Deck 21: Nineteenth-Century Realism

Question 1

For most of his life Daumier made a living

A) as a painter
B) as a caricaturist
C) as a cartoonist
D) as a photographer

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Rosa Bonheur was particularly drawn to images of

A) lions
B) athletes
C) horses
D) city life

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which is not a feature of the Pre-Raphaelites' style?

A) pastel colors
B) clear edges
C) erotic subtexts
D) figuration

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Daumier was sentenced to jail for

A) fraud
B) satirizing the king
C) revolutionary activities
D) defending freedom of the press
E) forgery

Question 5

Who of the following was not a nineteenth-century photographer?

A) Cameron
B) Nadar
C) Brady
D) Duckworth

Question 6

Manet's Olympia was inspired by

A) The Rokeby Venus
B) The Venus of Urbino
C) Ingres' Grande Odalisque
D) Canova's Pauline

Question 7

Critics objected to Déjeuner sur l'Herbe because

A) it was not sufficiently Classical
B) it was not colorful enough
C) it contained the artist's self-portrait
D) it was too much like a Renaissance painting

Question 8

Courbet's patron,who financed the Realist Exhibition was

A) Baudelaire
B) Zola
C) Flaubert
D) Bruyas

Question 9

_________ painted realistic scenes of poor and oppressed peoples

A) Courbet
B) Millet
C) Daumier
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 10

Courbet objected to Olympia because

A) it was not realistic enough
B) it was too Classical
C) it was based on Renaissance prototypes
D) it was too flat

Question 11

Millet's The Gleaners combines

A) social observation with Neoclassicism
B) Renaissance monumentality with Romanticism
C) Medieval feudalism with Romanticism
D) social observation with Romanticism

Question 12

The central group of Courbet's My Studio includes

A) a boy, a cat, a painter, a woman, and a landscape
B) a juggler, a crucifix, a cat, and a painter
C) a painter, a woman, a boy, and a journalist
D) a painter, a woman, a boy, and a peddler

Question 13

In Modern Painters,Ruskin wrote a defense of

A) Constable
B) Turner
C) Cole
D) Nash
E) Millais

Question 14

Which author and work do not match?

A) Baudelaire - Les Fleurs de Mal
B) Zola - Madame Bovary
C) Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
D) Balzac - La Comédie Humaine
E) Marx - Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

Question 15

Which were not among the advantages of the Crystal Palace?

A) it was fireproof
B) it was prefabricated
C) it was relatively inexpensive
D) it was constructed quickly

Question 16

The figures in Manet's Déjeuner sur l'Herbe are identified as

A) Manet's sister, brother-in-law, and Victorine
B) Manet's model, brother-in-law, and sister
C) Manet's model, Gustave Manet, and Ferdinand Leenhoff
D) Manet, his model, and his brother

Question 17

Manet objected to Courbet's Woman with a Parrot because

A) it was too realistic
B) it was too voluptuous
C) it was not Classical enough
D) the parrot was a Romantic element

Question 18

Gargantua is a (an)

A) tyrant
B) greedy king
C) good-natured giant
D) gargoyle
E) ogre from French folklore

Question 19

Nadar's Giant refers to

A) a French painting
B) a French photograph
C) a French balloon
D) a French folktale

Question 20

Courbet was an anarchist,so he painted

A) mythological scenes
B) the "beautiful" as defined by the Academy
C) heightened emotional states not encountered in the real world
D) scenes of people and settings in the real world

Question 21

Until the middle of the nineteenth century,bridges were designed according to what method?

A) suspension
B) cantilever
C) truss
D) post-and-lintel

Question 22

Which is not true of the Brooklyn Bridge?

A) it was designed by the Roeblings
B) it has Gothic arches
C) it has four huge parallel cables
D) it was the first use of steel wire in a bridge
E) it connects Brooklyn with the Bronx

Question 23

Match the writer with the correct work

A) Melville -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
B) Alcott -- Far From the Madding Crowd
C) Thoreau -- Leaves of Grass
D) Darwin -- Origin of Species

Question 24

Which is not true of the Statue of Liberty?

A) it was sculpted by Bartholdi
B) its frame was wrought by Eiffel
C) it is on Ellis Island
D) it was constructed from 1875 to 1884

Question 25

Which was not a new feature in the development of nineteenth-century skyscrapers?

A) masonry and brick construction
B) power-driven elevators
C) steel frames
D) concrete reinforced with steel wire

Question 26

The leading American Civil War photographer was

A) Robert
B) Matthew Brady
C) Nadar
D) Fox Talbot
E) Lee