Question 1

Gustave Courbet's The Stone Breakers (figure 19.21) is considered Modern art because it:

Accepted Answer

A)   Rejects academic conventions of subject matter
B)   Rejects linear perspective
C)   Draws attention to the light falling on the figures
D)   Uses a dull color palette A

Question 2

Using idealized, naturalistic figures; crisp contours; restrained emotions; and ancient architectural settings is typical of the ________ style.

Accepted Answer

Neoclassical

Question 3

Romanticism can often feature ______ subject matters that capture a feeling of supreme awe and include uncontrollable current events; exotic, violent cultures; and mysterious landscapes.

Accepted Answer

Sublime

Question 4

Realism was shocking to the public. How was it shocking to the public? What would shock modern audiences in a similar way? Give examples.

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The answer of Realism was shocking to the public. How...

Question 5

Realist art could be shocking to the public because:

Accepted Answer

A)   It contained images of nude women
B)   It subverted audience expectations for subject matter, size, and style
C)   It rejected the use of realistic lighting and chiaroscuro
D)   It made paintings that were bigger than any seen before

Question 6

Explain how a painting like Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette (figure 19.25) could be considered both Impressionist and Realist.

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Question 7

The strong colors, contrasting values, and painterly marks in Francisco Goya's The Third of May, 1808 (figure 19.16) show it to be:

Accepted Answer

A)   Neoclassical
B)   Romantic
C)   Impressionist
D)   Realist

Question 8

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello (figure 19.13) is Neoclassical because it:

Accepted Answer

A)   Copies the Pantheon and uses brick
B)   Has a post-and-lintel porch and a monochromatic color scheme
C)   Is symmetrical and has a single level
D)   Has harmony and repeating geometric forms

Question 9

Realist artists are considered part of the _________ because they advanced new, cutting-edge styles and approaches that the status quo originally rejected, but their work eventually became part of the mainstream.

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Question 10

Romantic artists were influenced by a feeling of helplessness in an overwhelming world.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Pointillism was a method used during the Post-Impressionist period.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Explain how the features and message of Neoclassical art can be seen as a reaction against the features and message of Rococo art. Give specific examples.

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Question 13

Explain how Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night (figure 19.32) and Edvard Munch's The Scream (figure 19.34) still contain Impressionist elements, but also move away from Impressionism.

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Question 14

Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's Marie Antoinette with a Rose (figure 19.9) is typically Rococo because:

Accepted Answer

A)   It is organic and uses chiaroscuro
B)   It reflects wealth and seriousness
C)   It has Classical references and is frivolous
D)   It is decorative and graceful

Question 15

Romantic artists depicted which of the following to convey the sublime?

Accepted Answer

A)   Violent cultures, portraits, and current events
B)   Exotic cultures, landscapes, and current events
C)   Landscapes, animals, and water
D)   Natural forces, human relationships, and legends

Question 16

Some Impressionist works feature a flattening of images due to the influence of:

Accepted Answer

A)   The work of Berthe Morisot
B)   Romantic paintings
C)   Chinese literati paintings
D)   Japanese prints

Question 17

The asymmetrical, organic forms of Juste Aurèle Meissonnier's pair of candlesticks (figure 19.7) are typical of:

Accepted Answer

A)   Art Nouveau's interest in natural forms and art for everyday life
B)   The Rococo's interest in decoration and playfulness
C)   Romanticism's interest in drama and movement
D)   Neoclassicism's interest in looking backward and convention

Question 18

and contrast Jean-Antoine Watteau's Return from Cythera (figure 19.8) and Paul Gauguin's Mahana No Atua (Day of the God) (figure 19.33). What do these works have in common? How do they reflect the different goals of the artists who made them, and the styles in which they were painted?

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Question 19

Claude Monet's Impression: Sunrise (figure 19.24) is typically Impressionist because it had:

Accepted Answer

A)   A looser method of applying paint and a large size
B)   A flattened image and numerous layers of glazes
C)   Realism and a quick rhythm
D)   Colors seen in real life and an insignificant subject matter

Question 20

Some Post-Impressionist artists, like Georges Seurat in A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (figure 19.28), looked back to Impressionist methods and added a formal structure to their work, using:

Accepted Answer

A)   Ordered subject matters and visible paint marks
B)   Quick techniques and a method of painting in the studio
C)   Ordered paint application and controlled compositions
D)   Frozen figures and a flattened space

Exam 19: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art in the West