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62 Cards in this Set
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Which is an art term that was originally a military term for the advance unit? |
Avant-garde |
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For which kind of work was Robert Adam world-renowned? |
Neoclassical architecture |
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During his four trips to Italy, Turner was most deeply affected by the atmosphere and the artwork experienced in: |
Venice |
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Which best describes the painting of John Constable? |
Naturalistic scenes of rural stability |
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British 18th century painting favored which theme? |
Moralizing scenes |
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Who is best known for severe classical paintings that extol the antique virtues of moral incorruptibility, stoicism, courage and patriotism? |
David |
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Who was the inspirational leader of the Romantic movement after Gericault? |
Eugene Delacroix |
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The Greek Slave, By American artist ______________________, established his reputation |
Hiram Powers |
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Who was the favorite painter of French Queen Marie Antoinette? |
Vigee Lebrun |
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Which art movement was particularly interested in moral incorruptibility, patriotism, and courage? |
Neoclassicism |
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Thomas Cole inspired a group of landscape painters in the early 19th century. Who were they? |
The Hudson River School |
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Which of the following is not a french neoclassical architect? Soufflot Pigalle Boullee Ledoux |
Pigalle |
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Which cause was Josiah Wedgewood, who founded the famous Wedgewood ceramics factory, active in? |
The abolition of slavery |
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Each of the following themes was popular with 18th century art patrons except literary subjects religious images history scenes portraiture |
religious images |
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The work of Goya reflects the influence of all the following Baroque painters excepts: |
Rubens |
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For whom was the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture's category fete galante created? |
Watteau |
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Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces is an example of a painting in ___? |
grand manner |
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William Blake's Pity was inspired by |
Shakespear's Macbeth |
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The 18th century is often referred to as the Age of Reason or the |
Enlightenment |
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How many women were members of the British Royal Academy during the first 154 years? |
2 |
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Which style developed is seen as a reaction to the formality and rigidity of 17th century court life? |
Rococo |
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David's Oath of the Horatii became and emblem for what? |
The French Revolution |
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The discovery and excavation of ______ promoted the development of neoclassical art. |
Pompeii |
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Which artist criticized Spanish morals and manners? |
Francisco Goya |
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Which movement did the archaeological excavations at Pompeii stimulate? |
Neoclassicism |
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What was the biannual or annual show of the French Academy called? |
The Paris Salon |
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Barry and Pugin's Houses of Parliament is an example of: |
Gothic Revival |
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Which of the following is a characteristic of the Rococo that differentiates it from Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism? |
Pastel Colors |
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Which is the principle that Rousseau and other Enlightenment philosophers taught that seems to be a conscious theme in vigee lebrun's Portrait of Marie Antoinette with Her Children? |
The importance of the mother in nature |
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Which art movement is rooted in stylistic sources from ancient Greek or Roman art? |
Neoclassicism |
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Who was one of the two female founding members of the Royal Academy in London? |
Angelica Kauffmann |
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Which describes the English Romantic Landscape painting style that was thought to be "sublime"? |
Dramatic |
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Which art movement was particularly influenced by literary fantasies infused with a spirit of sensationalism and melancholy? |
Romanticism |
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Who painted moralizing tales in series of four to six paintings? |
William Hogarth |
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Architects from which city are credited for the development of the skyscraper? |
Chicago |
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Which group first organized exhibitions independent from the official salon? |
The Impressionists |
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Which of the following differentiates georges seurat from impressionism? |
the formal geometry of the composition |
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Who changed the Impressionist brushstroke to be more solid and rectangular and applied more according to a grid of vertical and horizontal shapes? |
Paul Cezanne |
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In Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril, which of the following is a particularly strong influence? |
Japonisme |
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In architecture, which style rejected the values of modern industry and recaptured a pre-industrial sense of beauty? |
Art Nouveau |
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Which is an early photographic process that was a positive print made on a light-sensitized copper plate using iodine fumes, mercury vapors and a saltwater bath? |
Dagurreotype |
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Who was "the most uncompromising American naturalist of the era," that is, the second half of the 19th century? |
Thomas Eakins |
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In the Wainwright building, what did louis sullivan adapt from the Beaux-arts tradition? |
Base, body and crowning cornice elements |
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What was it that Rosa Bonheur had to get police permission in order to do? |
wear mens clothing |
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what was the eiffel tower meant to symbolize? |
french industrial progress |
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who began his career as an artist for the press during the civil war? |
Homer |
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Who was on of the most brilliant pupils of Thomas Eakins? |
Henry o tanner |
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What was Georges Seurat's technique called? |
Pointillism |
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What does en plein air mean? |
in the open air |
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Which photographic process developed the negative from which an unlimited # of positives could be made? |
Calotype |
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The original idea of the avant-garde, as applied to art, was that it would prepare people for what? |
social change |
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Which them is Mary Cassatt best known for? |
Mother and child |
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Conservative critics hated this person's work because of its focus on the common people and its disregard for traditional composition and traditional standards of beauty |
courbet |
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Which artist contributed most significantly to the emergence of expressionism? |
Vincent van gogh |
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whose painting gave impressionism its name? |
Monet |
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What does "camera obscura" mean |
Dark chamber |
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Which style of art did winslow homer say he thought was most appropriate for a democracy? |
realism |
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which group of artists is well known for painting en plein air? |
the impressionists |
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what was gauguin's word for combining feelings with observation? |
synthetism |
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Lithography |
printing of oil and water on a stone |
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odalisque |
a female slave or concubine in a harem |
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sublime |
excellence, grandeur |