Art History: Baroque and Romanticism Quiz
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What common feature is rejected in Baroque sculpture?

  • Straight lines (correct)
  • Horizontal lines
  • Curved lines
  • Vertical lines

    • Baroque sculptures only represented commissioned biblical scenes.

    False

    Who created the painting 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'?

    Johannes Vermeer

    Caravaggio's painting 'Martyrdom of Matthew' uses ______, ______, and ______ to direct the viewer's attention.

    <p>light, dark, gestures</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following artworks with their corresponding artists:

    <p>Girl with a Pearl Earring = Johannes Vermeer Martyrdom of Matthew = Caravaggio The Fall of Phaeton = Peter Paul Ruben Palace of Versailles = Louis Le Vau</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What architectural theme is exemplified by the Palace of Versailles?

    <p>Creation by division</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The Hall of Mirrors in Versailles contains 357 mirrors.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What effect does Peter Paul Ruben create in 'The Fall of Phaeton'?

    <p>A hard contrast of light and dark</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which artist is known for emphasizing emotions and individualism in their work?

    <p>Francisco Goya</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Romanticism only focused on the themes of beauty and harmony.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Name one defining characteristic of Romanticism.

    <p>Emphasis on individual imagination or appreciation for nature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The ballroom of Schonbrunn Palace features __________ walls, a popular architectural element during its time.

    <p>curved</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following artists with their specific focuses in Romanticism:

    <p>Eugene Delacroix = Emphasis on emotions and individualism Caspar David Friedrich = Celebration of nature and the natural world Henry Fuseli = Interest in the supernatural and mysterious J.M.W. Turner = Focus on the imagination and the subconscious</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following describes a technique commonly used by Romantic artists?

    <p>Plein air painting</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Romantic artists valued intellect and reason above passion and emotion.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What time period did Romanticism span?

    <p>1780-1830</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which artist is known for the painting 'Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog'?

    <p>Caspar David Friedrich</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The Hay Wain depicts man observing nature from a distance.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main theme depicted in 'Liberty Leading the People' by Eugene Delacroix?

    <p>Heroism, death, and suffering</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Turner's painting 'The Slave Ship' emphasizes nature's overwhelming __________.

    <p>grandeur</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following artists with their key works:

    <p>John Constable = The Hay Wain Eugene Delacroix = Liberty Leading the People J.M.W. Turner = The Slave Ship Theodore Gericault = The Raft of Medusa</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which painting critiques social and political systems by highlighting the suffering of marginalized members of society?

    <p>The Raft of Medusa</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The concept of the 'sublime' refers to feelings of comfort and safety in nature.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the term 'pathetic fallacy' signify in relation to emotion and nature?

    <p>Nature reflecting human emotions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Courbet aim to achieve in his depiction of rural life?

    <p>An honest and straightforward depiction</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Photography was initially seen as inferior to painting.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who invented the light-sensitive surface essential for early photography?

    <p>Joseph Nicéphore Niépce</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Eadweard Muybridge's famous series of photographs is known as '________ Horse.'

    <p>Galloping</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the advancements with their contributions to photography:

    <p>Speed = Allowed moving objects to be photographed Resolution = Improved detail in images Permanence = Increased longevity of photographs Dry glass plate = Reduced labor in photography</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which technique did artists from the Renaissance onward use to aid in their painting?

    <p>Camera obscura</p> Signup and view all the answers

    By 1867, the introduction of dry glass plates made the wet collodion method unnecessary.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What year did Eadweard Muybridge create 'Galloping Horse'?

    <p>1878</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which artist is best known for the photograph 'Dalí Atomicus'?

    <p>Philippe Halsman</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Surrealism emerged from the Cubism art movement.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which two influential figures greatly impacted the development of Surrealism?

    <p>Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Pop art challenged _____ and mass media.

    <p>consumerism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was a key characteristic of Postmodern Art?

    <p>Skepticism towards reason</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following artists with their associated art movement:

    <p>Salvador Dalí = Surrealism Marina Abramovic = Postmodernism Andy Warhol = Pop Art Roy Lichtenstein = Pop Art</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Pop artists believed there should be a hierarchy of culture in art.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are vivid and bizarre dreams paired with in Dalí's paintings?

    <p>Historical accuracy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following movements emerged as a reaction against modernism?

    <p>Postmodernism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The 'Young British Artists' group is known for their conventional and modest imagery.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Name one artist associated with the Street art movement.

    <p>Banksy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    ___ art focuses on using existing images with little transformation.

    <p>Appropriation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was a key characteristic of feminist art?

    <p>Transforming stereotypes of male-dominated art history</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following art movements with their descriptions:

    <p>Postmodernism = Skeptical and ironic response to modernism Neo Expressionism = Revival of Expressionism with a focus on texture Digital art = Art created using computer and audio-visual technologies Pictures Generation = Exploration of recognizable imagery and perceptions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Digital art emerged before the advent of the camera.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the time period referred to as contemporary art?

    <p>1970s to present day</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Renaissance

    • Period: 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries
    • Key Artists: Leonardo Da Vinci, Giotto, Titian, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo, Botticelli.
    • Key Characteristics: New, creative approaches to painting, sculpture, and architecture, a revival of Antiquity, advances in science and technology, a style of art that elevated the human spirit and human achievements.

    Key Information

    • Artists: Leonardo Da Vinci, Giotto, Titian, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Guercino, Velázquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Gentileschi
    • Concepts and Characteristics : Dynamic Movement, exaggerated lighting effects, strong contrasts of light and shadow, intense emotions, drama, vivid coloration, robust realism, drama, non-linear

    Stages of the Renaissance

    • Proto Renaissance: gradual development of naturalism, focus on Classical humanism, and anatomical beauty of classical sculpture, emphasis on perspective and technical aspects of painting.
    • Early Renaissance: introduces a greater degree of naturalism, emphasis on observational drawing of the human figure, precise spatial presentation of figures, buildings, and landscapes, invention of perspective drawing.
    • High Renaissance: highest peak of artistic achievement, saw the introduction of individual artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, artists were willing to sacrifice technical principles for a more beautiful and harmonious whole.

    Overview

    • Location/Time Period: Started in Florence, Italy, then to other Italian city-states such as Venice, Milan, Bologna, Ferrara, and Rome. Later spread to France, then throughout western and northern Europe during the 15th century.
    • Cultural context: Rich cultural history, wealthy citizens supporting artists, intellectual and artistic revolution that was much different from the Dark Ages.
    • Key Developments: Art, architecture, and science were closely linked. Artists used scientific principles like anatomy to create works like the Mona Lisa, and architects like Filippo Brunelleschi studied mathematics to design immense buildings with expansive domes. Art was characterized by realism and naturalism.

    Architecture

    • Revival of ancient Roman forms: columns, round arches, tunnel vaults, and domes.
    • Harmony between human proportions and buildings: concern for proportion resulted in clear, easily understood space and mass.

    Painting

    • Infusing ideals of beauty back into art: Whether depicting religious figures or everyday citizens, High Renaissance artists' concerns were to present pieces of visual art that were symmetrical, and compositional perfection.
    • Specific Examples: Sistine Chapel (Michelangelo), Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) 
    • Techniques: Sfumato (Leonardo da Vinci's technique of fine shading, creating a soft focus), use of various brushes to apply color, add fine detail, shading, and line (Michelangelo).  Results in more life-like pieces, a new body of compelling portraiture of ordinary people, vivid imitation of reality without lines or borders.

    Sculpture

    • Celebrated and exalted the anatomy of the human form in a way that had not been seen before in art.

    The Birth of Venus

    • Artist: Botticelli
    • Medium: Tempera on canvas
    • Characteristics: painted on canvas using a technique unusual for the time, use of diluted egg yolk, transparency, pictorial quality of a fresco.

    The Creation of Adam

    • Artist: Michelangelo
    • Medium: Ceiling plaster

    Baroque

    • Period: Late 16th and early 17th centuries.
    • Key Artists: Caravaggio, Guercino, Velázquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Gentileschi
    • Key Characteristics: Dynamic Movement, exaggerated lighting effects, strong contrasts of light and shadow, intense emotions, drama, vivid coloration, robust realism, non-linear.

    Other aspects of interest

    • Painting: Naturalism, realism
    • Architecture: Focused on grandeur, movement, and drama through complex forms and bold ornamentation, sometimes replicating Renaissance architectural elements but making them grander
    • Sculpture: Used spiraling figures into space, and moved beyond depictions of religious scenes to encompass depictions of historical epics.
    • Methodology: Artists frequently experimented with unconventional techniques and materials.

    Romanticism

    • Period: 1780-1830
    • Emphasis: on emotions, individualism, celebration of nature, the supernatural, and the subconscious.
    • Key Artists: Francisco Goya, Eugene Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich, John Constable, Henry Fuseli, Theodore Gericault, J.M.W. Turner.

    Realism

    • Period: 1850s-Early 1900's
    • Key Artists: Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Jean-François Millet, Honoré Daumier, Winslow Homer.
    • Key Elements: Subject matter of peasant and working class life, depicted the life of the city streets, cafes, and popular entertainments; accuracy of detail to depict reality, opposite of abstraction.

    Impressionism

    • Period: 1860-1886
    • Key Artists: Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Édouard Degas, Camille Pissarro.
    • Key elements: capture the immediate impression of a particular moment; unfinished, sketchy feeling; use of modern life as subject matter (dance halls, sailboat regattas) rather than historical/mythological events; painting outside in the open air (plein air).

    Post-Impressionism

    • Period: 1880s
    • Key Artists: Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat
    • Key aspects: rejected Impressionism's concern with spontaneous and naturalistic rendering of light and color; favored emphasis on symbolic content, formal order, and structure; color often independent from form and composition as an expression of emotion and aesthetics.

    Fauvism

    • Period: (no specific dates are given)
    • Key Artists: Henri Matisse
    • Key characteristics: Use of intense color, line, and brushwork; bold sense of surface design; flat composition; separation of color from its descriptive purpose; important precursor of Cubism and Expressionism

    Cubism

    • Period: (no specific dates are given)
    • Key Artists: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque
    • Key aspects: Rejected the concept that art should copy nature; moved away from traditional techniques and perspectives; created radically fragmented objects; used geometric forms; multiple vantage points.

    Surrealism

    • Period: (no specific dates are given)
    • Key Artists: Salvador Dalí,
    • Key aspects: Showcased works of art that defied reason, rejecting the rationalist mindset; inspired by theories of psychoanalysis and the power of imagination. Depicted revelations from dreams and everyday life with historical accuracy.

    Pop Art

    • Period (no specific dates given)
    • Key Artists: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein
    • Key aspects: Used everyday, mundane objects from consumerism and mass media; challenge consumerism and mass media; a shift from the direction of modernism.

    Postmodernism

    • Period: 1950 to present
    • Key aspects: Reaction against Modernism, skepticism, suspicion of reason, radical epistemological doubt challenging the notion of universal truths; emphasis on the individual experience, irony, complexity of contradictory layers of meaning.

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