Deck 24: Nineteenth-Century Impressionism

Question 1

Who painted Bassin des Nymphéas (or Water Lily Pond)?

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

Answer 1

Monet

Question 2

Which artist visually recorded scenes from the U.S. Civil War for Harper's Weekly in works such as The Army of the Potomac-A Sharpshooter on Picket Duty?

A) Muybridge
B) Homer
C) Ruskin
D) Sargent

Answer 2

Homer

Question 3

Which best describes the paintings of Winslow Homer?

A) They have elements of both Realism and Impressionism.
B) They are primarily Impressionist.
C) They are mainly portraits.
D) They mainly depict European subjects.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The usual subject matter of the Ukiyo-e school of Japanese painting included all of the following EXCEPT

A) theater.
B) dance.
C) historical events.
D) female services.

Question 5

Woodblock printing began in the fourth century in which country?

A) Japan
B) China
C) Germany
D) France

Question 6

Ruskin objected to Whistler's works because they

A) were too linear.
B) appeared technically unfinished.
C) were achromatic.
D) were too figurative.

Question 7

Whose Impression: Sunrise (1872) lent Impressionism its name?

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

Question 8

Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave of Kanagawa was part of his series entitled

A) Thirty-six Views of a Fishing Boat.
B) Thirty-six Views of a Winter Day.
C) Thirty-six Views of the Ocean.
D) Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.

Question 9

Homer's Breezing Up exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT

A) broken colors.
B) a cropped viewpoint.
C) an oblique viewpoint.
D) unpronounced and largely invisible brushstrokes.

Question 10

Impressionists such as Monet were sometimes called plein air

A) the blurred quality of their paintings.
B) their indifference to human figures.
C) their practice of painting outdoors.
D) their fascination with cityscapes.

Question 11

What technique did Monet use to capture the appearance of reflections on water?

A) pointillism
B) solid, irregular shapes
C) broken color
D) silhouette

Question 12

Which is NOT an example of photographic influence on the Impressionist style?

A) the cropped viewpoint
B) multiple viewpoints
C) the silhouette
D) blurring

Question 13

The philosophy of "art for art's sake" is a defining feature of

A) formalism.
B) Japanese woodblocks.
C) Impressionism.
D) Realism.

Question 14

Which artist's Night View, Saruwaka Street at Night, part of his One Hundred Views of Edo, demonstrates affinities with the cityscapes of Pissarro and Renoir?

A) Keisei Eisen
B) Katsushika Hokusai
C) Utagawa Hiroshige
D) Ukiyo-e

Question 15

As seen in the works of Monet, over time, Impressionism developed in all the following ways EXCEPT

A) a growing preference for color, form, and light over iconography.
B) a movement toward disguising the role of the painter in the painting.
C) a progressive dissolution of edges.
D) a movement toward abstraction.

Question 16

Who was Honoré de Balzac?

A) an Impressionist sculptor
B) a French novelist
C) a French photographer
D) a French actor

Question 17

On Japanese woodblocks, the artist's chosen name is his

A) ka.
B) cartouche.
C) symbol.
D) go.

Question 18

In Renoir's Pont-Neuf and Pissarro's Place du Théâtre Français, the influence of photography can be seen in the

A) blurred forms.
B) elevated viewpoint.
C) cropped view.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 19

John Singer Sargent is best remembered for his

A) portraits.
B) landscapes.
C) still-lifes.
D) cityscapes.

Question 20

Which is NOT a feature of Sargent's Impressionism?

A) the dissolution of form
B) the "slice of life" view
C) the oblique view
D) the influence of japonisme

Question 21

Works like Morisot's The Cradle (1873) were criticized for their use of loose brushwork.

Question 22

As seen in the substantial impact of the Franco-Prussian War, political developments dramatically shaped the course of Impressionism.

Question 23

A defining characteristic of Impressionism is the interest in the

A) natural properties of light.
B) daily lives of ordinary people.
C) ideals and values that existed behind surface reality.
D) ability of abstract shapes to assume representational form.

Question 24

Outside of portrait busts, Rodin's oeuvre included the first major sculptures consisting of less than the whole body.

Question 25

Impressionist paintings were roundly derided by critics and audiences alike when they first appeared.

Question 26

All the following qualities of Mary Cassatt's Boating Party reveal the influence of Japanese woodblocks EXCEPT

A) the bold planes of color.
B) the blurred depiction of motion.
C) the sharp outlines.
D) the compressed spaces.

Question 27

Whose characteristically soft brushstrokes can be seen in works such as Moulin de la Galette?

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

Question 28

Before Commodore Perry's expedition in the 1850s, the Western world had no influence on Japanese art.

Question 29

The American photographer Eadweard Muybridge famously photographed a series of pictures showing the

A) process by which an artist's brushstrokes gradually assumed representational form.
B) actual movement of a galloping horse.
C) intricate movements of a ballet performance.
D) gradual change in tint of objects from sunrise to sunset.

Question 30

Rodin's technique included all of the following EXCEPT

A) creating a sense of dynamism.
B) creating a pronounced surface texture.
C) chiseling figures out of marble.
D) working from nonprofessional models.

Question 31

Impressionist paintings typically depicted all the following subjects EXCEPT

A) landscapes.
B) cityscapes.
C) historical events.
D) leisure activities.

Question 32

Who painted a "slice of life" image of an intoxicated couple in Absinthe?

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

Question 33

Impressionism first emerged in the 1860s in what city?

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

Question 34

Rodin's The Thinker was originally intended to represent Dante.

Question 35

The wordImpressionism originated as a term of derision.

Question 36

Ukiyo-e was the most famous and influential Japanese woodblock artist of the mid-nineteenth century.

Question 37

Who became a late arrival to Impressionism with works such as Bar at the Folies-Bergère?

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

Question 38

Rodin spent the last seven years of his life sculpting The Thinker, which he regarded as the summation of his whole life.

Question 39

To make a color woodblock print, an artist carefully applies different colored inks to a single woodblock.

Question 40

Which artist explored a range of motions through a series of ballet pictures that included Dancer with a Bouquet, Bowing?

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

Question 41

Describe the development of the woodblock print.

Question 42

What were the major characteristics of Impressionism? Consider point of view, style, social or theoretical intention, and subject matter.

Question 43

Discuss the dynamics of the lawsuit Whistler brought against Ruskin. What does the suit reveal about the role of art and the status of artists in the late nineteenth century?

Question 44

Identify the characteristics and qualities of Rodin's style. What affinities did it have with Impressionism?

Question 45

How did the vogue for japonisme influence late nineteenth-century Western art? How did Western art influence that of Japan?

Question 46

Compare and contrast late nineteenth-century painting in America and Europe. Use the examples in the text.

Question 47

How did the emergence of photography influence Impressionism?