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The Story of Art
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Did you really read Gombrich's classic 1950 history of art? How much content can you remember?
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Courbet was revolutionary. Why?
He was the first to have no interest in depicting reality
He looked back to the balanced composition of Raphael
He designed his works to intentionally upset the bourgeois
He used loose brushstrokes to make us aware of artifice
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What problems might Gombrich's text present today?
Subjective
Sexist
Western-centric
Dated
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Who wrote
The Story of Art
?
J. K . Rowling
A. A. Milne
E. H. Gombrich
E. H. Sheppard
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What is the French term for artworks concentrated on the mark-making of the artist?
Vanitas
Tachisme
Cloisonnism
Pointillism
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Whose 18th century painting does this Paolozzi sculpture echo?
Fransisco Goya's The Colossus
William Blake's The Ancient of Days
Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer Above the Fog
J. M. W. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire
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When does Gombrich give as an end to Modernism and the start of an 'altered mood'?
1975
1985
1995
1965
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Laocoon and His Sons - from which culture does this groundbreaking sculpture come?
Roman
Greek
Byzantine
Hellanistic
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What does renaissance literally mean?
Return to Glory
Golden Age
Forward Thinking
Rebirth
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Is The Story of Art still relevant to school students today?
No, absolute Western-centric rot
Yes, unequivocally
Maybe, if they want to be a painter
Yes as a starting point
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How many female artists does Gombrich write about?
5
1
8
0
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Who founded the Royal Academy in London?
William Hogarth
Joshua Reynolds
Christopher Wren
Thomas Gainsborough
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Who was a convicted murderer?
Caravaggio
Poussin
Rubens
Carracci
