Deck 17: Romanticism, Realism, and Photography

Question 1

Which of Monet's paintings exemplifies his emphasis on conveying light and color?

A)A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
B)Two Girls at the Piano
C)Water Lilies
D)Mont Sainte-Victoire

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What term for this period reflects the new mood of cheerfulness in the great cities of Europe?

A)The Edwardian period
B)The Belle Époque
C)The Victorian period
D)The Modern Era

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Who was the author of Thus Spake Zarathustra 1883-1892)?

A)Nietzsche
B)Goethe
C)Descartes
D)Plato

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What nineteenth-century composer wrote the Pathétique Symphony?

A)Tchaikovsky
B)Stravinsky
C)Debussy
D)Mahler

Question 5

Which French sculptor of the late 19^th/early 20^th century focused on representing human figures?

A)Fumeo
B)Levy
C)Bellver
D)Rodin

Question 6

Which Norwegian artist's works show a preoccupation with fear and death?

A)Nolde
B)Munch
C)Heckel
D)van Gogh

Question 7

What elements are often seen in Auguste Renoir's paintings?

A)Dancers in the various stages of rehearsal and performance
B)Beautiful young men and women enjoying themselves
C)Intimate scenes of domesticity
D)Sensual nudes in landscapes

Question 8

What was Friedrich Nietzsche's view of the condition of western civilization in the 1880s and 1890s?

A)Humans were not able to live happily in a secular society.
B)The chaos of the times was due to industrialization.
C)Stability could be gained by a return to Classical models and ideals.
D)People were enslaved by religion and democracy.

Question 9

Which Dutch post-impressionist painter typifies the stereotype of artist as tortured genius?

A)Matisse
B)Munch
C)Van Gogh
D)Nolde

Question 10

What were the usual subjects of the paintings of Mary Cassatt?

A)Flowers
B)Parisian cityscapes
C)Women and children
D)Men and women dancing

Question 11

Which post-impressionist left France and its civilization for the attractions of Tahiti and "barbarism")?

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

Question 12

How did Déjeuner sur l'Herbe break with the stylistic traditions of the past?

A)The figures were placed in broad, flat color fields.
B)The painting included both male and female nudes.
C)The painting used a pyramidal arrangement for the figures.
D)The painting's subjects were expressionless.

Question 13

What is the purpose of the symphonic poem such as Richard Strauss' Don Juan [1886])?

A)To tell a story through sound
B)To combine verse with music
C)To portray the feelings of the characters
D)To recreate the effect of the Greek chorus

Question 14

Which European city was the center of artistic activity in the later nineteenth century?

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

Question 15

Which two French composers are associated with impressionism in music?

A)Chopin and Liszt
B)Ravel and Debussy
C)Lully and Meyerbeer
D)Satie and Manet

Question 16

Whose painted Déjeuner sur l'Herbe Luncheon on the Grass), which shocked Parisians for its content and style?

A)Monet
B)Manet
C)Cézanne
D)Gauguin

Question 17

How do Mary Cassatt's paintings show the influence of Japanese art?

A)They portray scenes of Japanese landscapes
B)They use flat planes and broad areas of color
C)They use pen and ink to create simple images
D)They focus on moments of meditation

Question 18

What was the main focus of the women's movement during the late 19^th century?

A)Equal pay for equal work
B)Freedom from domestic responsibilities
C)The right to vote
D)Equal representation in government

Question 19

What does Edgar Degas' The Rehearsal suggest about the world of the ballet?

A)The loneliness of a life in theater
B)The glamour of the world of ballet
C)The pain and tedium experienced by ballet dancers
D)The eminence of dance in Parisian culture

Question 20

What event launched the Impressionist movement?

A)The opening of the Museum of Paris
B)The beginning of WWI
C)The death of Eugène Delacroix
D)The exhibition at the Café Guerbois

Question 21

_______________________ Schönberg first used this technique in his compositions

Question 22

What innovations did Gustav Mahler bring to his symphonies?

Question 23

What innovation did Schönberg introduce to vocal music?

A)Atonality
B)Sprechstimme
C)Serialism
D)Inversion

Question 24

What Russian novelist 1831-1881)was able to combine both realism and psychological understanding in his Crime and Punishment?

A)Honoré de Balzac
B)Leo Tolstoy
C)Dmitri Shostakovich
D)Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Question 25

_______________________ Music that tells a story

Question 26

_______________________ Formal name for the right to vote

Question 27

Why was Ibsen such an important Norwegian dramatist? What themes do his plays explore?

Question 28

_______________________ Impressionist composer of Claire du Lune

Question 29

What is innovative about Proust's Remembrance of Things Past? What did he mean by "memory is our most important weapon against death"?

Question 30

_______________________ Strauss' term for "symphonic poem"

Question 31

_______________________ French name given to the period 1870-1914

Question 32

_______________________ Technique using tiny dots of color to create an image

Question 33

_______________________ German for "Blue Rider," describes artists who focused on abstract forms and pure colors

Question 34

What French author 1871-1922)is associated with "stream-of-consciousness" writing?

A)Degas
B)Proust
C)Matisse
D)Hugo

Question 35

According to Sigmund Freud, what factors other than reason and logic influence human behavior?

A)the environment
B)the subconscious
C)the superego
D)genetics

Question 36

_______________________ Writer who argued that the "will to power" was the only important human motivation

Question 37

What are the central characteristics of Fauvism? What was it about the use of color and form in Matisse's Red Room Harmony in Red)that would cause critics to call him a "wild beast"?

Question 38

_______________________ 20th-century style of painting that emphasizes the two-dimensionality of the canvas by presenting multiple views of an object

Question 39

According to the text, why was Cézanne such an important post-impressionist painter? What is it about Cézanne's Mont Saint-Victoire that makes it not realistic? What geometric shapes are apparent? How can Cézanne be seen as a predecessor to Cubist and Abstract Art?

Question 40

What was the reaction of the Paris audience in 1913 to the first performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring?

A)Delight
B)Sadness
C)Outrage
D)Indifference