Art 102 - Art History » Fall 2019 » Chapter 23 Quiz

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Question #1
How did Rodin humanize the figures in Burghers of Calais?
A.   by putting them on a pedestal
B.   by depicting them as heroic
C.   by showing their fear, resignation, and anguish in the face of death
D.   none of the above
Question #2
A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte departs from earlier artistic conventions by depicting:
A.   subjects drawn from classical antiquity
B.   leisure activities
C.   allegorical subjects
D.   politically charged events
Question #3
Which French artist had the widest popular appeal at the end of the nineteenth century, due to his posters for dance halls?
A.   Aubrey Beardsley
B.   Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
C.   Paul Cézanne
D.   Odilon Redon
Question #4
The shimmering golden patterns seen in Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss were inspired by:
A.   medieval German altarpieces
B.   Gothic illuminated manuscripts
C.   Rococo interior design
D.   Byzantine mosaics
Question #5
This painting was painted by:
A.   Monet
B.   Renoir
C.   Degas
D.   Manet
Question #6
Which of the following statements does not describe Analytic Cubism?
A.   It grew out of a careful study of Cézanne’s later work.
B.   Its subject was painting itself and how the various marks function as a language to be read.
C.   It deemphasized color to emphasize line and space.
D.   It sought to describe reality as objective and absolute.
Question #7
Marcel Duchamp’s great contribution to art was to:
A.   redefine sculpture with his “constructions,” three-dimensional assemblages of found materials
B.   declare that art is as much about ideas as about the visual world
C.   reveal the reality underlying the appearance of things
D.   insist on the aesthetic qualities of everyday objects
Question #8
In calling his art Suprematism, Malevich was referring to:
A.   his fervent nationalism and belief in the supremacy of Russian art and culture
B.   his belief that his art represented the final stage of painting
C.   the supremacy of feeling when the abstract essence of the world is translated into painting
D.   his belief that his nonobjective art style superceded all earlier forms of abstraction
Question #9
Futurism sought to:
A.   promote a cultural rebirth in Italy
B.   create a new visual language based on science
C.   visualize movement and energy
D.   all of the above
Question #10
The Surrealists were influenced by the writings of:
A.   John Locke
B.   Guillaume Apollinaire
C.   Friedrich Nietzche
D.   Sigmund Freud

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