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

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