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 showing their fear, resignation, and anguish in the face of death
C.   by depicting them as heroic
D.   none of the above
Question #2
A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte departs from earlier artistic conventions by depicting:
A.   leisure activities
B.   subjects drawn from classical antiquity
C.   politically charged events
D.   allegorical subjects
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.   Paul Cézanne
B.   Odilon Redon
C.   Aubrey Beardsley
D.   Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Question #4
The shimmering golden patterns seen in Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss were inspired by:
A.   medieval German altarpieces
B.   Byzantine mosaics
C.   Rococo interior design
D.   Gothic illuminated manuscripts
Question #5
This painting was painted by:
A.   Monet
B.   Manet
C.   Renoir
D.   Degas
Question #6
Which of the following statements does not describe Analytic Cubism?
A.   It deemphasized color to emphasize line and space.
B.   Its subject was painting itself and how the various marks function as a language to be read.
C.   It sought to describe reality as objective and absolute.
D.   It grew out of a careful study of Cézanne’s later work.
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.   reveal the reality underlying the appearance of things
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.   the supremacy of feeling when the abstract essence of the world is translated into painting
C.   his belief that his nonobjective art style superceded all earlier forms of abstraction
D.   his belief that his art represented the final stage of 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.   Guillaume Apollinaire
B.   Sigmund Freud
C.   Friedrich Nietzche
D.   John Locke

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