Exam 25: The Age of Positivism

Some might suggest that Impressionist artists were simply interested in capturing a pretty scene. Dispute this view by discussing the various motivations of the Impressionist artists.

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Question 21

What was innovative about the construction techniques and materials of the Crystal Palace and the Eiffel Tower? How do these structures both continue and challenge traditions in architectural history?

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Question 22

A daguerreotype was a photographic process that exposed light on a silver iodide-coated copper or glass plate and allowed for one image, which remained on that plate.

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Question 23

Who was the recognized leader of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?

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Question 24

Which photojournalist documented the Civil War with grim realism?

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Question 25

The Salon des refusés was an exhibition, held in conjunction with the official Salon, of:

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Question 26

What subject matter was Renoir well known for painting?

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Question 27

Realism began to dissipate in Europe as an intellectual attitude and stylist trend after 1848 and was gradually superseded by Romanticism.

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Question 28

Which of the following was NOT a contribution of Japanese prints to nineteenth-century Western aesthetics?

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Some might suggest that Impressionist artists were simply interested in capturing a pretty scene. Dispute this view by discussing the various motivations of the Impressionist artists.

What was innovative about the construction techniques and materials of the Crystal Palace and the Eiffel Tower? How do these structures both continue and challenge traditions in architectural history?

A daguerreotype was a photographic process that exposed light on a silver iodide-coated copper or glass plate and allowed for one image, which remained on that plate.

Who was the recognized leader of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?

Which photojournalist documented the Civil War with grim realism?

The Salon des refusés was an exhibition, held in conjunction with the official Salon, of:

What subject matter was Renoir well known for painting?

Realism began to dissipate in Europe as an intellectual attitude and stylist trend after 1848 and was gradually superseded by Romanticism.

Which of the following was NOT a contribution of Japanese prints to nineteenth-century Western aesthetics?

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Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905

Toward Abstraction: the Modernist Revolution, 1905-1914

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