Art Chapter 21 – Flashcards
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A good example of a Surrealist poetic object is
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Object (Luncheon in Fur) by Meret Oppenheim
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The first national art museum opened in 1793. This museum, still in operation today, is
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the Louvre in Paris
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Which art movement was directly influenced by Sigmund Freud's theories of the unconscious?
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Surrealism
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In their paintings, the Impressionists often focused on
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scenes of leisure involving the middle class
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Eugene Declacroix was a leading practitioner of the
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Romantic style
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A major influence upon European culture of the 19th century, one that gave rise to an expanding middle class, was
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The Industrial Revolution
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Henri Matisse was told by Gustave Moreau, his teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, "You were born to_____."
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simplify painting
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The manufacture of oil paint in tubes made it possible for 19th century European artists to make painting a portable activity. The spontaneity and directness of painting outdoors is evident in works by _____ artists.
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Impressionist
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Which of the following is an American artist?
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All of these are correct
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Marcel Duchamp created a new art from in which the artist makes nothing, but merely labels an object as art, He called this art form
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ready-mades
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How did Impressionism get its name?
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A critic used the term to describe the movement after seeing the painting Impression: Sunrise, and it caught on
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Paul Cezanne's emphasis on structure in painting was a direct influence in the development of
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Cubism
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Romantic art stresses
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drama, unbridled emotions, and complex compositions
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Vasili Kandinsky became convinced that art should be free of representational subject matter when he
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mistook an upside-down painting of his for an unfamiliar work of spectacular beauty
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Which of the following artists was a Realist?
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Gustav Courbet
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The term Post-Impressionism refers to
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a neutral term describing the varied directions of a few artists who both accepted and rejected some of the aims of Impressionism
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Edouard Manet "borrowed" the composition of his painting Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) from
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Renaissance works of art
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Pointilism is a technique developed by
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Georges Seurat
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If Fauvism's mission was to liberate color from its descriptive role, Cubism's initial aim was
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All of these
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The first art movement to be born in the 19th century was ________, which arose as a reaction against Neoclassicism and Romanticism
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Realism
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After the Russian Revolt of 1917 many artists believed that only the most revolutionary art could bring about a new movement, which was called
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Constructivism
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________, who designed a famous armchair, was a student of the Bauhaus shcool of design in Germany
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Breuer
