Fin de siècle, French for "end of the century," refers to the art of the: |
end of the nineteenth century |
Artworks by painters in the US who chose representational styles and were influenced by the harsh realities of the Great Depression in 1929 came to be known as ________ paintings. |
American Scene |
Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Thomas Eakins’s teaching methods, for example________, were controversial and led to him being forced to resign in 1886. |
promoting the study of anatomy through photographs, promoting the study of anatomy through observation of dissections, and allowing women to study the full male nude |
Expressionist artists tried to depict what they ________ rather than what they ________. |
felt…saw |
In Gustav Klimt’s interpretation of the story of Judith decapitating Holofernes, his Judith appears in a typically Symbolist guise: |
glamorous and seductive |
Late nineteenth-century painters who conveyed the sensations of the modern city and the effects of light are called: |
Impressionists |
Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel was constructed using: |
found objects |
Surrealist artists used techniques that the psychologist ________ had originally pioneered to access his patients’ unconscious minds. |
Sigmund Freud |
The artist Vasily Kandinsky wanted to ________ in such artworks as Improvisation #30. |
express inner spiritual qualities |
The colors of Henri Matisse’s Joy of Life were intended to: |
express emotions |
The following is true of the art movement Dada: |
the name was chose at random from the dictionary, it was anti-art, and refused to call itself a movement, it began in Switzerland, and it emphasized chance and irrationality |
The forms in Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon are simplified into: |
abstract planes |
This painting was praised by critics at the Salon of 1863 and purchased by Emperor Napoleon II of France for his personal collection. |
Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel |
Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night was painted while the artist was: |
in an asylum |
What common characteristics do artworks influenced by the movement of Cubism share? |
they feature many abstract shapes |
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