Ch 202 Exam 3

Front 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson called himself a(n) ________.

Back 1

Transcendentalist

Front 2

The British Houses of Parliament (fig. 17.13) in London are a model of the ________ style.

Back 2

Gothic Revival

Front 3

Francisco Goya's ________ style was employed to chronicle of France's war with Spain.

Back 3

Romantic

Front 4

__________wrote Walden in 1854 because he believed that living close to nature was humankind's strength.

Back 4

Thoreau

Front 5

__________wrote Wuthering Heights which is a perfect encapsulation of the Romantic sensibility in the "violence of its scenes and the extravagance of its style."

Back 5

Emily Bronte

Front 6

________ was the subject of Goya's series of eighty-two prints produced between 1810 and 1823.

Back 6

War

Front 7

Goethe's play, Faust, has been described as a defining work of ________.

Back 7

European Romanticism

Front 8

William Blake's poetry focuses on ________ that are said to be contradictory states of the soul.

Back 8

innocence and experience

Front 9

Romantic artists were not interested in the ________.

Back 9

symmetry of machine-made products

Front 10

A leitmotif is a long musical passage popularized by Richard Wagner. True or false?

Back 10

False, leitmotifs were brief

Front 11

The Odalisque (fig. 17.7) by Eugène Delacroix is a rubéniste work that represents a woman from a harem. True or false?

Back 11

True

Front 12

John Constable was an English landscape painter whose work conveyed a sense of "the enduring attachment to place so fundamental to rural life." True or false?

Back 12

True

Front 13

The art movement called ________ provided a counter-tendency to the Neoclassical style, particularly in its trust in the subjective experience of individuals.

Back 13

Romantic

Front 14

The ________ initiated a decline in the Ottoman empire's power and influence.

Back 14

Crimean War

Front 15

________ was the first war to be documented in the new medium of photography.

Back 15

The American Civil War

Front 16

Realist art portrays the lives of ________ people.

Back 16

Working class

Front 17

Berlioz is to the orchestra as Chopin is to the ________.

Back 17

piano

Front 18

Eadward Muybridge's sequence studies led to the invention of the ________.

Back 18

motion picture

Front 19

The American painter ________, who was greatly influenced by Eadweard Muybridge's photographs, was dedicated to the accurate presentation of the human body in motion.

Back 19

Thomas Eakins

Front 20

Gustave Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary as a comprehensive attack on Romantic sensibility. True or false?

Back 20

True

Front 21

Gertrude Käsebier worked in the photographic style of Pictorialism in which the image's surface is somewhat indistinct with softened lines. True or false?

Back 21

True

Front 22

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were two proponents of the factory system. True or false?

Back 22

False, they thought the system left the workers with no voice and no benefits

Front 23

In 1863 the official Salon jury rejected so many works that Napoleon III had to set up a separate exhibit of the rejected paintings that was known as the Salon des Refusés. True or false?

Back 23

True

Front 24

The writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a favorite of the czarist regime. True or false?

Back 24

False, they arrested him for trying to print and discuss political and social issues banned by them

Front 25

Giuseppe Verdi was Italy's most important Romantic composer. True or false?

Back 25

True

Front 26

The plays The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov exemplify the ________ style in their lifelike characters who are unable to find happiness, uncertain about their future, and indecisive in the pursuit of their desires.

Back 26

Realist

Front 27

The ________ was the earliest type of photograph, produced on silver or silver-coated copper plate.

Back 27

daguerreotype

Front 28

Claude Debussy was to nineteenth-century French music what Pierre-Auguste Renoir was to nineteenth-century French ________.

Back 28

painting

Front 29

Edouard Manet's Luncheon on the Grass (fig. 17.22) was a precursor to the ________ movement.

Back 29

Impressionist

Front 30

Monet's Haystacks at Giverny (fig. 18.2) was one of a series of paintings of haystacks that Monet painted to study ________.

Back 30

the way in which changes in light and weather alter what we see

Front 31

Baron Haussmann was responsible for the ________.

Back 31

grands boulevards of Paris

Front 32

James Abbot McNeill Whistler advocated an art that was concerned with morality, education, or narrative rather than appealing to the aesthetic sense. True or false?

Back 32

False, the opposite is true

Front 33

Claude Debussy used music in an impressionistic fashion, _______________________.

Back 33

working like an artist in the realm of sound and fusing tones in innovative fashions.

Front 34

Edgar Degas has been called a "linear Impressionist" because of his precise draftsmanship. True or false?

Back 34

True

Front 35

Kate Chopin is associated with the Symbolist movement. True or false?

Back 35

False, she is associated with the Naturalist movement

Front 36

Dramatists such as Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg sought to __________________.

Back 36

insert the audience into a comforting, inviting world in which the ideals of Romanticism could be more readily understood.

Front 37

The artists who came to be known as Impressionists first exhibited together in 1874. True or false?

Back 37

True

Front 38

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's fiction emphasized ________________.

Back 38

issues of middle class women in an oppressive society.

Front 39

Georges Eugene Haussman intent in rebuilding Paris was to ___________________.

Back 39

improve access and the aesthetics of the city

Front 40

The poetry of Charles Baudelaire loses some of its Impressionistic value when ____________.

Back 40

it is translated into English

Front 41

Oscar Wilde styled himself a "decadent" and flaunted his homosexuality as a challenge to the accepted code of moral behavior being promoted in his day. True or false?

Back 41

True

Front 42

Pierre-Auguste Renoir attempted to uncover the social inequities of late nineteenth-century Paris. True or false?

Back 42

False, he painted the good life, the positive aspects

Front 43

The painter Renoir emphasized in his works the harsh realities of street life. True or false?

Back 43

False, he painted the good stuff

Front 44

Developments in ideas about the structure of the ________, especially in proving that it is divisible, occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Back 44

atom

Front 45

All of the following painters are considered Impressionists except ________.

Back 45

Vincent van Gogh, the Impressionists are Degas, Cassatt, Renoir, Morisot

Front 46

The human psyche, according to Sigmund Freud, is divided into: ________.

Back 46

id, ego, superego

Front 47

________ washed his brush between strokes so that each color would be distinct, referring to his brushstrokes as "little planes."

Back 47

Paul Cezanne

Front 48

________ created one of the first skyscrapers with his Wainwright Building (fig. 18.18) in St. Louis, Missouri.

Back 48

Louis Sullivan

Front 49

Georges Seurat employed the ________ technique in Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte (fig. 18.11).

Back 49

pointillist

Front 50

________ sculpted The Thinker (fig. 18.15).

Back 50

Auguste Rodin

Front 51

________ is known as the "father of abstract art."

Back 51

Paul Cezanne

Front 52

Friedrich Nietzsche was a philosopher who asserted the freedom of the individual who could channel ________ tendencies in ways not constrained by social conventions.

Back 52

Apollonian and Dionysian

Front 53

The Boer War was fought between the British empire and two independent Boer Republics of ________.

Back 53

South Africa

Front 54

The mathematical application of paint to the canvas in small dots of uniform size, with each dot precisely placed, is called________

Back 54

pointillism

Front 55

The Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin left his wife and five children and moved to Tahiti. True or false?

Back 55

True

Front 56

The favorite subjects of Paul Cézanne were still life and landscape. True or false?

Back 56

True

Front 57

Victor Horta's architectural works were built in the Neoclassical style. True or false?

Back 57

False, they were in the Art Nouveau style