Art History: Renaissance Through Modern (ARTH1110): Final Review

Question 1

A style known for depicting modern life & light. Critics saw it as unfinished and sketch-like.

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Impressionism

Question 2

Which artist is not a Post-Impressionist painter?

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Pierre Auguste-Renoir

Question 3

Romanticism occurred around this major historical event.

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French Revolution (1789-1799)

Question 4

This is the word that Barnett Newman used to describe the vertical lines in his painting

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zip

Question 5

A 17th & 18th-C intellectual movement that privileged logic, rationality, and the classics.

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Enlightenment

Question 6

The application of non-naturalistic color to a form or object when painting or sculpting.

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arbitrary color

Question 7

What was not revolutionary in the way that Edouard Manet depicted the nude?

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He referenced mythological goddesses of classical antiquity

Question 8

The prize awarded by state-sponsored academies in Paris that allowed artists to travel to Rome.

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Prix de Rome

Question 9

This work titled The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet is an example of this movement:

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Realism

Question 10

Abstract Expressionism occurred after/in response to this major historical event.

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World War II (1939-1945)

Question 11

This was a major influence on the paintings of Giacomo Balla.

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chronophotography

Question 12

This work is a clear example of the following:

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Japonisme, Orientalism

Question 13

A style with no meaning; meant to question the art establishment by embracing nonsense

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Dada

Question 14

The strange flesh-like form in the center of Salvador Dalí's painting is thought to represent:

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A biomorphic lifeform, an embryonic form, a self-portrait

Question 15

This work is made out of...

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bronze

Question 16

A type of painting that emphasizes the physical movement and gesture of the artist.

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action painting

Question 17

What style is this work of art?

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Rococo

Question 18

A style of modern art informed by the anachronistic appropriation of works like African masks

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Primitivism

Question 19

Through selection and designation, an artist helps this object obtain status as a work of art.

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readymade

Question 20

The term history painting refers to...

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Large-scale works that depict historical events., Large-scale works that depict mythology.

Question 21

Pop Art occurred around this major historical event.

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Vietnam War (1955-1975)

Question 22

a Surrealist game where images and words are collectively assembled to create something new.

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Exquisite corpse, Exquisite cadaver, Rotating corpse, Cadavre exquis

Question 23

This kind of art-making is less about the object produced and more about the thinking involved.

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conceptual art

Question 24

What was the primary concern of Color Imagists like Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman?

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the metaphysical world

Question 25

This term refers to a person who easily moves and wanders in and out of space in modern Paris.

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flâneur

Question 26

a painting style that uses tiny dots of various pure colors that are blended in the eye

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Pointillism

Question 27

A movement of art that was concerned with movement, speed, and war. Used to support Fascism.

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Futurism

Question 28

A style of art that combined fine arts with commercial products like comics.

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Pop Art

Question 29

This is what we call a work where every surface is covered with no beginning, middle, or end.

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all-over composition

Question 30

The composition of this work was based off of an example by this artist.

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Titian

Question 31

Why was Meret Oppenheim upset about the reception of her piece?

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Male artists attributed sexual overtones to the piece, People saw it as quintessentially Surrealist, People saw it as conceptual, when she treated it as literal

Question 32

Which is not an element of Neoclassicism?

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Showing contemporary French scenes in classical settings

Question 33

German Expressionism occurred around this major historical event.

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World War I (1914-1918)

Question 34

Who painted this work of art and what was its style?

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Georges Braque and Analytic Cubism

Question 35

The location where Andy Warhol and his workers created art and hung out.

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The Factory

Question 36

This Romantic work was painted by:

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Eugène Delacroix

Question 37

Works like this one by Claude Monet are significant because...

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It captured the subtleties of light., It used impasto as a technique, It was painted "plein air.", It was the first "Impressionist" work.

Question 38

Orientalism primarily spanned which artistic movements?

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Romanticism, Neoclassicism

Question 39

Name the technique that was used to create this work of art.

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photomontage

Question 40

This term refers to Andy Warhol's process of creation.

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assembly line art

Question 41

Works like this by one by George Stubbs show value in reason and logic most characteristic of:

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the Enlightenment

Question 42

What movement was this work a part of?

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Futurism

Question 43

A venue where art from the French Royal Academy would exhibit art stacking it high on the wall.

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Salon

Question 44

This institution inspired artists and served as a metaphor for a newly modernizing Paris.

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Paris Opera

Question 45

The process of thickly layering paint so that its texture stands out from the surface.

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impasto

Question 46

What style is this work of art?

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Post-Impressionist

Question 47

The title of this work is...

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Saturday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte

Question 48

A form of drawing that suspends intention in favor of the Unconscious movement of the hand.

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automatic drawing

Question 49

The central goal of Cubism is...

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To represent all sides of an object, seen and unseen, To reduce forms to their most basic geometry

Question 50

These artists were considered color field painters, or color imagists.

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Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman

Question 51

What objects can be found represented in this work of art by Picasso?

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napkin, citrus, glass of wine

Question 52

Event that deposed Charles X for Louis-Philippe, the "citizen king" who became corrupt.

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July Revolution

Question 53

The artist Hugo Ball was famous for creating these...

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sound poems

Question 54

The attempt to distill art’s most basic underlying forms from nature through distortion

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Abstraction

Question 55

A category of painting where figures in ball dress are placed amorously in parkland settings.

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fête galante

Question 56

This artist often used animals and color symbolism in his work circa WWI.

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Franz Marc

Question 57

The later phase of Cubism that simplified the fragmentation of objects and introduced collage.

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Synthetic

Question 58

A 19th-c painting genre that represented Greater Asia as culturally static and unchanging.

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Orientalism

Question 59

Adjective applied to Surrealist abstract “lifeforms” that arise from automatic drawing.

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biomorphic

Question 60

What mountain is depicted in this work by Paul Cézanne?

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Mt. St. Victoire

Question 61

Printing from a stone covered in a waxy substance to which the ink adheres.

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lithography

Question 62

This term refers to the piece of work that an artist would submit in order to gain approval

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reception piece

Question 63

What terms might this painting fall under?

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Die Brücke, German Expressionism, Primitivism

Question 64

Expressionist group that sought spiritual truths in art, combining music & symbolism of color.

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Der Blaue Reiter

Art History: Renaissance Through Modern (ARTH1110): Final Review

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Art History: Renaissance Through Modern (ARTH1110): Final Review

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