Art History 102 UNL Exam 3

Question 1

Dada

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-anti-technological
-anti-rational

Question 2

Armory show

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An exhibition of modern art held at New York’s 69th Regiment Armory in February-March 1913. Showcased examples from recent European art movements.

Question 3

Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (?-ism)

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-draws from futurism and cubism
-got into the armory show

Question 4

Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, aka Man Walking (Futurism)

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-showing movement

Question 5

Futurism

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early-20th-century Italian art movement that championed war as a cleansing agent and that celebrated the speed and dynamism of modern technology.

Question 6

Synthetic Cubism (Collage Cubism)

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phase color was reintroduced and collage elements, such as newspaper clippings, were pasted onto the surface. Picasso’s Still-Life with Chair Caning is one of the first examples of Synthetic cubism.

Question 7

Pablo Picasso, Still-Life with Chair Caning (Cubism)

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-synthetic cubism

Question 8

Analytical Cubism

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-monochromatic
-“analyzes” representation
-divides art into component parts or “signs” (e.g. tone, line)
-recombines them according to ideas based in “art” rather than “nature”

Question 9

Pablo Picasso, Girl with Mandolin (Cubism)

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-Analytical cubism
-Art has an intellectual, rational appeal via form

Question 10

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (Cubism)

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-prostitutes
-“primitive”

Question 11

Synaesthesia

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when one sort of sensation (such as hearing a sound) produces another (such as seeing color)

Question 12

Der Blaue Reiter

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German artists in this group sought to create art that was spiritual, expressionist, and (in the case of Kandinsky) abstract.

Question 13

die Brücke (movement)

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The artists of Die Brücke rejected the sentimental realism which had dominated late 19th-century German painting in favor of an expressive art using bright, non-descriptive colors and forms derived from non-western as well as German medieval art, and processes such as woodcut.

Question 14

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden (Expressionism)

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The artist expresses this through the use of jarring colors, simplified shapes and slashing brushmarks to depict the crowded city center

Question 15

Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation #28 (Expressionism)

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-titled his paintings Improvisation, or Composition or Impression, followed by a number.

• In these early abstract pieces, there are still forms that suggest some of the elements in his earlier paintings: buildings, hills, (upper right), and a figure on horseback (upper left).

Question 16

Henri Matisse on his art

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-whole arrangement of the painting is expressive
-painting should enhance/ complete life and be a comfort

Question 17

Henri Matisse, La Bonheur de Vivre (expressionism)

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-uses color and composition to express sensual pleasure

Question 18

Les Fauves

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• Literally, “the wild beasts.” Term used by a critic to describe the paintings of Henri Matisse and other artists
• “Fauvism”is characterized by the use of bright, non-descriptive color and slashing brush strokes.

Question 19

Symbolism

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-primarily a literary movement: Manifesto published 1886
-rejection of everyday, contemporary world
-interest in trans-historical myth; interior states, the visionary

Question 20

Primativism

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• Paul Gauguin’s interest in Tahitian art is an example of primitivism, as is Ernst Kirchner’s interest in early German woodblock prints.
• more deeply spiritual and more sincerely expressive
• it was often based on false assumptions about the art and the cultures in which it was produced.

Question 21

Japonisme

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• French term used to describe the interest in Japanese arts and crafts

-Japanese woodblock prints by artists such as Hiroshige, Hokusai and Kiyonaga were of special interest to impressionist and post-impressionist artists

• use of vivid and unmodeled colors

Question 22

Divisionism/Pointillism

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• Terms used to describe Georges Seurat’s method of applying paint and the color theory behind it.
• if primary colors are set side by side on the canvas, they are blended by the eye into a secondary color that appears more intense

-color is placed next to its complement, the line where the two meet will display an intense contrast.

Question 23

Paul Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching (Post-Impressionism)

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-shows a belief that the dead lingers on connected to the spirit of a living person

Question 24

Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon (Post-Impressionism)

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-red color chosen for expressiveness
-Gauguin took to the region because he saw it as “primitive”–uncorrupted and pure.

Question 25

Vincent Van Gogh on color as expression

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"Because instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before my eyes, I use color more arbitrarily, in order to express myself forcibly"

Question 26

Paul Gauguin on his art

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The impressionists study color exclusively insofar as the decorative effect, but without freedom, retaining the shackles of verisimilitude.

Question 27

Vincent Van Gogh, Night Cafe (Post-Impressionism)

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-tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green -color itself is expressive

Question 28

Vincent Van Gogh, Japonaiserie: Bridge in the Rain (Post-Impressionism)

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-japonisme -This work is a free copy of Ando Hiroshige's Great Bridge,

Question 29

Paul Cezanne, Mt. Ste.-Victoire (Post-Impressionism)

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-made at least 70 images of Mont Saint-Victoire, near his hometown of Aix-en-Provence in southeast France

Question 30

Monet's ideas

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Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.

Question 31

Paul Cezanne on his art

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-We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. - -color is used structurally to reveal solidity of objects -painting is seen as a flat "map" of topography of objects in the world - the solidity of objects, and their relation to each other, are empirically determined: seeks his realization

Question 32

Georges Seurat, La Grande Jatte (Post-Impressionism)

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-divisionism/ pointillism -geometry

Question 33

Postmodernism emerged first in:

Question 34

for gestural abstractionist like Jackson pollock, the most important aspect of a painting was:

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the process by which it was created

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minimal art attempts to:

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encourage spectator interaction without any preconceived notions.

Question 36

Cindy Sherman produced her Film Stills series in order to:

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take control of her own image and identity.

Question 37

Postmodernism in art is characterized by:

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pluralism and eclecticism

Question 38

Which of the following statements is NOT true? In works such as Surrounded Islands (1983), Christo was interested in:

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imposing an artwork on land of its ecological impact

Question 39

Duane Hanson's Superrealist sculptures frequently:

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depict stereotypical middle class people.

Question 40

Appropriation involves:

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borrowing images that already exist

Question 41

Robert Barry's Inert Gas Series (1969):

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challenged the idea that art had to be visible

Question 42

Based on style, match the unidentified artwork with the appropriate art movement:

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environmental art

Question 43

Gino Severini's armoured train (1915) reflects the Futurist interested in:

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glorifying war and military action

Question 44

In an attempt to deal with the insanity and horror of World War I, the Surrealists:

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depicted a world of fantasy and dreams

Question 45

The Fauves focused on the expressive ability of:

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color

Question 46

The Surrealists embraced:

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the subconscious

Question 47

Emil Nolde painted religious scenes that are characterized by:

Question 48

which is not a type of surrealism?

Question 49

which following statements is not true?during his blue period, Pablo Picasso:

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painted many people in each painting

Question 50

the word "Dada"

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a nonsensical world selected randomly

Question 51

Guernica was originally exhibited

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in the spanish Pavilion at the Paris World's Fair

Question 52

which of the following was NOT a response to World War I?

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synthetic cubism

Question 53

the development of impressionism was largely due to:

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the rapid industrialization of France

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Georges Seurat was interested in:

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finding a formula for optical painting

Question 55

Paul Cezanne rejected traditional perspectival systems and instead:

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depicted his images from several simultaneous viewpoints

Question 56

Three characteristics of a sketch are:

Question 57

The primary colors of light are:

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red, green, and blue

Question 58

painting "en plein air" means paiting:

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outdoor scenes

Question 59

The impressionist movement got its name from the painting

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impressionism: sunrise "by claude monet

Question 60

why is millets gleaners an example of realism rather than falsism or idealism?

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its gleaners look worn by labor rather than pretty

Question 61

which of these is Not typical of Daumier's style in Rue Transonain?

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melodramatic, exaggerated contrasts between heroes and villains

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like delacroix's liberty leading the people, daumier's subject is

Question 63

burial at ornan shows

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an insignificant moment at a funeral of no one important portrayed in epic scale

Question 64

daumier's rue transonain is a/an

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lithograph

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olympia different form traditional nudes by artist such as Titian because

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stark contrast between lights and darks flatten her body, instead of gradually blending flesh tones into smoothly rounded forms

Question 66

19th century realism be associated with?

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all of these can be associated

Question 67

manet's execution of emperor maximilian is realist because

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all of these are reason why

Question 68

not true of millets winnower

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the man is making a fire in his scuttle

Question 69

characteristics of realism include

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painting only real and existing things

Question 70

constable painted outdoors from nature in order to

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achieve a style of objective observations of weather in his finished paintings

Question 71

the wanderer in Traveler above the fog is a positioned so that we a s viewers

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sublime was associated with feeling of

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awe mixed with terror

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tumers salve ship

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evokes the horrors and atrocities of slavery through the sublime

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constable's art

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depicts the industrialized english countryside in a state of tranquility

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fuseli's nightmare and blake's nebuchadnezzar both

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in chausseur in the woods, the pine forest

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no part of the claude lorrain 'beautiful landscape"

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the hungry and ragged poor

Question 78

fuseli and blake were both

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members of the royal academy in england

Question 79

which of the following statements about turner's Hannibal crossing the alps is true?