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Art Exam- 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In general, Romanticism emphasizes _________ | individualism |
| What are musical works built around a non-musical story called? | program music |
| The political philosophy of _______ was particularly attractive to the new middle class. | laissez-faire |
| What allowed workers to promote their own interests in the economic realm? | industrialism |
| The period from the 1830s to 1901 is frequently called the _______ | Victorian Age |
| What did Hegel consider the most universal and spiritual of all arts? | poetry |
| Kant believed the "real world" of human experience was actually a product of limited human understanding. His view is a form of ________ | idealism |
| A basic tenet of Romanticism is ________ | Marxism |
| The Raft of the "Medusa" is a work by who? | Theodore Gericault |
| Who was one of the first artists to complete paintings out-of-doors? | Jean-Baptieste- Camille Carot |
| Rosa Bonheaur is known for her paintings of what? | animals |
| What is the most famous example of Romantic architecture? | the Houses of Parliament |
| In a _______ play, each character tends to be either all good or all evil. | melodrama |
| Opera buffa is what type of opera? | Italian-comic |
| Who wrote Das Kapital? | Karl Marx |
| Who wrote historical plays and was one of the first African-American playwrights to contribute to mainstream theatre? | William Edgar Easton |
| A composition for solo voice with piano accompaniment and poetic text is called a ________ poem | symphonic |
| The operas of Jacques Offenbach are best characterized as what? | opera comique |
| Richard Wagner's idea of a comprehensive work of art combining music, poetry, and scenery under a single concept is called a ________ | Gesamtkunstwerk |
| What is a musical theme tied to a single idea, person, or object called? | Leitmotif |
| __________ refers to "light entertainments" inserted into a ballet | Divertissements |
| William Wordsworth's "Tinern Abbey" describes the poet's love of _______ | nature |
| Who is the inventor of the historical novel? | Sir Walter Scott |
| Who is the author of "Song of Myself"? | Whitman |
| Who believed symbols and dreams were key to understanding a person? | Sigmund Freud |
| Who was the first well-known African-American painter? | Henry-O |
| The "decadents" celebrated _______ | fin-de-siecle |
| Who was the mid-nineteenth century painter who can be seen as an early commentator on urban alienation? | Honore Daumier |
| The Pre-Raphaelites were interested in the _______ function of art | didactic |
| The Impressionists sought to portray what? | essentials of perception |
| ______ asserted that all forms in nautre are geometric shapes. | cubism |
| Who believed that modern European civilization was "sick" and spent much of life living a painting elsewhere? | Paul Gauaguin |
| The _______ movement celebrated speed and technology, and sought to destroy the past. | futurism |
| Skyscrapers could not be built until what was designed? | an elevator |
| Who is the "father" of the modern skyscraper? | Louis Sullivan |
| Kate Chopin is an example of a ______ novelist | realist |
| George Bernard Shaw famously opposed what? | "art for art's sake" |
| Symbolist playwrights, such as Maurice Maeterlinck, emphasized _________ | symbolism |
| Henrik Ibsen is called the master of ______ drama | realist |
| The "stream of consciousness" technique is employed by what kind of writers? | impressionist |
| The innovative film ________ financially destroyed D.W. Griffiths | intolerance |
| The plays of August Strindberg are particularly influenced by the studies of ______ | Freud |
| The coreographer whose direction of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" caused a riot was ________ | Ninkinsky |
| Mr. Zero is a character in Elmer Rice's play entitled _______ | Adding Machine |
| Who was the naturalist writer influenced by scientific determinism? | Zola |
| "Remembrance of Things Past" is the magnum opus of - | Marcel Proust |
| The first public projection of movies on a large screen was organized by- | the Lumiere brothes |
| Who was the controversial filmmaker who refined or invented almost every filmmaking technique? | Robert Wiene |
| The foundations of modern dance are found in _______ | folk dance |
| Who was a dancer who gained a notoriety for barefoot, highly emotional dancing? | Isadora Duncan |
| Alber Camus used the Greek myth of ______ to suggest humanity's endless struggle for meaning and purpose | Sisyphus |
| European modernist art was first exhibited where in the US? | International Exhibition of Modern Art |
| When was European modernist art first exhibited in the US? | 1913 |
| Who is the author of the "Surrealist Manifesto"? | Andre Breton |
| Chopin's compositions embrace _______ | more restraint |
| Richard's Strauss's compositions draw inspiration primarily from - | specific legends |
| Brahms' "A German Requiem" is an example of ________ | choral music |
| Melodrama combined theatre and _______ | music |
| Realism emphasizes _________ | presentation |
| The Barbizon school celebrated - | realistic-Romantic |
| The "emancipation of dissonance" was the concept of- | dissonance was free from the rule that says it must always be followed by the appropriate consonance |
| Virginia Woolf was a master of - | stream of consciousness |
| Existentialism emphasizes- | the existence of individuals as basic and important |
| the reduction of natural images into shapes is a type of _______ | abstraction |
| The Surrealists were influenced by the ideas of who? | Sigmund Freud |
| European modernist art was first exhbited in the US where? | The Armory Show |
| Who was concerned with documenting the emergence of African-American identity? | Aaron Douglas |
| The world view which holds that no ethical standards exist, knowledge is impossible, and all action is baseless is called ________ | Nihilism |
| The artist who made paintings criticizing the oppression of Indians by Europeans was who? | Diego Rivera |
| The _______ represents a conscious attempt to integrate all the arts into a unified statement. | Bauhaus |
| Who is the author of the "Surrealist Manifesto"? | Andre Breton |
| The abstract works of Joan Miro are an example of _________ | surrealism |
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