Deck 28: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism: Europe and America, 1870 to 1900

Question 1

Members of the ____ movement dedicated themselves to making functional objects with a high aesthetic value.

A) Pointilist
B) Symbolist
C) Arts and Crafts
D) Precisionist

Answer 1

C

Question 2

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

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

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionists, her paintings are inhabited by ____.

A) the business world
B) night life
C) women and children
D) the demimonde

Answer 3

C

Question 4

____ artists disdained Realism as trivial.

A) Symbolist
B) Impressionist
C) Art Nouveau
D) Photography

Question 5

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

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

Question 6

The influence of ____ is evident in Rodin's interest in the effect of light on the sculpted surface.

A) Impressionism
B) Symbolism
C) Romanticism
D) Realism

Question 7

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. . . . I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green. . . ."?

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

Question 8

In contrast to artists of the French Academy, the Impressionists attempted to capture ____.

A) the fleeting aspects of reality
B) mythological subjects
C) Grand Manner portraits
D) Rococo delicacy

Question 9

Antonio Gaudi longed to create an architectural style that was both modern and appropriate for his native country of Spain. How does Casa Milá represent his ability to conceive a building as a whole and mold it almost as a sculptor would create a figure from clay?

A) It is a squared structure sheathed in concrete.
B) It is a free-form mass wrapped around a street corner.
C) It is a vertical mass soaring above the landscape.
D) It is a horizontal mass tied to the earth.

Question 10

Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships?

A) Gauguin
B) Toulouse-Lautrec
C) Cézanne
D) Van Gogh

Question 11

Although ____ painted familiar Impressionist subjects, his exaggeration of each element created a new tone.

A) Millais
B) Toulouse-Lautrec
C) Eakins
D) Degas

Question 12

In Klimt's The Kiss, the patterning has clear ties to the ____ movement.

A) Nabis
B) Post-Impressionist
C) Art Nouveau
D) Neoclassical

Question 13

Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality were most typical of which of the following styles?

A) Impressionists
B) Symbolists
C) Neoclassicists
D) Realists

Question 14

In The Apparition, Moreau portrayed a ____, a theme that appealed to the artist and many of his friends.

A) femme fatale
B) saint
C) courtesan
D) Haitian woman

Question 15

Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of ____.

A) Japanese woodblock prints
B) medieval stained glass
C) Renaissance tapestries
D) Mughal miniatures

Question 16

In Night Café the artist has communicated the "madness" of the place by selecting and juxtaposing ____.

A) a bar with a cafe
B) vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity
C) soft color and tilted perspective
D) crowds that create tension

Question 17

____ is sometimes described as the first modern architect.

A) Victor Horta
B) Gustav Moreau
C) Louis Henry Sullivan
D) William Morris

Question 18

Which of the following ideas did Vincent van Gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night?

A) Stygian darkness of night
B) Birth of a galaxy
C) Vastness of the universe
D) Myopia of humanity

Question 19

The real subject of Monet's Rouen Cathedral is ____.

A) the sunlight of the portal
B) France's religious past
C) a crisis of faith
D) the poverty surrounding it

Question 20

Which of the following architects conceived the building as a whole and molded it almost as a clay sculpture?

A) Louis Sullivan
B) Henry Richardson
C) Antonio Gaudi
D) Alexandre Gustave Eiffel

Question 21

Briefly describe the fin-de-siècle culture of late 19th-century Austria.

Question 22

How did Rodin impact later generations of sculptors?

Question 23

Briefly describe Post-Impressionism.

Question 24

What were Rodin's thoughts on the surface of his sculptures?

Question 25

Briefly describe the avant-garde and its impact on the art of the late 19th century.

Question 26

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

Question 27

Compare the works of Berthe Morisot and Gertrude Käsebier. How does their work define the artists? What factors allowed these artists to create their thematic body of work? How does each represent her period, and what innovations did each artist create? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 28

Contrast the works of Renoir and Laurtrec. How do the subject styles of the artists reflect 19th-century French society and the innovations of 9th-th century art? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 29

How did cast iron and steel affect architecture in the late 19th century?

Question 30

Contrast the works of Moreau and Cézanne. How does each artist respond to the innovations and evolutions of 19th-century visual arts? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 31

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

Question 32

Describe the development of sculpture at the end of the 19th century. Use examples to support your essay. To what extent did sculpture remain conventional? What painting movements did it take into account?

Question 33

What aims did the architect synthesize in this building, and what role did ornament play?

Question 34

Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?

A) His concern for the emotional qualities of color, which he depicted using broad, passionate brush strokes
B) His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men like Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul
C) His return to classical subject matter
D) His depiction of dream imagery using the visual techniques discovered by the Impressionists

Question 35

How does the Marshall Field Store respond to its environment?

Question 36

How does Louis Sullivan reflect truly modern architecture?

Question 37

What was the Arts and Crafts movement?

Question 38

How did social Darwinism assist in the colonization of peoples and countries deemed less advanced?

Question 39

Compare and contrast the architecture of the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements? To what degree do they reflect the overarching aims of each movement?

Question 40

How does the overall design connect the sculptor with the painting movement of the Symbolists?

Question 41

Who painted these works? What do they have in common?

Question 42

Who is the artist, and how does this work represent the late 19th century?

Question 43

How does this work reflect the theories of Sigmund Freud?

Question 44

Compare these two works, noting artist, country, and style for each. In what way is each typical of that style?

Question 45

What is the subject of this work, and what were the artist's aims in representing it?