Quiz 4

Question 1

Still Life in Studio

Answer 1

Title: Still Life in Studio
Artist: Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre
Style: Modernist Art
Medium: Daguerreotype
Date Range: 1837

Question 2

Luncheon on the Grass

Answer 2

Title: Luncheon on the Grass
Artist: Edouard Manet
Style: Realism
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date Range: 1863

Question 3

Romantic Landscape painting

Answer 3

• independent and respected genre in Germany, England, and the U.S.
• the sublime in nature
• Hudson River School in the U.S.

Question 4

How is daguerreotype similar to painting?

Answer 4

There is only one of its kind

Question 5

Characteristics of Modernist Art

Answer 5

• Depict ideas and images of their time
• critical reflection on art and aesthetics
• open acknowledgement of the illusions and artifices of art
• increasing independence from official exhibitions like the salon
• from around the 1860’s onward

Question 6

Plein-air

Answer 6

painting in the outdoors to directly capture the effects of light and atmosphere on a given object

Question 7

Burial at Ornans

Answer 7

Title: Burial at Ornans
Artist: Gustave Courbet
Style: Realism
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date range: 1849

Question 8

Characteristics of Realism

Answer 8

• disenchantment with Romanticism
• creating art for art’s sake (for fun)
• critical of new industrial way of life and greed of the wealthy
• sympathy for the working class
• desire to depict a truthful vision of modern life
• influence of photography

Question 9

What is the influence of photography on Realism?

Answer 9

Artists begin to use more color and texture to compete with photography (b&w, flat)

Question 10

Burial at Ornans info.

Answer 10

• Ornans is Courbet’s hometown
• the painting depicts an ordinary scene on a large canvas. The Academy was angry with Courbet because large canvases are reserved for epic paintings
• Hole at the bottom of the painting makes the viewer part of the painting
• composition-wave of people

Question 11

Salon de Refuse

Answer 11

• in 1863, the Salon rejected many works of art

- alternate salon created for rejected works of art to be showcased

Question 12

Luncheon on the Grass subject matter

Answer 12

• depicts a nude woman
• the painting is controversial because the woman is a prostitute and does not have the ideal body type to be depicted nude
• syphilis was going around at the time
• woman is looking straight at the viewer confidently

Question 13

Luncheon on the Grass formal properties

Answer 13

• loose brushstrokes
• flat background
• characters not painted to scale