Lesson 7: Romanticism and Industrialization

In the last quarter of the 19th century,_____ emerged as the center of western artistic productivity?

Paris

Which of the following items was NOT an innovation of the nineteenth century?

Skyscrapers

What was the primary motivating force for late 19th century colonialism?

Raw materials and Expanding markets

Which artist anticipated 20th century abstract art in his later works by focusing on form rather than subject?

Paul Cézanne

Which Realist artist-whose subject matter was individuals in ordinary settings-challenged, “Show me an angel and I’ll paint one?”

Gustave Courbet

What feature is characteristic of the music of Debussy?

Shifting Harmonies

What was a feature of Nietzsche’s new morality?

Privilege for the “Superman”

Which artist became infatuated with unspoiled nature, especially as it existed in Tahiti (where he relocated after abandoning his job and family)?

Paul Gauguin

Which Social Realist is primarily associated with the medium of lithography?

Honoré Deumier

The movement known as impressionism took its title from a painting by which artist?

Claude Monet

What was the most important new medium in mid-19th century architecture?

Cast Iron

Impressionist painters often drew on what subject matter for their works?

Urban Scenes

How did Emile Zola view human beings, as depicted in his Naturalistic novels?

Products of their environment and their heredity

What was a major factor in bringing non-western cultures to the attention of Europeans?

The World’s Fair

What description of Debussy’s music is accurate?

It was heavily influenced by the Symbolists and Impressionis

What kind of non-western art did Mary Cassatt admire, which influenced how she used brilliant color and unusual perspective in her artworks?

Japanese Woodcuts

Impressionist artists had a fascination with the activities of what?

Urban Society

Which artistic movement invented an art of pure perception that intensified the immediacy of the visual experience with luminous canvases that were, in part, a response to research into the physics of light, the chemistry of paint, and the laws of optics?

Impressionism

What new structural medium revolutionized the history of architecture in the 19th century?

Cast Iron

Who is the artist and inventor known for taking stop-action photographs during the 1870s and 1880s that were revolutionary for their time?

Eadweard Muybridge

Who invented the fundamental negative/positive process that allowed multiple prints to be produced from a single photographic exposure?

William Henry Fox Talbot

Who was the leading Realist of the 19th century French Painting?

Gustave Courbet

What is the name of the printmaking process in which images are created by drawing on a stone plate?

Lithography

What is the name for the painting technique in which tiny dots of paint are placed side by side on the canvas to intensify color and given the impression of solid form?

Pointilism

Which of the following terms refers to the science of humankind and its culture?

Anthropology

Which of the following terms refers to a branch of anthropology that studies preliterate people?

Ethnography

What kind of subject matter dominated the arts of the late 19th century?

The realities of contemporary life

Vincent Van Gogh had part of his ear cut off during a quarrel with which other artist, who was his colleague ad friend?

Paul Gauguin

Which artistic style was motivated by the decorative thrust of Art Nouveau, the influence of Japanese prints, and a concern with the value of “art for art’s sake”?

Postimpressionism

What term was used to describe railway locomotives in the early 19th century?

Iron Horses

In the decades after 1850, what brought the west into a position of dominance over other parts of the world?

Industrial Technologies

Which 19th century theorist viewed all of human history as a struggle between the “haves” and the “haves-nots,” that would only resolve in the synthesis of a classless society?

Karl Marx

Which of the following is a collective term that describes industrial workers who lack their own means of production, and thus sell their labor in order to live?

Proletariat

Which of the following terms was used in the late 19th and early 20th century to describe a person seeking the right for women to vote through organized protest?

Suffragist

What is the name of the philosopher and social theorist who wrote 19th century essay about the subjection of women as similar to that of other subject classes, such as master and slave, and condemned the subordination of women as a chief hindrance to human improvement?

John Stuart Mill

By 1900 al of Africa had been carved up and controlled by european powers, except for which two territories?

Liberia and Ethiopia