Deck 22: Nineteenth-Century Impressionism

Question 1

The expedition that forced Japan to end its isolation policy was led by

A) Charles Darwin
B) Vasco da Gama
C) Henry Hudson
D) Matthew Perry

Answer 1

D

Question 2

An example of a silhouette can be found in

A) Manet's chandelier in A Bar at the Folies-Bergères
B) The rower in Cassatt's The Boating Party
C) The flags in Monet's Terrace at Sainte-Adresse
D) The vases in The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

Answer 2

B

Question 3

A particular aspect of Haussmann's renovations of Paris that appealed to Impressionist painters was

A) the slums
B) the department stores
C) the boulevards
D) the restaurants
E) the Opéra

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Ukiyo-e refers to

A) a transient world
B) a Japanese play
C) a Japanese courtesan
D) a kind of kimono

Question 5

The water in the Terrace at Sainte-Adresse is an example of

A) broken color
B) silhouetting
C) flat color
D) a pure hue

Question 6

"A heap of decomposing flesh" refers to

A) Manet's Olympia
B) Courbet's Woman with a Parrot
C) Degas' Absinthe drinker
D) Renoir's woman in the sun

Question 7

The artist most known for his "waterscapes" was

A) Manet
B) Monet
C) Renoir
D) Degas

Question 8

Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergères is an example of

A) Realism
B) a still life
C) a portrait
D) a cropped view

Question 9

The two greatest woodblock artists who emphasized landscape were

A) Hiroshige and Hokusai
B) Utagawa and Utamaro
C) Kuniyoshi and Kinisada
D) Utamaro and Kuniyoshi

Question 10

The Café Guerbois was

A) a nightclub in Paris
B) a meeting place for artists
C) a bourgeois coffee shop
D) the title of an Impressionist painting

Question 11

Berthe Morisot was

A) Manet's sister
B) Manet's wife
C) Manet's mother
D) Manet's sister-in-law
E) Manet's daughter

Question 12

The artist who painted the same scene under different conditions of lighting was

A) Manet
B) Monet
C) Renoir
D) Degas

Question 13

Edo refers to

A) Eisenhower's World War II command
B) a Chinese painter
C) the former name of Tokyo
D) the former name of Shanghai
E) a kind of Japanese theater

Question 14

The tilted viewpoint of Degas' Absinthe suggests

A) a child's perspective
B) an inability to depict three-dimensional space
C) a candid photograph
D) that the figures are drunk

Question 15

Which artist sketched ballerinas from the wings of the stage?

A) Monet
B) Manet
C) Renoir
D) Degas

Question 16

The Second Empire refers to

A) Napoleon I's Empire
B) Napoleon II's Empire
C) the period in which Napoleon I's nephew ruled France
D) the period in which Napoleon II's son ruled France

Question 17

Kabuki and Noh are

A) characters in a Japanese play
B) Japanese playwrights
C) types of Japanese theater
D) types of Japanese actors

Question 18

Which is the least typical subject in Impressionism?

A) café scenes
B) military scenes
C) circus scenes
D) landscapes
E) theaters and concerts

Question 19

Which is not a feature of Manet's Zola?

A) Olympia
B) a Japanese print
C) a Chinese screen
D) Velázquez's The Drinkers

Question 20

The façade of the Paris Opéra is

A) Classical in style
B) Realist in style
C) Impressionist in style
D) Baroque in style

Question 21

The author of The Gentle Art of Making Enemies was

A) Ruskin
B) Prendergast
C) Sargent
D) Whistler

Question 22

The trial between Whistler and Ruskin exemplified

A) the rise of the art critic as a force in the art world
B) the insanity of misjudging art
C) the conflict between the Rubenists and the Poussinists
D) the new role of the art galleries and dealers
E) the mishandling of a jury

Question 23

The dates of the American Civil War are

A) 1860 to 1867
B) 1850 to 1854
C) 1860 to 1864
D) 1800 to 1804

Question 24

The "pot of paint" refers to

A) Monet's palette
B) The Falling Rocket
C) Renoir's thick brush strokes
D) Degas' broken color

Question 25

Balzac was

A) an Impressionist sculptor
B) a French novelist
C) a French photographer
D) a French actor

Question 26

Which is not an example of photographic influence on the Impressionist style?

A) the cropped viewpoint
B) the slanted floor
C) the silhouette
D) blurring
E) a preference for black and white over color

Question 27

"It was the very embodiment of a tribute to genius" refers to

A) Steichen's Rodin--the Thinker
B) Rodin's The Thinker
C) Manet's Zola
D) Garnier's Opera
E) Rodin's Balzac

Question 28

The philosophy of "Art for Art's Sake" is basically

A) formalist
B) iconographic
C) feminist
D) Marxist
E) semiotic

Question 29

For Whistler

A) color was probity and drawing was vice
B) etching was superior to painting
C) drawing was masculine and color was feminine
D) color was vice and drawing was musical

Question 30

Which is not a feature of Sargent's Impressionism?

A) the dissolution of form
B) the "slice of life" view
C) the oblique view
D) the use of japonisme