Chapter 26 (Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art
Nouveau, 1880-1905)
1. The first African-American artist to gain an international reputation was _______.
a. Tanner
b. Eakins
c. Homer
d. Inness
2. The anatomy of R s The Walking Man (26.26) shows the influence of
_________.
a. Monet
b. Calder
c. Michelangelo
d. Degas
3. s mature still life paintings feature ________________.
a. deliberately simplified forms
b. perspective
c. an attempt to uncover the permanent qualities behind appearances
d. all of the above
4. The Post-Impressionist paintings of Seurat ____________.
a. exemplify Divisionism
b. s style
c. are expressive of dynamic figural movement
d. are painted with a heavy impasto
5. Toulouse-Lautrec, well recognized as a painter, also was well known as ________.
a. a sculptor
b. an architect
c. a graphic artist
d. a writer
6. As an artist, Gauguin sought to _________________.
a. rediscover the hidden world of feeling
b. reinvest Renaissance perspective techniques in painting
c. record the essence of the industrialized world
d. continue the visual explorations of Cézanne
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7. s The Vision after the Sermon (26.12) ________________.
a. has a style based on pre-Renaissance sources
b. fulfills the goal of Synthetism
c. both A and B
d. neither A nor B
8. s The Scream (26.19), a terrifying image of fear, __________.
a. shows the influence of Van Gogh
b. merges the figure within the rhythms of the landscape
c. both A and B
d. utilizes Classical figures
9. The goal of Art Nouveau was to _________________.
a. abolish the distinction between the arts and crafts
b. recapture the Rococo style of art
c. communicate the ideas of Cézanne
d. create works in only one medium painting
10. The American architect Louis Sullivan _______________.
a. continued the revivalism of nineteenth-century architecture
b. continued the architectural aesthetic of Richardson
c. introduced the skyscraper in his Wainwright Building
d. was America’s leading Art Nouveau designer
11. Pictorialism in photography relates to ________________.
a. elevating the photograph to a high moral purpose
b. photographing the moods of nature
c. documenting society’s harsh realities
d. painting on photographs
12. s most accomplished example of the Prairie Houses was the
_________.
a. Fallingwater
b. Robie House
c. Steiner House
d. Glass House
13. The architect who took architecture into its cubist phase was ____________.
a. Loos
b. Wright
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c. Behrens
d. Gropius
14. The founder of modern photography in the United States was __________.
a. Adams
b. Weston
c. Stieglitz
d. Bourke-White
15. s photograph The City of Ambition (26.45) _______________.
a. shows meteorological effects
b. was influenced by Cartier-Bresson
c. is related to painting
d. all of the above