Deck 12: Romanticism, Realism, and Photography,1800 to 1870

Question 1

The great Romantic dialogue about color and form was carried on in the famous contest between ____.

A) Delacroix and Blake
B) Blake and Goya
C) Delacroix and Ingres
D) Ingres and Goya

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Who among the following artists liked to paint images of the Romantic notion of the sublime?

A) Cole
B) Friedrich
C) Turner
D) Constable

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What is the subject of Manet's Olympia?

A) the Olympic games
B) Greek gods
C) a Parisian barmaid
D) a prostitute

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which architect embraced the new honest approach to building?

A) Joseph Paxton
B) Charles Garnier
C) Charles Barry
D) A.W.N.Pugin

Question 5

What did some viewers find offensive about Manet's Olympia?

A) her look of coyness
B) her look of surprise and revulsion
C) her look of cool indifference and shamelessness
D) her look of fear

Question 6

What topic did Constable avoid in the Haywain?

A) love of the land
B) civil unrest
C) colonialism
D) debt peonage

Question 7

Manet used art to call attention to ____.

A) politics
B) religion
C) history
D) art

Question 8

How did Courbet's The Stone Breakers communicate the drudgery of manual labor?

A) a palette of dirty browns and grays
B) soft pastels for the stones
C) strong, diagonal line
D) bright color to highlight the labor

Question 9

During Napolean's Syrian campaign of 1799,his army was greatly affected by:

A) an outbreak of bubonic plague
B) massive floods that swept through the area
C) widespread apocalyptic fear
D) a cholera epidemic

Question 10

Edmonia Lewis's Forever Free may refer to ____.

A) Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
B) slaves thrown overboard from slaving ships
C) the 1776 Revolution in the United States
D) the U.S.Civil War

Question 11

Eakins' The Gross Clinic was rejected by critics for being too ____.

A) big
B) French
C) intellectual
D) brutal

Question 12

Pre-Raphaelite paintings wanted to create ____ art.

A) fresh and sincere
B) brutal and honest
C) elegant and courtly
D) monumental and theatrical

Question 13

Timothy O'Sullivan documented which of the following wars?

A) American Civil War
B) War of Spanish Succession
C) Crimean War
D) Boer War

Question 14

The "sublime" inspired feelings of ____.

A) heroic action
B) sentimentality
C) awe mixed with terror
D) romantic love

Question 15

Courbet preferred to paint ____.

A) mythology in the Pompeian style
B) the "beautiful" as defined by the Academy
C) realistic scenes as he saw them
D) scenes of suffering, pathos, and ecstasy

Question 16

Which of the following artists had firsthand knowledge and experience of the American Civil War?

A) Thomas Eakins
B) Thomas Cole
C) Winslow Homer
D) Edmonia Lewis

Question 17

Géricault's Raft of the Medusa represents ____.

A) the artist's nightmarish imagery
B) characters from Greek mythology
C) a scene from the Greek war for independence
D) the aftermath of a nineteenth-century French shipwreck

Question 18

The Realist artist ____ was most concerned with painting realistic scenes of poor and oppressed peoples.

A) Courbet
B) Eakins
C) Ingres
D) Delacroix

Question 19

Which of the following artists used lithographs to comment on political events and social customs?

A) Daumier
B) Millet
C) Whistler
D) Eakins

Question 20

The statement,"The plan borrowed much from ancient Roman and Christian basilicas...provided ample interior space to contain displays," refers to which of the following buildings?

A) Opéra, Paris
B) Monticello, Richmond
C) Crystal Palace, London
D) Houses of Parliament, London

Question 21

To what event was Goya reacting when he painted Third of May,1808?

Question 22

Why did this work provoke a negative reaction when it was first exhibited?

Question 23

How did artists respond to photography?

Question 24

How does this work reflect political events?

Question 25

What is the meaning of this of print?

Question 26

What event does this painting represent?

Question 27

What is the drawback to "wet-plate" processing?

Question 28

Describe how Napoleon is portrayed in Gros' Napolean at the Plague House at Jaffa and why this is significant.

Question 29

Explain Thomas Eakins's approach to Realist themes.

Question 30

What was the Hudson River School? What was their purpose?

Question 31

What historical style does this building reference?

Question 32

Explain the philosophy of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Question 33

What artist revealed his kindred spirit with the Romantic artists by saying that "painting is but another word for feeling "?

Question 34

What material revolutionized architecture in the nineteenth century? How was it used?

Question 35

How does this work convey the Romantic attitude?

Question 36

How is this an example of antiheroic painting?

Question 37

Why is Ingres's Grand Odalisque seen as a combination of Neoclassical and Romantic principles?

Question 38

What subjects did the Realists in the United States and Europe address in their art?

Question 39

What does this painting represent?

Question 40

What important process was introduced by Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot in 1839?

Question 41

You have been asked to prepare an exhibition of works that reveal the relationship of the artist to his/her world.Select six examples that explore this issue from different perspectives and with different results.Explain your selections.

Question 42

What cultural style does this building reference?

Question 43

What moral question was the artist raising in this image?

Question 44

Compare Neoclassicism's emphasis on the heroic and Romanticism's interest in the sublime.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 45

Compare Constable's The Haywain with Cole's The Oxbow.What are the sociopolitical messages communicated by each work and how do they represent their respective countries and environments?

Question 46

Compare and contrast the goals of Romanticism and Realism.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 47

Compare and contrast landscape painting in Europe and the United States.Discuss at least three countries in your essay and cite specific examples.

Question 48

Compare Manet's Olympia and Millais's Ophelia for how each work represents the artist and his period.

Question 49

How does photography fit in the history of illusionistic image making since the Renaissance? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 50

Compare and contrast the works of Eakins and Manet.How does each artist relate to his respective environment? How does each artist reflect the art of the 19th century? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 51

Explain the relationship of Neoclassicism and Romanticism.Cite specific examples in your answer.

Question 52

Compare forms,materials,and functions of Nash's Royal Pavilion and Paxton's Crystal Palace.