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Modern Art Final

Question	Answer
Works which blur the boundaries between media and may consist of more than one medium	multimedia
Dating of art objects and buildings	chronology
The least reliable way historians identify and date an artwork	stylistic evidence
An expert who attribute work to an artist based on style	connoisseur
Variations in style tied to geography	regional style
Tracing the place of origin of an artwork.	provenance
The characteristic artistic manner or style of a person or a school at a specific time	period style
Depiction of the subject of daily life in art.	genre
A word which can mean the content of a work of art, or the general study of content in art, or the study of symbols in art work.	iconography
Standardized symbols by which, after long use, content can be identified, such as the lion representing St. Mark or a lily representing virginity.	attributes
Standardized symbols by which, after long use, abstract idea are codified in bodily form, such as a robed woman with a torch representing liberty, or a skeleton with a scythe representing death.	personification
A group of artists working in the same style at the same time and place.	school
Those who commission and pay for, or buy outright, the works of artists.	patrons
A general term for the visual analysis and description of artistic form	formal analysis
The result of an artist organizing or composting form to make an artwork.	composition
System of “correctness” or idealization of the perfect representatives for art at a specific period and location.	canon
Sculptures that projects from a background, but remain part of it.	relief
Drawn view of a building showing an exterior and an interior wall at the same time	cutaway
Drawn view of a building looking at the floor arrangement	plan
The nature of an art historian’s job where he/she uses methodologies developed in other fields to identify and describe art works.	interdisciplinary
The decoration of grotto interiors using small stones and shells	rocaille
Town houses of rich Parisians during the 18th cen?	hotels
Educated and intelligent women who hosted salons for learned conversation between men and women	femmes savants
A painting of a party or gathering often referring to amorous affairs; e.g. Cupids flying around in the painting	fete galante
A group who believed that drawing and form were the most important elements in a painting	Poussinistes
A goup who believed that color and coloristic style were the most important elements in a painting.	Rubenistes
A sculpto called Clodion	Claude Michel
King Louis XV’s mistress who notably influenced fashion and style	Madame de Pompadour
Pilgrimage church baded on a dynamic interplay of ovals and circles	Vierzehnheiligen
A Rococo artist from Italy	Giambattista Tiepolo
Philosophy whose basis was in empirical evidence	Enlightenment
Englishman whose ideas dealt with the natural rights of man --life, liberty, and property and freedom of conscience.	John Locke
French intellectuals whose composite doctrines were the doctrine of progress and the perfectibility of humankind.	philosophes
editor of the Encyclopedie in which he tried to gather all useful knowledge in one place	Diderot
He edited a specialized encyclopedia of the natural sciences called Natural History	Comte de Buffon
Inventor of the system of plant classification	Carolus Linnaeus
The ideological justification for colonial expansion into new terrirories	Manifest Destiny
The old order of French kings and state religion which Voltairs’s writings and actions helped to brush away.	ancien regim
A world-wide phenomena of change from an agriculture subsistence society to an urban production one, starting with the invention of steam power.	Industrial Revolution
A French philosophe who argued that the idea of progress was what corrupted man, and that he was better off closer to his primal or primitive state.	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The movement built on an appreciation of ancient Greece and Rome	Neoclassicism
The first modern Art Historian	Johann Wickelmann
French sculptor of Grand Manner George Washington	Jean-Antoine Houdon
Author of four books of Architecture which was to have the most influence on Neoclassical architecture in the US.	Robert Adam
A bundle of rods with an ax attached-the ancient Roman emblem of authority.	fasces
Under what style would a room interior have softened architectural line, sinuous curves, and walls that melt into the vault?	Rococo
The Rococo style was preeminently evident in what?	small works.
What is the name of specific style of Rococo painting that depicted the outdoor amusements and entertainments of the upper classes?	fete galante
The Return from Cythera represents a group of lovers preparing to depart from the island of eternal youth. Watteau captured the elegance and grace using what?	color
Which work functions as an “alterpiece” for the new civic religion of inspiring the viewer with the martyr’s dedication to service?	Death of Marat
What Roman ruins provided the inspiration for the portico of the Pantheon in Paris (Ste-Genevieve) designed by Soufflot?	Baalbek, Syria.
How did historical fact replace the fanciful notions of Rome and its ancient society?	the discovery and excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii
Neoclassicism invoked classical references of patriotism and trust in unshakable authority serving imperial agendas. Which leader embraced these aspects of Neoclassicism?	Napoleon
Which architect was the most influential in Thomas Jefferson’s re-design of Monticello?	Palladio and Robert Adam
The Age of Enlightenment had its roots in what century?	17th
Which 18th century philosophers stressed the importance of the natural goodness of human beings?	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The influences of Vitruvius, Palladio and Inigo Jones are most apparent in what?	Chiswick House
The artist who best spoke for the French Revolution was who?	Jacques-Louis David
The dominant architectural style in the 18th century was?	Palladian Classicism
The Rococo style is characterized by _____?	delicate colors and painterly brushstrokes
The Amalienburg Hall of Mirrors demonstrates the common Rococo features of _____?	delicate rhythmic decoration, bombe, or outward bowing of the central bay, and diminutive scale.
The major patrons of French Rococo paint and sculpture were ____?	the aristocracy
What is lease characteristic of the so-called Pompeian style?	profuse curvilinear decorative elements
The phrase “poet of the commonplace” could best be applied to ______?	Chardin
The artist who portrayed contemporaries who participated in the great evens of the latter half of the 18th cen was?	Reynolds
The so-called Rubenists of the Royal Academy, as opposed the the Poussinists, held that ______.	color is supreme, and coloristic style in the proper guide for the artist.
The Rococo style is considered to be a delicate variant of _____.	Late Baroque Style
It is generally agreed that the Rococo style originated in ________.	France
The style most closely associated with democratic ideals, imperial ambitions, and virtue was _________.	Neoclassicism
What is “Grand Manner” portraiture?	the person is dressed up in his fanciest clothes. And he/she is posed as if talking to servants/subjects.
Who was Pauline Borghese?	Napoleon’s sister
How does the Cornation of Napoleon represent the Neoclassical style?	The grand scale of the painting. The clothes being worn.
What type of subject manner did “veduta” painting portray?	scenic view; Italian
How does Elisabeth Vigee-Leburn represent eighteenth-century portraiture?	The details of her hair, background. The lace around her neck and hands.
What typle of lighting was preferrd by Joseph Wright of Derby?	a central light that lit only a few things in the painting. Like in A Philosopher Giving A Lecture At the Orrery.
Who was Johann Winklemann, and what was his importance in the history of art?	He was the first art historian. He wrote books on Roman and Greek art.
What was the political meaning attributed to David’s Oath of Horatii?	To get up and fight. You country depends on you.
List three Rococo painters.	Antione Watteau, Jean-Honore Fragrod, Francois Boucher
List a Rococo sculptor.	Claudio.
What was the main use of David’s Death of Marat--propaganda or reverence?	Propanganda
Name an Italian painter of veduta’s for Grand Tourists who visited Venice.	Canaletto
Name the English artist who was famous for his satirical scense of social criticism.	William Hogarth
Name the eighttheenth-century French artist who specialized in portraiture.	Elisabeth Louise Vigee Leburn
“temple of glory” for Napoleon’s imperial armies.	La Madeleine
Napoleon’s favorite sculptor.	Antonio Canova
Napoleon’s sister	Pauline Borghese
French artist who depicted Native Americans in Louisiana.	Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson
Women in a Turkish harem.	odalisque
A Medieval demon believed to prey on sleeping women.	incubus
A spirit from Northern European mythology that was thought to torment and suffocate sleepers.	Mara
Awe mixed with terror	sublime
Author of the novel Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
Delacroix’s travel destination for exotic subjects	Morocco
A word to describe an inspiring landscape that is worthy to be painted.	picturesque
An artist whose avocation was meterology.	John Constable
Painter of the Slave Ship	JMW Turner
Group of likeminded landscapists who painted in river valley of NY an elsewhere in the US.	Hudson River School
American painter of the Romantic sublime landscape who worked in the US, as well as South America, the Middle East, Newfoundland, and other exotic places.	Frederic Church
Search for knowledge based on observation and direct experience.	empiricism
The western philosophy which promoted science and empiricism.	positivism
Painting style based on what one could observe in the present rather than on history or fictional subjects.	Realism
First modern artist ever to stage a private exhibition of his own work.	Courbet
Group of painters who moved near the forest of Fontainebleau and painted the poor peasants nearyby.	Barbizon School
“Stone writing.”	lithography
French Republican newspaper that published political cartoons	Caricature
A 19th century utopian socialist movement that championed the education and enfranchisement of women.	Saint Simonianism
Common “professional” name for 19th century prostitutes.	Olympia
Mythical Greek man with goat’s hindquarters and horns, a horse’s ears and tail and a man’s upper body.	Satyr.
A group of artists who used fictional, historican and fanciful subjects with convincing illusion.	Pre-Raphaelites
Art critic, artist and writer of late 19th century.	John Ruskin
Well-known Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet.	Dante Gabriel Rosetti
An architectural style which looked back to England’s late Middle Ages.	Neo-Gothic
A word meaning late English Gothic style in general	Tudor
Architect for the “Indian Gothic” Royal Pavilion at Brighton, England.	John Nash
An architectural style that uused symmetry in design, but grand Baroque ornamentation.	Beau Arts
Inventor of calotype photography	William Fox Talbot
A device used by artist to transfer images by means of a mountain prism.	Camera lucida
A device used to quickly project still pictures so they appear to be motion pictures.	zoopraxiscope
A con of the Indus Rev: cheaply made & poorly designed goods flooding markets. Pugin: essential to return to honest & quality craftsmanship of past reflected moral purity & spiritual authenticity. What would he deem honest & quality artisanship?	English Late Gothic
Juila Margaret Cameron used a focal length lens that allowed only a small area of sharp focus. What kind of effect would a lens like this produce?	Ethereal, dreamlike images.
Pugin said, “All Grecian, Sir. Tudor details on a classical body.” To which building is Pugin referring?	Houses of Parliament, London
Gericault’s Raft of Medusa represents which of the following?	the aftermath of a 19th century French shipwreck and was considered an attack on government ineptitude.
La Madeleine in Paris was intended for what purposes?	a temple of glory for Napoleon’s armies.
Francois Rude’s sculpture La Marseillaise for the Ard de Triomphe represents which of the following moments in French history?	the people of France protecting their borders against foreign enemies of the revolution
Which of the following architects was not famous for his experimentation with iron structural supports?	Pierre Vignon
The great “Romantic dialogue” about color and form was carried on in the famous contest between who and who?	Delacroix and Ingres
Timothy O’Sullivan documented which of the following wars?	American Civil War
Who among the following artists liked to paint images of the Romantic transcendental landscape?	Friedrich
Which of the following conditions is characteristic of the 19th century agrarian working class and is missing from the Haywain by Constable?	civil unrest
Which of the following artists painted in the US?	Cole
The term “sublime” was considered to inspire which of the following feelings?	awe mixed with terror.
What kind of balance did Friedrich bring to his work?	inner and outer feelings.
How does John Constable reveal his kindred spirit with the Romantic artists with this statement, “…painting is but another word for feeling…”	Romantic artists were more about how a painting made you feel rather than it being realistic.
How did Henry Fuseli evoke horror and possibly the dark terrain of the human subconscious in his artwork?	He painted incubi and other outlandish scary things in his paintings. All of which would attack at night while you were sleeping helplessly.
How did the people of the late 18th century and early 19th century perceive the Middle Ages?	As a time to learn from and get back to. Buildings were being built with Middle Ages flair.
What was the Hudson River School?	A group of students that set up outside of the NY area to paint picturesque landscapes.
How did Thomas Cole respond to America’s direction as a civilization?	The Oxbow. He did a series of paintings that showed America different stages of History. Starting with Native Americans and ending with the destruction of society.
How was photography perceived in the early 19th century?	It wasn’t considered an art till later in the 1800s.
How did Timothy O’Sullivan’s A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863 respond as a new medium and how did it impact the nation?	It was one of the first actual photographs of the destruction of war.
What was the drawback to “wet-plate” processing?	The dry time and exposure time
What is the interpretation of Goya’s Saturn Devouring his Children?	Goya is representing the war. Saturn (the government) is eating (killing soldiers) his children (the innocent men fighting in the war) Also, Goya’s “black” mood of old age.
How does Blake’s Ancient of Days embody the Romantic spirit?	Blake portrays God in a what that will get a response out of the viewer. God is looking down on his followers with light all around viewer. God is looking down on his followers with light all around him just so one known who is in control.
The document that called for the working class to overthrow the capitalist system	Communist Manifest
Part of Marx’s philosophy on the constant opposition of the rich (those who controlled production) and the poor (those who did the production)	Marxism
Darwin’s evolutionary doctrine that all living things operated according to science and only the fittest survived.	Natural Selection
British philosopher who applied Darwin’s evolutionary principles to socioeconomic systems and gave justification to the strongest nations taking over the weakest ones.	Herbert Spencer
A word for the art that captured the sensibilities of the late 19th century, but also called attention to its own discipline and processes	modernism
Art style that attempted to capture a fleeting moment in time and is abbreviated, speedy and spontaneous	Impressionism
An object’s true color in white light instead of how it necessarily looks in nature.	local color.
The city superintendent named by Napoleon 111 to modernize Paris by new water, sewer, and street systems.	Baron Georges Haussmann
A word for the outdoor painting practiced by the Impressionists	plein air
A music hall café that was extremely popular with all Parisians and was a favorite setting for some Impressionist paintings.	Folies-Bergere
Painter known for his art pieces depicting ballet dancers	Edgar Degas.
Dry sticks of powdered pigment	pastels
A painting of a night scene	nocturne
American artist who sued the English critic, John Ruskin, for libel and won, but was financially ruined because he only got a farthing and had to pay all court costs.	James Whistler
French term for the Japanese aesthetic which became a rage in Paris in the 1860s.	Japonisme
An art exhibit set up to show all the work rejected by the regular Frence Academy’s salon.	Salon des Refuses
Artists who had their roots in Impressionism but who wanted to go back to the formal elements of art rather than just momentary impressions.	Post-Impressionists
Artist who was genetically deformed and appeared as a midget.	Henri Toulouse-Lauterc
Art style that uses tiny dots of color in a calculated arrangement based on scientific color theory.	pointillism
An island in the Seine made famous in a painting by Seurat.	La Grande Jatte
Artist who committed suicide	Vincent van Gogh
Artist who spent his last years in the South Seas islands.	Paul Gauguin
Another word for actual color, such as red, yellow, and green, etc.	hue
Word for a color’s brightness or dullness.	saturation
Word for a color’s lightness or darkness	value
Art dealer who received hundreds of personal letters which he saved and helped make the sender famous.	Theo van Gogh
Art movement that involved signs and symbols in a fantasy world.	symbolism
The word meaning prophet in Hebrew that described one group of Symbolist painters	Bas-relief
A Symbolist poet who philosophized about the doctrine of the artist developing an alternate, wholly interior life in order to create.	Arthur Rimbaud
A “primitive” Parsian painter who painted exotic places and animals.	Henri Rousseau
Term to describe the turning from the nineteenth century to the 20th century and the decadent culture associated with it.	fin-de-siecle
Sculptor who studied Michaelangelo’s work and made very realistic muscular figures.	Jean Baptiste Carpeaux
First sculptor to leave figures incomplete which influenced a whole group of later sculptors.	Auguste Rodin
An English-based decorative arts movement that valued high-quality craftsmanship and hand labor.	Arts and Crafts
Art movement based on natural forms that could be mass produced in architectural decorations to look like interior vines and sensuous florals.	Art Nouveau
Name for Arts Nouveau in Austria and Germany	Jugendistil
Name for Art Nouveau in Spain	Modernismo
Name for Art Nouveau in Italy	Floreale
Stained glass artist who wored in Art Nouveau style and is known for lamps.	Louis Comfort Tiffany
Spaniard known for his sensuously curved fantastical architecture.	Antonio Gaudi
Designed the interior armature for the Stature of Liberty, as well as his own famous tower.	Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
A military term used to denote a brand new art paradign to replace an existing one.	Avant-garde
First artists to be labeled avant-garde	Post-Impressionists
German art magazine.	Dur Sturm
Early 20th century art that results from the artists inner or personal vision and that had an emotional dimension shown usually by slashing brush strokes.	Expressionism
A term meaning ‘wild beasts” and refers to expressionistic artist known for their shocking use of color.	Fauvism
German group of artist who wanted to bridge the old art ways to the new.	Die Brucke
German sculptor who committed suicide in the wake of loss of friends in WWI.	Wilhem Lehmbruch
One of the first artist to paint pure abstraction.	Vassily Kandinsky
Artist who was killed in WWI.	Franz Marc
Picasso’s 1901-04 style which depicted melancholy and alienated figures.	Blue Period
American avant-garde writer who patronized European artists like Picasso and Matisse.	Gertrude Stein
Art movement which depicts objects seen from more than one place at once.	Cubism
Art which incorporates stylistic elements from the artifacts of ethnographic populations and colonial territories.	Primitivism
The first phase of cubism that involved analyzing the structure forms on the flat picture plane.	Analytic Cubism
Colored Cubism	Orphism
A later phase of Cubism that used parts of real objects collaged onto surfaces as parts of one subjects.	Synthetic Cubism
A composition of bits of objects glued to a surface	collage
French word for the act of gluing assorted paper shapes to a drawing or painting.	papier colle
Sculptor who welded many sculptors for Picasso.	Julio Gonzales
Cubist sculptor whose work looked like Cubist painting in the round.	Jacques Lipchitz
An art form that wanted to get away from the decorative aspects of Synthetic Cubism and look instead at industry and machines for inspiration.	Purism
Italian art movement that advocated war as a cleansing agent and had a profound interest in the speed and dynamism of modern technology	Futurism
Futurist sculptor	Unberto Boccioni
A conceptural art movement that celebrated the irrational and nonsensical as opposed to reason and logic	Dada
Influence on Dada in its use of the “unconscious mind” as a stimulus for art.	Sigmund Freud
Artist known for the use of chance in composing his work.	Jean Arp
Zurich venue for some of the early Dada performances.	Cabaret Voltaire
Duchamp’s name for “found object” art.	readymade
German name for collaged art.	photomontage
Kurt Schwitter’s generic name for his collages of cast-off junk.	Merz
One of the top photomontage artists	Hannah Hoch
The “Apostles of Ulginess.”	Group of Eight
Influential arts and teacher of The Eight	Robert Henri
One of The Eight whose paintings show the seedy side of NYC and who ran for political office on the Socialist ticket.	John Sloan
First great venue for showing Americans avant-garde European art.	Armory Show
American Dadaist	Man Ray
African-American artist who was a member of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance.	Aaron Douglas.
Art movement that developed in the 1920s our of a fascination with the machine’s precision and importance in daily life.	Precisionism
On of the most famous Precisionists.	Charles Demuth
Mrs. Alfred Steiglitz	Georgia O’Keeffe
Alfred Steiglitz’s group of photographers that mounted traveling exhibitions and pushed photography as an art in general.	Photo-Secession
A movement whose aim was to present a clear-eyed direct and honest image of WWI and its effects.	New Objectivity
Artist who was particularly influenced by philosopher Freidrich Nietzsche.	Giorgio de Chirico
Artsit known for depictions of mother with dead children	Kathe Kollwitz
Dictation of thought without control of the mind and creation of art without conscious control.	automatism
The type of Surrealism that presented recognizable scenes that seem to have metamorphosed into dream or nightmare image.	naturalistic surrealism
Going beyond physical appearance.	Metaphysical
Textual art created by rubbing a crayon across a sheet of paper placed over another surface.	Frottage
A trompe I’oeil painter who was a master of the dreamlike disassociation of image and meaning.	Dali
Artist who started works with unconscious mark-making which was then brought under control, i.e. unconscious method of working.	Joan Miro
Artist who created the quintessential Surrealist piece--the fur teacup.	Meret Oppenheim
Picasso’s depiction of the Spanish Civil War	Guernica
Art movement whose primary focus was expressions of dreams and the unconscious by improvisational techniques.	Surrealism
Russian art collector who had an extensive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist work.	Sergei Shchukin
Artist who believed that the supreme reality of the world is pure feeling attached to no object.	Kazimir Malevich
A movement that describes sculptures built piece by piece	constructivism
Dutch movement meaning “the style”	De Stijl
Piet Mondrain’s verson of De Stijl	Neoplasticism
Sculptor known for holes or voids in abstract work that are as important as the mass.	Barbara Hepworth
British sculptor who did the recurrent theme of a reclining female figure in different materials.	Henry Moore
Sculptor for the Soviet Union in the 1930s.	Vera Mukhina
Artist who painted bureaucratic injustices.	Ben Shann
Artist whose painting evoked empty spaces and loneliness of cities and country mimicking the national mindset during the Depression.	Edward Hopper.
African American Artist whose most famous work was a 60-painting series depicting the migration of Southern Blacks to the North.	Jacob Lawrence
Another name for the Regionalists	American Scene Painters
Art movement that became popular as a backlash against avant-garde	Regionalism
Another Regionalist besides Grant Wood	Thomas Hart Benton
Mexican muralist who is also known for his printmaking	Jose Clemente Orozco
Marxist Mexican muralist.	Diego Rivera
Mrs. Diego Rivera who was known for self-portraiture.	Frida Kahlo
The main impetus for the Mexican Muralist.	Mexican Revolution.
Russian Art movement whose goal was designing a better environment for huan beings.	Productivism
Soviet artist who designed an efficient stove and a set of worker’s clothing.	Vladimir Tatlin
Monument to the Third International	Tatlin’s Tower
De Stijl architect famous for the Schroder House	Gerrit Rietveld
School famous for its integration of arts and crafts and its work with industrial materials and processes.	Bauhaus
Architect who was the first head of Bauhaus	Walter Gropius
Frank Lloyd Wright’s smaller and cheaper version of the prairie style	Usoniam
Author of the famous statement “less is more.”	Mies van der Rohe
The geometric aesthetic in architecture which relies on a glass skin over steel supports with no decoration	International Style
American style that is streamlined, elongated, and symmetrical, but that has ornament on it.	Art Deco Style
American architect who invented the Prairie Style.	Frank Lloyd Wright
The Kaufmann House	Fallingwater.
Sculptor known for tall thin figures who seem alienated in the space around them	Alberto Giacometti
Jean Dubuffet’s name for coarse and untaought art.	Art Brut
A generic name for art styles that emphasize visual elements of the piece rather than the subject, i.e. the visual elements are the subjects	formalism
The style practiced by the NY School painters.	Abstract Expressionism
Artist whose work best exemplifies gestural abstraction or action painting.	Jackson Pollock
Famous critic and champion of Abstract Expressionism	Clement Greenberg
A chromatic abstractionist	Mark Rothko
Name for art that seems controlled and pure and dose not show the artist’s hand.	Post Painterly Abstraction
A variant of Post-Painterly Abstraction that shows no depth and has sharply delineated shaped, such as those by Ellsworth Kelly.	Hard-edge painting.
A Variant of Post-Painterly Abstraction that depended on pouring diluted paint onto unprimed canvas.	color field painting
In the Night Café, the artist has shown us a benign scene, yet the scene has a sense of charged energy and oppressive atmosphere: How did the artist communicate this?	Through the use of vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity.
In the Sacred Grove, the artist has depicted a quiet and timeless scene. How did Puvis de Chanvannas express his rejection of Realism in this painting?	ornamental and reflective work.
In Klimt’s The Kiss, the artist has captured the flamboyance and decadence of the period. How was this painting a visual manifestation of the fin de siècle?	It captured a decadence conveyed by opulent and sensuous image.
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?	18th century Japanese woodblock prints.
William Morris helped to shape the Arts and Crafts movement through his support of high quality craftsmanship and design based on natural forms. Which of the following artists was also a member of the Arts and Crafts movement?	Louis Comfort Tiffany
The Burghers of Calais express emotions of despair, defiance & resignation. Rodin captured emotions in roughtly textured sufaces of figures. What device Rodin used to create pathos of this heroism?	No traditional high base. He placed on the monument eye-to-eye and close the viewers
The sculptor Carpeaux illustrated the emotions of frustration and dispair in his Ugolino and His Children by making the forms intertwined and densely concentrated. Which of the following influenced Carpeaux?	Michelangelo
Augustus Saint-Gaudens used the Realist style very effectively. In his Adams Memorial, however, he deviated from the canon of the Realists. He represented a lone figure voluminously draped. How did the sculptor express this deviation from the canon?	He modified a classical mode of representation.
Antonio Gaudi longed to create an architectural style that was both modern and appropriate for this native country of Spain. How does Casa Mila represent his ability to conceive a building as a whole and mold it as a sculptor molds clay?	It is a free-form mass wrapped around a street corner.
Which of the following ideas did Vincent van Gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night?	vastness of the universe.
Monet’s Rouen Cathedral is a series that observed the same viewpoint during which of the following?	different times of the day.
Cassatt’s style of work owes much to what?	Japanese prints.
Which of the following architects conceived the building as a whole and molded it like clay?	Antonio Gaudi
Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality was most typical of which of the following styles?	Symbolists
Which of the following artists is categorized a Symbolist?	Redon
Which is the most important feature of Sullivan’s Prudential Building that distinguishes it from earlier structures?	the reflection of the subdivision of the interior spaces in the outer structure.
Berthe Morisot focused her world in the only area allowed her as a woman in upper class French society. Which area was that?	domestic scenes
Which of the following artist explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships?	Cezanne.
Which of the following artists presented a sumptuous and sensual image in Jupiter and Semele?	Moreau
Who was a denizen of the night world of Paris, consorting with the tawdry population of entertainers, prostitutes, and other social outcasts?	Toulouse-Lautrec
Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?	His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men like Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul
Who was one of the leading practitioners of the Pictorial style in photography around the turn of the century?	Gertrude Kasebier
How does Louis Suillivan reflect truly modern architecture?	He used very few embellishments. He kept clean lines throughout his designs.
What was the Arts and Crafts Movement?	A movement similar to Art Nouveau. It focuses on the hands-on craftsmanship.
What is academic art?	Art that was done in order to teach a lesson and uphold traditions.
How did industrialization affect urbanization in the late 19th century?	Industries created jobs so people would move into cities to work for the industries.
How did cast iron and steel affect architecture in the late 19th cen?	A cast iron frame allowed one to go taller with a building.
Briefly describe the fin-de-siecle culture of late 19th century Austria.	A sensuous, emotional based culture at the turn of the century.
Why did sculpture of late 19th century remain resolutely male?	Women didn’t have the studio freedoms of men and couldn’t do the manual labor like men could.
How did Rodin want his Burghers of Calais exhibited?	On the ground at eye level with the viewer.
What is the difference in Marxism and Darwinism?	Marxism was about over throwing the unjust government. Darwinism was about Natural Selection and the way men came to be.
Briefly describe Post-Impresionism.	They more systematically examined the properties and expressive qualities of line, pattern, form and color than the Impressionists did.
Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures?	Alexander Calder
What message did Vera Mukhina convey in her work entitled The Worker and the Collective Farm Worker?	She glorified the communal labor of the Soviet people.
Which of the following artists developed the theory of neoplasticism or the new plastic art?	Mondrain
Which of the following works of art was melted down for ammunition by the Nazis in 1937?	War Monument
Which of the following artists created a modern American art style combining Synthetic Cubism with jazz tempos and her perception of the fast-paced American culture?	Stuart Davis
What style described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?	Cubism
The Champs de Mars or The Red Tower by Robery Delanuay depicts which of the following structures?	The Eiffel Tower
Which of the following is excuted in the Synthetic Cubist style?	Still-Life with Chair Craning
Which of the following describes the focus on the Ashcan School?	It focused on the bleak and seedy aspects of city life.
What message is portrayed in Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks?	The pervasive loneliness of modern humans
Thomas Hart Benton, a Regionalist artst, focused his attenetion on which of the following subjects?	The social history of Missouri.
Which of the following artists did not depict the themes of war?	Matisse
In the artist’s eyes, the Fate of the Animals was almost a premontion of which historical event?	WWI
Which of the following works demonstrates the Futurists’ interest in motion?	Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
Which of the following artists was a Berlin Dadaist?	Hannah Hoch
Which of the following artist shared Steiglitz’s concern to position photography as an art form with same fine-art status as painting and sculpture?	Edward Weston
Who is the artist who created a work of art that can be described as “wickedly funny gift.”	Man Ray
Her work is often described as autobiographical b/c of her unflinching self-portrait portrayals. She gives the viewer a person glimpse into herself and suffereing.	Frida Kahlo
Who is the artist who created a scathing visual commentary on the military with his Fit of Active Servie?	Grosz
Which of the Blaue Reiter artists found animals superior in beauty, strength, innocence, and naturalness?	Franz Marc
Henry Moore’s great series of reclining nudes is said to have been inspired by what?	a pre-Columbian figure, the Chacmool.
A nonobjective work refers to work that what?	has no reference to the external appearance of the physical world.
The Chrysler Building by William van Alen has elements from which of the following styles?	Art Deco
Which phrase best expresses the sculptural style of Boccioni?	dynamic movement
Which artist, even though he was older than the Die Brucke artist, was invited to join them because he was pursuing similar ideas?	Emile Nolde
The work of Ernst Kirchner shows what?	Subjects drawn from the industrialized urban bourgeoisie.
Who is the Surrealist?	Dali
The hovering figure that served as a memorial to those who died in WWI was created by	Ernst Barlach
Which of the following statements about Dada is true?	Dada has no fixed ideas.
Who photographed the rural poor displaced by the Great Depression?	Dorothea Lange
Empty piazza depicting mysterious figures were often painted by who?	De Chirico
The goal of Dali’s “paranoiac-critical” method was what?	create images of inner reality and irrationality as concrete as the world of physical reality.
What was “291”?	An art gallery that first displayed Georgia O’Keeffe’s work.
Describe Art Deco.	The spire of the Chrysler Building.
What is a “prairie house”?	FLW designed the Robie House. It is a flat house with sleek lines. Everything about it take it’s surroundings into consideration.
How does the work of Hannah Hoch reflect German society of the Weimar Republic?	Chaotic and cluttered. Drab and hopeless.
What subject matter did Jacob Lawrence use in his work, and how was it significant?	Segregation. It shows everyday scenes that AA had to face. It depicts their move to the north.
How did the subject matter Edward Hopper used in his art relate to the Depression era?	Bars, restaurants, and such empty or the few people there were sad looking.
Briefly describe Surrealism.	It’s almost a dreamland. It’s not realistic. Anything goes.
What was the purpose of the Bauhaus?	To produce students who knew how to do everything design related. “Total Architecture.”
Briefly contrast Analytic and Synthetic Cubism.	Synthetic Cubism is a later phase of Cubism that used parts of real objects collaged onto surfaces as parts of one subjects. Analytic Cubism is the first phase of cubism that involved analyzing the structure forms on the flat picture plane.
Brancusi said, “What is real is not the external form but the essence of things.” How does this statement reflect his work?	His work, Unique Forms in Continuity of Space, appeared to be flowing in the wind. Whimsical as if its essence was blowing off of it.
How did Georgia O’Keeffe reflect the fast pace of city life in her work?	The lights of the cars on the street. The lit buildings at night. The clock that might symbolize the fleeing time.
What is a “mobile,” who created it, and why?	A moving sculpture. Alexander Calder. He started out as an engineer so he brought it into his art.
Briefly describe Futurism:	An Italian art movement that is fascinated with movement and how to portray it in art.
How did society see the avant-garde artist?	Radical and different. Very few people appreciated the art to begin with.

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