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Art 305 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Answers The work of Italian Baroque artists Bernini, Caravaggio and Gentileschi was characterized by: - Answer-All of the above. -Dramatic contrast between light and dark. -A focus on religious imagery. -Emotional intensity. Elizabeth Vigee-L...

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The work of Italian Baroque artists Bernini, Caravaggio and Gentileschi was
characterized by: - Answer-All of the above.
-Dramatic contrast between light and dark.
-A focus on religious imagery.
-Emotional intensity.

Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun was: - Answer-The real name of Marie Antoinette.

Spanish artist Diego Velazquez is famed for: - Answer-The depiction of light and
reflection in his masterwork "Las Meninas."

The Baroque period was characterized by: - Answer-All of the above.
-Remarkable scientific advances.
-Protestantism and capitalism in Northern Europe.
-The Counter Reformation and absolutist monarchs in Southern Europe.

Caravaggio's dramatic shifting of the vanishing pont, light source and position of main
characters brought the viewer: - Answer-Into the scene with boldness and psychological
connection.

French absolutist monarch Louis XIV endeavored to shift the mythic base of culture
from: - Answer-God to King.

The function(s) of the French Royal Academy of Fine Arts was/were: - Answer-All the
Above
-To use painting as propaganda for the monarch's version of history.
-To establish and maintain artistic standards.
-To develop a complex curriculum based on a rationalistic philosophy.

What is the impact of photography on modern life? - Answer-All of the above.
-It made the unseen visible.
-It created the modern notion of "celebrity."
-It gave everyone the potential to record their personal image

Which French critic said, after seeing a salon exhibition that included photographs,
"Each day Art further diminishes its self-respect by bowing down before external
reality"? - Answer-Charles Baudelaire

, What important process was patented in the 1850s by Andre Disderi? - Answer-The
ability to produce small 2 1/2" x 4" photographs known as "cartes de visite."

British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron: - Answer-Created elaborately staged and
costumed pieces that "speak" the artistic idiom of British Academic painters of the
nineteenth century.

Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot: - Answer-Invented the positive/negative
photographic process.

Contemporary U.S. photographer Carrie Mae Weems joins photographic image and text
in order to: - Answer-All of the above.
-Construct narratives that reveal cultural mythologies about identity and relationships.
-Challenge preconceptions about photography as an art form.
-Create images that may not beautiful in any traditional sense of the word.

The notion of photograhic truth hinges on the belief that the camera is: - Answer-A
totally objective device

Frenchman Louis Daguerre was: - Answer-All of the Above
-The creator of a one-of-a-kind photographic process that involved the use of highly
toxic materials, including hot mercury.
-The man who took out the first patent on a photographic process (in 1839).
-The successful designer of special effects theater presentations known as dioramas.

French painter J.A.D. Ingres: - Answer-Created paintings that glorified the center of
power in the post-French Revolution social order, i.e. the middle class (bourgeoisie).

What significant controversy about "The Battle of Solferino" was decided in the
courtroom? - Answer-The battle over the rights to the photograph of Napoleon III on
horseback.

Gustave Courbet's painting "The Stonebreakers" was controversial because: - Answer-
All of the above.
-It was a realistic mirror of precisely the facts nineteenth century society hoped to
ignore.
-It depicted the working class as passive victims of the modern age.
-It revealed the artist's socialist politics.

Nineteenth century Academic painting was popular because: - Answer-All of the above.
-It had the content of today's mass media art: dramatic stories, sex, and violence
-It employed highly idealized imagery.
-It offered fantasy and escape to both the wealthy and the lower classes.

Thomas Couture's immense painting "The Romans of the Decadence": - Answer-All of
the above.

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