Ch21 The Modern World Test Bank Docx

Living with Art, 12e (Getlein)

Chapter 21 The Modern World

1) What work is a good example of a Surrealist work?

A) Trafalgar Square by Piet Mondrian

B) Le Portugais (The Emigrant) by Georges Braque

C) Armchair by Marcel Breuer

D) Object (Luncheon in Fur) by Meret Oppenheim

2) In what style is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Jupiter and Thetis?

A) Impressionist 

B) Post-Impressionist

C) Surrealist

D) Neoclassical

3) Which art movement was directly influenced by Sigmund Freud's theories of the unconscious?

A) Fauvism

B) Cubism

C) Dada

D) Surrealism

4) What was the subject matter of much Impressionist art?

A) Scenes of leisure involving the middle class

B) Aristocratic pomp and splendor

C) Symbolism and esoteric content

D) Historical narratives

5) Eugène Delacroix was a leading practitioner of the ________ style.

A) Neoclassic

B) Romantic

C) Realist

D) Impressionist

6) What subject did Realist artists seek to depict?

A) New ways of looking at the world

B) Heroic deeds

C) Exotic cultures

D) Lives of the middle and lower classes

7) What artistic style avoided sentimentality?

A) Romanticism

B) Impressionism

C) Post-Impressionism

D) Realism

8) What element of art was the focus of Fauvism?

A) Space

B) Line

C) Color

D) Texture

9) The spontaneity and directness of painting outdoors—made possible with portable oil colors—is evident in works by ________ artists.

A) Neoclassical

B) Romantic

C) Impressionist

D) Realist

10) What element was a primary concern of Impressionist art?

A) Light

B) Shape

C) Illusion of depth

D) Line

11) American Romantic art expressed itself most clearly through what subject?

A) Political revolution

B) Classical mythology

C) Landscape

D) Scenes of daily life

12) Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is an example of what art form? 

A) Sculpture

B) Ready-mades

C) De Stijl

D) Bauhaus

13) Identify characteristics associated with Richard Woodville's War News from Mexico.

A) Realism

B) Expressionism 

C) Vibrant and saturated colors

D) Allegory for mythological tale

E) Humble setting

14) Impressionism got its name from a painting called Impression, Sunrise, by the artist ________.

A) Claude Monet

B) Pierre-Auguste Renoir

C) Édouard Manet

D) Georges Seurat

15) What element is created through repetition in Paul Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire?

A) Rhythm

B) Linear perspective

C) Motion

D) Precise and meticulous forms

16) What type of art was called "degenerate" by Adolf Hitler?

A) Romantic

B) Realist

C) Avant-garde 

D) Neoclassicism 

17) What theme permeates the work of Vasili Kandinsky?

A) Spirituality and art are linked.

B) Realism produces the clearest meaning.

C) The "real" should be merged with the "not real."

D) Art should not make sense.

18) Which of the following artists was a Realist?

A) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

B) Eugène Delacroix

C) Gustave Courbet

D) Jacques-Louis David

19) What features contribute to Van Gogh's artistic style?

A) Nonrepresentational images

B) Pointillist technique

C) High-key colors

D) Agitated brushwork

E) Emotional intensity

20) What characteristics can be seen in the art of Paul Guaguin, as in his work Te Aa No Areois (The Seed of the Areoi)?

A) Deeply modeled forms

B) Broad color areas

C) Ambiguous outlines

D) Tertiary color harmonies

E) A quest for the "primitive"

21) From where did Edouard Manet get inspiration for his painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)?

A) Renaissance works of art

B) Newspaper articles of the day

C) The American landscape

D) The "exotic" cultures of Tahiti

22) Which artist developed the Pointillist technique?

A) Vincent van Gogh

B) Claude Monet

C) Georges Seurat

D) Pierre-Auguste Renoir

23) What was the initial aim of Cubism?

A) To explore the possibilities of color

B) To invent a new system for depicting form and space on a flat surface

C) To express the artist's intense feelings

D) To capture the motion of modern industrial society

24) The first art movement to be born in the 19th century was ________, which arose as a reaction against Neoclassicism and Romanticism.

A) Realism

B) Impressionism

C) Pointillism

D) Fauvism

Match each artist with his or her associated style.

A) Surrealism

B) Romanticism

C) Fauvism

D) Realism

E) Impressionism

F) Futurism

25) Eugène Delacroix

26) Gustave Courbet

27) Berthe Morisot

28) Umberto Boccioni

29) Salvador Dalí

30) Henri Matisse

31) How can the art of Dada be described?

A) Political

B) Conservative

C) Emotional

D) Absurd

32) Marcel Breuer, who designed a famous armchair, was a student of the ________ school of design in Germany.

A) De Stijl 

B) Dada

C) Bauhaus

D) Der Blaue Reiter

33) Discuss the technological improvements, cultural developments, and aesthetic innovations that led to Impressionism and explain how the movement got its name, mentioning specific artists and/or works to support your statements.

34) Identify, describe, and contrast two of the Expressionist groups of the early 20th century. Refer to specific artists and works to illustrate your points.

35) Discuss the significance of the Harlem Renaissance as a cultural movement that included visual arts and various other art forms. Name several important artists and works from the Harlem Renaissance and explain the long-term effects of the movement on American art, society, and politics.

36) Explain how the Cubist and Futurist movements and artists reflected new attitudes, philosophies, and social and political transformations. Discuss specific works in your response. 

37) Consider Kandinsky's Black Lines and Miró's Carnival of the Harlequin. Identify the movements with which each work is associated. Discuss each artist's use of abstraction and/or nonrepresentation.

38) Consider Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Describe the critical and public reception each of the works received upon first exhibit. Discuss the movements associated with each artist and indicate how earlier works of art influenced these works.

39) Consider Mary Cassatt's Woman Bathing. In what style would you place this work? Describe the details of the work that point to a style, or to the absence of one.

40) Explain the emergence of nonrepresentational art. What works in this chapter feature nonrepresentational elements? Discuss how meaning is created in these works without clear subject matter.

41) Consider Duchamp's Fountain and Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. Identify the movement(s) with which these artists are associated. How does each artist differ in his relationship to issues of technology and to the traditions of art?

42) Discuss the Bauhaus school, and its influence on early 20th-century modernism, citing examples and artists/architects of the style. 

43) Discuss the trend of 18th-century Romanticism and give examples of the stylistic characteristics, selecting an artist and his or her artwork as an example. Consider how European and American artists differed in their approach to Romanticism.