Vocabulary
Romanticism
Realism
Attribution
Impressionism
100
Sublime is ...
a quality of greatness or grandeur that inspires awe and wonder.
100
State the artwork and the artist of the following
Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
100
State the artwork and the artist of the following
Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers
100
The Metlac Ravine Painting, Jose Maria Velasco Gomez
Realism
100
Name one artist who was known for leading the way of Impressionism that was not Monet.
Mary Cassatt
200
Drypoint can be described as...
a printmaking technique in which the artist uses a needle to incise into a metal plate; different from etching in that it does not use acid to create the image.
200
State the artwork and artist of the following
Francisco de Goya, And Theres Nothing to Be Done
200
This artwork caused great scandal in the 1860's for its modern subject matter and its revolutionary treatment of that subject: the female nude
Edouard Manet, Olympia
200
Stacks of Wheat by Claude Monet, belongs to what category of art movement.
Impressionism
200
Why did artists paint En plein air?
En plein air, or plein-air painting, is the act of painting outdoors. This method contrasts with studio painting or academic rules that might create a predetermined look. It enabled the artist to better capture the changing details of weather and light.
300
En Plein-air means...
"out of doors" and refers to the practice of painting entire finished pictures outdoors.
300
This artwork has inconsistent arrangement of limbs, a rubbery arm, elongated back, odd placement of leg and one arm longer than the other.
Jean-Auguste Ingres, La grande Odalisque
300
This artwork represents an important period in the development of Mexico's national identity and an important chapter in the history of Mexican art.
Jose Maria Velasco, The Valley of Mexico from the hillside of Santa isabel
300
The Desperate Man by Gustave Courbet, belongs to what category of art movement.
Romanticism or Realism
300
Name 5 characteristics of Impressionism.
Environment
Light
Brush Strokes
Outdoors
Weather
400
Hudson River School was ...
America's first true artistic fraternity. Its name was coined to identify a group of New York City-based landscape painters that emerged about 1850 under the influence of the English émigré Thomas Cole (1801–1848) and flourished until about the time of the Centennial.
400
This artwork shows how the echoes of slavery reverberated during the Victorian Era and continued affecting cultural understandings of humanity.
J.M.W Turner, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming on).
400
What was the purpose of Realist art?
Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements.
- departure from the idealization of earlier academic art
- realism was motivated by the renewed interest in the common man and the rise of leftist politics.
400
Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya, belongs to what category of art movement.
Romanticism
400
Which of these art genres were considered the top genres of Fine Arts in Europe and in America?
-Landscape
-Still-life
-Historical
-Religious
-Allegorical
Europe (Historical and Religious Paintings)
America (Landscape and Portraits Paintings)
500
Academic Art can be described as...
the style of true-to-life but high-minded realistic paintings and sculptures championed by the European academies of art.
500
When viewed through the lens of nineteenth-century political ideology, this painting eloquently speaks about the widely discussed topic of Westward Expansion.
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow
500
Who painted this?
Gustave Corbet
500
The Angelus is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet.
Realism
500
Who were the avant-garde?
An innovative group of artists that reject traditional approaches in favor of more experimental techniques.