Art History: Realism-Late 19th Century

From which country did Degas PRIMARILY draw inspiration?

From which country did the Pre-Raphaelites originate?

Where did Paul Gauguin go to search for more intense color?

What was Paul Gauguin’s career before he became an artist?

Why was Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass excluded from the official Salon?

Which outside factor MOST influenced the art world in the late nineteenth century?

Realism was considered a reaction to

Which of the following artists continued to submit work to the Salon while others formed Impressionism as a new style?

What did Monet urge his fellow impressionist artists to do?

Scientific studies of vision and color led to the discovery that shadows reflect

Why did Gustave Courbet’s The Stonebreakers outrage audiences at the Salon?

A work that shows the lives of ordinary people or negative qualities of society is MOST likely

Which artistic element did BOTH the Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau movements emphasize?

Where did the Impressionist movement acquire its name?

Paul Cézanne argued that all objects in a painting could be reduced to

The Pre-Raphaelites blended all of the following pre-Renaissance artistic elements EXCEPT

For which of the following artistic processes or styles is Georges Seurat best known?

Who is considered the first Impressionist?

What were many post-impressionists seeking in their works?

Vincent van Gogh believed that colors should