Deck 28: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism: Europe and America, 1870 to 1900

Question 1

Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Henri Rousseau were leading artists of which movement?

A) Realism
B) Symbolism
C) Impressionism
D) Post-Impressionism

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Extreme subjectivity and the wish to perceive a deeper reality were typical of which art movement?

A) Impressionism
B) Realism
C) Symbolism
D) Neoclassicism

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which Impressionist artist specialized in indoor scenes of bodies in motion, sometimes using a camera to make preliminary studies for his work?

A) Manet
B) Renoir
C) Monet
D) Degas

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which artistic movement arose out of the idea of John Ruskin and William Morris, with their emphasis on producing functional objects with high aesthetic value?

A) Pre-Raphaelites
B) Arts and Crafts
C) Symbolists
D) Post-Impressionists

Question 5

The incorporation of Japanese aesthetics into European painting, a trend referred to as Japonisme , is evident in which artwork?

A) Latrec, At the Moulin Rouge
B) Degas, The Tub
C) Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
D) Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold

Question 6

Who was the architect responsible for the new layout of the city of Paris, begun in 1852, that is referenced in Caillebotte's Paris: A Rainy Day ?

A) Albert Aurier
B) Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
C) Henry Hobson Richardson
D) Georges Haussmann

Question 7

Which American Impressionist artist painted principally women and children?

A) Berthe Morisot
B) James Abbott McNeill Whistler
C) Mary Cassatt
D) Georges Seurat

Question 8

Which of the following ideas was Vincent van Gogh trying to communicate in his Starry Night ?

A) Stygian darkness of night
B) Birth of a galaxy
C) Myopia of humanity
D) Vastness of the universe

Question 9

Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionists, her paintings are inhabited by which social group?

A) Powerful leaders of the business world
B) The denizens of Parisian night life
C) Women and children at home
D) The impoverished and homeless

Question 10

Which monument was built for a great exhibition in 1889 and was originally seen as a symbol of modern Paris?

A) Guaranty Building
B) Saint-Lazare train station
C) Eiffel Tower
D) Crystal Palace

Question 11

Which photographer was famous for creating images with Symbolist themes?

A) Rosa Bonheur
B) Eadweard Muybridge
C) Gertrude Käsebier
D) Thomas Eakins

Question 12

Which artistic movement had its roots in Impressionist precepts and methods but could not be considered stylistically homogeneous?

A) Symbolism
B) Expressionism
C) Japonisme
D) Post-Impressionism

Question 13

Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of which art form?

A) Medieval stained glass
B) Renaissance tapestries
C) Japanese woodblock prints
D) Mughal miniatures

Question 14

Which artist explored the possibilities of bold colors and distorted forms, creating a textile effect with energetic and thick brushstrokes?

A) Gustave Caillebotte
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Georges Seurat
D) Mary Cassatt

Question 15

Georges Seurat's painting technique relying on an optical effect involving spots of color is referred to by what term?

A) Chevreul theory
B) Color gradation
C) Pointillism
D) Checkerboard

Question 16

Who is sometimes described as the first modernist architect?

A) Victor Horta
B) Louis Henry Sullivan
C) Gustav Moreau
D) William Morris

Question 17

The influence of which artistic movement is evident in Rodin's interest in the effect of light on the sculpted surface?

A) Symbolism
B) Romanticism
C) Impressionism
D) Realism

Question 18

Which Art Nouveau architect invented new structural techniques to allow construction of buildings that are sculpted and organic in form?

A) Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
B) Joseph Maria Olbrich
C) Henry Hobson Richardson
D) Antonio Gaudí

Question 19

The leading French sculptor of the later 19th century was which Realist artist?

A) Carpeaux
B) Eiffel
C) Horta
D) Rodin

Question 20

What art historical term describes Monet's practice of painting his works outdoors?

A) Encaustic
B) Sunlit art
C) Art brut
D) En plein air

Question 21

The work of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, with its rejection of Realism and statuesque figures in a tranquil landscape, inspired the members of which movement?

A) Impressionism
B) Cubism
C) Neoclassicism
D) Symbolism

Question 22

Spatial discrepancies, such as the relationship between the barmaid and her apparent reflection in a nearby mirror, are highlighted in which painting?

A) Morisot, Summer's Day
B) Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
C) Toulouse-Lautrec, Jane Avril
D) Van Gogh, Night Café

Question 23

Which artist first made it his artistic practice to omit the preliminary sketch and use premixed pigments?

A) Rodin
B) Toulouse-Latrec
C) Monet
D) Gauguin

Question 24

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How does Caillebotte suggest the transitory, impersonal nature of modern life in Paris?

A) Light reflecting on cobblestones
B) Identical garments and umbrellas
C) Moving figures and cutoff buildings
D) Buildings shown in perspective view

Question 25

The works of Camille Pissarro are recognizable because they are painted from which viewpoint?

A) On the same level as the figures
B) Looking upward at the moving figures
C) High above the street
D) All figures face away from viewer

Question 26

Gustave Moreau's The Apparition treats which frequent Symbolist theme?

A) Monstrous creature
B) Freemasonry
C) Spiritualism
D) Femme fatale

Question 27

What do art historians regard as the real subject of Monet's Rouen Cathedral: The Portal ( in Sun )?

A) French religious history
B) The sunlight on the portal
C) A crisis of faith
D) The poverty nearby

Question 28

Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold is an example of the artist's effort to use color to create visual works paralleling which other art form?

A) Weaving
B) Sculpture
C) Poetry
D) Music

Question 29

Which Symbolist painter produced the richly colored representation of The Cyclops ?

A) Henri Rousseau
B) Odilon Redon
C) Gustave Moreau
D) Paul Cézanne

Question 30

The painting Where Do We Come From reflects Gauguin's move to which country?

A) India
B) Japan
C) Canada
D) Tahiti

Question 31

Which Post-Impressionist painter was the first great master in the new art form of the poster?

A) Renoir
B) Toulouse-Lautrec
C) Van Gogh
D) Gauguin

Question 32

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Who is the subject of this painting by Édouard Manet?

A) Pierre-Auguste Renoir
B) James Whistler
C) Georges Seurat
D) Claude Monet

Question 33

Where were many of the early Impressionist paintings displayed?

A) French Royal Academy exhibition
B) Cathedral of Notre-Dame
C) Commercial art galleries
D) Louvre palace

Question 34

The tenets of Marxism and Darwinism had a role in the rise of which artistic movement?

A) Impressionism
B) Modernism
C) Art Nouveau
D) Arts and Crafts

Question 35

Art historians regard James Ensor's painting Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 as his critical response to which contemporary work?

A) Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
B) Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
C) Gauguin, Where Do We Come From?
D) Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

Question 36

Which painting genre was most useful for Cézanne's experiments with remaking Impressionism to emphasize the permanent rather than the transitory?

A) Portrait
B) Still life
C) Landscape
D) Historical

Question 37

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The firm outlines surrounding areas of unmodulated color in Gauguin's Vison after the Sermon reflect his interest in which medium?

A) Mosaic
B) Stained glass
C) Relief sculpture
D) Manuscript illumination

Question 38

In which work does van Gogh say that he is trying to "express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green"?

A) Flowering Plum Tree
B) The Potato Eaters
C) Starry Night
D) Night Café

Question 39

Which painter made Parisian dance halls and clubs the subjects of many of his paintings, including Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette ?

A) Manet
B) Renoir
C) Cezanne
D) Degas

Question 40

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The imagery of a sleeping person and a lion in Sleeping Gypsy can be linked to the work of which contemporary of Rousseau?

A) Auguste Rodin
B) Karl Marx
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 41

Which architect designed the first large commercial buildings characterized by round arches, large windows, and a cast-iron interior skeleton?

A) Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
B) Henry Hobson Richardson
C) Antonio Gaudí
D) Louis Henry Sullivan

Question 42

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William Morris's Green Dining Room exemplifies the design goals of which artistic movement?

A) Pre-Raphaelites
B) Art Nouveau
C) Arts and Crafts
D) Art Deco

Question 43

Victor Horta is an architect most associated with which style?

A) Arts and Crafts
B) Victorian
C) Baroque Revival
D) Art Nouveau

Question 44

Which architect designed the interior support frame (armature) of the State of Liberty?

A) Joseph Paxton
B) Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
C) Antonio Gaudí
D) Henri Labrouste

Question 45

Which artist argued that art is truthful and photographs lie?

A) Claude Monet
B) Antonio Gaudí
C) William Morris
D) Auguste Rodin

Question 46

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The cathedral that is the subject of Monet's series of paintings showing the effects of light is located in which city?

A) Amiens
B) Rouen
C) Chartres
D) Reims

Question 47

In Gustav Klimt's The Kiss , how does the artist use flat patterning to distinguish between the male and female figures?

A) Different colors for male and female figure
B) Male painted with dark red skin, female has white skin
C) Rectangle shapes cover male, circles cover female
D) Flowers cover female, rectangles and circles cover male

Question 48

Auguste Rodin took his subject for the bronze Gates of Hell from the writings of which author?

A) Homer
B) Shakespeare
C) Dante
D) Milton

Question 49

Which architect designed elegantly ornamented yet functional commercial buildings such as the Guaranty Building in Buffalo and the Sullivan Center in Chicago?

A) Henry Hobson Richardson
B) Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
C) Cass Gilbert
D) Louis Henry Sullivan

Question 50

What was the original title of Edvard Munch's powerfully emotional The Scream ?

A) Jealousy
B) Despair
C) Fear
D) Loneliness