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Question 1

The title of the sculpture above by Bernini is

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St. Teresa in Ecstasy

Question 2

The Escorial Palace (above) was commissioned by

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Philip II, the king of Spain

Question 3

Which of the following do not describe techniques used by El Greco in the paintings from the textbook

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The use of jaguar blood for red pigment

Question 4

The work above was painted by

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El Greco

Question 5

Define ‘Militant Mysticism’ and what it entailed in the Baroque period.

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Militant Mysticism was a counter-reformation against Protestants, a time of combining ideas from the active life and the contemplative life. This was a time where Protestantism and scientific discoveries were threatening the counter-reformation,, so this way of life tried to ignite the faith of members of the church, future saints and people active in worldly affairs.

Question 6

Many Enlightenment philosophers believed

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In the innate goodness of humanity

Question 7

This artist did portrait busts of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Voltaire:

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Houdon

Question 8

This was a common motif in rococo design:

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Shells

Question 9

Watteau’s The Music Party draws on this great baroque artist’s Garden of Love:

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Rubens

Question 10

Rococo art was oriented more towards

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The aristocracy

Question 11

Who were the Sensibility artists? Discuss some of their works, styles, and themes.

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Claudia Matzko, Rachel Whiteread, Andrea Zittel. Their art made you respond to the emotion displayed in their paintings. They were large scale, tasteful, and a modernist abstraction. The expressions of the art were very different and were things that you didn’t see everyday. It made your mind react to what you saw and each person gained something different by the different way that they viewed the painting. The art really tried to go back to simple natural and nature inspired. They were tired of the mythological gods and all the glory the art brought. They just wanted it simple, yet beautiful again.

Question 12

The painting above was created by

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David

Question 13

The painting above was created by

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Ingres

Question 14

The revolutionary and neoclassical city planners and architects of Paris wanted their city to be the new

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Rome

Question 15

Beethoven initially dedicated his 3rd symphony to

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 16

The painting above was created by

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West

Question 17

Interpret this print (what are its possible meanings, how would you describe it?)

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“The sleep of reason produces monsters.” It can be understood both as an endorsement of rationalism and as a warning that the surrender of reason can result in disorder and misery. It can also be read as a sign that the faith in reason to solve human problems had ended only in nightmare. To me, I see the picture as the man looking very tired and putting his down while owls and other birds (the world) is on our backs in a sense that it seems like everything is waiting for us to wake up.

Question 18

Give two examples of Romantic Individualism and/or Romantic Nationalism and explain.

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Before the 18th Century, few Europeans concerned themselves with discovering their own individual identities. They were what they had been born: nobles, peasants, or merchants. As mercantalism and capitalism gradually transformed Europe, however, it destablized the old patterns. The new industrialists naturally liked to credit themselves for having built their large fortunes and rejected the right of society to regulate and tax their enterprises. Sometimes they tried to fit into the traditional patterns by buying noble titles; but more and more often they developed their own tastes in the arts and created new social and artistic movements alien to the old aristocracy. This process can be seen operating as early as the Renaissance in the Netherlands.

Question 19

Discuss Romantic style (e.g. some of the following: time and region, key/common features, representative artists)

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The Romantic style was prominent in the early 1800s in Europe. It was a time when artists such as Joshua Reynolds and Hector Berlioz, created a dramatized effect to art. The artists during this time period claimed that emotion was better than intellect, freedom over rules, and passion should fuel the art. They did not care so much as to if their art was historically accurate, as long as it was from the heart.

Question 20

This woman represents…

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Liberty

Question 22

The subject of this painting was

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Passengers set adrift from a crashed French frigate

Question 23

Who painted this?

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Daumier

Question 24

A daguerreotype was

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An early type of photography that couldn’t be easily reproduced

Question 25

Who painted this?

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Manet

Question 26

Which of the following is not true about Impressionist painters?

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Their method typically included impressing high relief into their canvases with mechanical implements

Question 27

Who painted this?

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Millais

Question 28

Who painted this?

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Monet

Question 29

List a couple of ‘Post-Impressionist’ painters and tell me how they were distinguished from their predecessors…

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Describe to me the connection between Art and Science in this period.

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Vincent Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” and it was a personal statement he tried to capture the spirit of life and religion,

Paul Gauguin painted pictures with a mixture of the natural form and the artistic feeling. He used texture and colors and shapes for a purposeful effect.

Paul Cezanne painted pictures that were not easily interpreted by the eye and required some thought. He was not excessive with his paintings, but only did the bare minimum so that someone would have to do a thorough analysis to understand.

Leonardo da Vinci, painter and draftsman of the High Renaissance, is best known as an artist whose works were informed by scientific investigation. Leonardo observed the world closely, studying physiology and anatomy in order to create convincing images of the human form. He believed that the moral and ethical meanings of his narrative paintings would emerge only through the accurate representation of human gesture and expression. There has long been a connection between art and science, one that can be traced back to the Egyptian pyramids. History proves that the two disciplines cannot exist without each other, enduring in constantly changing and evolving relationships.

Question 30

Who painted this woman?

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Henri Matisse

Question 31

This was painted by:

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Edvard Munch

Question 32

This woman was painted by

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Amadeo Modigliani

Question 33

Primitivism was

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The conscious imitation of non-western art by European and American artists

Question 34

Define Expressionism as a style, using specific examples from its artists.

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Expressionism was a movement in which artists attempted to express emotional feelings towards an event. Amadeo Modigliani and Henri Matisse were some expressionist artists who used their talents to describe emotion felt at the time of the event.

Question 35

In your own words, please interpret this painting. Tell me about the artist, the style, and what you think it means.

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The creator of this painting is Pablo Picasso who is also one of the originators for Cubism. Everything is very shaped opposed to several paintings done in earlier days it was all blended into each other. In this painting every thing you look at stands out strongly. Cubism brought a new way to see things in the twentieth century. Cubistic paintings have a lot of shapes including cylinders, spheres, and cones. It was a sort of play of planes and angles that were on a flat surface which was different than what the human eye was accustomed to seeing.

Question 36

This was painted by?

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Blake

Question 37

This was painted by?

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Van Gogh

Question 38

This was painted by?

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Boticelli?

Question 39

This was painted by?

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Turner

Question 40

This was painted by?

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Friedrich

Question 41

This was painted by?

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Munch

Question 42

This was painted by?

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David

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This was painted by?

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Picasso

Question 44

This was painted by?

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Manet

Question 45

This was painted by?

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Botticelli

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This was painted by?

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Rembrandt

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This was painted by?

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Monet

Question 48

This was painted by?

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Goya

Question 49

This was painted by?

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El Greco

Question 50

This was painted by?

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Manet

Question 51

This wanted painted by?

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Banksy

Question 52

This was painted by?

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Caravaggio

Question 53

This was painted by?

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Bruegel

Question 54

This was painted by?

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Munch

Question 55

This was painted by?

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Picasso

Question 56

This was painted by?

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Bosch

Question 57

This was painted by?

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Wood

Question 58

This was painted by?

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Matisse

Question 59

This was painted by?

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Pollock

Question 60

Describe to me the connection between Art and Science in this period.

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Example: Leonardo da Vinci, painter and draftsman of the High Renaissance, is best known as an artist whose works were informed by scientific investigation. Leonardo observed the world closely, studying physiology and anatomy in order to create convincing images of the human form.

Question 61

Describe how ‘neoclassical’ meant different things to different groups (“The Archaeological Ideal”)

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Neoclassicalism was referred to as the true style. People considered the Racoco to be shallow, so neoclassicalism took art to be more down to earth and real. So it meant different things to different people because each person had their own way of interpreting everyday life. David, for example painted art to be a reaction to the Racoco.