Deck 23: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism: Europe and America

Question 1

In Night Café the artist has communicated the "madness" of the place by selecting and juxtaposing ____.

A)a bar with a cafe
B)vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity
C)soft color and tilted perspective
D)crowds that create tension

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of ____.

A)Japanese woodblock prints
B)medieval stained glass
C)Renaissance tapestries
D)Mughal miniatures

Answer 2

A

Question 3

In contrast to artists of the French Academy, the Impressionists attempted to capture ____.

A)the fleeting aspects of reality
B)mythological subjects
C)Grand Manner portraits
D)Rococo delicacy

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The influence of ____ is evident in Rodin's interest in the effect of light on the sculpted surface.

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

Question 5

Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships?

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

Question 6

Although ____ painted familiar Impressionist subjects, his exaggeration of each element created a new tone.

A)Millais
B)Toulouse-Lautrec
C)Eakins
D)Degas

Question 7

Cassatt's style of work owes much to which of the following?

A)Giorgione
B)Japanese prints
C)Leonardo's sketchbooks
D)Michelangelo

Question 8

Members of the ____ movement dedicated themselves to making functional objects with a high aesthetic value.

A)Pointilist
B)Symbolist
C)Arts and Crafts
D)Precisionist

Question 9

The real subject of Monet's Rouen Cathedral is ____.

A)the sunlight of the portal
B)France's religious past
C)a crisis of faith
D)the poverty surrounding it

Question 10

Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality were most typical of which of the following styles?

A)Impressionists
B)Symbolists
C)Neoclassicists
D)Realists

Question 11

Which of the following architects conceived the building as a whole and molded it almost as a clay sculpture?

A)Louis Sullivan
B)Henry Richardson
C)Antonio Gaudi
D)Alexandre Gustave Eiffel

Question 12

Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionists, her paintings are inhabited by ____.

A)the business world
B)night life
C)women and children
D)the demimonde

Question 13

____ is sometimes described as the first modern architect.

A)Victor Horta
B)Gustav Moreau
C)Louis Henry Sullivan
D)William Morris

Question 14

In Klimt's The Kiss , the patterning has clear ties to the ____ movement.

A)Nabis
B)Post-Impressionist
C)Art Nouveau
D)Neoclassical

Question 15

Which of the following ideas did Vincent van Gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night ?

A)Stygian darkness of night
B)Birth of a galaxy
C)Vastness of the universe
D)Myopia of humanity

Question 16

Antonio Gaudi longed to create an architectural style that was both modern and appropriate for his native country of Spain. How does Casa Milá represent his ability to conceive a building as a whole and mold it almost as a sculptor would create a figure from clay?

A)It is a squared structure sheathed in concrete.
B)It is a free-form mass wrapped around a street corner.
C)It is a vertical mass soaring above the landscape.
D)It is a horizontal mass tied to the earth.

Question 17

In The Apparition , Moreau portrayed a ____, a theme that appealed to the artist and many of his friends.

A)femme fatale
B)saint
C)courtesan
D)Haitian woman

Question 18

____ artists disdained Realism as trivial.

A)Symbolist
B)Impressionist
C)Art Nouveau
D)Photography

Question 19

Who said: "Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use color more arbitrarily so as to express myself forcibly. . . . I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green. . . ."?

A)Monet
B)Cézanne
C)Seurat
D)van Gogh

Question 20

Who said: "I want to make of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums"?

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

Question 21

How did social Darwinism assist in the colonization of peoples and countries deemed less advanced?

Question 22

How did cast iron and steel affect architecture in the late 19th century?

Question 23

Describe the development of sculpture at the end of the 19th century. Use examples to support your essay. To what extent did sculpture remain conventional? What painting movements did it take into account?

Question 24

What were Rodin's thoughts on the surface of his sculptures?

Question 25

Briefly describe the avant-garde and its impact on the art of the late 19th century.

Question 26

Contrast the works of Renoir and Lautrec. How do the subject styles of the artists reflect 19th-century French society and the innovations of 19th-century art? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 27

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

Question 28

What did Whistler mean when he used the term arrangement or nocturne in reference to his art?

Question 29

How does Louis Sullivan reflect truly modern architecture?

Question 30

How did Rodin impact later generations of sculptors?

Question 31

Briefly describe the fin-de-siècle culture of late 19th-century Austria.

Question 32

What was the Arts and Crafts movement?

Question 33

Briefly describe Post-Impressionism.

Question 34

Compare and contrast the architecture of the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements? To what degree do they reflect the overarching aims of each movement?

Question 35

Contrast the works of Moreau and Cézanne. How does each artist respond to the innovations and evolutions of 19th-century visual arts? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 36

Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?

A)His concern for the emotional qualities of color, which he depicted using broad, passionate brush strokes
B)His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men such as Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul
C)His return to classical subject matter
D)His depiction of dream imagery using the visual techniques discovered by the Impressionists

Question 37

How does the Marshall Field Store respond to its environment?

Question 38

Compare the works of Berthe Morisot and Gertrude Käsebier. How does their work define the artists? What factors allowed these artists to create their thematic body of work? How does each represent her period, and what innovations did each artist create? Use examples to support your essay.