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

Question 1

What is the most important feature of Sullivan's Prudential Building that distinguishes it from earlier structures?

A) its use of cast iron structural supports.
B) his use of modular construction.
C) the reflection of the subdivision of the interior spaces in the outer structure.
D) the elimination of revival decorative elements.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

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

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

Answer 2

B

Question 3

William Morris helped to shape the Arts and Crafts movement through his support of high quality craftsmanship and design based on natural forms. Which of the following artists was also a member of the Arts and Crafts movement?

A) Auguste Rodin
B) Aubrey Beardsley
C) Louis Comfort Tiffany
D) Louis Sullivan

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following influenced Degas in his technique of using spatial projections and off-center empty space to create illusion and direct the viewer's attention into the picture?

A) 18th century Japanese woodblock prints
B) 16th century German woodcuts
C) 15th century German engravings
D) Mughal miniatures

Question 5

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 6

Who was a denizen of the night world of Paris, consorting with the tawdry population of entertainers, prostitutes and other social outcasts?

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

Question 7

In Klimt's The Kiss, the artist has captured the flamboyance and decadence of the period. How was this painting a visual manifestation of the fin de siècle?

A) It captured a decadence conveyed by he formalism of the subject matter.
B) It captured a decadence conveyed by the linearity of the form.
C) It captured a decadence conveyed by opulent and sensuous image.
D) It captured a decadence conveyed by soft tonalities of the image.

Question 8

In The Night Café, the artist has shown us a benign scene yet the scene has a sense of charged energy and oppressive atmosphere. How did the artist communicate this?

A) Through use of a bar always a bad place
B) Through us of vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity
C) Through use of soft color and tilted perspective
D) Through use of the crowds create the tension

Question 9

Berthe Morisot focused her work in the only area allowed her as a woman in upper-class French society. Which of the following was that area?

A) business world
B) night life
C) domestic scenes
D) demimonde

Question 10

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 11

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

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

Question 12

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 13

One aspect of Rodin's work that ties him to Impressionism is ____.

A) His concern for light on sculpted surfaces
B) the pastel coloring of his sculptures
C) his focus on exotic and imaginative themes
D) breaking up the surface into intersecting planes

Question 14

Monet's Rouen Cathedral is a series that observed the same viewpoint during which of the following?

A) different times of the day
B) only at noon
C) only at noon during winter
D) from different elevations

Question 15

Which of the following artists is categorized as a Symbolist?

A) Redon
B) Cassatt
C) Morisot
D) Whistler

Question 16

Which of the following artists presented a sumptuous and sensual image in the Apparition?

A) Moreau
B) Manet
C) Redon
D) Puvis de Chavannes

Question 17

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 18

Which of the following artists was most concerned with painting realistic scenes of poor and oppressed peoples?

A) Courbet
B) Eakins
C) Bouguereau
D) Bonheur

Question 19

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 20

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 21

Briefly describe Post-Impressionism.

Question 22

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

Question 23

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 24

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

Question 25

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 26

Contrast the work of Renoir and Laurtrec. How do the subjects styles of the artists reflect nineteenth century French society and the innovations of nineteenth century art? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

How did Rodin impact later generations of sculptors?

Question 30

What was the Arts and Crafts Movement?

Question 31

How does the Marshall Field Store respond to its environment?

Question 32

How does Louis Sullivan reflect truly modern architecture?

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

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 do they each represent their period and what innovations did each artist create? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 41

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

Question 42

How does this work reflect the theories of Sigmund Freud?

Question 43

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

Question 44

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

Question 45

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