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 depicting them as heroic
B.   by putting them on a pedestal
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.   Odilon Redon
C.   Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
D.   Paul Cézanne
Question #4
The shimmering golden patterns seen in Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss were inspired by:
A.   Byzantine mosaics
B.   Gothic illuminated manuscripts
C.   Rococo interior design
D.   medieval German altarpieces
Question #5
This painting was painted by:
A.   Manet
B.   Degas
C.   Monet
D.   Renoir
Question #6
Which of the following statements does not describe Analytic Cubism?
A.   It sought to describe reality as objective and absolute.
B.   Its subject was painting itself and how the various marks function as a language to be read.
C.   It grew out of a careful study of Cézanne’s later work.
D.   It deemphasized color to emphasize line and space.
Question #7
Marcel Duchamp’s great contribution to art was to:
A.   declare that art is as much about ideas as about the visual world
B.   insist on the aesthetic qualities of everyday objects
C.   redefine sculpture with his “constructions,” three-dimensional assemblages of found materials
D.   reveal the reality underlying the appearance of things
Question #8
In calling his art Suprematism, Malevich was referring to:
A.   his belief that his nonobjective art style superceded all earlier forms of abstraction
B.   his fervent nationalism and belief in the supremacy of Russian art and culture
C.   his belief that his art represented the final stage of painting
D.   the supremacy of feeling when the abstract essence of the world is translated into painting
Question #9
Futurism sought to:
A.   create a new visual language based on science
B.   promote a cultural rebirth in Italy
C.   visualize movement and energy
D.   all of the above
Question #10
The Surrealists were influenced by the writings of:
A.   Friedrich Nietzche
B.   Guillaume Apollinaire
C.   Sigmund Freud
D.   John Locke

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