Question 1

Which of the following influenced Degas in his technique of using spatial projections and off-center empty space to create illusion and direct the viewer's attention into the picture?

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A)  Japanese woodblock prints 
B)  16th-century German woodcuts 
C)  15th-century German engravings 
D)  Islamic tilework

Question 2

Cassatt's approach to the composition owes much to ____.

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A)  Manet 
B)  Japanese prints 
C)  Daumier 
D)  American Realism

Question 3

Explain pointillism.

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Question 4

How did industrialization and urbanization affect art in the late nineteenth century?

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Question 5

What are the goals of Impressionist painting?

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Question 6

Claude Monet enjoyed painting in the outdoors,a practice known as ____,which was popular amongst the Impressionists.

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A)  contrapposto 
B)  in situ 
C)  en plein air 
D)  chiaroscuro

Question 7

Klimt's The Kiss conveys the flamboyance and decadence of the period by its ____.

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A)  formalism 
B)  opulent sensuousness 
C)  tonality 
D)  perspectival space

Question 8

The Guaranty Prudential Building is located in ____.

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A)  Birmingham 
B)  Amsterdam 
C)  Chicago 
D)  Buffalo

Question 9

The goal of Munch's paintings was to describe the conditions of ____.

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A)  modern cities 
B)  modern psychic life 
C)  immigrant laborers 
D)  Tahitian "primitives"

Question 10

Who said: "Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes,I use color more arbitrarily so as to express myself forcibly."?

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A)  Monet 
B)  Cézanne 
C)  Seurat 
D)  van Gogh

Question 11

Why is this structure significant for the history of architecture?

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Question 12

Which of the following artists is categorized as a Symbolist?

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A)  Klimt 
B)  Cassatt 
C)  Degas 
D)  Rousseau

Question 13

Monet's Impression: Sunrise displays the Impressionist interest in ____.

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A)  social issues 
B)  personal visions of reality 
C)  the expressive potential of line and color 
D)  vagrant effects of light

Question 14

In what way do the ideals of Symbolism continue and amplify those of Romanticism? Use examples to support your essay.

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Question 15

Compare and contrast the work of Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec.How are they similar? How are they different? Use examples to support your essay.

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Question 16

How does this painting participate in modernity's honesty?

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Exam 13: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism,1870 to 1900