Grantham AR201 Midterm Exam Latest 2023

AR201 Intro to Modern Art Midterm 

QUESTION 1

1.Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionists, her paintings are inhabited by which social group?

a.The impoverished and homeless

 b.Powerful leaders of the business world

 c.The denizens of Parisian night life

 d.Women and children at home

QUESTION 2

1.Which artistic movement had its roots in Impressionist precepts and methods but could not be considered stylistically homogeneous?

a.Post-Impressionism

 b.Japonisme

 c.Expressionism

 d.Symbolism

QUESTION 3

1.Which Post-Impressionist painter was the first great master in the new art form of the poster?

 a.Gauguin

 b.Renoir

 c.Van Gogh

 d.Toulouse-Lautrec

QUESTION 4

1.Which Dada artist is known as a master of photomontage?

 a.Kazimir Malevich

 b.Marcel Duchamp

 c.Max Beckmann

 d.Hannah Höch

QUESTION 5

1.Giorgio de Chirico's The Song of Love is a precursor of which movement in painting?

 a.Dadaism

 b.Surrealism

 c.Fauvism

d.Futurism

QUESTION 6

1.The incorporation of Japanese aesthetics into European painting, a trend referred to as Japonisme, is evident in which artwork?

 a.Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold

 b.Latrec, At the Moulin Rouge

 c.Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette

 d.Degas, The Tub

QUESTION 7

1.Which painter made Parisian dance halls and clubs the subjects of many of his paintings, including Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette?

 a.Renoir

 b.Cezanne

 c.Manet

 d.Degas

QUESTION 8

1.Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is a commentary on modern humans' similarity to what?

 a.Metal sculptures

 b.Mythological characters

c.Machines

 d.Prehistoric beings

QUESTION 9

1.Spatial discrepancies, such as the relationship between the barmaid and her apparent reflection in a nearby mirror, are highlighted in which painting?

 a.Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

 b.Van Gogh, Night Café

 c.Morisot, Summer's Day

 d.Toulouse-Lautrec, Jane Avril

QUESTION 10

1.Picasso's work entitled Still Life with Chair-Caning is representative of which style?

 a.Synthetic Cubism

 b.Deconstruction

 c.Analytic Cubism

 d.Anarchism

QUESTION 11

1.Gustave Moreau's The Apparition treats which frequent Symbolist theme?

 a.Femme fatale

 b.Monstrous creature

 c.Freemasonry

 d.Spiritualism

QUESTION 12

1.Where were many of the early Impressionist paintings displayed?

 a.French Royal Academy exhibition

 b.Louvre palace

 c.Commercial art galleries

 d.Cathedral of Notre-Dame

 

QUESTION 13

1.After World War I, German artists sought a clear-eyed and honest image of the modern world, and this artistic movement came to be called what?

 a.Der Blaue Reiter

 b.NeueSachlichkeit

 c.The Bauhaus

 d.Die Brücke

QUESTION 14

1.Georges Seurat's painting technique relying on an optical effect involving spots of color is referred to by what term?

 a.Color gradation

 b.Checkerboard

 c.Chevreul theory

 d.Pointillism

QUESTION 15

1.In Fate of the Animals, Franz Marc's use of colors that signify severity and brutality is a reference to which contemporary historical situation?

 a.World War II

 b.Russian Revolution

 c.Sinking of the Lusitania

 d.World War I

QUESTION 16

1.What element does sculptor Barbara Hepworth make as important in abstract sculpture as its mass?

 a.Color

 b.Void

 c.Height

 d.Surface

QUESTION 17

1.Which American Impressionist artist painted principally women and children?

 a.Mary Cassatt

 b.Berthe Morisot

 c.Georges Seurat

 d.James Abbott McNeill Whistler

QUESTION 18

1.What term do art historians use to describe the process Joan Miró employed to paint such works as Painting?

 a.Mechanization

 b.Paranoic-critical

 c.Subconscious control

 d.Automatism

QUESTION 19

1.Which architect created "skin and bones" buildings on the basis of the motto "less is more"?

 a.Le Corbusier

 b.Frank Lloyd Wright

 c.Adolf Loos

 d.Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

QUESTION 20

1.The expressive use of formal elements such as color and perspective in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Street, Dresden is a reflection of the work of which earlier painter?

 a.Edvard Munch

 b.Mary Cassatt

 c.Auguste Renoir

 d.Paul Cézanne

QUESTION 21

1.Which Art Nouveau architect invented new structural techniques to allow construction of buildings that are sculpted and organic in form?

 a.Antonio Gaudí

 b.Henry Hobson Richardson

 c.Joseph Maria Olbrich

 d.Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel

QUESTION 22

1. André Derain's Mountains at Collioure reflects his close study of which earlier painter?

 a.Michelangelo

 b.John Singer Sargent

 c.Johannes Vermeer

 d.Vincent van Gogh

QUESTION 23

1.Which architect designed the first large commercial buildings characterized by round arches, large windows, and a cast-iron interior skeleton?

 a.Louis Henry Sullivan

 b.Henry Hobson Richardson

 c.Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel

 d.Antonio Gaudí

QUESTION 24

1.What element of André Derain's The Turning Road, L'Estaque does he intend to reflect the energy of the landscape he was painting?

 a.Brush strokes

 b.Perspective

 c.Color

 d.Line

QUESTION 25

1.What was the original title of Edvard Munch's powerfully emotional The Scream?

 a.Despair

 b.Loneliness

 c.Fear

 d.Jealousy