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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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Laocoon and His Sons - from which culture does this groundbreaking sculpture come?
Byzantine
Greek
Hellanistic
Roman
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How many female artists does Gombrich write about?
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8
5
1
3
Courbet was revolutionary. Why?
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
He was the first to have no interest in depicting reality
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Is The Story of Art still relevant to school students today?
No, absolute Western-centric rot
Yes as a starting point
Maybe, if they want to be a painter
Yes, unequivocally
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What problems might Gombrich's text present today?
Subjective
Western-centric
Dated
Sexist
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Who wrote
The Story of Art
?
E. H. Sheppard
J. K . Rowling
A. A. Milne
E. H. Gombrich
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Who founded the Royal Academy in London?
William Hogarth
Christopher Wren
Thomas Gainsborough
Joshua Reynolds
8
Who was a convicted murderer?
Carracci
Caravaggio
Rubens
Poussin
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What is the French term for artworks concentrated on the mark-making of the artist?
Pointillism
Vanitas
Tachisme
Cloisonnism
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Whose 18th century painting does this Paolozzi sculpture echo?
William Blake's The Ancient of Days
Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer Above the Fog
J. M. W. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire
Fransisco Goya's The Colossus
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What does renaissance literally mean?
Rebirth
Return to Glory
Forward Thinking
Golden Age
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When does Gombrich give as an end to Modernism and the start of an 'altered mood'?
1965
1985
1995
1975
