Art 305 - Art and Mass Culture » Fall 2022 » Chapter Six Quiz

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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.   all of these answers
C.   It revealed the artist's socialist politics.
D.   It depicted the working class as passive victims of the modern age.
Question #2
Nineteenth century Academic painting was popular because:
A.   It revealed the truth of the poor.
B.   it had the content of mass media art - dramatic stories, sex and violence.
C.   it reflected the ideals and tastes of the extremely wealth.
Question #3
French Impressionist Claude Monet insisted that the basic content of human perception—and of art—was:
A.   Light and color.
B.   Linear perspective space.
C.   All of these answers
D.   Internal experience
Question #4
The ideas embodied in Edward Said's theory of Orientalism can be seen in artworks such as
A.   Courbet's "Burial at Ornans"
B.   Gerome's "The Slave Market"
C.   Courbet's "The Stonebreakers"
Question #5
The "Orient" was
A.   a European invention
B.   a major railroad system
C.   a name the native people gave their land
D.   none of these answers
Question #6
Thomas Couture's immense painting "The Romans of the Decadence"
A.   All of these answers
B.   Was one of the most popular Salon paintings of the entire nineteenth century.
C.   Had cinematic sweep with its over 25 feet wide dimensions.
D.   Reveals that Couture was a clever dramatist, a good costume designer, and an adroit stage director.
Question #7
The male gaze refers to
A.   None of these answers
B.   women passively displayed as objects to be "consumed"
C.   wanting something that we can purchase at the mall
D.   a way of looking that has no power
Question #8
Impressionism drew heavily upon
A.   geometry
B.   a fusion of the human being and objective reality
C.   objective sensations
Question #9
Orientalism
A.   leads to stereotyping
B.   all of these answers
C.   defines the Orient as existing only for the West
D.   contains the language of domination
Question #10
Post-impressionism drew heavily upon
A.   a fusion of the human being and objective realit
B.   objective sensations
C.   geometry
D.   None of these answers

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