Contemporary Art

quiz compilation

Neoclassicism and Romanticism have their roots in the Enlightenment values of?

Question 1Select one:

a.

superstition and reason.

b.

religious faith and discipline.

c.

Rationality and subjective expression.

d.

honesty and privacy.

c.

Rationality and subjective expression.

The bourgeois patrons who emerged in the eighteenth century were most likely to collect?

Question 2Select one:

a.

Large paintings depicting historical events.

b.

frescoes depicting mythological subjects.

c.

monumental sculptures of religious figures.

d.

small works with themes suitable to a domestic interior.

d.

small works with themes suitable to a domestic interior.

Ruskin may have responded favorably to Turner's The Burning of the Houses of Parliament because it?

Question 3Select one:

a.

experiments with abstraction.

b.

is a relatively small canvas.

c.

does away with the balance and symmetry of classical works.

d.

evokes the awesomeness of nature.

d.

evokes the awesomeness of nature.

What were the printmaking techniques most favored by Romantic artists?

Question 4Select one:

a.

Mezzotint and monotype

b.

Linocut and silkscreening

c.

Woodcutting and etching

d.

Aquatint and lithography

d.

Aquatint and lithography

Which of the following features make Goya's Disasters of War emblematic of Romanticism?

Question 5Select one:

a.

Their close attention to historical detail

b.

Their scale and subject matter

c.

Their sense of balance and quiet power

d.

Their medium and expressivity

d.

Their medium and expressivity

ictorialism emerged in response to the criticism that photography was?

Question 1Select one:

a.

insufficiently objective

b.

a flash in the pan.

c.

Not a legitimate art form

d.

Too expensive.

not a legitimate art form.

What do Courbet’s and Manet’s painting techniques have in common?

Question 2Select one:

a.

They were embraced by Salon jurors.

b.

They emphasize the two-dimensionality of the medium

c.

They are entirely independent of outside influences

d.

They produce highly illusionistic renderings of three-dimensional space.

They emphasize the two-dimensionality of the medium

Who gave the “Impressionists” their name?

Question 3Select one:

a.

Nadar

b.

Claude Monet

c.

John Ruskin

d.

Louis Leroy

Louis Leroy

Courbet’s A Burial at Ornans was radical in its time because of the combined?

Question 4Select one:

a.

scale of history painting with ordinary subjects

b.

academic painting techniques with contemporary subject matter

c.

spirituality with the representation of a dog.

d.

Themes of life and death.

scale of history painting with ordinary subjects

Why do early photographic street scenes appear to be unpopulated?

Question 5Select one:

a.

Photographers were not interested in people as subjects.

b.

Photosensitive materials were to slow to catch rapidly moving subjects.

c.

People avoided photographers.

d.

Cities were not very populous.

Photosensitive materials were too slow to catch rapidly moving subjects.

What is a Gesmtkunstwerk?

Question 1Select one:

a.

An antagonism towards technology

b.

An academic approach to art

c.

A reliance on natural forms

d.

A total work of art

a total work of art

Which of the following figures exerted a strong influence on Art Nouveau architects Gaudy and Horta?

Question 2Select one:

a.

John Ruskin

b.

Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le0Duc

c.

Frederick Leighton

d.

William Morris

Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le0Duc

Munch’s The Scream can best be described as an expression of?

Question 3Select one:

a.

apathy

b.

camaraderie

c.

joie de vivre

d.

anxiety

anxiety

Which of the following most clearly distinguished Art Noveau from the Arts and Crafts movement?

Question 4Select one:

a.

Its rejection of technology

b.

Its embrace of technology

c.

Its social advocacy

d.

Its interest in past style

Its rejection of technology

What role did Aestheticism advocate for art?

Question 5Select one:

a.

Social

b.

None

c.

Political

d.

Moral

none

Who introduced Matisse to Picasso?

Question 1Select one:

a.

The Steins

b.

Raoul Dufy

c.

Aristide Maillol

d.

Louis Vauxcelles

the steins

The motif in Matisse’s The Dance (II) can also be found in his?

Question 2Select one:

a.

Luxe, calme et volupte

b.

Le Luxe II

c.

Harmony in Red (The Dessert)

d.

Bonheur de Vivre

Bonheur de Vivre

To what tradition does Matisse’s Blue Nude: Memory of Biskra belong?

Question 3Select one:

a.

The odalisque

b.

The genre scene

c.

The academie

d.

The society portrait

The odalisque

The most influential non-Western source material for European modernists was?

Question 4Select one:

a.

African art.

b.

Asian art.

c.

Oceanic art

d.

Islamic art.

African art.

Matisse’s four Backs grow progressively more?

Question 5Select one:

a.

representational

b.

abstracted

c.

illusionistic

d.

decorative

abstracted