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

1. In the 1880s, a number of young artists tried to push beyond the Impressionist technique in a variety of ways. We call them __________.

A) Insane.
B) Pre-Impressionists.
C) Post-Impressionists.
D) Post-Nasal Drip.

2. Georges Seurat developed a systematic method of painting called __________, in which he applied his paint by means of small dots.

A) Pointillism.
B) Cubism.
C) Impressionism.
D) Small Dotism.

3. Many Post-Impressionists left __________ to go to "primitive, mystic and strange" areas.

A) New York.
B) Paris.
C) Rome.
D) Victorville.

4. In Paul Gauguin's __________, pious women vividly imagine a scene from a sermon they just heard.

A) Self-Portrait.
B) Starry Night.
C) Impression, Sunrise.
D) The Vision After the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling With the Angel).

5. Vincent van Gogh left Paris, settled in the South of France and invited __________ to visit him.

A) Paul Gauguin.
B) Claude Monet.
C) Michelangelo.
D) His mother.

6. For Vincent van Gogh, the influence of __________ gave him confidence to use color more brilliantly and arbitrarily.

A) Elvis Presley's music.
B) Japanese prints.
C) Alcohol.
D) A painting class.

7. One of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings, __________, shows his attempt to make a modern, religious art.

A) Starry Night.
B) The Creation of Adam.
C) Modern, Religious Painting #1.
D) The Last Supper.

8. In the 1880s, __________ rejected Impressionism and instead built up his pictures by small facets of color.

A) Édouard Manet.
B) Pablo Picasso.
C) Paul Cézanne.
D) Gustave Courbet.

9. Female Impressionist artists, such as __________, represented the rituals and disciplines of middle-class womanhood.

A) Georgia O'Keeffe.
B) Mary Cassatt.
C) Frida Kahlo.
D) Aretha Franklin.

10. In 1891, __________ traveled to the South Pacific and used his new, 13-year-old Tahitian wife as his model.

A) Vincent van Gogh.
B) Marlon Brando.
C) Jerry Lee Lewis.
D) Paul Gauguin.

11. Modern male artists used __________ for their most extreme innovations and fantasies.

A) Women's bodies.
B) Landscapes.
C) Religious scenes.
D) Dull colors.

12. Post-Impressionist painters moved away from the real world, rejecting external appearances, in favor of an inner, personal, imaginative truth. True or false?

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