Deck 11: Nineteenth-Century Art

Question 1

Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère exhibits new nineteenth century issues of the individual in a modern,urban society,most particularly:

A) stoic virtue.
B) isolation and alienation.
C) vainglorious heroism.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In the period of Romanticism,a revealing consistency in the various arts can be discerned.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The technique of the Impressionists was to:

A) work quickly before the natural light changed.
B) use loose, bold strokes of color.
C) paint outside, on the spot.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Courbet's aim was to create a "living art"; his style became known as:

A) Gothic Revival.
B) Realism.
C) Romanticism.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 5

Delacroix's revolutionary technique used in Liberty Leading the People is a reaction to the prevailing Neoclassicism in its:

A) loose brushstrokes.
B) blurred edges.
C) strong colors.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 6

In England in the nineteenth century,the Gothic Revival style was perceived as the style that best expressed:

A) truth.
B) the proper relationship between God and humans.
C) spiritual goodness.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 7

The highest goal of Academic painters was to create history paintings of significant moral import.

Question 8

What did the declining percentage of commissioned works in the nineteenth century encourage?

Question 9

Constable's painting of The Hay Wain is unified by the flecks of ____________ and ____________ used to recreate the sparkling luminosity of the English countryside after the rain.

Question 10

Goya's The Execution of Madrileños on the Third of May,1808 emphasizes a confrontation between what two groups?

Question 11

The style of Hiroshige's woodblock prints focuses on the subtleties of a particular ____________ and ____________.

Question 12

Seurat systematized contemporary scientific advances in color theory to create what he termed ____________.

Question 13

In the medium of lithography,the print form is a(n):

A) very smooth board of bamboo.
B) copper plate.
C) very smooth slab of limestone.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 14

Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa is a history painting,and its subject is a heroic event.

Question 15

What was the advantage of William Henry Fox Talbot's invention of the photographic negative?

Question 16

The creation of an ukiyo-e woodblock print,such as Hokusai's The Great Wave,was the result of the work of:

A) a carver.
B) printing specialists.
C) an artist-designer.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 17

The goal of Monet in Impression-Sunrise was to:

A) paint a beautiful picture.
B) record reality as he saw it.
C) display significant moral import.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 18

In Japanese woodblock technique,the design is carved into the wood,leaving the lines and solid areas raised above the cut surface of the wood.

Question 19

At the Parisian Salon of 1863,there was such an outcry about the rejected works that a special exhibition of rejected works was set up,known as the ____________.

Question 20

Rodin's The Burghers of Calais disappointed many people at first because it lacked overtly ____________ references.

Question 21

The Crystal Palace demonstrates what two innovative developments that transformed architecture in the second half of the nineteenth century? How did these developments work,and what did they demonstrate for the future of architecture?

Question 22

In Thomas Eakins's Portrait of Dr.Samuel Gross,the touches of red are used for what purposes?

Question 23

In Thomas Cole's paintings,why is his emphasis on the uniqueness of American scenery significant?

Question 24

In Arles in 1888-89,van Gogh adopted what Japanese belief about the color yellow?