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.   allegorical subjects
B.   subjects drawn from classical antiquity
C.   leisure activities
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.   Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
B.   Odilon Redon
C.   Aubrey Beardsley
D.   Paul Cézanne
Question #4
The shimmering golden patterns seen in Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss were inspired by:
A.   medieval German altarpieces
B.   Rococo interior design
C.   Gothic illuminated manuscripts
D.   Byzantine mosaics
Question #5
This painting was painted by:
A.   Manet
B.   Renoir
C.   Degas
D.   Monet
Question #6
Which of the following statements does not describe Analytic Cubism?
A.   Its subject was painting itself and how the various marks function as a language to be read.
B.   It grew out of a careful study of Cézanne’s later work.
C.   It sought to describe reality as objective and absolute.
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.   reveal the reality underlying the appearance of things
C.   insist on the aesthetic qualities of everyday objects
D.   redefine sculpture with his “constructions,” three-dimensional assemblages of found materials
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C.   his belief that his nonobjective art style superceded all earlier forms of abstraction
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.   visualize movement and energy
C.   promote a cultural rebirth in Italy
D.   all of the above
Question #10
The Surrealists were influenced by the writings of:
A.   Sigmund Freud
B.   Friedrich Nietzche
C.   John Locke
D.   Guillaume Apollinaire

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