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A good example of a Surrealist poetic object is |
| | A) | L'Enfant carburateur by Francis Picabia. |
| | B) | Bottle Dryer by Marcel Duchamp. |
| | C) | The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali. |
| | D) | the Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer. |
| | E) | Object (Luncheon in Fur) by Meret Oppenheim. |
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The first national art museum opened in 1793. This museum, still in operation today, is |
| | A) | the Museum of Modern Art in New York. |
| | B) | the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. |
| | C) | the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. |
| | D) | the Louvre in Paris. |
| | E) | the Tate in London. |
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Which art movement was directly influenced by Sigmund Freud's theories of the unconscious? |
| | A) | Fauvism |
| | B) | Cubism |
| | C) | Dada |
| | D) | Surrealism |
| | E) | all of the above |
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In their paintings, the Impressionists often focused on |
| | A) | scenes of leisure involving the middle class. |
| | B) | aristocratic pomp and splendor. |
| | C) | religious subject matter depicted in everyday settings. |
| | D) | symbolism and esoteric content. |
| | E) | historical narratives. |
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A major influence upon European culture of the 19th century, one that gave rise to an expanding middle class, was |
| | A) | the abolition of slavery. |
| | B) | the Industrial Revolution. |
| | C) | the Crusades. |
| | D) | the Sexual Revolution. |
| | E) | the Second Iconoclastic War. |
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Edouard Manet considered the annual Salon of Paris to be an artist's only true "field of battle." What was the Salon of Paris? |
| | A) | A timed contest during which each artist was required to complete a work of art. |
| | B) | A private organization composed of wealthy art patrons who determined the monetary value of each work of art brought before it. |
| | C) | The most respected of all private Parisian auction houses of the 19th century. |
| | D) | A juried exhibition sponsored by the French government. |
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Eugène Delacroix was a leading practitioner of the __________style. |
| | A) | Neoclassic |
| | B) | Romantic |
| | C) | Realist |
| | D) | all of the above |
| | E) | none of the above |
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Some European art movements of the 20th century were suppressed by political forces, but _____________ ended when the stock market crash of 1929 brought on the Great Depression. |
| | A) | American Romanticism |
| | B) | the Harlem Renaissance |
| | C) | American Impressionism |
| | D) | all of the above |
| | E) | none of the above |
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The recent manufacture of oil paint in tubes made it possible for 19th-century European artists to make painting a portable activity. The spontaneity and directness of painting outdoors is evident in works by _____________ artists. |
| | A) | Neoclassical |
| | B) | Romantic |
| | C) | Bauhaus |
| | D) | Impressionist |
| | E) | both a and b |
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Which of the following is an American artist? |
| | A) | Henry Ossawa Tanner |
| | B) | Thomas Eakins |
| | C) | Mary Cassatt |
| | D) | George Caleb Bingham |
| | E) | all of the above |
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Marcel Duchamp created a new art form in which the artist makes nothing, but merely labels an object as art. He called this art form |
| | A) | the Machine Aesthetic. |
| | B) | ready-mades. |
| | C) | automatism. |
| | D) | Pointillism. |
| | E) | instantaneous art. |
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How did Impressionism get its name? |
| | A) | It was the winning entry in a contest to name the new movement. |
| | B) | One of the artists of the group invented the name to describe her own painting process, and the rest of the group adopted it. |
| | C) | The group appropriated the name from the title of a recent scientific essay concerning optics and human perception. |
| | D) | A critic used the term to degrade the movement after seeing the painting Impression: Sunrise, and it caught on. |
| | E) | The group took its name from the title of a current photography journal. |
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Paul Cézanne's emphasis on structure in painting was a direct influence in the development of |
| | A) | Expressionism. |
| | B) | Dada. |
| | C) | Cubism. |
| | D) | American Romanticism. |
| | E) | all of the above |
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Romantic art stresses |
| | A) | themes of flirtation, courtship, and marriage. |
| | B) | ancient Roman ideals of proportion and harmony. |
| | C) | drama, unbridled emotions, and complex compositions. |
| | D) | clarity, stability, and precision. |
| | E) | all of the above |
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According to Wassily Kandinsky, he became convinced that art should be free of representational subject matter when he |
| | A) | mistook an upside-down painting of his for an unfamiliar work of spectacular beauty. |
| | B) | was no longer able to sell any of his traditional landscape paintings. |
| | C) | had a near-death experience in which he "saw" music and "heard" color |
| | D) | was fasting and meditating in a monastery and had a vision of the future of painting. mistook an upside-down painting of his for an unfamiliar work of spectacular |
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Which of the following artists was a Realist? |
| | A) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres |
| | B) | Eugène Delacroix |
| | C) | Gustave Courbet |
| | D) | Jacques Louis David |
| | E) | all of the above |
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The term Post-Impressionism refers to |
| | A) | a splinter group composed of just a few founding members of Impressionism. |
| | B) | a neutral term describing the varied directions of a few artists who both accepted and rejected some of the aims of Impressionism. |
| | C) | a specific style of painting involving the use of tiny dots of pure color. |
| | D) | the German art movement that admired and emulated Impressionist art. |
| | E) | the musical equivalent of Impressionist painting, a late 19th-century movement. |
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Edouard Manet "borrowed" the composition of his painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) from |
| | A) | Renaissance works of art. |
| | B) | his friend, the painter Berthe Morisot. |
| | C) | Eugène Delacroix. |
| | D) | Neoclassical works. |
| | E) | a popular advertisement of the day. |
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Pointillism is a technique developed by |
| | A) | Vincent van Gogh. |
| | B) | Claude Monet. |
| | C) | Georges Seurat. |
| | D) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir. |
| | E) | Pablo Picasso. |
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If Fauvism's mission was to liberate color from its descriptive role, Cubism's initial aim was |
| | A) | to reduce the role of color to a minimum. |
| | B) | to invent a new system for depicting form and space on a flat surface. |
| | C) | to find a way of representing the fact that human perception involves multiple viewpoints. |
| | D) | all of the above |
| | E) | none of the above |
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