Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, & Surrealism

1. Which one of the following artists was considered the “father” of the Impressionist movement?

 

A. Renoir

 

B. Manet

 

C. Monet

 

D. Degas

 

2. Monet achieved heightened color effects by

 

A. painting only in the sunlight.

 

B. using dots of colors.

 

C. placing colors side by side rather than mixing them.

 

D. painting outdoors.

 

3. Which of the following artists painted Still Life with Apples?

 

A. Claude Monet

 

B. Vincent van Gogh

 

C. Paul Cézanne

 

D. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

 

4. What does Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy depict?

 

A. A son of Charles I

 

B. A real boy

 

C. A contemporary view of St. George

 

D. William, the young hero of a romantic novel

 

5. Fine art prints from which of these countries influenced the development of twentieth-century art?

 

A. Tahiti

 

B. Japan

 

C. India

 

D. China

 

6. Which one of the following artists was considered the most famous American female Impressionist

 

painter?

 

A. Paulina Borghese

 

B. Rosa Bonheur

 

C. Mary Cassatt

 

D. Angelica Kauffmann

 

7. Which of the following artists declared that artists should “paint things not as they are, but as they feel

 

them.”

 

A. Vincent van Gogh

 

B. Édouard Manet

 

C. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

 

D. Paul Cézanne

 

8. The main objective of Neoclassicism was to

 

A. glorify God.

 

B. present a Bible story.

 

C. present a moral lesson.

 

D. depict a historical moment.

 

9. Which of the following Postimpressionist painters had the greatest impact on twentieth-century art?

 

A. Van Gogh

 

B. Cézanne

 

C. Seurat

 

D. Gauguin

 

10. Which of these painters is well known for portraying scenes of French night life?

 

A. Gustave Courbet

 

B. Berthe Morisot

 

C. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

 

D. Claude Monet

 

11. Which of these artistic values is most apparent in the sculpture of Constantin Brancusi?

 

A. Emotional expression

 

B. Purity

 

C. Sensuality

 

D. Ornamentation

 

12. What was the nude depicted as in Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe?

 

A. A classical goddess

 

B. A prostitute

 

C. A model of chastity

 

D. A model of motherhood

 

13. _______ used pure colors from the tube and not those of the natural world.

 

A. Impressionists

 

B. Cubists

 

C. Expressionists

 

D. Fauves

 

14. Magritte was concerned with making the spectator of an artwork conscious of the limitations of signs,

 

labeling, and language. In so doing, he challenged the spectator to see with fresh eyes and without prejudice

 

the everyday world about him. As such, his works are reminiscent of those of

 

A. Salvador Dali.

 

B. Claude Monet.

 

C. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.

 

D. Adolphe Bouguereau.

 

15. Which French leader was embarrassed by a sculpture of himself naked?

 

A. Louis XIV

 

B. Charlemagne

 

C. Marat

 

D. Napoleon

 

16. Fundamental to the artistic credo and practice of the Fauvist painters was the belief that

 

A. the design of a painting is determined by colors.

 

B. naturalistic colors take precedence over arbitrary colors.

 

C. academic forms and structures can’t be set aside in the name of color.

 

D. equilibrium in a painting is achieved through the use of Renaissance perspective.

 

17. Which of the following was true of the Age of Reason?

 

A. People used science to explain social experiences .

 

B. People debated the raison d’être.

 

C. People justified their faith using scientific principles.

 

D. People valued science over faith.

 

18. Some of the consequences of the economic depression that devastated Germany in the years following

 

World War I are

 

A. chronicled in the paintings of Otto Dix.

 

B. manifest in the gouaches of René Magritte.

 

C. portrayed in Picasso’s Guernica.

 

D. the subject of Giorgio di Chirico paintings.

 

19. What were Realists inspired by?

 

A. Problems in the world

 

B. Political issues

 

C. Reinterpretation of myths

 

D. Contemporary scientific study

 

End of exam

 

20. Which of the following inventions opened new doors for early twentieth-century artists?

 

A. Synthetic pigments

 

B. Air brushes

 

C. Paint tubes

 

D. Nylon brushes