Topic 1
What are colors?
A major factor in political, social and economic changes in the 18th century.
What was The Enlightenment?
This artist was the "first to attempt to depict the dark terrain of the human subconscious that became fertile ground for later artists."
Who was Fuseli?
What is Despair?
This leader was the preeminent French art patron of the 17th Century.
Who is Louis XIV?
This group proclaimed the natural supremacy of color and the coloristic style as the artist's proper guide.
Rubens' group.
Who is Rousseau?
The too-brutal Realism of Eakins's early masterpiece The Gross Clinic was inspired by this Rembrandt painting.
What is Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp?
In Klimt's The Kiss, the artist uses flat patterning to distinguish between male and female figures by using what shapes for male and what shapes for female?
What are rectangles for male and circles for female?
This painting by Rembrandt is known to have been reduced in size when moved from its original location to Amsterdam's town hall.
What is Night Watch?
Pilgrimage to Cythera portrays the island of eternal youth and love, sacred to _________________.
Who is Aphrodite?
These intellectuals shared the conviction that the ills of humanity could be remedied by applying reason and common sense to human problems.
What are philosophes?
Sargent learned his adept application of paint in thin layers and his effortless achievement of quick and lively illusion from this artist, whose masterpiece _______ may have influenced Sargent's family portrait The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit.
Who was Velazquez and what was Las Meninas?
This artist argued that art is truthful and photographs lie.
Who is Auguste Rodin?
This was Boucher's greatest student.
Who was Jean-Honore Fragonard?
This painting provided the inspiration and encouragement to the revolutionary forces (France).
What was Death of Marat by David?
Muybridge presented his work to scientists and general audiences with this device.
What was the praxiscope?
This leader embraced Neoclassicism because of its associations with virtues such as morality, idealism, and patriotism.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
In this painting, a young gentleman has convinced an unsuspecting older man to swing the young man's sweetheart higher and higher.
What is The Swing?
This Roman "column" on which Washington is leaning is a bundle of rods with an ax attached.
In Night Cafe, Van Gogh says he is trying to express what by what means?
What are the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green?
This allegorical painting by Rubens is meant as a commentary on the ravages of the Thirty Years' War.
What is Consequences of War?