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Art of the Western World: "A Fresh View: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism" (Pt. I: Impressionism)

1. The Impressionists started out as __________.

A) Architects.
B) Radicals.
C) Priests.
D) Bakers.

2. The Parisian art world was dominated by the __________, a vast, state-sponsored exhibition.

A) Eiffel Tower.
B) Louvre.
C) Salon.
D) Café.

3. Gustave Courbet called his art __________.

A) Realist.
B) Impressionist.
C) Post-Impressionist.
D) Pretty.

4. With Courbet, modern landscape and modern people were now the raw material for a __________ form of painting.

A) Raw.
B) Humorous.
C) Fantasy.
D) Serious.

5. Courbet felt the artist could only realize himself through immersion in the __________ world.

A) Physical.
B) Dream.
C) Under.
D) Classical.

6. Courbet's insistence on being true to the appearance of the modern world had a great influence on Manet and the __________.

A) Neoclassicists.
B) Realists.
C) Impressionists.
D) Pessimists.

7. __________ was criticized for treating everything alike in his paintings; for example, chairs are given just as much significance as a face.

A) Édouard Manet.
B) Pierre Auguste Renoir.
C) Gustave Courbet.
D) Michelangelo.

8. The first major scandal of Édouard Manet's career was his Le Déjeuner sur L'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), which was rejected by __________.

A) The Church.
B) The Salon.
C) His girlfriend.
D) His interior decorator.

9. With Manet's Olympia, viewers were shocked by the simple painting style and the __________, which was unlike academic painting.

A) Harsh lighting.
B) Oily paint smell.
C) Red tones.
D) Large buttocks.

10. Edgar Degas' compositions were influenced by __________ color prints, with their cut-off compositions.

A) American.
B) Japanese.
C) Russian.
D) Kodak.

11. Pierre August Renoir painted a more __________ vision of his era.

A) Scary.
B) Sad.
C) Festive.
D) Pessimistic.

12. At the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, critics complained that the paintings looked unfinished with their visible __________ and imprecise definition of form.

A) Brushwork.
B) Pencil outlines.
C) Nudes.
D) Underpainting.

13. One of __________'s painted sketches, Impression, Sunrise, caused the naming of the group as Impressionists.

A) Leonardo da Vinci.
B) Pablo Picasso.
C) Claude Monet.
D) Ansel Adams.

14. In the 1890s, __________ began to build his water garden at Giverny, which soon became his principal subject.

A) Claude Monet.
B) Kevin Costner.
C) Gustave Courbet.
D) Edgar Degas.

15.Although they started out as radicals, the __________ ended up being the art of the establishment; creating the most sought after, well-known, and reproduced art in history.

A) Americans.
B) Impressionists.
C) Classically-trained painters.
D) Realists.
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