Deck 13: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism,1870 to 1900

Question 1

How did the artist communicate charged energy and oppressive atmosphere in Night Cafe?

A) Through his choice of subject matter
B) Through vivid, juxtaposed hues
C) Through soft color and tilted perspective
D) Through crowds of alienated café-goers

Answer 1

B

Question 2

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

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

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters by his ____.

A) emotional color and broad, passionate brush strokes
B) disciplined application of color theories
C) return to Classical subject matter
D) depiction of dream imagery

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Klimt's The Kiss conveys the flamboyance and decadence of the period by its ____.

A) formalism
B) opulent sensuousness
C) tonality
D) perspectival space

Question 5

The painter ____ explored the properties of light,plane,and color and their interrelationships?

A) Gauguin
B) Toulouse-Lautrec
C) Seurat
D) Cézanne

Question 6

Vincent van Gogh attempted to communicate the/a ____ in his Starry Night.

A) fearsome nighttime darkness
B) birth of a galaxy
C) vastness of the universe
D) comet streaking through the sky

Question 7

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 8

Which American artist went to Paris and joined the Impressionists?

A) Whistler
B) Homer
C) Eakins
D) Cassatt

Question 9

The feature of Sullivan's Guaranty (Prudential)Building that distinguishes it from earlier structures was ____.

A) its use of cast iron structural supports
B) his use of modular construction
C) the reflection of the subdivision of the interior spaces in the outer structure
D) the elimination of decorative elements

Question 10

Cassatt's approach to the composition owes much to ____.

A) Manet
B) Japanese prints
C) Daumier
D) American Realism

Question 11

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."?

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

Question 12

Impressionism is named for a painting by ____.

A) Degas
B) Renoir
C) Manet
D) Monet

Question 13

Which of the following artists is categorized as a Symbolist?

A) Klimt
B) Cassatt
C) Degas
D) Rousseau

Question 14

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 15

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 16

Monet's Impression: Sunrise displays the Impressionist interest in ____.

A) social issues
B) personal visions of reality
C) the expressive potential of line and color
D) vagrant effects of light

Question 17

Who was the artist who associated 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 18

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

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

Question 19

Who said,"Form follows function."?

A) Monet
B) Sullivan
C) Eiffel
D) Garnier

Question 20

The theme of Rodin's The Gates of Hell was derived from:

A) Dante's Inferno
B) Baudelaire's Flowers of Hell
C) Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise
D) all of these choices

Question 21

Who did this work and what would it come to influence?

Question 22

Explain pointillism.

Question 23

What aspect of modern life did Renoir examine?

A) leisure
B) unrest
C) technology
D) angst

Question 24

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

Question 25

How does this work reflect the influence of Japanese prints?

Question 26

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 27

The Guaranty Prudential Building is located in ____.

A) Birmingham
B) Amsterdam
C) Chicago
D) Buffalo

Question 28

How did industrialization and urbanization affect art in the late nineteenth century?

Question 29

What factor gave birth to the American skyscraper?

Question 30

Why is Rousseau unlike the other artists discussed in this chapter?

Question 31

Explain Fin de Siècle culture.

Question 32

Explain the significance of Japanese prints to nineteenth-century European and American art.

Question 33

Claude Monet enjoyed painting in the outdoors,a practice known as ____,which was popular amongst the Impressionists.

A) contrapposto
B) in situ
C) en plein air
D) chiaroscuro

Question 34

What are the goals of Impressionist painting?

Question 35

How does this work reflect the principles of late-nineteenth-century architecture?

Question 36

Cézanne's Basket of Apples departs from traditional painting techniques by exploring the still-life arrangement ____.

A) to illustrate the passage of time
B) to symbolize wealth and abundance
C) from a Socialist perspective
D) from different viewpoints

Question 37

How is this painting both an example of Impressionism and a departure from Impressionist principles?

Question 38

What did Cézanne seek in his paintings?

Question 39

How does this painting participate in modernity's honesty?

Question 40

Why did Gauguin travel to Tahiti?

Question 41

Explain the principles of Post-Impressionist painting as seen in works by van Gogh,Gauguin,Seurat,and Cézanne.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

Compare and contrast the formal,iconographic,and material characteristics of the sculpture of Bernini and Rodin.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 44

How is this work "modern"?

Question 45

How is this work reflective of the fin de siècle?

Question 46

Compare and contrast the work of Monet and Cézanne.How does each artist respond to the innovations of the nineteenth century? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 47

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

Question 48

In what way is this work typical of Impressionism?

Question 49

Why is this structure significant for the history of architecture?

Question 50

Why is late-nineteenth-century art described as honest? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 51

Compare and contrast the work of Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec.How are they similar? How are they different? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 52

How does this work reveal an influence from the Symbolists?

Question 53

Explain the principles of modernity seen in the art of the late nineteenth century.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 54

Compare and contrast the formal,iconographic,and technical characteristics of paintings by Degas and Renoir.Cite specific examples in your answer.

Question 55

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

Question 56

Identify the principles of late 19ᵗʰ-century architecture.Use examples to support your essay.