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Unit 4 Test Flashcards

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“en plein air”

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French for “in open air”; refers to painting out-of-doors in front of the subject
rather than in the studio

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Gustave Caillebotte

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The Floor Scrapers (1875)

Paris Street, Rainy Day (1877)

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Art Nouveau style in France was introduced and promoted by

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Siegfried Bing.

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Along with Futurist performance, the ballets of Vaslav Nijinsky set to the music of Igor Stravinsky contributed to the characterization of modern art as

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an affront to public taste.

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The furor of European audiences over Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was incited by the decision of the central character, Nora, to

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Leave her children behind

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Rodin’s representation of novelist Balzac was rejected by the literary organization that commissioned the work due to

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the exaggerated physical features.

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WWI aka.The Great War - we stop here because WWI marks a great historical shift.]

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1914-1918

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Charles Darwin

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  • The Voyage of the Beagle (1839)
  • On the Origin of Species (1859)
  • The Descent of Man (1871)
  • The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)
  • The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Actions of Worms (1881)
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Paul Gauguin’s career is particularly associated with scenes of

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the south Pacific island of Tahiti in present day French Polynesia.

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The early nickelodeon theater primarily catered to

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Working class women and children

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Edvard Munch’s artwork is known for its

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powerful sense of isolation and despair.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s paintings are notable for

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Lush color

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Pablo Picasso

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  • Gertrude Stein (Autumn – Winter 1906)
  • Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (May – July 1907)
  • Houses on the Hill, Horta de Ebro (1909)
  • The Guitar Player, (Summer 1910)
  • Violin (Late 1912)
  • Guitar, Sheet Music, and Wine Glass (1912)
  • La Bouteille de Suze (Bottle of Suze) (1912)
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14
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Kitigawa Utamaro

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  • How the Famous Brocade Prints of Edo are Produced (ca. 1790)
  • The Fickle Type, from the series Ten Physiognomies of Women (ca. 1793)
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Mary Cassatt

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  • Lydia Cassatt Reading (1878)
  • Reading (1878) (Portrait of the artist’s mother)
  • In the Loge (1879)
  • The Bath (1890 – 1891)
  • Gathering Fruit (ca. 1893)
  • Modern Women, central panel (1893)
  • The Boating Party (1893 – 1894)
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Filippo Marinetti

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“Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” (1909)

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John Ruskin

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The Stones of Venice, “On the Nature of the Gothic” (1851 – 53)

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This example of Morris design illustrates which guiding principle?

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Simplicity and utility

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19
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Thomas Philips, Portrait of Bryon (Year)

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1835

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20
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Carlo Cara

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Interventionist Demonstration (1914)

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21
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The term Übermensch is associated with

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Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire

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1902-1904

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Sticks of powdered pigment in a gum or resin binder are called

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Pastels

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Pastels

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sticks of powdered pigment bound with resin or gum.

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Two English influences on Impressionist painting were the

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works of artists J.M.W. Turner and John Constable.

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26
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By the late nineteenth century, Indian emigration into indentured service was caused in large part by the collapse of

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Indias cast steel industry

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Paul Cézanne

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  • The Gulf of Marseilles, Seen from L’Estaque (ca. 1885)
  • The Peppermint Bottle (1893 – 1895)
  • Still Live with Plaster Cast (ca. 1894)
  • Mont Sainte-Victoire (1902-1904)
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28
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Gertrude Stein

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1932)

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29
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Emile Zola

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  • Thérèse Raquin (1867;1868)
  • “The Moment in Art” (1867)
  • Édouard Manet (1867)
  • Preface to Théérése Raquin, 2nd ed. (1868)
  • Germinal (1885)
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30
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Giacomo Balla

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Speeding Automobile (1912)

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31
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What element does Gustav Mahler use to incorporate Eastern European Jewish music into Symphony No. 1, III?

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The high pitched clarinets

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32
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Attributed to Tingqua

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Shop of Tingqua, the Painter (ca. 1855) watercolor of paper

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33
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Richard Wagner

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-Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) (four part cycle, music dramas date from 1848 to 1874)
-“Jewry in Music” (anti-semitic tract published 1850)
Tannhauser (1861)
-Tristan und Isolde (1865)

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34
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Giacomo Puccini

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  • Manon Lescaut (1893)
  • La Bohème (1896)
  • Tosca (1900)
  • Madama Butterfly (1904)
  • The Girl of the Golden West (1910)
  • Turandot (left incomplete when Puccini died in 1924; premiered in 1926 after being completed by a colleague)
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35
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A distinct characteristic of Berthe Morisot’s Impressionist style that set her apart from others is evident in which feature of this painting?

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figures rendered without discernible outlining or minimal application of line

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36
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This example of the artist’s work reflects his characteristic approach to

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surface flatness versus spatial perspective.

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37
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avant-garde

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Literally the “advanced guard,” this military term is used to describe artists
and other creative groups on the cutting edge.

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38
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The French term avant-garde refers to

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The cutting edge of movement

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39
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Vincent Van Goh

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Japonaiserie: The Courtesan (after Kesia Eisen) (1887) Oil on canvas

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40
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Eadweard Muybridge

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  • The Horse in Motion: “Sallie Gardner,” owned by Leland Stanford; running over the Palo Alto Track, 19th June 1878 (1878)
  • Annie G. Cantering, Saddled (December 1887)
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41
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In order to lead the way in rebuilding French culture in the late nineteenth-century, painters, sculptors, and other artists

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founded a Société Anonyme for the exhibition of art.

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42
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Joseph Conrad

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Heart of Darkness (1899)

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43
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William Fox Talbot in England & Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre in France (Year)

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1839

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44
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Which character in Crime and Punishment rationalizes his actions by asserting that extraordinary individuals have the right to commit immoral acts in pursuit of greatness?

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Raskolnikov

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45
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The term for the technique of “pasting and gluing” material onto a surface is

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Collage

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46
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The printed text added to silent films between scenes was called

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intertitles.

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47
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Cubism

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An art style developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, noted for the
geometry of its forms, its fragmentation of the object, and its increasing abstraction.

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48
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The street riots in France in 1848 were an uprising against

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King Louis-Philippe.

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49
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The paintings of the Fauves are known for

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bold application of arbitrary color.

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50
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Mariana (1870)

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51
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Leo Tolstoy

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War and Peace (1869)

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52
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Giuseppe Verdi

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Rigoletto (Venice premiere 1851)

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Based upon this particular example, which element of Caillebotte’s painting suggested the strongest link to fellow Impressionists with whom he first exhibited?

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Its subject

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54
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Alfred Stevens

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What is Called Vagrancy (1855)

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55
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Conditions of the Working Class in England was a seminal work written by

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Friedrich Engels.

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56
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The photographer Eadweard Muybridge was able to demonstrate that all four feet leave the ground when a horse gallops

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by using a series of cameras triggered by tripwires.

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57
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Which of the following statements accurately summarizes a position espoused by Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man?

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Communal altruistic behavior supports survival over individualistic interests.

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58
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Chromatic scales

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Scale that moves in half-steps through all the black and white keys on a
keyboard.

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59
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Crime and Punishment (1866)

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60
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According to Sigmund Freud, the subconscious can be revealed through

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an exploration of dreams.

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61
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Suzuki Harunobu

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  • Visiting, from the series Seven Komachi in Fashionable Disguise. Edo Period, ca. 1766-1767
  • Two Courtesans, Inside and Outside the Display Window. Edo period, ca. 1768 – 1769.
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62
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A shot produced by a camera moving across a scene from side to side is called

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A pan

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63
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Apartheid

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A policy that promotes or is founded on racial segregation, especially as occurred in South Africa

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64
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel, the Communist Manifesto (Year)

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1848

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65
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The soft, smudged effects seen in Degas’s rendering of Aux Ambassadeurs were produced from

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Pastel sticks

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66
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The scramble for control of Africa began with the

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opening of the Suez Canal.

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67
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Mary Cassat

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The Bath, 1890 – 91; Drypoint and aquatint on laid paper (rep. entry)

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68
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Paul Gauguin

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Mahana no atua (Day of the God) (1894)

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69
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Georges Braque’s Houses at l’Estaque is an early work of Cubism, which is evident in the

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geometric simplification of the observed world, demonstrating the influence of Paul Cézanne.

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70
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Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

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1859

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71
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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  • Oarsmen at Chatou (1879)

- Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880 – 1881)

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72
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Édouard Manet

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  • Baudelaire’s Mistress Reclining (Study of Jeanne Duval) (ca. 1862)
  • Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) (1863)
  • Olympia (1863)
  • Portrait of Émile Zola (1868)
  • The Gare Saint-Lazare (1873)
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73
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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

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1907

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74
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Thibault

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  • The Barricades on the rue Saint-Maur-Popincourt before the Attack by General Lamoricière’s Troops on Sunday, 25 June 1848
  • Daguerreotype, published July 1 – 8, 1848- regarded as the first photograph used to illustrate a newspaper story.
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75
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Auguste Rodin, The Kiss (sculpture)

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1888-89

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76
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Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn (Year)

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1885

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77
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papiers-collés

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French for “pasted paper,” the technique that is the immediate predecessor of
collage in Cubism.

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78
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In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels stated that the class struggle that characterized industrial society was between the

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bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

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79
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JMW Turner

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Rain, Steam and Speed (1844)

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80
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Artists in Austria called their version of the Art Nouveau movement

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The secession

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81
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The leading painter of the Vienna Secession, a movement dedicated to liberating art from the confines of convention, was

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Gustav Klimt.

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82
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Klezmer music is characterized by

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a notable bass line and shrill sounds of a clarinet.

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83
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Utilitarian theory is associated with

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John Stuart Mill

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84
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Gesamtkunstwerk

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A total work of art, one that synthesizes music, drama, poetry, gesture,
architecture, and painting

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85
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Guillaume Apollinaire invented a type of visual poem called

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a calligramme.

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86
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Edward Burne-Jones

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Laus Veneris (In Praise of Venus) (1873 – 1878)

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87
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Admiral Perry initiates contact with Japan

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1853

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88
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Paul Gauguin’s work reflects the primitif, which refers to

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the primal, essential forces of nature.

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89
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The term en plein air refers to

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painting outdoors in the open air.

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90
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Gustave Caillebotte

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  • The Floor Scrapers (1875)

- Paris Street, Rainy Day (1877)

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91
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Goethe’s play Faust (Year)

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1832

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92
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Polytonal

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The sound that occurs when two or more keys are sounded by different
instruments at the same time.

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93
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Polyrhythms

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A musical technique in which different elements of an ensemble might play
different meters simultaneously.

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94
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When Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote, “WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE,” they were calling for

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the forcible overthrow of the capitalist system.

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leitmotif

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(Ger. Leitmotiv or “leading motive”) In opera, a brief musical idea connected to a
character, event, or idea that recurs throughout the work

96
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Russian Revolution

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1917

97
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Ukiyo-e

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Japanese woodblock prints (“pictures of the transient world of everyday life”)
often referred to as “pictures of the floating world.”

98
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As seen in Claude Monet’s works, painting en plein air is deliberately sketchy because the

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paintings aim to capture the natural effects of light.

99
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Fauvism

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A style in art known for its bold application of arbitrary color.

100
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nishiki-e

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“Brocade pictures” – so named because they were felt to resemble brocade fabrics

101
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Essayist and social theorist John Stuart Mill believed that

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the goal of any action should be to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number.

102
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George Sand

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  • Indiana (1831)
  • Lélia (1832)
  • Histoire de ma vie (1854 – 1855)
  • Elle et lui (She and He) (1858)
103
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Morris and Company

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The Woodpecker (tapestry, designed by William Morris, 1885)

104
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In this realistic depiction of an actual location in Paris, a distinctive device of Haussmann’s redesign of the city is illustrated by the

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Cross road square

105
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Umberto Boccioni

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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913)

106
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Étiennee-Jules Marey

French physiologist

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Movement (1894)

107
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The technique of pointillism characterizes the style of which Post-Impressionist?

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Georges Seurat

108
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In reaction to the Industrial Revolution, William Morris

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longed to return to a handmade craft tradition.

109
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British architect Owen Jones used the words “no principles, no unity … novelty without beauty, beauty without intelligence, and all work without faith” to describe

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Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace.

110
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Edvard Munch

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The Scream (1893)

111
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Beethoven, Ninth Symphony (Year)

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1824

112
Q

The term Yiddish refers to

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a German dialect written in the Hebrew alphabet.

113
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In Igor Stravinsky’s “Sacrificial Dance of the Chosen One” in Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), the frequent changes in tempo create a feeling of

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Frenzied tension

114
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Georges Braque

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  • Houses t l’Estaque (1908)

- Violin and Palette (Autumn 1909)

115
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Nietzsche

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  • The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (1872)
  • The Gay Science (1882)
  • “The Madman” (1882)
  • Beyond Good and Evil (1888)
  • The Genealogy of Morals (1887)
  • Twilight of the Idols (1888)
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1882 – 1893)
116
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In the aftermath of Commodore Matthew Perry’s visit to Japan in 1853, Japan

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began to modernize along Western lines.

117
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Walt Whitman’s final edition of Leaves of Grass (Year)

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1892

118
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Guillaume Apollinaire

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Rue Christine Monday” (1913)

“Il Pleut” (“It’s Raining”) (1914)

119
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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Self-Portrait with Model (1910)

120
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Social Darwinism

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An extension of Darwin’s theory of evolution positing that nations and societies
advance according to the rule of “the survival of the fittest.”

121
Q

European “Scramble for Africa”

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1880s-1914

122
Q

Florence Nightengale establishes nursing as a profession (Year)

A

1850s

123
Q

Atonal musical composition is characterized by

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the absence of a home key.

124
Q

Henri Fantin-Latour

A

A Studio in the Batignolles (1870) (Salon of 1870)

125
Q

Jacques Offenbach

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La Vie Parisienne (The Parisian Life) (1866)

126
Q

In color theory, mixing light is called an additive process because

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when all the primary colors of light are mixed, they create white.

127
Q

Claude Monet

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Setting Sun, panel from the Water Lilies murals (ca. 1921 – 1922)

128
Q

The artist who overlapped Art Nouveau, Symbolism, and Post-Impressionism was

A

Toulouse-Lautrec.

129
Q

The Chinese Daoist philosophy of yin and yang can best be compared to which pair of elements in Hokusai’s iconic image?

A

The breaking wave of Mount Fuji

130
Q

The open, greenhouse-like space of the Crystal Palace is known foremost for its

A

embrace of industrialization in its mass-produced, prefabricated, modular materials.

131
Q

U.S. Supreme Court nulifies Civil Rights Act, enabling Jim Crow laws in the American South

A

1883

132
Q

When the composer Robert Schumann said, “Chopin’s works are cannons buried in flowers,” he was recognizing that Chopin’s

A

musical compositions contain political messages.

133
Q

John Stuart Mill

A
  • On Liberty (1959)

- The Subjection of Women (1869)

134
Q

This example of the American artist’s work demonstrates the influence of

A

Japanese prints

135
Q

Wassily Kandinsky

A

Composition VII (1913)

136
Q

Robert Delaunay

A

L’Equipe de Cardiff (The Cardiff Team) (1913)

137
Q

Camille Pissarro

A

Red Roofs, or The Orchard, Côtes Saint-Denis at Pontoise (1877)

138
Q

Gold discovered in California (Year)

A

1849

139
Q

Due to the spread of nationalism across Europe and consequences of the 1848 revolutions, which group benefited from new legal rights under certain western regimes?

A

Jews

140
Q

Owing to a unique type of long and exceptionally strong cotton fiber native to the country, the highest prices for cotton exports in Europe by the 1830s were paid for goods from

A

Egypt

141
Q

Arnold Schoenberg

A

Pierrot lunaire (1912), setting for a 21 poem cycle by Albert Giraud

142
Q

Baron Haussmann redesigns Paris

A

1853-70s

143
Q

Claude Monet

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  • The Regatta at Argenteuil (ca. 1872)
  • Impression: Sunrise (1873)
  • Boulevard des Capucines (1873)
  • Woman Reading in the Grass (1876)
  • Haystacks in the Sun (1890)
  • Stack of Wheat (Thaw, Sunset) (1890-91)
144
Q

ostinato

A

The repetition of the same rhythmic pulse with the same or different notes.

145
Q

Klezemer music

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A type of music of Eastern-European Jewish origin characterized by its oompah,
oompah bass sound and the shrill sound of a clarinet.

146
Q

Louis Sullivan’s Bayard (Condict) Building, New York

A

1897-98

147
Q

The emphatic black outlining of shapes in this image reveals the influence of

A

Stained glass leading

148
Q

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy

A

Ivan I. Shiskin (1880)

149
Q

Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer above the Mists

A

1817-1818

150
Q

Henrik Ibsen

A

A Doll’s House (1878)

151
Q

Thomas Courture

A
  • Romans during the Decadence of the Empire (1847) oil on canvas
  • George Sand (1859) bistre ink on canvas
152
Q

The Haussmannization of Paris realigned and expanded streets and replaced blocks of buildings at the center of Paris, a process ultimately resulted in?

A

the working class being moved to outer-ring suburbs.

153
Q

The term Slavophiles refers to

A

Russian nationalists

154
Q

Giorgio de Chirico

A

The Child’s Brain (1914)

155
Q

Typical of the Art Nouveau style, Victor Horta used

A

floral patterns resembling tendrils and young plants.

156
Q

The first Photographs (Year)

A

1839

157
Q

A musical passage in which two or more keys are sounded at the same time by different instruments is termed

A

Polytonal

158
Q

Which two camera techniques are evident this scene?

A

a long shot and an iris shot

159
Q

In order to create longer works without using tonality, the composer Arnold Schoenberg increasingly resorted to

A

Serial composition

160
Q

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

A

Communist Manifesto (1848)

161
Q

Which name refers to the mid-nineteenth century group of artists inspired by the direct and uncomplicated depictions of nature in paintings that pre-date the High Renaissance, particularly Raphael?

A

the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

162
Q

The term Fauves means

A

Wild beasts

163
Q

Charles Darwin

A
  • Voyage of the Beagle (1839)

- The Origin of Species (1859)

164
Q

Vincent Van Goh

A
  • Night Café (1888)

- The Starry Night (1889)

165
Q

Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness concerns

A

the dehumanizing effects of colonialism and social Darwinism.

166
Q

Goya’s Third of May, 1808 (Year)

A

1814-1815

167
Q

Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring performed in Paris

A

1913

168
Q

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

A

1903

169
Q

The term leitmotif refers to

A

a brief but recurring musical idea connected to a character or event.

170
Q

Louis Comfort Tiffany

A

Example of a stained glass window (ca. 1894)

171
Q

D. W. Griffith

A

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

172
Q

Igor Stravinsky

A

-Rite of Spring (1913) Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company; original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky

173
Q

By exhibiting their paintings across the country, the school of Russian painters known as the Travelers sought to

A

spread a message of social reform.

174
Q

JMW Turner

A
  • Interior of Tintern Abbey (1794) Watercolor
  • Sun Rising Through Vapor: Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish (before 1807)
  • The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons (1810)
  • The Upper Falls of the Reichenbach (ca. 1810 – 1815)
  • The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed (1818)
  • The Harbor of Dieppe (c. 1826)
  • Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (1842)
  • Sun Setting Over a Lake (1840)
  • Rockets and Blue Lights to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water (1840)
175
Q

Gabriele Münter

A

The Blue Gable (1911)

176
Q

Ezra Pound was inspired by the example of Walt Whitman to

A

freely invent and write the long poem.

177
Q

Berthe Morisot

A
  • Catching Butterflies (1874)
  • Summer’s Day (1879)
  • Eugene Manet and his Daughter at Bougival (1881)
178
Q

Auguste Rodin

A
  • The Kiss (1888 – 1889)
  • Monument to Balzac (1898)
  • Dancing Figure (1905)
179
Q

In “A Pact” Ezra Pound declares, “We have one sap and one root,” addressing

A

Walt Whitman and American culture.

180
Q

Lumière Brothers

A
  • First projected motion pictures, public premiere 28 Dec 1895, incl. Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
  • Waterer and Watered (1895)
181
Q

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (Year)

A

1917

182
Q

Ogden Rood’s influence on Georges Seurat can be seen in Seurat’s

A

application of small dots of unmixed color.

183
Q

Ernest Meissonier

A
  • Memory of Civil War (The Barricade) (1849)

- (Salon of 1850-51)

184
Q

The term ukiyo-e refers to

A

Japanese pictures of the transient world of everyday life.

185
Q

Henri Matisse

A 
Le Bonheur de vivre  (The Joy of Life)  (1905 – 1906)
Dance II  (1910)
186
Q

Utitarian

A

A person who believes that the goal of any action should be to achieve the
greatest good for the greatest number.

187
Q

Francoise Goya

A
  • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1796 - 1798)
  • Great Courage! Against Corpses! #39 from The Disasters of War; series (1810 – 1814)
  • The Third of May, 1808 (1814 – 1815)
  • Satan Devouring One of His Children (1820 – 1823)
188
Q

Gustave Klint

A

Judith I (1901)

189
Q

Charles Baudelaire

A
  • Salon of 1846, “To the Bourgeoisie”

- Various examples from Les Fleus du mal (1857)

190
Q

The belief that Europeans were the “fitter” race and destined to dominate the world is an example of the ideology known as

A

social Darwinism.

191
Q

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

A
  • At the Moulin Rouge (1892 – 1895)

- Miss Loïe Fuller (1893)

192
Q

Édouard Manet

A
  • The Execution of Maximilian (1868 – 1869)
  • The Barricade, ca. 1871
  • The Gare Saint-Lazare (1873)
  • A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1881-1882)
193
Q

Kitigawa Utamaro

A

Kitigawa Utamaro Shaving a Boy’s Head (1801) Color woodblock pring

194
Q

The Italian artists of the Futurist movement thought that the defining characteristic of modern urban life was

A

Speed

195
Q

Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series, incl. The Great Wave (Year)

A

1823-1839

196
Q

When D.W. Griffith’s epic film The Birth of a Nation was released, riots broke out because

A

its story line included blatant racism.

197
Q

The art group label Die Brücke translates to

A

The Bridge

198
Q

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

A
  • Swan Lake (1876)
  • 1812 Overture (1880)
  • Sleeping Beauty (1889)
  • The Nutcracker (1892)
199
Q

Franz Marc

A

The Large Blue Horses (1911)

200
Q

Influenced by his sister-in-law, Berthe Morisot, the painter Édouard Manet adopted Impressionist-style techniques of the younger generation, particularly the

A

emphasis on capturing the effects of light.

201
Q

Music Drama

A

A musical genre in which the actions on stage are the visual and verbal
manifestations of the drama created by the instruments in the orchestra.

202
Q

Ilya Repin

A

Leo Tolstoy Ploughing (1887)

203
Q

Eugenics

A

A theory focused on eliminating undesirable and less fit members of society by
encouraging the proliferation of intelligent and physically fit humans.

204
Q

A chief characteristic of Claude Monet’s last cycle of panoramic Water Lilies is

A

their lack of a single focal point resulting in perceptions of movement.

205
Q

Operetta

A

A light musical drama usually incorporating spoken dialogue.

206
Q

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

A

outlawed Chinese immigration and denied citizenship to those already in the United States.

207
Q

Albert Einstein proposes theory of relativity

A

1905

208
Q

Edgar Degas

A
  • Dance Class (ca. 1874)
  • Aux Ambassadeurs (1877) pastelover monotype
  • Little Dancer Aged Fourteen; sculpture – mixed media (1878 – 81)
209
Q

Katsushika Hosusai

A

The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (ca. 1831)

210
Q

The term apartheid refers to the separation between

A

black Africans and white residents of South Africa.

211
Q

Which of the following statements regarding Chinese attitude and policy toward Western traders from the seventeenth century onward is correct?

A

They admitted foreign ships only to Canton.

212
Q

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History (Year)

A

1805-1806

213
Q

The imagists were

A

a group of English and American poets.

214
Q

flâneur

A

A French version of the aristocratic English dandy. A man-about-town, with no
apparent occupation, strolling the city, studying and experiencing it dispassionately.

215
Q

D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation demonstrated the viability of

A

The feature film

216
Q

Haussmannization

A 
The term used to describe Baron Haussmann’s approach to urban
redevelopment, including the mass destruction of working-class neighborhood
217
Q

Collage

A

The technique of pasting cut-out or found elements into the work of art.

218
Q

Vienna is associated with

A

the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler.

219
Q

The first continuous-film motion-picture viewing machine was the

A

Kinetoscope

220
Q

In advancing the cause of socialism, George Sand argued that

A

women were the principal victims of wretchedness.

221
Q

Japonisme

A

The imitation of Japanese art.

222
Q

Ezra Pound

A
  • “In a Station of the Metro” (1913)

- “A Pact” (1913)

223
Q

The French painter Camille Pissarro had a particularly deep interest in

A

The science of color theory

224
Q

In musical composition, the use of chromatic scales, which move in half-steps across a keyboard, creates a sense of

A

Aimless wandering

225
Q

An Afrikaner is

A

A Dutch immigrant in South Africa

226
Q

Pointilles

A

Tiny dots of color and the building blocks of the pointillist style of painting

227
Q

This opening passage of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture incorporates

A

A Russian Hymn

228
Q

Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” (Year)

A

1849

229
Q

Alphonse de Lamartine

A

History of the Revolution of 1848 (1848)

230
Q

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (book of poems)

A

1857

231
Q

The term “Haussmannization” refers by name to the French official who

A

redeveloped Paris by tearing down working-class neighborhoods and building grand avenues.

232
Q

George Suerat

A
  • A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884 – 1886)

- Les Poseuses (The Models) (1886 – 1888)

233
Q

The term flâneur refers to

A

A fashionable man around town

234
Q

The placement of figures in this scene supports which interpretation of Parisian social dynamics in this period?

A

The sympathies of the bourgeoisie and workers align, as do their response to state repression.

Humanities II (5 decks)

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