Question 1

__________ accused Whistler of "flinging pots of paint in the public's face."

Accepted Answer

A)   Morris
B)   Ruskin
C)   Homer
D)   EakinsE) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 2

What innovation seen in Rodin's The Burghers of Calais signaled his departure from established traditions of sculpture?

Accepted Answer

A)   The figure grouping is placed at eye-level.
B)   The figures show emotional anguish and despair.
C)   Rodin suggests their pain through physical discomfort.
D)   All of the aboveE) A) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 3

Probably begun in the last year of his life Cézanne's The Large Bathers returned to ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)   social issues
B)   academic convention
C)   decorative art nouveau line
D)   pointillismE) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 4

How does Charles Garnier's Opéra illustrate the Academic practice of historicism?

Accepted Answer

A)   It was built with Classical materials and engineering techniques.
B)   Its design was based on Baroque architectural forms.
C)   Its primary function was to entertain the French social elite.
D)   It was part of urban planning efforts to redesign the medieval city of Paris.E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 5

Who was William Morris?

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Question 6

What is Japonisme?

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Question 7

Most of the Impressionists painted en plein air, meaning they painted outside the __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   market
B)   studio
C)   revolution
D)   churchE) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 8

What is the relationship between Realism and Impressionism?

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Question 9

Why are engravings important in spreading an artist reputation?

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Question 10

The Belgian artist James Ensor frequently used _______in his terrifying paintings, which combined aspects of Symbolism and Expressionism.

Accepted Answer

A)   weapons
B)   femme fatales
C)   demons
D)   masksE) All of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 11

Art Nouveau artists and architects drew inspiration from _____________.

Accepted Answer

A)   history painting
B)   historic battles
C)   the subconscious mind
D)   natureE) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 12

Julia Margaret Cameron was a creative early proponent of portrait __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   lithography
B)   photography
C)   painting
D)   sketchesE) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 13

In what context did the notion of an avant-garde among artists first appear?

Accepted Answer

A)   discussions by bourgeois members of the "café society" in Paris
B)   alternative exhibitions of artists who had been rejected by the Salon
C)   the writings of Karl Marx
D)   in programs of French utopian socialistsE) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 14

Cézanne's professed aim of painting was to ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)   evoke a strong emotional reaction from the viewer
B)   create an image of pure aesthetic pleasure
C)   make of Impressionism something solid and durable
D)   capture transitory effects of light and atmosphereE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 15

Important to the works of Seurat _________ observed that adjacent objects cast reflections on their neighbors and create the effect of their complementary color.

Accepted Answer

A)   Michel-Eugène Chevreul
B)   Edmund Burke
C)   Charles Baudelaire
D)   Cornelius VanderbiltE) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 16

Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux relied on the English tradition of _______landscaping in designing New York's Central Park.

Accepted Answer

A)   symmetrical
B)   picturesque
C)   Grand Manner
D)   mazeE) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 17

Who was Camille Claudel?

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Question 18

How is Central Park organized?

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Question 19

What impact did the suppression of the Paris Commune have on art after 1871?

Accepted Answer

A)   There was a resurgence in political art.
B)   Artists turned to lithography and other printed formats for social critique.
C)   Overt political commentary diminished in the art of the avant-garde.
D)   Avant-garde artists produce politically charged work anonymously and under pseudonyms.E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 20

Reflecting Richard Morris Hunt's architectural training at the École des Beaux-Arts, the ideal American city he designed for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was based on the symbolism of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   the American factory
B)   Greek and Roman architecture
C)   the skyscraper
D)   Gothic cathedralsE) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Exam 31: Mid-to Late Nineteenth-century Art in Europe and the United States

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How does Charles Garnier's Opéra illustrate the Academic practice of historicism?

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Art Nouveau artists and architects drew inspiration from _____________.

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The Belgian artist James Ensor frequently used _______in his terrifying paintings, which combined aspects of Symbolism and Expressionism.

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Probably begun in the last year of his life Cézanne's The Large Bathers returned to ____________.

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Reflecting Richard Morris Hunt's architectural training at the École des Beaux-Arts, the ideal American city he designed for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was based on the symbolism of __________.

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What innovation seen in Rodin's The Burghers of Calais signaled his departure from established traditions of sculpture?

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Why are engravings important in spreading an artist reputation?

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