1. Which one of the following artists was considered the "father" of the Impressionist movement?
A. Degas
B. Renoir
C. Manet
D. Monet
2. By which primitive art form was Pablo Picasso known to have been inspired?
A. Neolithic amulets
B. African masks
C. Ice Age cave paintings
D. Eskimo carvings
3. To which of the following influences does Manet owe his style?
A. En plain air watercolor
B. The relatively new art of photography
C. His experiences in law school
D. His travels in the Navy
4. Which artist developed the painting method of Pointillism?
A. Monet
B. Seurat
C. Manet
D. Renoir
5. The main objective of Neoclassicism was to
A. present a Bible story.
B. depict a historical moment.
C. glorify God.
D. present a moral lesson
6. In his celebrated "Manifesto of Futurism," FilipoTomasso Marinetti expressed the belief that
A. art and technology are independent human expressions.
B. the traditional cultural forms and arts are valueless.
C. that sculpture should be regarded as the leading art form of the new century.
D. painting, but not sculpture, is not to be bound by traditional art theory.
7. Which of the following was true of the Age of Reason?
A. People justified their faith using scientific principles.
B. People debated the raison d'être.
C. People valued science over faith.
D. People used science to explain social experiences
8. Which of the following artists was inspired by Michelangelo's Last Judgment to create Raft of the Medusa?
A. Francisco Goya
B. Caspar David Friedrich
C. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
D. ThéodoreGéricault
9. The Dadaist movement resulted in artworks that were designed to promote
A. anarchy and chaos.
B. established moral values.
C. World War II.
D. pleasure and relaxation.
10. Which of the following artists is credited with inventing Cubism?
A. Vincent van Gogh
B. Paul Cézanne
C. Henri Matisse
D. Pablo Picasso
11. Magritte was concerned with making the spectator of an artwork conscious of the limitations of signs, labeling, and language. In so doing, he challenged the spectator to see with fresh eyes and without prejudice the everyday world about him. As such, his works are reminiscent of those of
A. Claude Monet.
B. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
C. Salvador Dalí.
D. Ludwig Kirchner
12. What were Realists inspired by?
A. Contemporary scientific study
B. Political issues
C. Problems in the world
D. Reinterpretation of myths
13. _______ used pure colors from the tube and not those of the natural world.
A. Fauves
B. Expressionists
C. Cubists
D. Impressionists
14. Caspar David Friedrich was fond of portraying the natural world in his paintings. Which of the following English painters, like Friedrich, gloried in the grandeur and power of nature?
A. Thomas Gainsborough
B. J. M. W. Turner
C. Frederick Church
D. Thomas Cole
15. Monet achieved heightened color effects by
A. painting outdoors.
B. painting only in the sunlight.
C. placing colors side by side rather than mixing them.
D. using dots of colors.
16. What does Gainsborough's The Blue Boy depict?
A. The son of a merchant
B. A contemporary view of St. George
C. William, the young hero of a romantic novel
D. A son of Charles I
17. Which of the following elements is not present in The Abduction of Rebecca by Eugène Delacroix?
A. Curved lines
B. Pale colors
C. Variation in brushstrokes
D. Literary figures
18. Which of the following inventions opened new doors for early twentieth-century artists?
A. Air brushes
B. Synthetic pigments
C. Nylon brushes
D. Paint tubes
19. Which one of the following artists believed perspective was a lie?
A. Paul Cézanne
B. Vincent van Gogh
C. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
D. Claude Monet
20. Which one of the following artists painted The Great Wave?
A. Angelica Kauffmann
B. Kitagawa Utamaro
C. Claude Monet
D. Katsushika Hokusai