Deck 28: The Modern Aesthetic: Manet in 1863 to the American Scene in the 1930s

Question 1

Camille Claudel was a model for Auguste Rodin,and later became his much-loved second wife.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A painting by which artist provoked the comment by a critic that gave the Impressionists their name?

A) Gustave Caillebotte
B) Edgar Degas
C) Édouard Manet
D) Claude Monet
E) none of the other answers

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Camille Claudel's sculpture The Waltz received some criticism for being too ________.

A) ugly
B) brightly colored
C) erotic
D) boring
E) politicized

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Auguste Rodin was told by a government official that he should put clothes on his overly sexualized figures in The Kiss.

Question 5

What role did photography play for the artist Thomas Eakins?

A) he used photography instead of painting
B) he despised photography as "lazy"
C) he used photography to study anatomy and proportion
D) he had never heard of photography
E) he made photographs into collages

Question 6

Impressionist artworks were influenced by both photography and Japanese prints.Select a work by Claude Monet,Mary Cassatt,or Edgar Degas,and describe how the artist's composition has similarities to photography and Japanese prints.

Question 7

Paris Street: Rainy Day demonstrates:

A) the loneliness of the city
B) the new construction of the streets and buildings
C) the artist's knowledge of perspective
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers

Question 8

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Moulin de la Galette is set ________.

A) in a local swimming pool
B) at an outdoor café
C) at a train station
D) in a dress shop
E) on board a cruise ship

Question 9

Who painted Paris Street: Rainy Day?

A) Gustave Caillebotte
B) Edgar Degas
C) Claude Monet
D) Odilon Redon
E) Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Question 10

European cities,such as Paris,became increasingly industrialized in the nineteenth century.Select three Impressionist artworks.Discuss the evidence of modern life and city living that is present in these works.How has each artist treated this subject? Do some artists seem to embrace this subject more than others?

Question 11

Which of the following are qualities of most Impressionist artists and their paintings?

A) they rejected the traditional values of the Academy
B) they evoked the sensations of everyday life
C) they painted outdoors and captured natural light
D) their brushstrokes were visible and paintings appeared unfinished
E) all of the other answers

Question 12

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Moulin de la Galette ________.

A) is serious in tone
B) depicts only the upper classes
C) uses sharp, clean lines
D) depicts a new, urban, middle class enjoying their leisure time
E) none of the other answers

Question 13

A critic praised Monet's work Impression,Sunrise by saying it had given a viewer such clarity of thought and purpose that he ran out of the gallery and immediately began writing a novel.

Question 14

Auguste Rodin's The Kiss was ________.

A) designed for the Gates of Hell
B) based on the story of Paolo and Francesca in Dante's Divine Comedy
C) made into several copies
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers

Question 15

Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus is an example of a(n)________ painting.

A) Academic
B) Impressionist
C) Renaissance
D) Cubist
E) none of the other answers

Question 16

Which of the following influenced Degas's Blue Dancers?

A) Japanese art
B) African art
C) Chinese performance
D) Korean food
E) architectural design

Question 17

Edgar Degas was fascinated by observing ballet dancers,both in practice and during performances.

Question 18

What role did photography play for the artist Edgar Degas?

A) he abandoned painting to become a photographer
B) he used it along with other mediums
C) he secretly painted over the top of photographs
D) he died before photography was invented
E) none of the other answers

Question 19

What aspects of Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)discomfited many viewers when it was first exhibited?

A) the painting technique
B) the nude woman seated next to men dressed in contemporary clothing
C) the fact that the woman looks out at the viewer
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers

Question 20

Which painting was included in the first Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Rejected)?

A) Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)
B) Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing
C) Jacques-Louis David's The Oath of the Horatii
D) Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night
E) all of these paintings were in this exhibition

Question 21

Paul Gauguin's The Vision after the Sermon is a realist artwork.

Question 22

Gustav Klimt's work Judith I features:

A) gold leaf
B) an element of danger
C) decorative patterning
D) flattened figures
E) all of the other answers

Question 23

Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen was known for ________.

A) owning a cabaret
B) inventing abstraction
C) making posters to promote nightclub performances
D) designing the Eiffel Tower
E) none of the other answers

Question 24

Art Nouveau is a style that emphasized decorative patterns and organic forms.

Question 25

Symbolist painters are inspired by emotions and dreamlike images.

Question 26

Vincent van Gogh committed suicide by bleeding to death after slicing off his left ear.

Question 27

Vincent van Gogh used thick swirls of paint in his work Starry Night.This technique is called ________.

A) chiaroscuro
B) atmospheric painting
C) impasto
D) intaglio
E) symbolism

Question 28

Which of these artists created a dreamlike painting of a sleeping gypsy?

A) Artemisia Gentileschi
B) Henri Rousseau
C) Vasily Kandinsky
D) Vincent van Gogh
E) none of the other answers

Question 29

The Eiffel Tower was made ________.

A) to welcome visitors to a World Fair
B) for conducting radio waves across Paris
C) to be a symbol of wealth
D) to remind viewers of the past
E) none of the other answers

Question 30

Who repeatedly painted studies of the mountain he had seen throughout his childhood and later observed from his studio window?

A) Paul Cézanne
B) Gustave Courbet
C) Paul Gauguin
D) Vincent van Gogh
E) none of the other answers

Question 31

The Eiffel Tower was adored by all Parisians when it was first built because it was seen as a continuation of the artistic traditions of France.

Question 32

The design of Tournée du Chat Noir de Rodolphe Salis is an example of ________ design.

A) Impressionist
B) Fauvist
C) Art Deco
D) Art Nouveau
E) Cubist

Question 33

Edgar Degas was very selective with his subjects; he depicted only people from the upper classes.

Question 34

What is the medium of the Eiffel Tower

A) wood
B) marble
C) steel
D) wool
E) cast iron

Question 35

Henri Rousseau carefully studied the details of the anatomy of a lion in a local zoo in order to portray the animal as accurately as he could in his painting The Sleeping Gypsy.

Question 36

Gustav Klimt's Judith I was made in direct response to an artwork of the same subject by Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi.

Question 37

Paul Gauguin liked to paint subjects from modern,industrial cities.

Question 38

Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin were good friends,and even shared a house for a time.Do some research to find out more about their friendship.Select one or two artworks by each artist to compare and contrast.How similar are the artists' works? What are their individual stylistic traits? Do you think a knowledge of their personal life and friendship is valuable when evaluating their work?

Question 39

________ made a Symbolist version of Judith with Holofernes's head.

A) Mary Cassatt
B) Berthe Morisot
C) Camille Claudel
D) Gustav Klimt
E) all of the other answers

Question 40

Paul Cézanne used ________ in his work Mont Sainte-Victoire.

A) no discernable perspective
B) one-point perspective
C) two-point perspective
D) atmospheric perspective
E) artists did not know how to do perspective at that time

Question 41

Match the term with its definition:
a.application of thick paint
d.painting outdoors
b.forms derived from living organisms
e.end of the century
c.seen from above
organic

Question 42

Twentieth-century artists continued the explorations in representation started by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.

Question 43

Match the term with its definition:
a.application of thick paint
d.painting outdoors
b.forms derived from living organisms
e.end of the century
c.seen from above
fin de siècle

Question 44

Match the quotation with the artist who made the statement:
a."I did not create a woman, I made a picture."
b."I enjoyed looking at it, just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in the fireplace."
c."I cannot work without a model . . . I exaggerate . . . but I do not invent the whole picture."
d."I shut my eyes in order to see."
Paul Gauguin

Question 45

In Matisse's Joy of Life the artist is emphasizing ________.

A) the jarring nature of the social and political events of his day
B) his academic training in realistic representation
C) a leisurely day in a landscape with music and dancing
D) the darkness of the attic room of his childhood home
E) his favorite fishing hole and the scenery around it

Question 46

Match the quotation with the artist who made the statement:
a."I did not create a woman, I made a picture."
b."I enjoyed looking at it, just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in the fireplace."
c."I cannot work without a model . . . I exaggerate . . . but I do not invent the whole picture."
d."I shut my eyes in order to see."
Marcel Duchamp

Question 47

Match the term with its definition:
a.application of thick paint
d.painting outdoors
b.forms derived from living organisms
e.end of the century
c.seen from above
bird's-eye view

Question 48

The Eiffel Tower was built for the World's Fair in 1889,with the intention that it later be torn down.

Question 49

Matisse's The Red Studio includes:

A) a scene showing the artist's kitchen
B) a seaside view out of a window in Collioure
C) a café with a bar and pool table at night
D) paintings, sculptures, and ceramics the artist had made
E) all of the other answers

Question 50

Match the quotation with the artist who made the statement:
a."I did not create a woman, I made a picture."
b."I enjoyed looking at it, just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in the fireplace."
c."I cannot work without a model . . . I exaggerate . . . but I do not invent the whole picture."
d."I shut my eyes in order to see."
Henri Matisse

Question 51

Which of the following tools or materials was the main one Matisse used to make his cutouts?

A) scissors
B) charcoal
C) oil paint
D) masking tape
E) hair clippers

Question 52

Matisse used his cutouts ________.

A) as preparatory sketches, never as finished artworks
B) as finished artworks, never as preparatory sketches
C) sometimes as preparatory sketches, sometimes as finished artworks
D) Matisse only made cutouts
E) Matisse never made cutouts

Question 53

The colors of the bodies and trees in Matisse's Joy of Life are ________.

A) completely naturalistic
B) based on what the artist saw, but exaggerated
C) strictly from the artist's dreams
D) based on a movie the artist saw
E) copied from another famous artwork

Question 54

Match the quotation with the artist who made the statement:
a."I did not create a woman, I made a picture."
b."I enjoyed looking at it, just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in the fireplace."
c."I cannot work without a model . . . I exaggerate . . . but I do not invent the whole picture."
d."I shut my eyes in order to see."
Vincent van Gogh

Question 55

Artwork in the modern period can be ________.

A) representational
B) abstract
C) non-objective
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers

Question 56

Match the term with its definition:
a.application of thick paint
d.painting outdoors
b.forms derived from living organisms
e.end of the century
c.seen from above
en plein air

Question 57

Pablo Picasso challenged traditional notions of the subject matter and appearance of fine art painting by emphasizing underlying geometric form and the construction of pictorial space.

Question 58

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was revolutionary because:

A) it is not a naturalistic re-creation of the way we see the world
B) it includes simplified forms and bodies as geometric shapes
C) the space of the background and foreground meld together
D) it shows frontal and profile views at the same time
E) all of the other answers

Question 59

Match the term with its definition:
a.application of thick paint
d.painting outdoors
b.forms derived from living organisms
e.end of the century
c.seen from above
impasto

Question 60

The Eiffel Tower was named for the person who designed it.

Question 61

Expressionism focuses on:

A) what is felt rather than what is seen
B) the subconscious mind and dream imagery
C) dynamic movement, progress, and modern technology
D) stripping away emotions and underlying meaning
E) complexity, ambiguity, and external references

Question 62

Georges Braque's Houses at L'Estaque is part of which movement?

A) Expressionism
B) Futurism
C) Cubism
D) Minimalism
E) Postmodernism

Question 63

The Dada performance of "Karawane" was:

A) a serious elegy on the death and destruction of the war
B) a harsh indictment of hatred, injustice, and oppression
C) a lively, theatrical performance of nonsense words and sounds
D) a lazy attempt to make an artwork by reciting poetry
E) none of the other answers

Question 64

The Dada performance of "Karawane" doesn't make sense because ________.

A) the artist's original intentions were never recorded
B) it was part of a movement that devalued logical thinking
C) there were too many artists involved in one artwork
D) multiple copies have been made and no one knows for sure which one is real
E) none of the other answers

Question 65

Portrait of Gertrude Stein was made by which artist?

A) Henri Matisse
B) Georges Braque
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Georges Seurat
E) Marcel Duchamp

Question 66

Potsdamer Platz is part of the ________ movement as seen ________.

A) Cubist . . . in the painting's geometric treatment of forms
B) Expressionist . . . in the painting's intentionally raw and aggressive intensity
C) Dada . . . in the painting's use of found objects
D) Conceptual . . . in the artist's burning of the painting at its first exhibition
E) Pop art . . . in the painting's use of commercial imagery

Question 67

Pablo Picasso made Girl before a Mirror ________.

A) when he was in grade school, before he became an artist
B) at the beginning of his career, when he was studying art
C) at the height of his career, when he was inspired by his mistress
D) later in his career, when he was learning to use photography
E) near the end of his career, when he was revisiting old themes

Question 68

Vasily Kandinsky,the artist of Improvisation #30 (Cannons),believed ________.

A) all art museums and libraries should be destroyed
B) artists took themselves too seriously
C) emphasis on an artist's creativity should be minimized
D) art should express an inner spiritual necessity
E) everyone should be required to serve their country

Question 69

The technique used to make Juan Gris's Glass and Bottle of Banyuls is ________.

A) silkscreen
B) assemblage
C) collage
D) photomontage
E) readymade

Question 70

Picasso was influenced by art objects from ________ in his creation of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

A) Africa
B) India
C) Australia
D) Austria
E) New York

Question 71

In her Self-Portrait with Camellia,Paula Modersohn-Becker used ________.

A) flattened forms
B) solid geometry
C) heavy outlines
D) reduced details
E) all of the other answers

Question 72

Consider the relationship between the collector and patron Gertrude Stein and the artists she knew,for example Picasso.How important a role did Stein have in the avant-garde art made in the twentieth century? Compare the patron-artist roles occupied by Stein and Picasso to those of a historical pairing,such as Philip IV of Spain and Velázquez,or Charles IV and Goya.For each pair,describe the balance of power and influence between patron and artist.

Question 73

Marcel Duchamp's original Bicycle Wheel was lost,which ________.

A) was devastating because it had belonged to the artist's grandfather
B) was shocking because it was so carefully guarded
C) was a relief because the artist himself had stolen it
D) was fine because the artist could just buy another one
E) none of the other answers

Question 74

Paula Modersohn-Becker's Self-Portrait with Camellia is part of which movement?

A) Fauvism
B) Expressionism
C) Cubism
D) Abstract Expressionism
E) all of the other answers

Question 75

Gertrude Stein held informal meetings in her apartment for artists and writers.These were known as ________.

A) salons
B) coffee mornings
C) gossip groups
D) Artists' Anonymous
E) Cubism Club

Question 76

How does Georges Braque's Houses at L'Estaque relate to the scene it represents?

A) it looks exactly like it
B) it is an abstraction based on nature
C) it looks nothing like it
D) there was no scene being represented
E) all of the other answers

Question 77

Juan Gris's Bottle of Banyuls includes an actual ________ as part of the composition.

A) lemon
B) bottle label
C) table top
D) bottle cap
E) menu

Question 78

Potsdamer Platz was made by Vasily Kandinsky.

Question 79

Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel is an example of ________.

A) a silkscreen print
B) an automatic drawing
C) a collage
D) a photomontage
E) a readymade

Question 80

Vasily Kandinsky's Improvisation #30 (Cannons)was inspired by ________.

A) talk of war just before World War I began
B) cannons firing during World War II
C) the bombing of the Twin Towers on September 11
D) thoughts of all the future wars that might occur
E) the desire to wreak havoc on all of the institutions of the art world