Art History Exam lll

A style not evident in any single object, but in entire settings in the salons, which combined profusely decorated walls and ceilings, three-dimensional embellishments in gold and silver, intimate sensual paintings with rich ornament, elaborate crystal chandeliers, mirrored walls, delicate decorated furniture and small tabletop sculptures, is known as ______________________.

Rococo

An extended full-paid visit to the major cultural sites of Southern Europe, accompanied by a tutor, and an entourage of servants was known as ___________________.

The Grand Tour

____________ describes fashionable styles in France; started around 1715 when Louis XV moved his home from Versailles to Paris

Rococo

The term ___________ likely comes from combining two french words; one for an irregularly shaped pearl and the other a popular form of garden or interior ornamentation using shells and pebbles.

Rococo

A movement that values feeling over thinking is:

Romanticism

_________________ eventually replaced the land-based power of the aristocracy with the financial power of capitalists, who were able to use new sources of energy to mechanize manufacturing and greatly increase the quantity and profitability of saleable goods.

The Industrial Revolution

A style that heavily references classical Greek and Roman source, often with tight compositions, shallow space, and the practice of "wrapping contemporary subjects in Roman dress” is known as. 

Neoclassicism

Started as a literary movement in the 1790s and served as a counterpoint to Enlightenment rationalism, this style critiqued the idea that the world was knowable and ruled by reason (scientific thought) alone. 

Romanticism

A style of art that tends to prefer line over color, straight lines over curves, frontality and closed compositions over diagonal compositions into deep space, and the general over the particular.

Neoclassicism

An intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century (roughly 1702 to 1800) and greatly valued empiricism and rational thought and asserted that all humans (not just the aristocracy) should have equal rights to life, liberty and happiness is known as ___________________.

The Enlightment

in 1663 the Académie des Beaux Arts founded the Prix de Rome, a hugely prestigious prize that gave winners a prolonged visit to Rome to study classical art on the spot.

True

Which movement, in 1874, after experiencing rejection to have their work collected in the French Salon, the major venue for displaying art in France in the 19th century, a group of artists banded together to rent a Salon of their own and display their work together (Organized by Camille Pissarro, the Society included artists such as Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot and others).

Impressionism

A movement started by William Morris and committed to the mantra of creating "art for art's sake."

The Aesthetic Movement

A small group of elite, independent, and radical thinkers that broke away from Beaux-arts norms and ideals (juste-milieu) were led by which 19th century artist?

Gustave Courbet

Photography was invented around which time period?

1830

An artistic style known for whiplash curves and sinuous lines is _________________?

Art Nouveau

A reaction against the literal world of realism, _______________ is a movement started in the 1890s that focused on the unseen forces of life, the things that are deeply felt, rather than seen such as dreams and the inner life.

Symbolism

Which movement originated in novels written about the difficult lives of the lower classes? Translated to art, artists in this movement committed to painting the modern world honestly without ignoring the brutal truths of life so common to ordinary people.

Realism

______________________ is  a less unified and directed period as it was comprised of artists from several nations and many visual directions. They were united by their avant-garde spirit and creative experimentation, trying to move past Impressionism.

Post- Impressionism

Which is the best translation of the term "avant-garde"?

Advanced guard

The Swing

Jean- Honore’ Fragonard

What time period is this piece from?

1766

Oath of the Horatii

Jacques-Louis David

What time period is this piece from?

1784-1785

Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard

Jacques-Louis David

What time period is this piece from?

1801

The Marriage Contract

William Hogarth

What time period is this piece from?

1743-1745

Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces

Joshua Reynolds

What time period is this piece from?

1765

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump

Joseph Wright of Derby

What time period is this piece from?

1768

Cornelia Point to her Children as her Treasures

Angelica Kauffmann

What time period is this piece from?

1785

The Death of General Wolfe

Benjamin West

What time period is this piece from?

1770

Newton

William Blake

What time period is this piece from?

1795

Watson and the Shark

John Singleton Copley

What time period is this piece from?

1778

The Village Bride

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

What time period is this piece from?

1761

Portrait of Marie Antoninette with her Children

Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigee Lebrun

What time period is this piece from?

1787

Third of May, 1808

Francisco Goya

What time period is this piece from?

1814-1815

Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa

Antoine -Jean Gros

What time period is this piece from?

1804

The Raft of the “Medusa”

Theodore Gericault

What time period is this piece from?

1818-1819

Liberty Leading the People; July 28, 1830

Eugene Delacroix

What time period is this piece from?

1830

Large Odalisque

Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres

What time period is this piece from?

1814

Rue Transnonain, Le 15 Avril 1834

Honore Daumier

What time period is this piece from?

1834

The Hay Wain

John Constable

What time period is this piece from?

1821

Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying- Typhoon Coming On( “The Slave Ship”)

Joseph Mallord William Turner

What time period is this piece from?

1840

Monk by the Sea

Caspar David Friedrich

What time period is this piece from?

1809

A Burial at Ornans

Gustave Courbet

What time period is this piece from?

1849

The Gleaners

Jean-Francois Milllet

What time period is this piece from?

1857

First Leaves, Near Mantes

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

What time period is this piece from?

1855

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheaur

What time period is this piece from?

1853-55

Le Dejeneur Sur L’Herbe ( The Luncheon on the Grass)

Edouard Manet

What time period is this piece from?

1863

The Gross Clinic

Thomas Eakins

What time period is this piece from?

1875

Impression: Sunrsie

Claude Monet

What time period is this piece from?

1872

Wooded Landscape at L’Hermitage, Pontise

Camille Pissaro

What time period is this piece from?

1878

Moulin de la Galette

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

What time period is this piece from?

1876

Mother and Child

Mary Cassatt

What time period is this piece from?

1890

Summer’s Day

Berthe Morisot

What time period is this piece from?

1879

The Rehearsal on Stage

Edgar Degas

What time period is this piece from?

1874

Paris Street, Rainy Day

Gustave Caillebotte

What time period is this piece from?

1877

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Le Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat

What time period is this piece from?

1884-1886

Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh

What time period is this piece from?

1889

La Pie De Tolomei

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

What time period is this piece from?

1868-69

Nocturne in Black and Gold, The Falling Rocket

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

What time period is this piece from?

1875

The Scream

Edvard Munch

What time period is this piece from?

1893

The Burghers of Calais

Auguste Rodin

What time period is this piece from?

1884-1889