Exam 18: European and American Art, 1840-1910

Architects from which city are credited with the development of the skyscraper?

Whose work was hated by conservative critics because of its focus on the common people and its disregard for traditional composition and traditional standards of beauty?

Architects that rejected the values of modern industry and recaptured a pre-industrial sense of beauty practiced which of the following styles?

Which of the following describes Harriet Hosmer's Zenobia in Chains?

Compare and contrast the architectural style of the Opéra and the Wainwright Building.

Which is an early photographic process that was used to make a print with a silver-coated metal plate treated with iodine fumes and exposed to mercury vapor?

Who took portraits of famous British scholars and wanted to make photography an art form in its own right?

Discuss the style of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh.How does van Gogh expand on the ideas of the Impressionists?

The art of which country so greatly influenced French art in the last half of the nineteenth century that a term was coined (the country's name being the root of the term)just to describe this influence?

In architecture,drawing on motifs from historic models is a practice called

Mary Cassatt is best known for painting

What was Georges Seurat's technique called?

In Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril,which of the following is a particularly strong influence?

Who began the concept of seeing objects from different viewpoints into the same painting?

The original idea of the avant-garde,as applied to art,was that it would prepare people for