ART HISTORY

1. Why were the paintings of the Realists so extraordinary?

	A.	They returned to Academic subject matter
	B.	They were primarily interested in how light affected color
	C.	They portrayed the lives of the working poor
	D.	They used bright, brilliant colors

2. True or False: Realist artist fully embraced the modern, industrial world as a positive development.

A. True

B. False

3. The Realist movement was a reaction against:

A. photography

B. Romanticism

C. academicism

D. Socialism

4. Which of the following BEST describes an amateur photographer?

	A.	One who considers lighting, texture, mood & tone like a painter
	B.	One who photographs a historical event for documentary purposes
	C.	One who places botanical specimens onto photosensitive paper to record the details of the various species
	D.	One who runs a business mostly taking portrait photographs for carte-de-visites

5. The color palettes of the Realists would best be characterized by the following:

	A.	unnaturalistically brilliant
	B.	pale, pastel pinks & greens
	C.	rich, jewel-like colors
	D.	earthtones of browns & grays

6. Realism developed against the background of what growing economic/ political movement?

A. Oligarchism

B. socialism/Marxism

C. libertarianism

D. feudalism

7. Eduard Manet was an artist who broke from Realism because:

	A.	He understood that photography could capture “reality” and wanted painting to achieve other ends
	B.	He was interested in total abstraction
	C.	Primitive subjects attracted him more
	D.	He was not interested in the lives of regular people

8. True or False:  Manet laid the foundations upon which the Impressionists continued to build.

A. true

B. false

9.After being introduced to Japanese wood block prints, French artists began to incorporate all of the following EXCEPT:

A. bold colors& patterns

B. patches of uncolored/ unpainted paper or canvas

C. solid black outlines

D. subtle modeling

10. Vincent Van Gogh used color, line, perspective & brush stroke to what ends?

	A.	To relate to universal emotion & experience
	B.	To accurately depict of the world around him
	C.	To capture the beliefs of non-western cultures
	D.	To capture how light changes color

11. Why did Paul Gauguin travel first to Bretagne & then to Tahiti?

	A.	He wanted to escape the industrial, modern world
	B.	He was trained as a botanist & interested in recording the plant life in those regions for scientific purposes.
	C.	He was a Christian missionary
	D.	He wanted to teach English in these regions