Quiz 2

Question 1

Enfilade

Answer 1

Sweet of rooms connected, people march and parade through the series of rooms, it’s an honour if able to enter King’s chambers

Question 2

Chinoiserie

Answer 2

Imitation or evocation of Chinese motifs and techniques in Western art, furniture, and architecture

Question 3

Boiserie

Answer 3

Carved wood panelling

Question 4

Poussiniste

Answer 4

More about design than colour

Question 5

Rubenistes

Answer 5

About colour evoking emotions

Question 6

Couviet

Answer 6

Designer that brought in textiles and paint colours and decor to make it look like an ensemble (a together aesthetic)

Question 7

Fragonard’s painting…

Answer 7

Verbality, eroticism

Question 8

Rococo Period

Answer 8

• Defined by the type of painting or decor that depicts verbally
• Artistic style, exaggerated motion, rejection of the drama of the baroque
• Period between the baroque and neo-classicism

Question 9

Josiah Wedgwood

Answer 9

• Most Successful Potter
• Portland Vase (most popular classical object, massed produced to make more affordable for lower classes)
• Invented jasperware

Question 10

Genre Painting

Answer 10

Depicts everyday life

Question 11

Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe…

Answer 11

• Drawn from neoclassicalicism
• Modern History Painting

Question 12

Neoclassical artists wanted to express…

Answer 12

• Rationalism
• Moderation
• Civic responsibility
• Faith in humanity
  Secularism

Question 13

The sublime is defined by all inspiring and terrifying at the same time (T/F)

Answer 13

True

Question 14

The Picturesque

Answer 14

A category developed by William Gilpin refers to the charm of discovering the landscape in its natural state developed as a mediator between these apposed ideal of beauty and the sublime

Question 15

Realism

Answer 15

The unembellished depiction of nature and life return to realism and enlightenment values, the quest for the truth

Question 16

Realism rejects…

Answer 16

Neoclassicism and romanticism

Question 17

Realism is

Answer 17

the bigger movement - depicting as close as reality as possible

Question 18

The Salon

Answer 18

“the pals club” - considered high class if invited and could hang out there

Question 19

The Salon des Refuses

Answer 19

a space in Paris where art was displayed if your art was not in the narrow categories that the salon would take (more for middle class)

Question 20

A Critique’s Livre

Answer 20

The Salon pamphlet

Question 21

Positivism

Answer 21

-A philosophical system that holds that every rationally justifiable assertion can be
scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof, and that therefore rejects metaphysics and theism
-Objective analysis
-For it to be truth or real, it needs to be proven
-Measurable, scientific facts to understand something

Question 22

Daguerrotypo(manie)

Answer 22

• Direct-positive process, creating a highly detailed image on a sheet of copper plated with a thin coat of silver without the use of a negative
• Original type of photography
• Everything is in focus!

Question 23

Camera Obscura

Answer 23

A darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside (projecting the image upside down)

Question 24

John Ruskin

Answer 24

• Proponent of the arts and crafts movement, craftsmanship scholar, art critic
• Thought photography was the best way to capture truth and reality
• Ideas of realism – photography is a great invention!

Question 25

Camille Corot – The Barbizon School

Answer 25

- Relationship between photography and painting – emerging after photography - Captured the eye of the viewer – capturing that moment in time (a snapshot) - They paint or sketch outside: “en plein air”

Question 26

Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, Boulevard du Temple

Answer 26

- Taken by Nadar - No people – could not be captured because the lens needed to be open for 10-15 mins and cannot capture moving people - Daguerre planted two people (shoe polishers)

Question 27

Claude Monet, La Boulevard des Capucines

Answer 27

- Earlier images that represent photography - More colour, more people - Taken from Nadar’s studio - Does not use black!! - Coins as impressionist later on… based on what he sees so his impressions

Question 28

Auguste Renoir, Moulin de la Galette

Answer 28

- Suburb outside the city - People out dancing on a Sunday afternoon… represents freedom, leisure time, and they are not working on the weekend (money to spend!) - Depicting a mix of social classes (unique)

Question 29

Impressionism

Answer 29

- Diverse individuals, united in a similar style - Used the way they painted as a feature of the paintings - Scenes of leisure - Renoir, Monet, Degas

Question 30

Post-impressionism

Answer 30

a genre of painting that rejected the naturalism of impressionism (in favour of using colour and form in more expressive manners)

Question 31

Bacchanal

Answer 31

- a priest, worshiper, or follower of Bacchus - an occasion of wild and drunk revelry

Question 32

Chromoluminarism

Answer 32

the characteristic style in neo-impressionist painting defined by the separation of colours into individuals’ dots or patches that interact optically

Question 33

Expressionism

Answer 33

a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century

Question 34

Synthetism

Answer 34

style of symbolic representation adopted by Paul Gauguin and his followers in the 1880s characterised by flat areas of colour and bold outlines

Question 35

Avant-garde

Answer 35

new and unusual or experimental ideas, or the people introducing them – favouring or introducing experimental or unusual ideas

Question 36

The Battle of Love (Paul Cezanne)

Answer 36

Depicts modern version of bacchanal (orgy, drinking, sex, etc.) – an occasion of wild and drunk revelry

Question 37

Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Answer 37

- Colour theory! - Science of the eye, looking, and colour - Contrasts colours to create bolding colours through your view

Question 38

Vincent Van Gogh

Answer 38

- Emotional painter (anger, personal trauma) Swirly brush strokes

Question 39

Paul Gauguin

Answer 39

- Japanese art - Two dimensional - Evoking his emotions

Question 40

Neoclassical artist value the following ideas: (3)

Answer 40

Rationalism, idealism, moderation, civic responsibility, secularism, rejected verbality, faith in humanity

Question 41

Who was the post popular potter in the 19th century?

Answer 41

Josiah Wedgewood

Question 42

Who was A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte painted by?

Answer 42

Georges Seurat

Question 43

Who painted Luncheon on the Grass?

Answer 43

Edouard Manet

Question 44

When Gustave Courbet painting Burial at Onion, he disrupted the ideas of higher art by doing the following:

Answer 44

A quotidian scene… genre style… historian painting (no hero, mostly family and friends)

Question 45

Cartouches

Answer 45

A fancy form of frame