Art History

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Which is an art term that was originally a military term for the advance unit?

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Avant-garde

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For which kind of work was Robert Adam world-renowned?

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Neoclassical architecture

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During his four trips to Italy, Turner was most deeply affected by the atmosphere and the artwork experienced in:

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Venice

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Which best describes the painting of John Constable?

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Naturalistic scenes of rural stability

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British 18th century painting favored which theme?

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Moralizing scenes

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Who is best known for severe classical paintings that extol the antique virtues of moral incorruptibility, stoicism, courage and patriotism?

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David

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Who was the inspirational leader of the Romantic movement after Gericault?

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Eugene Delacroix

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The Greek Slave, By American artist ______________________, established his reputation

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Hiram Powers

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Who was the favorite painter of French Queen Marie Antoinette?

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Vigee Lebrun

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Which art movement was particularly interested in moral incorruptibility, patriotism, and courage?

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Neoclassicism

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Thomas Cole inspired a group of landscape painters in the early 19th century. Who were they?

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The Hudson River School

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Which of the following is not a french neoclassical architect?

Soufflot

Pigalle

Boullee

Ledoux

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Pigalle

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Which cause was Josiah Wedgewood, who founded the famous Wedgewood ceramics factory, active in?

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The abolition of slavery

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Each of the following themes was popular with 18th century art patrons except

literary subjects

religious images

history scenes

portraiture

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religious images

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The work of Goya reflects the influence of all the following Baroque painters excepts:

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Rubens

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For whom was the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture's category fete galante created?

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Watteau

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Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces is an example of a painting in ___?

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grand manner

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William Blake's Pity was inspired by

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Shakespear's Macbeth

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The 18th century is often referred to as the Age of Reason or the

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Enlightenment

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How many women were members of the British Royal Academy during the first 154 years?

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2

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Which style developed is seen as a reaction to the formality and rigidity of 17th century court life?

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Rococo

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David's Oath of the Horatii became and emblem for what?

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The French Revolution

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The discovery and excavation of ______ promoted the development of neoclassical art.

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Pompeii

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Which artist criticized Spanish morals and manners?

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Francisco Goya

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Which movement did the archaeological excavations at Pompeii stimulate?

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Neoclassicism

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What was the biannual or annual show of the French Academy called?

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The Paris Salon

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Barry and Pugin's Houses of Parliament is an example of:

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Gothic Revival

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Which of the following is a characteristic of the Rococo that differentiates it from Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism?

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Pastel Colors

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Which is the principle that Rousseau and other Enlightenment philosophers taught that seems to be a conscious theme in vigee lebrun's Portrait of Marie Antoinette with Her Children?

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The importance of the mother in nature

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Which art movement is rooted in stylistic sources from ancient Greek or Roman art?

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Neoclassicism

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Who was one of the two female founding members of the Royal Academy in London?

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Angelica Kauffmann

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Which describes the English Romantic Landscape painting style that was thought to be "sublime"?

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Dramatic

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Which art movement was particularly influenced by literary fantasies infused with a spirit of sensationalism and melancholy?

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Romanticism

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Who painted moralizing tales in series of four to six paintings?

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William Hogarth

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Architects from which city are credited for the development of the skyscraper?

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Chicago

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Which group first organized exhibitions independent from the official salon?

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The Impressionists

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Which of the following differentiates georges seurat from impressionism?

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the formal geometry of the composition

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Who changed the Impressionist brushstroke to be more solid and rectangular and applied more according to a grid of vertical and horizontal shapes?

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Paul Cezanne

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In Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril, which of the following is a particularly strong influence?

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Japonisme

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In architecture, which style rejected the values of modern industry and recaptured a pre-industrial sense of beauty?

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Art Nouveau

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Which is an early photographic process that was a positive print made on a light-sensitized copper plate using iodine fumes, mercury vapors and a saltwater bath?

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Dagurreotype

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Who was "the most uncompromising American naturalist of the era," that is, the second half of the 19th century?

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Thomas Eakins

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In the Wainwright building, what did louis sullivan adapt from the Beaux-arts tradition?

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Base, body and crowning cornice elements

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What was it that Rosa Bonheur had to get police permission in order to do?

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wear mens clothing

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what was the eiffel tower meant to symbolize?

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french industrial progress

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who began his career as an artist for the press during the civil war?

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Homer

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Who was on of the most brilliant pupils of Thomas Eakins?

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Henry o tanner

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What was Georges Seurat's technique called?

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Pointillism

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What does en plein air mean?

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in the open air

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Which photographic process developed the negative from which an unlimited # of positives could be made?

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Calotype

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The original idea of the avant-garde, as applied to art, was that it would prepare people for what?

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social change

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Which them is Mary Cassatt best known for?

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Mother and child

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Conservative critics hated this person's work because of its focus on the common people and its disregard for traditional composition and traditional standards of beauty

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courbet

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Which artist contributed most significantly to the emergence of expressionism?

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Vincent van gogh

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whose painting gave impressionism its name?

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Monet

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What does "camera obscura" mean

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Dark chamber

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Which style of art did winslow homer say he thought was most appropriate for a democracy?

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realism

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which group of artists is well known for painting en plein air?

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the impressionists

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what was gauguin's word for combining feelings with observation?

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synthetism

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Lithography

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printing of oil and water on a stone

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odalisque

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a female slave or concubine in a harem

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sublime

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excellence, grandeur