Deck 6: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

Question 1

Edgar Degas has been called a "linear Impressionist" because of his precise draftsmanship.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Albert Einstein proposed his "Theory of Relativity" in 1905, but it was not until 1919 that mathematical equations central to his theory could be confirmed.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

__________ was associated with the Symbolist movement.

A) Sarah Orne Jewett
B) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
C) James Abbott McNeill Whistler
D) Kate Chopin
E) Stéphane Mallarmé

Answer 3

E

Question 4

__________ is an important subject in Impressionism.

A) Mythological subjects
B) The ordinary life of the working class
C) Religious subjects
D) The good life and the entertainments of the belle époque
E) Foods, fruits, and elements of fine dining

Question 5

__________ created one of the first skyscrapers with his Wainwright Building in St.Louis, Missouri.

A) Auguste Rodin
B) Louis Kahn
C) Walter Gropius
D) Louis Sullivan
E) Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 6

Art nouveau favored forms derived from __________.

A) nature
B) mathematics
C) pop culture
D) astronomy
E) classical antiquity

Question 7

__________ is known as the "father of abstract art."

A) Claude Monet
B) Henri Matisse
C) Paul Cézanne
D) Paul Gauguin
E) Vincent van Gogh

Question 8

The Boer War was fought between the British empire and two independent Boer Republics of __________.

A) Germany
B) France
C) South Africa
D) Holland
E) Mali

Question 9

Claude Debussy was to nineteenth-century French music what Pierre-Auguste Renoir was to nineteenth-century French __________.

A) literature
B) architecture
C) painting
D) philosophy
E) sculpture

Question 10

Monet's Haystacks at Giverny was one of a series of paintings of haystacks that Monet painted to study __________.

A) how colors appear when juxtaposed
B) horizontal and vertical definition
C) the way in which changes in light and weather alter what we see
D) the architectural structures of Europe
E) asymmetrical composition

Question 11

Baron Haussmann was responsible for the __________.

A) "grands boulevards" of Paris
B) Eiffel Tower in Paris
C) The Statue of Liberty
D) Art Nouveau presence in Paris
E) "Batignolles" group

Question 12

Friedrich Nietzsche was a philosopher who asserted the freedom of the individual who could channel __________ tendencies in ways not constrained by social conventions.

A) Apollonian and Dionysian
B) Jack and Jill
C) Yin and Yang
D) both B and C
E) none of the above

Question 13

__________ washed his brush between strokes so that each color would be distinct, referring to his brushstrokes as "little planes."

A) Claude Monet
B) Paul Cézanne
C) Georges Seurat
D) Vincent van Gogh
E) none of the above

Question 14

__________ sculpted The Thinker .

A) Auguste Rodin
B) Lorenzo Ghiberti
C) Donatello
D) Berthe Morisot
E) Camille Claudel

Question 15

Developments in ideas about the structure of the __________, especially in proving that it is divisible, occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A) microscope
B) treatment of animals by humans
C) atom
D) third dimension
E) both A and B

Question 16

The human psyche, according to Sigmund Freud, is divided into: __________.

A) body and soul
B) id, ego, and superego
C) a million little pieces
D) libido and aggressive impulses
E) conscious and unconscious

Question 17

Georges Seurat employed the __________ technique in Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte .

A) color field
B) tenebrist
C) theatrical
D) pointillist
E) action painting

Question 18

The name "Impressionism" was derived from a painting by __________.

A) Édouard Manet
B) Claude Monet
C) Mary Cassatt
D) Pierre-Auguste Renoir
E) Berthe Morisot

Question 19

A key characteristic of __________ in literature is represented by such American women writers as Sarah Orne Jewett, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Kate Chopin.

A) naturalism
B) sentimentalism
C) emotionalism
D) tenebrism
E) stylization

Question 20

All of the following painters are considered Impressionists except __________.

A) Edgar Degas
B) Mary Cassatt
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Pierre-Auguste Renoir
E) Berthe Morisot

Question 21

The Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin left his wife and five children and moved to Tahiti.

Question 22

Oscar Wilde styled himself a "decadent" and flaunted his homosexuality as a challenge to the accepted code of moral behavior being promoted in his day.

Question 23

How does Symbolist art and literature reflect, in the words of Benton and DiYanni, an attempt "[...] to convey reality by impression and sensation?"

Question 24

Describe the goals of Impressionist paintings and evaluate the success by analyzing a single work by either Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, or Mary Cassatt.

Question 25

List the features of Art Nouveau and provide an example of this style.

Question 26

What were the chief scientific and technological developments of the late nineteenth-century?

Question 27

Pierre-Auguste Renoir attempted to uncover the social inequities of late nineteenth-century Paris.

Question 28

Discuss the significance of Darwin's theory of evolution through the process of natural selection to people of the late nineteenth century.
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Question 29

Kate Chopin is associated with the Symbolist movement.

Question 30

The favorite subjects of Paul Cézanne were still life and landscape.

Question 31

What "improvements" to Impressionism are seen in either George Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte or Paul Gauguin's Manao Tupapau ?

Question 32

James Abbot McNeill Whistler advocated an art that was concerned with morality, education, or narrative rather than appealing to the aesthetic sense.

Question 33

Explore Claude Debussy's "musical impressionism."

Question 34

Delineate the primary characteristics of Japanese prints and name a European or American artist who was influenced by them.

Question 35

Compare and contrast Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building to Antoní Gaudí's Casa Mila in terms not only of style, but also of underlying cultural values.

Question 36

What new directions did sculpture take in the nineteenth-century and whose work is a good example of these new attitudes?

Question 37

Who were the two key figures in philosophy at the turn of the century and what are the principal theories each espoused?

Question 38

The artists who came to be known as Impressionists first exhibited together in 1874.

Question 39

Victor Horta's architectural works were built in the Neoclassical style.

Question 40

List the three principal aims of Baron Haussmann's rebuilding of the city of Paris.

Question 41

What do the differences between Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles suggest about varying attitudes of the late nineteenth century?