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.   leisure activities
B.   allegorical subjects
C.   subjects drawn from classical antiquity
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.   Paul Cézanne
B.   Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
C.   Odilon Redon
D.   Aubrey Beardsley
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.   Renoir
B.   Monet
C.   Degas
D.   Manet
Question #6
Which of the following statements does not describe Analytic Cubism?
A.   It deemphasized color to emphasize line and space.
B.   It sought to describe reality as objective and absolute.
C.   Its subject was painting itself and how the various marks function as a language to be read.
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.   reveal the reality underlying the appearance of things
B.   insist on the aesthetic qualities of everyday objects
C.   declare that art is as much about ideas as about the visual world
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A.   his belief that his nonobjective art style superceded all earlier forms of abstraction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.   the supremacy of feeling when the abstract essence of the world is translated into painting
D.   his belief that his art represented the final stage of painting
Question #9
Futurism sought to:
A.   visualize movement and energy
B.   promote a cultural rebirth in Italy
C.   create a new visual language based on science
D.   all of the above
Question #10
The Surrealists were influenced by the writings of:
A.   Sigmund Freud
B.   Friedrich Nietzche
C.   Guillaume Apollinaire
D.   John Locke

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