Art FinalB Flashcards
___ is an eighteenth-century phase of the Baroque era that is characterized by lighter colors, greater wit, playfulness, occasional eroticism, and yet more ornate decoration.
a. Rococo
b. Neoclassicism
c. Romanticism
d. Realism
e. Symbolism
a. Rococo
____’s fete galante paintings, such as the “Pilgrimage to Cythera”, depict the outdoor amusements of French upper-class society with an air of suave gentility of the Rococo taste.
a. Jacques-Louis David
b. Honore Fragonard
c. Antoine Watteau
d. Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun
c. Antoine Watteau
The female artist ___ elevated the sitter by conveying refinement and elegance while clearly individualizing the sitter.
Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun
When considering the modernity and modern art the key component to this movement began as a direct outgrowth and reflection of the ___.
Industrial Revolution
The Neoclassical Period is also thought of as the Age of
a. Innocence
b. Enlightenment
c. Decadence
b. Enlightenment
The return to the classical style of the Neoclassical period was based upon the excavations of __ which began in 1748.
a. Pompeii and Herculaneum
b. Budapest
c. Atlantis
a. Pompeii and Herculaneum
Neoclassical painter-ideologist of the French Revolution __’s painting the “Oath of the Horatii” celebrates ancient Roman patriotism and sacrifice featuring statuesque figures and classical architecture.
a. Jacques-Louis David
b. Honore Fragonard
c. Antoine Watteau
d. Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun
a. Jacques-Louis David
___ is a nineteenth-century movement that depicted Enlightenment ideals, and can be thought of in terms of the depiction of heroism, and idealism. Furthermore, there was an interest in rationality, truth, reason, and logic.
a. Rococo
b. Neoclassicism
c. Romanticism
d. Realism
e. Symbolism
b. Neoclassicism
The painting “The Death of General Wolfe” by ___ used modern dress rather than antique drapery to depict a contemporary historical event within a classical composition, and represents an episode of the conquest of Quebec in 1759.
a. Angelica Kauffmann
b. Jacques-Louis David
c. Honore Fragonard
d. Benjamin West
d. Benjamin West
Jefferson based his design for Monticello on the work of ___.
a. Palladio
b. Borromin
c. Brunelleschi
d. Inigo Jones
e. Bernini
a. Palladio
___ is considered to be the first modern art historian, who was one of the first to systematically organize art by style and period.
Wincklemann
___ is a nineteenth-century movement that rebelled against academic neoclassicism by seeking extremes of emotion as enhanced by exceptional brushwork and a brilliant palette. It may be thought of as a counter-Enlightenment movement, or perhaps as an oppositional phase of Enlightenment that was grounded in difference rather than uniformity.
a. Rococo
b. Neoclassicism
c. Romanticism
d. Realism
e. Symbolism
c. Romanticism
Romanticism believed in the notion that ___, and they also valued sincere feeling and honest emotions.
a. Feeling is All
b. Feeling is Dead
c. Feeling is Feeling
a. Feeling is All
According to Emanuel Kant the “sublime” is something that is __.
a. full of romantic love
b. the natural goodness of all beings
c. terrifyingly beautful
d. sentimentality
e. heroic action
c. terrifyingly beautiful
Social-Romanticist __ depicted horrified expressions and anguish on the massacred Spanish in his ““The Third of May, 1808,” endowing them with a humanity lacking in the French firing squad.
a. Eugene Delacroix
b. Francisco de Goya
c. Gustave Courbet
b. Francisco de Goya
___’s painting “Liberty Leading the People” probably best exemplifies the common notion of romantic art.
Eugene Delacroix
Because of America’s relatively short period of history artists during the early 19th century were investigating their own type of History Painting – that of
a. Landscape painting
b. Religious painting
c. Stylized portraits
a. Landscape painting
The Hudson River School was a group of nineteenth-century American landscape painters who worked in the eastern United States along the Hudson River. ___’s painting “The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northhampton, Mass)” presents the group’s ideas of expansive wilderness incorporating the “Sublime”, Manifest Destiny, and the romantic appeal to the public.
Thomas Cole
Writing the manifesto on Realism, the painting “Burial at Ornans” by ___ epitomizes the style of realism.
a. Eugene Delacroix
b. Gustave Courbet
c. Thomas Eakins
b. Gustave Courbet
___ is a style of art characterized by portraying subject matter accurately, truthfully, and the “truthful, objective and impartial representation of the real world, based on the meticulous observation of contemporary life.”
a. Rococo
b. Neoclassicism
c. Romanticism
d. Realism
e. Symbolism
d. Realism
Work sanctioned by the official academies and art schools were referred to as ___. This work was tightly controlled, competitive, and subsidized by the government. It supported a limited range of subject matter and a highly polished technique and did not encourage experimentation or innovation.
Academic Art
Edouard __ borrowed the composition for his painting “Luncheon on the Grass
from Raimondi’s engraving “The Judgment of Paris”
Manet
The first woman artist to receive the Legion d’Honneur (1865)
a. Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun
b. Rosa Bonheur
c. Mary Cassatt
b. Rosa Bonheur
The invention of ___ shortly before the mid-century was a significant milestone, as it altered the public perceptions of “reality.”
a. photography
b. the cotton gin
c. the steam engine
a. photography