Chapter 25 (The Age of Positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites,
1848-1885)
1. Courbet′s Realism was influenced by __________.
a. a desire to emulate Poussin
b. his Socialist views
c. his deep respect for Ingres
d. his desire to continue Romanticism into the latter half of the century
2. Courbet′s The Stone Breakers (25.2) _________________.
a. treats a genre scene with seriousness and monumentality
b. is painted with a heavy impasto
c. contains life-size figures
d. all of the above
3. Manet viewed the picture plane as _________________.
a. a window
b. a field for scientific perspective
c. a screen made up of flat patches of color
d. none of the above
4. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Impressionist painting?
a. a conveyance of a range of visual effects
b. free brushwork
c. realist subject matter
d. a highly detailed approach to rendering form
5. The only American painter who worked with the Impressionists, and helped the
style gain acceptance in the United States, was _____________.
a. Mary Cassatt
b. Berthe Morisot
c. Rosa Bonheur
d. Dante Rossetti
6. Which of the following is NOT true of the Pre-Raphaelites?
a. an expression of ″genuine ideas″ in art
b. an inspiration drawn from John Ruskin
c. a reverence for the art of the Italian Renaissance
d. an urge to reform
7. The Eiffel Tower (25.42) in Paris _______________.
a. exhibits a frank, technological aesthetic
b. utilizes the principles of structural engineering that had been applied to
bridges
c. was created for a World’s Fair
d. all of the above
8. Mary Cassatt′s The Child’s Bath (25.21) _________.
a. suggests the influence of Japanese prints
b. displays the same brushwork as late Monet
c. utilizes a Neoclassic theme
d. is a Realist painting
9. The Realist paintings of Courbet ___________.
a. follow Romantic iconography
b. utilize Ingres′ painting technique
c. shocked many Parisians
d. are derived from the explorations of Impressionism
10. In The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, Whistler argues that ________.
a. iconography is most important in art
b. art should appeal to the emotions
c. harmony of color is most important in painting
d. painting is unrelated to music
11. Honoré Daumier was most known for his ____________.
a. landscapes
b. portraits
c. moral genre paintings
d. political and social satires
12. What was the public response to Manet’s The Luncheon on the Grass (25.10)?
a. They loved it.
b. The public was outraged.
c. The public was indifferent.
d. The response is not known.
13. In Morisot’s Summer’s Day (25.20) the subjects of the painting __________.
a. do not interact
b. are talking
c. are looking at each other
d. are both looking at the viewer
14. Rossetti’s Proserpine (25.26) reflected the artist’s
________________.
a. own longing
b. interest in music
c. interest in working with pastels
d. education
15. Margaret Cameron was the most celebrated of the ____________.
a. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
b. Primitives
c. Romantics
d. British Pictorialists