Deck 23: Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century

Question 1

Which term best describes Seurat's brushstrokes?

A) blurred
B) divisionist
C) spiraling
D) smooth

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Generally the French posters of the 19^th century were

A) woodblock prints
B) engravings
C) etchings
D) lithographs
E) photographs

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The Post-Impressionist who painted the most self-portraits was

A) Cézanne
B) Toulouse-Lautrec
C) Munch
D) Van Gogh
E) Seurat

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Oceania includes which of the following?

A) Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia, and New Guinea
B) Easter Island, Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii
C) Samoa, Tonga, New Guinea, and Easter Island
D) South Island, Arnhem Land, Asmat, and Hawaii

Question 5

"Theo" refers to

A) a book by Van Gogh
B) Van Gogh's brother
C) Van Gogh's father
D) Van Gogh's son
E) Van Gogh's art teacher

Question 6

Symbolists conveyed

A) heightened emotion
B) subjective reality
C) references to Greek mythological stories, avoiding commentary on modern life
D) heightened emotion and subjective reality but not references to Greek mythological stories, avoiding commentary on modern life

Question 7

The artist known for his crystalline,structured brushstrokes is

A) Van Gogh
B) Gauguin
C) Munch
D) Cézanne
E) Rousseau

Question 8

The two Post-Impressionist artists who had a stormy friendship were

A) Van Gogh and Cézanne
B) Cézanne and Zola
C) Seurat and Munch
D) Gauguin and Van Gogh

Question 9

The Post-Impressionist who began as an Impressionist,then identified with the Symbolists and the Nabis was

A) Cézanne
B) Toulouse-Lautrec
C) Munch
D) Gauguin
E) Van Gogh

Question 10

The Post-Impressionist most known for his posters was

A) Gauguin
B) Cézanne
C) Van Gogh
D) Seurat
E) Toulouse-Lautrec

Question 11

"Potato Eaters" refers to

A) beggars
B) homeless people
C) farmers
D) miners
E) ministers

Question 12

The artist who copied Hiroshige's Sudden Shower at Ohahsi Bridge at Ataka was

A) Van Gogh
B) Cézanne
C) Seurat
D) Manet
E) Monet

Question 13

Two important Post-Impressionist trends were

A) emotion and realism
B) formalism and figuration
C) structure and emotion
D) figuration and abstraction

Question 14

Père Tanguy was

A) Van Gogh's father
B) Gauguin's father
C) a priest
D) an art dealer
E) a French philosopher

Question 15

La Goulue was a

A) circus performer
B) waitress
C) dancer
D) restaurant
E) café

Question 16

La Grande Jatte refers to

A) an island in the Seine
B) a restaurant in Paris
C) a large dance-hall in Paris
D) an overweight French dancer

Question 17

Which is true of Symbolism?

A) it was concerned with realistic social issues
B) it was heroic in character
C) it was preoccupied with the irrational
D) its colors tend to be the primary hues

Question 18

The artist best known for his apples was

A) Van Gogh
B) Cézanne
C) Cranach
D) Seurat

Question 19

The Post-Impressionist known for his paintings of Tahiti was

A) Cézanne
B) Toulouse-Lautrec
C) Munch
D) Gauguin
E) Van Gogh

Question 20

Georges Seurat was not an Impressionist because he

A) used broad brushstrokes that conveyed how the world looked to him
B) used a scientific technique to convey how light was perceived by the eye
C) embraced the spontaneity of nature and the outdoors
D) relied on the teachings of Jung to comment on the human condition

Question 21

The English word "symbol" is from the Greek,meaning

A) token
B) sign
C) allegory
D) metaphor
E) simile

Question 22

Which artist does not match the work?

A) Cézanne -- Temptation of Saint Anthony
B) Van Gogh -- The Potato Eaters
C) Gauguin -- The Yellow Christ
D) Munch -- The Scream
E) Moreau -- Idol with Seashell

Question 23

For Klimt,the Minotaur represented

A) tyranny
B) Impressionism
C) Industrialization
D) conservatism

Question 24

Art Nouveau was a European response against

A) Abstraction
B) Impressionism
C) Aestheticism
D) Industrialization
E) Symbolism

Question 25

"Le Douanier" refer to

A) Beardsley
B) Monet
C) Seurat
D) Rousseau
E) Gauguin

Question 26

Métropolitain refers to

A) French cities
B) French subways
C) French night clubs
D) French urban planning

Question 27

A maenad is a

A) follower of Medea
B) follower of Dionysos
C) follower of Orpheus
D) follower of Hermes

Question 28

Polyphemos was

A) a musician
B) a satyr
C) an Olympian
D) a Cyclops
E) a dwarf

Question 29

Art Nouveau artists used

A) geometry
B) photographic reality to show the grace in the everyday
C) organic forms like vines drawn from nature
D) modern technological marvels to convey progress

Question 30

In Klimt's poster for the first Secession exhibition,the Gorgon head is

A) naturalistic
B) frontal
C) horned and fanged
D) Symbolist

Question 31

Which artist does match with the work?

A) Van Gogh -- Bedroom at Arles
B) Klimt -- Salomé with the Head of John the Baptist
C) Moreau -- The Dream
D) Cézanne -- Galatea
E) Rousseau -- La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge

Question 32

Which author does not match the work?

A) Freud -- The Call of the Wild
B) Forster -- A Room with a View
C) Chekhov -- The Cherry Orchard
D) Wharton -- The House of Mirth

Question 33

Oscar Wilde was a spokesman for

A) Symbolism
B) Post-Impressionism
C) Abstraction
D) Aestheticism
E) Art Nouveau

Question 34

The purpose of the Vienna Secession was

A) to establish an international style of painting
B) to withdraw from the establishment
C) to establish a forum of diverse styles
D) to support Academic naturalism

Question 35

Yadwigha most likely refers to

A) a Symbolist poet
B) a reclining nude
C) a fiancée of Munch
D) a Tahitian princess

Question 36

Redon created

A) with pastels
B) his own landscapes of gentle wildness
C) closely observed interiors of Victorian houses
D) with pastels and his own landscapes of gentle wildness but not closely observed interiors of Victorian houses

Question 37

Beardsley's pictorial style can be described as

A) perverse and macabre
B) elegant and courtly
C) Post-Impressionist
D) colorful

Question 38

The techniques of dream construction apply most obviously to which style?

A) Post-Impressionism
B) Symbolism
C) Surrealism
D) Aestheticism

Question 39

Symbolist paintings are most likely to have jarring

A) brushstrokes
B) color
C) lines
D) spatial arrangements
E) formal distortion