Deck 26: Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905

Question 1

Artists who sought to make photographs look like fine art, such as prints or drawings, worked in what style?

A) Pictorialist
B) Lithographic
C) documentary
D) snapshot

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Who was the earliest builder of Midwestern American skyscrapers?

A) Paxton
B) Sullivan
C) Wright
D) Mackintosh

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Theosophists believed that all religions were essential distinct and sought in their own separate ways to reveal the mystical connectedness of all things.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

What was typical subject matter for Cézanne?

A) mountain landscapes
B) scenes inspired by Japanese prints
C) cathedrals or water lilies
D) scenes of the common man working

Question 5

Which of the following artists used color to express emotions?

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

Question 6

Many scholars date the rise of modern architecture to the skyscrapers that went up in which city in the 1880s and 1890s?

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

Question 7

What was typical subject matter for van Gogh?

A) the wilderness
B) scenes of Tahiti
C) cathedrals or water lilies
D) landscapes and flowers

Question 8

What is distinctive about Gaudí's work?

A) Walls of glass derived from the Crystal Palace
B) An internal steel skeleton
C) Vaulted arches on a colossal scale
D) Avoidance of all flat surfaces, straight lines, or symmetry of any kind

Question 9

What is distinctive about the Wainwright Building?

A) Walls of glass derived from the Crystal Palace
B) An internal steel skeleton
C) Vaulted arches on a colossal scale
D) Avoidance of all flat surfaces, straight lines, or symmetry of any kind

Question 10

International Pictorialists like Gertrude Käsebier and Edward Steichen took their lead from earlier Pictorialist photographers in creating clear, sharply-focused images.

Question 11

Frank Lloyd Wright worked for which architect before starting his own practice?

A) Richardson
B) Gaudi
C) Sullivan
D) Paxton

Question 12

Gustave Moreau was an important Symbolist painter who illustrated Oscar Wilde's French play Salomé.

Question 13

Which American Symbolist painter was influenced by the ethereal, otherworldly pictures of Parisian artists such as Moreau?

A) Henry O. Tanner
B) Thomas Eakins
C) Benjamin West
D) James Whistler

Question 14

Who developed Pointillism?

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

Question 15

What was the area of study of Seurat's theories?

A) Line
B) Color
C) Perspective
D) Chiaroscuro

Question 16

A term often used to refer to the end of the nineteenth century is

A) Le Fin de Siècle
B) Le Beau Monde
C) Le Petit Dejeuner
D) Un Bon Moment

Question 17

The neurologist who formulated theories of the unconscious, publishing his Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 was

A) Sigmund Freud
B) Karl Jung
C) André Breton
D) Jean Piaget

Question 18

What was typical subject matter for Gauguin?

A) still lifes or mountain landscapes
B) scenes of Tahiti
C) cathedrals or water lilies
D) scenes of the common man working

Question 19

The Tassel House in Brussels is an important example of what style of architecture and design?

A) art nouveau
B) arts and crafts
C) de stijl
D) prairie

Question 20

What group of Paris artists immersed themselves in religion to flee modernity?

A) The Nabis
B) The impressionists
C) The Pre-Raphaelites
D) The pointillists

Question 21

Discuss Edward Steichen's Rodin with His Sculptures "Victor Hugo" and "The Thinker." What does Steichen seek to communicate about Rodin and his work in this photograph?

Question 22

Discuss the changes in building techniques and innovations that allowed for the construction of the skyscraper.

Question 23

Compare and contrast the form and expression of Gaudi's Casa Milá and Sullivan's Wainwright Building.

Question 24

Discuss the different approaches to landscape that are found in the works of Cezanne, Seurat, van Gogh, and Gauguin.

Question 25

Discuss the influence of Japanese prints on late nineteenth century Western art.

Question 26

Discuss how Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House represents a sensitive accommodation to the American prairie landscape.

Question 27

Discuss the work of Cézanne and his influence on the art of the twentieth century.

Question 28

Art Nouveau was a style practiced by artists who were interested in continuing revival styles and eclecticism in art.

Question 29

Describe the different approaches Post-Impressionist painters took both to build upon aspects of Impression and go take painting in new directions.

Question 30

The Post-Impressionists worked in a variety of styles, subjects, and techniques.