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Miscellaneous
100
This was the Impressionists' favorite subject to paint.
What is nature and/or landscapes.
100
This Impressionist artist hated painting outdoors and preferred ballet classes for his subjects.
Who is Degas
100
This artist was the most meticulous about his art, only creating 7 large paintings in 10 years.
Who is George Seurat.
100
This artist failed at one job after another, finally giving up to devote all his time to art.
Who is Vincent van Gogh.
100
This movement marked the first total artistic revolution since the Renaissance.
What is Impressionism
200
Impressionists main goal was to represent an __________________, or the initial sensory perceptions recorded by an artist in a brief glimpse.
What is an impression, thus giving the term impressionism.
200
Who is "Olympia?"
What is a painting by Manet, called "the first modern nude," it was widely criticized and hated.
200
This artist's style included flattening forms, using intensified color for emotional impact, presenting his biased response to reality?
Who is Gauguin
200
Alongside Monet, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, and da Vinci, this artist is now considered one of the world’s greatest painters
Who is Vincent van Gogh.
200
Define plein air.
What is completing a painting or drawing completely outside.
300
Whose painting, “Impression: Sunrise,” inspired the title of the new group of painters.
Who is Monet
300
This artists is often called the father of Modern Art?
Who is Eduard Manet
300
While he was a patient in the Saint-Remy asylum, van Gogh painted which of his most famous paintings?
What is Starry Night
300
This artists spent his last 10 years in Tahiti, with his 13 year old mistress.
Who is Gauguin
300
Define pointillism.
What is applying confetti-sized dots of pure, unmixed color over the whole canvas.
400
This artist remained true to the principle that light is color, while others of the original group evolved their own variations on the theme.
Who is Monet
400

This female artist was inspired by Japanese prints and adopted their brightly colored, flat images, and sharp designs?

Who is Mary Cassatt? (an American female impressionist!)

400
This Post-Impressionist artist was also known as Mini-Degas, and established posters as a major form of art.
Who is Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
400
This artist simplified his subjects, trying to show their underlying geometry.
Who is Cezanne.
400
Define optical mixing.
What is broken colors blending together at a distance.
500

Name four artists who started the Impressionist group.

Who are Renoir, Monet, Manet, Degas, Moristo Pissarro, Bazille, and Sisley.

500
By snipping off figures at the edge of the canvas, this artist implied the scene expanded beyond the frame and engaged the viewer.
Who is Renoir
500
Name the 5 artists of the Post-Impressionist group.
Who are Seurat, Gauguin, Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and van Gogh
500
Inspired by nature, this artist painted cypresses, blossoming fruit trees, flowers, and wheat fields full of his favorite color, yellow.
Who is Vincent van Gogh
500

The three differences between Impressionism and Post Impressionism.

What are 1. Impressionists focused on reproducing the natural world but lost the use of line, shape, and color. 2. Post-Impressionists wanted to restore color and shape to art, while others wanted to restore subjectivity rather than painting from nature. 3. The P.I. created abstract versions of reality to reinforce that art is DIFFERENT from nature, breaking with the tradition since the Renaissance