Art 305 - Art and Mass Culture » Fall 2021 » Quiz Chapter 6 19th Century Avant Garde

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Question #1
Gustave Courbet's painting "The Stonebreakers" was controversial because:
A.   It was a realistic mirror of precisely the facts nineteenth century society hoped to ignore.
B.   It depicted the working class as passive victims of the modern age.
C.   It revealed the artist's socialist politics.
D.   None of the above.
E.   All of the above.
Question #2
Thomas Couture's immense painting "The Romans of the Decadence":
A.   Had cinematic sweep with its over 25 feet wide dimensions.
B.   Reveals that Couture was a clever dramatist, a good costume designer, and an adroit stage director.
C.   Was one of the most popular Salon paintings of the entire nineteenth century.
D.   None of the above.
E.   All of the above.
Question #3
Jean Leon Gerome's painting "Police Verso (Thumbs Down)" was:
A.   The inspiration for Ridley Scott's film "Gladiator."
B.   An example of how academic art anticipated Hollywood depictions of history-- balanced, objective and respectful of multiple perspectives.
C.   An example of Gerome's mastery of "photographic" realism--a true and objective view of historical events he had witnessed.
D.   None of the above.
E.   All of the above.
Question #4
Many nineteenth century images depicts women passively displayed as objects to be "consumed" by the powerful male gaze.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #5
The ideas embodied in Edward Said's theory of Orientalism can be seen in artworks such as:
A.   Matisse's odalisques from the 1920s, which reflect European cultural attitudes about dominance and submission.
B.   Gerome's "Slave Market" which depicts slave traders in Islamic Egypt.
C.   Ingres' "La Grande Odalisque" which depicts a voluptuous nude woman posed as a harem girl.
D.   None of the above.
E.   All of the above.
Question #6
French Impressionist Claude Monet insisted that the basic content of human perception--and of art--was:
A.   Light and color.
B.   Internal experience.
C.   Linear perspective space.
D.   None of the above.
E.   All of the above.
Question #7
Which of the following Post Impressionist artists left Europe for the South Pacific in order to find a more "pure" and "primitive" life?
A.   Henri Rousseau
B.   Paul Gauguin
C.   Vincent van Gogh
D.   None of the above.
E.   All of the above.
Question #8
Vincent Van Gogh's art and life:
A.   Have been the source for more films than any other artist.
B.   Are the basis for much of the modern myth about the artist as crazed and misunderstood.
C.   Point to the understanding of avant-garde art as spiritual revelation.
D.   None of the above.
E.   All of the above.
Question #9
Which artist(s) focused on Impressionist images of the wealthy and privileged:
A.   Mary Cassatt.
B.   Vincent van Gogh.
C.   Claude Monet.
D.   None of the above.
E.   All of the above.

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