Art History 3 Questions

Front 1

Known for his The Gleaners, Jean-François Millet’s typical subject matter focused on what?

Back 1

The Peasant Class

Front 2

Which one of the following representations of 19th century women did Bouguereau NOT choose as his subject matter

Back 2

The Independent Woman

Front 3

Which of the following artists portrayed himself as a prophet of a new morality and a new art?

Back 3

Paul Gauguin

Front 4

Which artist was a bridge between the Realists and the Impressionists?

Back 4

Manet

Front 5

Which of the following coined the phrase “form follows function”?

Back 5

Louis Sullivan

Front 6

Which anti-Tsarist movement was co-opted by the Bolsheviks and used for propaganda after the Revolution of 1917?

Back 6

Constructivism

Front 7

The Empire State Building is an example of what architectural style?

Back 7

Art Deco

Front 8

The tenets of International Style Architecture can be seen in which building?

Back 8

Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye

Front 9

Which art critique advocated that artists be “painters of modern life”?

Back 9

Charles Baudelaire

Front 10

Which culture had a profound effect upon European aesthetic in the late 19th century?

Back 10

Japan

Front 11

What 19th century movement portrayed the mundane and trivial parts of life with a seriousness previously reserved for historical painting?

Back 11

Realism

Front 12

Who said, “… show me an angel and I’ll paint one.”?

Back 12

Gustave Courbet

Front 13

Artists that reject the past and move beyond their contemporary artistic conventions are general called?

Back 13

Avant-garde

Front 14

Which answer is the common denominator among French painters of the Post-Impressionist period?

Back 14

They searched for new types of subjects and forms of representation that were not the purely optical approach as seen in the works of Monet.

Front 15

Which art movement was described by its leading designer as employing line to be abstract, symbolic, ornamental and/or structuralit is an antidote to the imitation of nature?

Back 15

Art Nouveau

Front 16

In what decade was photography first developed?

Back 16

1830's

Front 17

Which late 19th century movement portrayed an ideal world as an escape from contemporary world?

Back 17

Symbolism

Front 18

Which artist best represents the sub-group of Impressionism that was mostly concerned with “bare vision”?

Back 18

Monet

Front 19

Which of the following artists is known for his voyeuristic compositions.? These images typically have figures that to not make eye contact with the audience.

Back 19

Degas

Front 20

Which term describes imagery that portrays the awesomeness of nature and the diminutive stature of humanity?

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sublime

Front 21

The Symbolist sought to create an art form that showed __________.

Back 21

Fantasy, Escapism and a Dream World

Front 22

Which artist best represents the sub-group of Impressionism that was mostly concerned with design and the “cut-of-the-eye” effect caused by tightly cropped compositions?

Back 22

Degas

Front 23

Who created the Pavilion of Realism?

Back 23

Gustave Courbet

Front 24

Which one of the following representations of 19th century women did Manet NOT choose as his subject matter?

Back 24

The Muse or Force

Front 25

Where did Monet and Renoir go to study with Theodore Rousseau and inevitably began Impressionism?

Back 25

Barbizon School

Front 26

What about Vincent van Gogh’s oeuvre led to the future development of pre-expressionistic work like that of Edvard Munch?

Back 26

Self-Conscious Exploration of Pain.

Front 27

Which art movement was characteristically apolitical, ahistorical, amoral and anti-statement within its themes and subject matter?

Back 27

Impressionism

Front 28

Which of the following saw the aim of art to be utopian?

Back 28

The Blue Rider

Front 29

Who wrote that abstraction, “shows that ‘art’ is not the expression of the appearances of reality such as we see it, nor of the life which we live, but that it is the expression of the true reality and true life… indefinable but realized in plastics [solid forms]. Thus we must carefully distinguish between the two kinds of reality, one which has an individual character, and one which has a universal appearance… ”?

Back 29

Mondrian

Front 30

What were the 19th century Realists rejecting from the styles of Neo-classicism and Romanticism?

Back 30

Invention and Fantasy

Front 31

Which movement first broke from the historical model of pictorial illusion by showing multiple sides of an object in the same painting?

Back 31

Cubism

Front 32

What artistic technique separates Analytical Cubism from Synthetic Cubism?

Back 32

Collage

Front 33

Which artist best represents the sub-group of Impressionism that was mostly concerned with structure and imbuing the movement with a presence of permanence?

Back 33

Cézanne

Front 34

Dadaism was art movement that espoused _____.

Back 34

Chaos, Intuition and Anti-Art.

Front 35

The Bridge and The Blue Rider were two groups of pre-WWI _____________.

Back 35

German Expressionism

Front 36

Which of the following was foundational to the development of Art Nouveau?

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Arts and Crafts

Front 37

What art movement is best described as employing non-traditional techniques, embracing the irrational and creating anti-art?

Back 37

Dada

Front 38

Which 18th century invention profoundly affected 19th century architecture by allowong buildings to have greater strength, lighter weight, more fenestration and a modern stripped down look?

Back 38

Iron Skeletal Construction

Front 39

The color combinations of blue and gold in the works of Vincent van Gogh refer to which qualities?

Back 39

Peace, Heaven, Serenity

Front 40

Who believed that the goal of art was to transcend illusionistic depictions by stylizing objects to the point of irrelevance compared to the elements used?

Back 40

French and German Expressionists

Front 41

Why was the Pavilion of Realism significant for later generations of artists?

Back 41

It showed the avant-garde that they could exhibit without Salon approval.

Front 42

Figurative sculpture during the early part of the 20th century focused upon__________.

Back 42

The gestalt of form searching for the essence of things rather than pure imitation of the exterior surface.

Front 43

Which are the tenets of International Style Architecture?

Back 43

Reductive design, Removal of decoration, Removal of color, Elimination of walls, Curtain of glass.

Front 44

Who wanted to make Impressionism into something solid and durable like the art exhibited in museums?

Back 44

Paul Cézanne

Front 45

What did the artists Jean-François Millet and Vincent van Gogh share in common with their subject matter?

Back 45

They Monumentalized and Idealized the Peasant Class.

Front 46

Gustave Moreau, Puvis de Chavannes and Odilon Redon are leaders in which art movement?

Back 46

Symbolism

Front 47

Who wrote “What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter… something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue”

Back 47

Matisse

Front 48

International Abstraction is derived from the aesthetic theories of Cubism, De Stijl, and _______.

Back 48

Constructivism