Test 2

Question 1

Describe the Rococo style.

Answer 1

Decorative, curvilinear surface patterns, lavish guiding, dainty decorations of flowers & garlands, elaborate costumes, stylized manners

Question 2

Which genre of painting was the highest in the hierarchy of genres established in the 17th century?

Answer 2

History painting.

Question 3

Which style was Rosalba Carriera a part of?

Answer 3

Rococo

Question 4

What culture of painting was Elisabeth Vigée le Brun a part of?

Answer 4

Rococo and Reaction to Rococo

Question 5

Elisabeth Vigée le Brun’s Self portrait from 1790 was a part of…?

Answer 5

Reaction to Rococo, 18th century Naturalism.

Question 6

Elisabeth Vigée le Brun’s portrait of Marie Antoinette and Her Children was part of what style?

Answer 6

Rococo

Question 7

Characteristic of female impressionists?

Answer 7

Indoor family scenes. Often mothers and children

Question 8

What artistic medium did Rosalba Carriera explore and help to popularize?

Answer 8

Pastels

Question 9

What major obstacle stood between women artists and history paint?

Answer 9

Were denied access to human anatomy and were not able to replicate an anatomically correct body.

Question 10

Angelica Kauffmann was instrumental in the popularization of which style in Britain?

Answer 10

A

Question 11

Why did Elisabeth Vigée- Lebrun leave France in 1789?

Answer 11

Revolution

Question 12

What is the cult of True Womanhood?

Answer 12

A

Question 13

What is one of the positive aspects of the separation of the sexes for women in the Victorian Period?

Answer 13

The separation of sexes allowed women to form deeper relationships with each other as well as offer mentor ship toward one another

Question 14

Laura Herford was the first female student to attend the Royal Academy School in England. How did she gain admittance?

Answer 14

A

Question 15

How did the Royal Academy School arrange for its first female students to study anatomy?

Answer 15

A

Question 16

How did critics tend to characterize the works of Lady Butler?

Answer 16

Works were masculine, so they’re good

Question 17

Many American women artists in the 19th century (such as Harriet Hosmer and Lilly Martin Spencer) came from families that were involved in what kinds of social movements? Why?

Answer 17

A

Question 18

How did Harriet Hosmer achieve financial success through sculpture?

Answer 18

A

Question 19

How did Vinnie Ream Hoxie’s beauty and charm serve as both an advantage and a disadvantage in her career?

Answer 19

A

Question 20

What was a major problem with the exhibition of the works if women artists in the women’s pavilion at the 1876 Philadelphia centennial exposition?

Answer 20

A

Question 21

What was the first stylistically radical art movement in which women were involved? Why did this appeal to women artists?

Answer 21

Impressionism, subject matter wasn’t looked down on, subjects were accessible to women.

Question 22

What was the traditional division of labour between the sexes in the commercial production of painted pottery?

Answer 22

Men created designs and signed the finished objects. Women executed the designs in the workshops.

Question 23

Describe William Morris’s beliefs regarding sexual division of labour. Describe the reality of the division of labour in the British Arts and Crafts Movement, which he championed.

Answer 23

A

Question 24

Describe the characteristics of the New Woman.

Answer 24

A