Question 1

Who is described as the "father of expressionism" in the text and why?

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Question 2

What was so shocking and insulting about Gustave Courbet's Two Girls on the Banks of the Seine?

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Question 3

Why did Gauguin believe that he needed to move to Tahiti?

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Question 4

How did the Impressionists become known as the Impressionists?

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Question 5

What past master influenced Manet? In what way did he do so?

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Question 6

Images from Japan had an enormous impact on nineteenth-century art.Using specific examples, explain some ways that it influenced Western art.

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Question 7

Painters in the nineteenth century often had a troubled relationship with the critics and the public.Using specific examples, describe this relationship.

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Question 8

Photography was invented in the mid-nineteenth century.Describe the effect, especially on painting, that photography had on the art world in the mid- to late nineteenth century.

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Question 9

Which Postimpressionist painter was most influential to the modern artists of the twentieth century? In what ways was that artist influential?

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Question 10

Describe how art patronage changed in the nineteenth century.What happened in cities like Paris, London, and New York?

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Quiz 17: Out of the Studio and Into the Light: Impressionism and Postimpressionism