Chapter 21 – Flashcards

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Which of the following is an American artist?
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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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The recent 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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Edouard Manet "borrowed" the composition of his painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) from
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Renaissance works of art.
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Eugène Delacroix was a leading practitioner of the __________style.
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Romantic
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Marcel Duchamp created a new art form 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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Paul Cézanne's emphasis on structure in painting was a direct influence in the development of
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Cubism
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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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Gustave Courbet
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Edouard Manet considered the annual Salon of Paris to be an artist's only true "field of battle." What was the Salon of Paris?
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A juried exhibition sponsored by the French government.
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