Chapter 3

Question 0

Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Basket of Apples

Answer 0

Distorted perspective. Abstract expressive.

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Pointillism. Neo-Impressionism

Question 2

Paul Cézanne, The Large Bathers

Answer 2

V - feminine. Return to classical nude in landscape with avant-garde twist.

Question 3

Gustave Moreu, The Apparition

Answer 3

Femme fetale. Les Fleurs du Mal (Flower of evil)

Question 4

Henri Rousseau, Carnival Evening

Answer 4

Salon des Indépendants. Low key colors. Broadly conceived, meticulously rendered. Eerie mood.

Question 5

Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell

Answer 5

Work clearly based on empirical observation of subjects in motion. Violent movement.

Question 6

Camille Claudel, Chatting Women

Answer 6

Recognized in a time where women struggled greatly. Inventive solutions to multifigure configurations.

Question 7

Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon

Answer 7

Primitive. Japanisme.

Question 8

Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From etc

Answer 8

Primitivism.

Question 9

Vincent van Gogh, The Night Café

Answer 9

Distorted perspective. Strange take on light and color. Quiet.

Question 10

Paul Sérusier, The Talisman (Landscape of the Bois d’Amour)

Answer 10

Nabis. verged on pure abstraction.

Question 11

Henri de toulouse-Lautree, Moulin Rouge - La Goulue

Answer 11

Highly stylized and brightly colored

Question 12

Suzanne Valadon, Blue Room

Answer 12

Intense color. Figure as locus of physical and emotional intensity. Undignified rather than sensual.