ART304: Modern Test #1

Question 1

Answer 1

Harmony in Red, 1908, Henri Matisse

• fauvism
• most impressed and influenced by Cezanne
• non local color

Question 2

Answer 2

Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe, 1862-63, Edouard Manet

• Impressionism
• part of 1863 Salon des Refuses
• made the biggest impact
• She was looking at us.
• Asked the question what is the difference between naked and nude?
• Kenneth Clark: “Naked=still embarrassed, reality. Nude=a perfection of the body.”
• John Berger: “The nude must be viewed as an object.”

Question 3

Answer 3

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte, 1884, Georges Seurat

• Neo-Impressionism
• people all have the same attires because the fashion industry is growing
• lights and shadows and lots of colors
• breaks away from Impressionism by adding a science of the dots and organization to his painting
• created his own border
• pointillism
• influenced by color theorist Chevreul= colors close together can look different than when separated

Question 4

Answer 4

Bal du Moulin de la Galette, 1876, Pierre-Auguste Renoir

• shows the mixing of classes
• Impressionism

Question 5

Answer 5

The Hireling Shepherd, 1851, William Holman Hunt

• young man more interested in the woman than the herd
• analogy for the shepherd not paying attention to their followers and them leaving for a new church. people leaving the church to go back to Catholicism
• Pre-Raphaelites
• clung to as much detail

Question 6

Answer 6

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, 1897, Paul Gauguin

• Combining different categories of art (genre, still life, portrait) into one painting
• “Form is just as important as color”

Question 7

Answer 7

Study of a Nude, 1880, Paul Gauguin

• Post-Impressionism