Compare & Contrast Quiz

Question 1

The Swing bb

Answer 1

1. Title: The Swing
2. Artist: Jean-Honore Fragonard
3. “Style”/category: Rococo
4. Medium: Oil on canvas
5. Date range: 1767, mid 1700

Question 2

Oath of the Horatii

Answer 2

1. Title: Oath of the Horatii
2. Artist: Jacques-Louis David
3. Style: Neoclassical
4. Medium: oil on canvas
5. Date range: late 1700’s

Question 3

Rococo characteristics (The Swing)

Answer 3

• Patel colors
• curvilinear, organic (shapes that come from nature)
• swirls and she’ll forms in decorative arts
• intimate scale painting (small scale)
• soft, feathery, loose brushstrokes

Question 4

Rococo content (The Swing)

Answer 4

• erotic, lighthearted subject matter

- mythological subject matter

Question 5

Neoclassicism content (Oath of the Horatii)

Answer 5

Liberty, civic virtue, morality and sacrifice

Question 6

Neoclassicism context (Oath of the Horatii)

Answer 6

• Pompeii and Herculaneum
• renewed interest in antiquity unearthed Greek and Roman works of art
• grand tour
• French revolution: downfall of absolute monarchies and declining power of the church
• re-establishment of republics and democracies
• enlightenment + antiquity = “double dose” of rationality and logic

Question 7

Neoclassicism form (Oath of the Horatii)

Answer 7

• emphasis on drawing (design or disegno)
• symmetry and balance
• classical proportions, idealization
• linear perspective
• Meticulous handling of paint (artist trying to hide brushstrokes)
• high chroma (intense colors)

Question 8

Raft of the Medusa

Answer 8

Title: Raft of the Medusa
Artist: Theodore Gericault
Style: Romanticism
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date Range: 1818-1819, early 1800's

Question 9

Liberty Leading the People

Answer 9

Title: Liberty Leading the People
Artist: Eugene Delacroix
Style: Romanticism
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date Range: 1830, early 1800's

Question 10

The Slave Ship

Answer 10

Title: The Slave Ship
Artist: JMW Turner
Style: Romanticism
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date Range: 1840, early 1800's

Question 11

Raft of the Medusa content, context and form

Answer 11

• Shipwrecked vessel, Medusa, off Africa coast in 1816
• Raft with 150 people for two weeks- only 15 survived
• Rescued by Argus
• Depiction of the anti-hero-person of color is the hero
• an “X” and triangles in the composition
• shown at the salon for everyone to see

Question 12

Liberty Leading the People content, context, and form

Answer 12

• July revolution of 1830
• Charles X tried to abolish freedom of press
• Shows people trying to capture town hall
• Church of Notre Dame in the background, similar to Third of May, 1808 (convent in the background)
• anti-hero
• triangle in the composition
• Depiction of nature is the people rushing forward

Question 13

Romanticism

Answer 13

• Expressed personal melancholy emotions
• Rejected reason (reaction against the enlightenment)
• The revolutionary in politics
• antihero
• contemporary events

Question 14

Third of May, 1808

Answer 14

Title: Third of May, 1808
Artist: Francisco Goya
Style: Romanticism
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date range: early 1800's

Question 15

Cubism

Answer 15

• led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
• cubists sought a new approach to space
• African and Iberian indigenous art (primitivism)

Question 16

Characteristics of cubism

Answer 16

• fragmented forms
• depiction of multiple angles at once
• simplified direction of objects
• challenges viewers idea of reality and perception

Question 17

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Answer 17

Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Style: Cubism
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date range: early 1900's