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 revealed the artist's socialist politics.
B.   It was a realistic mirror of precisely the facts nineteenth century society hoped to ignore.
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 revealed the truth of the poor.
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.   Linear perspective space.
B.   Light and color.
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 "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 European invention
D.   a name the native people gave their land
Question #6
Thomas Couture's immense painting "The Romans of the Decadence"
A.   Reveals that Couture was a clever dramatist, a good costume designer, and an adroit stage director.
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.   All of these answers
Question #7
The male gaze refers to
A.   women passively displayed as objects to be "consumed"
B.   a way of looking that has no power
C.   None of these answers
D.   wanting something that we can purchase at the mall
Question #8
Impressionism drew heavily upon
A.   objective sensations
B.   a fusion of the human being and objective reality
C.   geometry
Question #9
Orientalism
A.   leads to stereotyping
B.   defines the Orient as existing only for the West
C.   contains the language of domination
D.   all of these answers
Question #10
Post-impressionism drew heavily upon
A.   a fusion of the human being and objective realit
B.   geometry
C.   objective sensations
D.   None of these answers

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