quality
D)form and structure

Question 12

____ was the technique employed by Seurat in which he applied tiny dots of color to his canvas.

A)Art Nouveau
B)Pointillism
C)Nocturne
D)Primitivism

Question 13

Baudelaire, whose ideas influenced Impressionist artists, considered _____ to be the essential characteristic of the modern world.

A)impermanence
B)aristocratic society
C)traditional values
D)stability

Question 14

How was Gauguin's art affected by his move to Tahiti?

A)He started painting en plein air.
B)He moved to a smaller format.
C)He adopted a different color palette.
D)He painted only Parisian scenes.

Question 15

In contrast to Van Gogh's thick brushstrokes, Gauguin _____.

A)painted in a slick, academic matter
B)created flat color areas
C)faithfully copied nature
D)used collage

Question 16

Van Gogh used color as a vehicle to _____.

A)continue Renaissance traditions
B)form a composition
C)express emotions
D)faithfully copy nature

Question 17

By painting ____, Claude Monet could capture shifting atmospheric effects.

A)according to academic principles
B)en plein air
C)in multiple sittings
D)on divisionist principles

Question 18

The critic _____ wrote a scathing review of Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold .

A)John Ruskin
B)Edvard Munch
C)Charles Darwin
D)Clement Greenberg

Question 19

In their abbreviated details, speed, and spontaneity, Impressionist works had the quality of _____.

A)Japanese prints
B)academic art
C)sketches
D)photographs

Question 20

The birth of Impressionism occurred in _____.

A)Paris
B)Rome
C)London
D)Florence

Question 21

Vincent van Gogh attempted to communicate _____ in his Starry Night .

A)his fear of darkness
B)his knowledge of astronomy
C)the vastness of the universe
D)a comet streaking through the sky

Question 22

What does Modernism in art describe?

Question 23

The goal of Munch's paintings was to describe the conditions of _____.

A)modern cities
B)modern psychic life
C)immigrant laborers
D)Tahitian "primitives"

Question 24

What did Impressionist subjects have in common with Realism? How were they different?

Question 25

Cassatt's paintings of _____ reflected the limits French upper-class society placed on women.

A)male nudes
B)night life
C)domestic scenes
D)landscapes

Question 26

Through what means did Van Gogh communicate a charged energy and oppressive atmosphere in Night Cafe ?

A)His choice of subject matter
B)Vivid, juxtaposed hues
C)Soft color and tilted perspective
D)Crowds of alienated café-goers

Question 27

How did the term Impressionism arise?

Question 28

Identify the inventions that enabled plein air painting.

Question 29

What led to the urbanization of European cities in the latter part of the 19th century?

Question 30

Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through appearances to a deeper reality were most typical of the _____.

A)Impressionists
B)Symbolists
C)Post-Impressionists
D)Realists

Question 31

To make buildings more fire resistant architects _____.

A)cloaked them in glass panels
B)reverted to Roman concrete
C)encased cast iron in masonry
D)built on a smaller scale

Question 32

Describe the sensibility and associations of fin-de-siècle culture.

Question 33

The artistic movement called _____ was based on natural forms and could be mass produced.

A)Pointilism
B)Art Nouveau
C)the Perpendicular style
D)Darwinism

Question 34

Rodin's concern for the effect of light on surface demonstrates the influence of _____.

A)Impressionism
B)Art Nouveau
C)Symbolism
D)Realism

Question 35

Describe the differences between Van Gogh's and Gauguin's methods for applying paint in their artworks.

Question 36

Which aspects of Japanese art did Impressionists admire?

Question 37

Which of the following influenced Degas in his technique of using spatial projections and off-center empty space to create illusion and direct the viewer's attention into the picture?

A)Japanese woodblock prints
B)16th-century German woodcuts
C)15th-century German engravings
D)Islamic tilework

Question 38

Who was the artist to associate with the night world of Paris, consorting with the tawdry population of entertainers, prostitutes, and other social outcasts?

A)Cassatt
B)Toulouse-Lautrec
C)Van Gogh
D)Gauguin

Question 39

What did the second Industrial Revolution encompass?

Question 40

What was the architect Louis Sullivan's motto?

A)Revival of ancient art
B)Design for the masses
C)Gothic national pride
D)Form follows function

Question 41

In what way did the ideals of Symbolism continue and amplify those of Romanticism? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 42

Attribute the images on the screen to a culture and give an approximate date. Give the reasons for your attributions, using complete sentences and referring to specific works discussed in class.

Question 43

What factors made the American skyscraper a possibility?

Question 44

Discuss the 19th-century architecture styles, and explain the role technology played in each. Use examples to support your essay.

Question 45

Impressionist artists broke from many of the conventions of traditional art. Citing examples, identify how the broke from the past. What outside influences informed their formal elements or compositional devices?

Question 46

Provide an example from each of the Post-Impressionist artists, and then describe their similarities to Impressionism and the unique qualities of their personal style.

Question 47

For each of the movements described in this chapter, select one work that is representative of that movement. Explain the stylistic qualities and subject matter that made it typical of the movement in which you placed it.

Question 48

Although Impressionism was open to female artists, they had greater limitations than their male counterparts. Which female artists were identified with Impressionism? Using examples, describe their dominant stylistic qualities. How was the subject matter of the female Impressionists similar to or different from that of male artists?

Question 49

Compare and contrast Claude Monet's and Paul Cézanne's approaches to landscape. How are they similar or different? Consider the formal qualities and suggestion of depth.

Question 50

Color was an important component for several of the movements and individual artists discussed in this chapter. Describe the new observations that were made about color and how individual artists exploited it for their own artistic aims.

Question 51

The artist Degas broke away from traditional compositional conventions. How did he do this? What were his influences? Which aspects of his art influenced other artists? Please provide examples.