Deck 29: The Romantic Style in Art and Music

Question 1

Mid-nineteenth-century architecture in the West began to pay homage to the ________ style,which was clearly revived in the Houses of Parliament along the Thames River in London.

A)baroque
B)exoticism
C)Rococo
D)Gothic

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following found inspiration in uncommon subjects such as the restless vitality of untamed horses and the faces of the clinically insane?

A)Gros
B)Goya
C)Géricault
D)Delacroix

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Examine the principal exponents of heroic and nationalistic themes in the visual arts: Gros,Géricault,Goya,Delacroix,Bartholdi,and Rude.

Answer 3

Romantic artists sought to praise the hero,they captured certain principal themes that glorified creative individualism,patriotism,and nationalism.Antoine-Jean Gros,the student of "first painter," Jacques-Louis David,painted works of Napoleon's military campaigns that became powerful vehicles of political propaganda.For example,in his Napoleon Visiting the Plague Victims at Jaffa,Gros converted a minor historical event-Napoleon's tour of his plague-ridden troops in Jaffa (in Palestine)-into an exotic allegorical drama that cast Napoleon in the guise of Christ as healer.Indeed throughout most of Western history,the heroic image in art was bound up with Classical lore and Christian legend,but now artists were using this context to portray contemporary events.The artist Francisco Goya helped to advance this phenomenon.The Third of May,1808:The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid was Goya's nationalistic response to the events ensuing from an uprising of Spanish citizens against the French army of occupation.In true Romantic style,he used emphatic contrasts of light and dark and the theatrical attention to graphic details to heighten the intensity of the contemporary political event.
Théodore Géricault worked to portray the heroic ideal as well,but chose to elevate ordinary men to the position of heroic combatants,as they struggle against insurmountable odds.His work The Raft of the "Medusa" brought together the reality of a man-made disaster and the more abstract theme of the Romantic sublime:the terror experienced by ordinary human beings in the face of nature's overpowering might.
While Goya and Géricault democratized the image of the hero,Géricault's pupil and follower Eugène Delacroix raised that image to grand proportions.His paintings are filled with fierce vitality and vivid detail,he declared,"I have no love for reasonable painting." In his work,Liberty Leading the People,the women,a personification of liberty,assumes heroic status as she helps to lead the people against tyranny.Inspired by Delacroix's Liberty,France sent as a gift of friendship to the young American nation a monumental copper and cast-iron statue of a similarly idealized female symbol of liberty;The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World)is the "sister" of Delacroix's painted heroine;it has become a classic image of freedom for oppressed people everywhere.
In his sculpture,François Rude embodied the dynamic heroism of the Napoleonic Era.In his richly textured work,The Departure of the Volunteers of 1792,Rude captured the revolutionary spirit and emotional fervor of this battalion's marching song,La Marseillaise,which the French later adopted as their national anthem.

Question 4

The Italian composer Verdi and Germany's Wagner are still famous for exploiting ________ in their compositions.

A)nationalistic themes
B)new instrumentation
C)chromatic scales
D)dissonance

Question 5

Which of the following hailed imagination as paramount in the life of the artist and focused on sensuous and violent subjects? He said,"I have no love for reasonable painting."

A)Gros
B)Goya
C)Géricault
D)Delacroix

Question 6

Musical pieces (often short)that have an improvised sound in spite of their carefully written notation are called

A)études.
B)impromptus.
C)nocturnes.
D)treatments.

Question 7

Rumored by contemporaries that he had made a pact with the Devil for his musical abilities,________ refused to publish his own work,which he alone would perform.

A)Beethoven
B)Mozart
C)Paganini
D)Chopin

Question 8

________ heightened the importance of fantasy and story in his legendary Russian ballets Swan Lake,The Nutcracker,and Sleeping Beauty.

A)Grieg
B)Schubert
C)Mussorgsky
D)Tchaikovsky

Question 9

Discuss the basic characteristics of the Romantic style in art and music.

Question 10

________ generally elevated the heart over the mind and the emotions over the intellect.

A)Romantic architects
B)Romantic writers
C)Romantic artists
D)All these answers are correct.

Question 11

________ was a new,flamboyant spectacle of the era that united all aspects of theatrical production: music,dance,stage sets,and costumes.

A)The musical
B)The concerto
C)The leitmotif
D)Opera

Question 12

List the major trends in nineteenth-century architecture.

Question 13

Which of the following was the pupil of Jacques-Louis David,but rejected Neoclassicism in favor of more realistic scenes of France's emperor in theatrical settings?

A)Gros
B)Goya
C)Géricault
D)Delacroix

Question 14

The Royal Pavilion at Brighton,England remains the quintessential example of which of the following architectural styles?

A)Baroque
B)Exoticism
C)Rococo
D)Gothic

Question 15

The artists of the late seventeenth century favored heroic themes and personalities,especially those illustrating

A)the struggle for political independence.
B)the realities of peasant life.
C)the open vistas of the American plains.
D)the majesty of European monarchs.

Question 16

________ united poetry and music in the intimate form of the lied.

A)Grieg
B)Schubert
C)Mussorgsky
D)Tchaikovsky

Question 17

By far,the most popular musical instrument in nineteenth-century Europe was which of the following?

A)the trumpet
B)the piano
C)the lute
D)the bassoon

Question 18

Examine the principal exponents of the Romantic style in music: Beethoven,Schubert,Berlioz,and Chopin.

Question 19

Discuss the significance and definition of Romantic dance and opera.

Question 20

Wagner's ________ tied sound to story,evidence of the Romantic search for an ideal union of poetry and music.

A)use of backdrops behind the orchestra
B)invention of new brass instruments
C)use of minor keys
D)leitmotif