ART 305 Exam Questions with Correct Answers
Caravaggio's dramatic shifting of the vanishing point, 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 m...
ART 305 Exam Questions with Correct
Answers
Caravaggio's dramatic shifting of the vanishing point, 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 French Revolution: - Answer-Was inspired by Enlightenment ideals
The function(s) of the French Royal Academy of Fine Arts was/were: - Answer-To
establish and maintain artistic standards
To develop a complex cirriculum based on a rationalistic philosophy
To use painting as propaganda for the monarch's version of history
French painter Jacques Louis David: - Answer-Directed the French Revolution's search
for new icons for the state
Was famous before the revolution for paintings like "Oath of the Horatii"
Created idealized images of Neopleon
What is the impact of photography on modern life? - Answer-It created the modern
notion of "celebrity"
It made the unseen visible
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
Used soft focus to create images of melancholy beauty
Sought to position photography as a "High Art"
Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot: - Answer-Invented the positive/negative
photographic process
Contemporary US photographer Carrie Mae Weems joins photographic image and text
in order to: - Answer-Construct narratives that reveal cultural mythologies about identity
and relationships
Challenge preconceptions about photography as and art form
Create images that may not be beautiful in any traditional sense of the word
The notion of photographic truth hinges on the belief that the camera is: - Answer-A
totally objective device
Frenchman Louis Daguerre was: - Answer-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
The creator of a one-of-a-kind photographic process that involved the use of highly toxic
materials, including hot mercury
French painter J.A.D. Ingres: - Answer-Was the star pupil of Jacques Louis David
Created paintings that glorified the center of power in the post-French Revolution social
order, i.e. the middle class (bourgeoisie)
May have used the camera lucida to help make his images more "real"
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-It
depicted the working class as passive victims of the modern age
It was a realistic mirror of precisely the facts the nineteenth century hoped to ignore
, It revealed the artist's socialist politics
Nineteenth century Academic painting was popular because: - Answer-It employed
highly idealized imagery
It offered fantasy and escape to both the wealthy and the lower classes
It had the consent of today's mass media art: dramatic stories, sex, and violence
Thomas Couture's immense painting "The Romand of the Decadence": - Answer-Was
one of the most popular Salon paintings of the entire nineteenth century
Had cinematic sweep with its over 25 feet wide dimensions
Reveals that Couture was a clever dramatist, a good costume designer, and an adroit
stage director
Jean Leon Gerome's painting "Police Verso (Thumbs Down)" was: - Answer-The
inspiration for Ridley Scott's film "Gladiator"
True of False. Many nineteenth century images depicts women passively displayed as
objects to be "consumed" by the powerful male gaze - Answer-True
The ideas embodied in Edward Said's theory of Orientalism can be seen in artworks
such as: - Answer-Gerome's "Slave Market" which depicts slave traders in Islamic Egypt
Ingres' "La Grande Odalisque" which depicts a voluptuous nude woman posed as a
harem girl
Matisse's odalisques from the 1920s, which reflect European cultural attitudes about
dominance and submission
French Impressionist Claude Monet insisted that the basic content of human perception-
-and of art-- was: - Answer-Light and color
Which of the following Post Impressionist artists left Europe for the South Pacific in
order to find a more "pure" and "primitive" life? - Answer-Paul Gauguin
Vincent Van Gogh's art and life: - Answer-Point to the understanding of avant-garde art
as spiritual revelation
True or false. The male/ female bipolar opposition is considered "the primary opposition
within western metaphysics." - Answer-True
Ferdinand de Saussure used the term "signified" to refer to: - Answer-The object or
concept the word refers to
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