HIST - Realism

Question 1

an art style that started in France; the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life; aka “the Age of Rationalism;” “Age of Science and Doubt,” “Age of Progress,” and “the Victorian Age;” veered away from idealism

Answer 1

Realism

Question 2

featured honestly everyday people and situations

Answer 2

Absolute Objectivity

Question 3

a group of international artists in Paris who to began to devise new methods of pictorial representation; focused on scientific concepts of vision and the study of optical effects of light

Answer 3

The Realists

Question 4

a group of French landscape artists; one of the first found outside the Academy; named after the forest of Fontainebleau near the village of _________ where they got away from the revolutionary Paris to produce their art

Answer 4

Barbizon School

Question 5

English painters, poets, and critics grouped to reform art by rejecting practices of contemporary academic British art; the first avante-garde movement in art, and they believed that the only great art was before High Renaissance

Answer 5

Pre-Raphaellite Brotherhood

Question 6

first American school of landscape painting; the spectacles of the __________ Valley and the upper state of New York

Answer 6

Hudson River School

Question 7

the first French realist; believed that artists could accurately represent only their experience; committed to “socialist” principles and experience of the present

Answer 7

Gustave Courbet

Question 8

a lithographer and cartoonist; famous for his satirical caricatures

Answer 8

Honore Daumier