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

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