Chapter 2

Question 0

Oscar G Rejlander, The Two Ways of Life

Answer 0

Compilation of negatives. Made possible by reproductive nature of negatives made by calotypes. Orchestrated.

Question 1

Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre

Answer 1

Daguerrotype - one off. Precise. Black and white only.

Question 2

William Henry Fox Talbot, Trafalgar Square, London, Erection of Nelson column

Answer 2

Calotype. Straightforward record of everyday world.

Devoid of theatrics and sentiment.

Question 3

Julia Margaret Cameron, Mrs Herbert Duckworth

Answer 3

Chiaroscuro, intense, sensitive to sitter. Among first successful photographic portraitists.

Question 4

Gustave Courbet, A Burial at Ornans.

Answer 4

Ugly subjects, denial of illusionistic depth, commonplace subject despite monumental size. Unpolished
treatment.

Question 5

Édouard Manet, Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)

Answer 5

Mimicked antique composition with avant-garde subject. Rejected by Salon.

Question 6

Avant-garde

Answer 6

Breakaway from classical tradition

Question 7

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Symphony in White No II: The Little White Girl

Answer 7

Evidence of japonisme in ornaments and flattening effect in subject.

Question 8

Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise

Answer 8

Impressionism. Painterly. In the moment.

Question 9

Auguste Renoir, Moulin de la Galette

Answer 9

Impressionistic principles, ethereal subject, contemporary context.

Question 10

Edgar Degas, The Tub

Answer 10

Detracts from typical treatment of artistic nude. Feeling of voyeurism.

Question 11

Edgar Degas, Little Dance Fourteen Years Old

Answer 11

Sculptures have qualities of sketches. Treatment of form.

Question 12

Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson

Answer 12

African-American subject and artist. Stillness.