Exam 19: The Modern ERA

Discuss the style and popularity of Academic art,especially as embodied in the work of Adolphe William Bouguereau.

Which of the following statements about Edgar Degas is not true? 

Identify three various opinions as to when modern art began.

On what two levels did the "modern" painters of the nineteenth century object to Academic art?

The modern Realist painters of the nineteenth century,including Honoré Daumier and Édouard Manet,were bound by all of the following except they __________.

Of all of the Impressionists,Pierre-Auguste Renoir was the __________,as evidenced in his Le Moulin de la Galette.

Discuss the subject matter and the use of classical compositional devices in Jacques-Louis David's The Oath of the Horatii.

In The Outbreak,Käthe Kollwitz tried to symbolize __________ through her forceful depiction of the sixteenth-century Peasants' War.

Explain Gustave Courbet's approach to painting and how and why it was viewed so negatively by critics and the public.

"I saw the flaming clouds like blood and a sword-the bluish-black fjord and town-my friends walked on-I stood there-trembling with anxiety-and I felt as though Nature were convulsed by a great unending scream." This quote is describing __________.

Discuss the Art Nouveau style and how and where it was used.

Who were the American Expatriates?

__________ was an American Expatriate painter who spent most of her life in France primarily painting scenes of women and children.

Into what two stylistically divergent groups did the Post-Impressionists fall?

Discuss how the Impressionists came to be influenced by Japanese prints and,providing an example,show how this influence is depicted in Degas's painting.

The setting of Édouard Manet's reclining nude figure of Olympia is a(n)__________.

Describe the tragedy that occurred with the Medusa,and explain why Theodore Gericault chose to depict the event.

The Post-Impressionist Georges Seurat's painting technique is known as __________,which is a meticulous application of pigment that he derived from the study of __________.

The Hudson River School was a group of artists who painted the beauty of the natural American landscape with a sense of romanticism that was embodied in the writings of __________.

The famous Neoclassical painter __________ painted herself into her allegorical work entitled The Artist in the Character of Design Listening to the Inspiration of Poetry.