Exam 31: The Move Toward Modernism

According to the text,the first modernist painter was which of the following?

________ presented a positive view of life as a vital impulse that evolved creatively and intuitively.

Inspired by Indonesian music,Wagnerian opera,and Symbolist poetry,________ created a mood of reverie in the shifting harmonies of his Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun."

Louis Comfort Tiffany is famous for advancing the "new art" in which of the following mediums?

The provocative German thinker ________,who detected in European materialism a deepening decadence,called for a revision of traditional values.

Which of the following was an innovative pioneer of modern dance?

Originating in ________,art nouveau ("new art")was an ornamental style that became enormously popular in the late nineteenth century.

What medical innovation allowed Europeans to send expeditions into Africa without the fear of malaria?

________ fused the immediacy of the French painting fashion with the Classical demand for line and form;he is famous for his depictions of ballerinas.

Contributing to the European obsession with foreign culture was the World's Fair of 1880 held in which of the following cities?

Which of the following painters lived for many years in Tahiti?

Discuss the impact of science and technology on late nineteenth-century culture.

Describe Symbolism and Impressionism as styles in the arts of the West.

List some of the major figures of late nineteenth-century philosophy and literature,and their importance.

Symbolist poets,such as Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud,devised a language of ________ that evoked (rather than described)feeling.

The ________ tried to record an instantaneous vision of their world,sacrificing the details of perceived objects in order to capture the effects of light and atmosphere.

Which of the following was famous for his posters of Parisian nightlife?

Explain how postimpressionism reflects the art-for-art's-sake spirit.

What are some of the influences of non-Western cultures (Oceania,Africa,and Japan)on Western art and design?

The use of many tiny dots to generate the impression of a solid form is called