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CHAPTER 22 Nineteenth-Century Impressionism
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. The Café Guerbois was
a. a nightclub in Paris.
b. a meeting place for artists.
c. a bourgeois coffee shop.
d. the title of an Impressionist painting.
Answer: b
2. The Second Empire refers to
a. Napoleon I’s Empire.
b. Napoleon II’s Empire.
c. the period in which Napoleon I’s nephew ruled France.
d. the period in which Napoleon II’s son ruled France.
Answer: c
3. The façade of the Paris Opéra is
a. Classical in style.
b. Realist in style.
c. Impressionist in style.
d. Baroque in style.
Answer: d
4. Which is the LEAST typical subject in Impressionism?
a. café scenes
b. military scenes
c. circus scenes
d. landscapes
e. theaters and concerts
Answer: b
5. Which is NOT a feature of Manet’s Zola?
a. Olympia
b. a Japanese print
c. a Chinese screen
d. Velázquez’s The Drinkers
Answer: c
6. The expedition that forced Japan to end its isolation policy was led by
a. Charles Darwin.
b. Vasco da Gama.
c. Henry Hudson.
d. Matthew Perry.
Answer: d
7. Edo refers to
a. the U.S. expeditionary force’s command vessel.
b. a Chinese painter.
c. the former name of Tokyo.
d. the former name of Shanghai.
e. a kind of Japanese theater.
Answer: c
8. Ukiyo-e refers to
a. a transient world.
b. a Japanese play.
c. a Japanese courtesan.
d. a kind of kimono.
Answer: a
9. Kabuki and Noh are
a. characters in a Japanese play.
b. Japanese playwrights.
c. types of Japanese theater.
d. types of Japanese actors.
Answer: c
10. The two greatest woodblock artists who emphasized landscape were
a. Hiroshige and Hokusai.
b. Utagawa and Utamaro.
c. Kuniyoshi and Kinisada.
d. Utamaro and Kuniyoshi.
Answer: a
11. Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is an example of
a. Realism.
b. still life.
c. portraiture.
d. cropped view.
Answer: d
12. The sailors’ apparent indifference in Degas’ A Fair Wind suggests
a. a child’s perspective.
b. an inability to depict three-dimensional space.
c. a candid photograph.
d. that the figures are drunk.
Answer: c
13. Which artist sketched ballerinas from the wings of the stage?
a. Monet
b. Manet
c. Renoir
d. Degas
Answer: d
14. An example of a silhouette can be found in
a. Manet’s chandelier in A Bar at the Folies-Bergères.
b. The rower in Cassatt’s The Boating Party.
c. The flags in Monet’s Garden at Sainte-Adresse.
d. The vases in The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit.
Answer: b
15. Berthe Morisot was
a. Manet’s sister.
b. Manet’s wife.
c. Manet’s mother.
d. Manet’s sister-in-law.
e. Manet’s daughter.
Answer: d
16. The water in the Garden at Sainte-Adresse is an example of
a. broken color.
b. silhouetting.
c. flat color.
d. a pure hue.
Answer: a
17. The artist most known for his “waterscapes” was
a. Manet.
b. Monet.
c. Renoir.
d. Degas.
Answer: b
18. The artist who painted the same scene under different conditions of lighting was
a. Manet.
b. Monet.
c. Renoir.
d. Degas.
Answer: b
19. A particular aspect of Haussmann’s renovations of Paris that appealed to Impressionist painters was
a. the slums.
b. the department stores.
c. the boulevards.
d. the restaurants.
e. the Opéra.
Answer: c
20. Which is NOT an example of photographic influence on the Impressionist style?
a. the cropped viewpoint
b. the slanted floor
c. the silhouette
d. blurring
e. a preference for black and white over color
Answer: e
21. Balzac was
a. an Impressionist sculptor.
b. a French novelist.
c. a French photographer.
d. a French actor.
Answer: b
22. Which is NOT a feature of Sargent’s Impressionism?
a. the dissolution of form
b. the “slice of life” view
c. the oblique view
d. the use of japonisme
Answer: a
23. The dates of the American Civil War are
a. 1860 to 1867.
b. 1850 to 1854.
c. 1860 to 1864.
d. 1800 to 1804.
Answer: c
24. The amount awarded Whistler in his successful libel suit was
a. one pence.
b. one shilling.
c. one pound.
d. one farthing.
Answer: d
25. The philosophy of “art for art’s sake” is basically
a. formalist.
b. iconographic.
c. feminist.
d. Marxist.
e. semiotic.
Answer: a
26. The “pot of paint…in the public’s face” referred to
a. Monet’s palette.
b. The Falling Rocket.
c. Renoir’s thick brush strokes.
d. Degas’ broken color.
Answer: b
27. For Whistler,
a. color was probity and drawing was vice.
b. etching was superior to painting.
c. drawing was masculine and color was feminine.
d. color was vice and drawing was musical.
Answer: c
28. The trial between Whistler and Ruskin exemplified
a. the rise of the art critic as a force in the art world.
b. the insanity of misjudging art.
c. the conflict between the Rubenists and the Poussinists.
d. the new role of art galleries and dealers.
e. the mishandling of a jury.
Answer: a
Key Works
Aerial view of the Place de l’Étoile, Paris, seen from the west
Jean-Louis-Charles Garnier, façade of the Opéra, Paris, 1862–1875
Grand Staircase of the Opéra, Paris, engraving, 1880
Édouard Manet, Zola, exhibited 1868
Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1881–1882
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Moulin de la Galette, 1876
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Absinthe, 1876
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Visit to a Museum, c. 1885
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Dancing Lesson, 1883–1885
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, At the Races, 1886–1887
Eadweard Muybridge, Galloping Horse, 1878
Mary Cassatt, Boating Party, 1893–1894
Mary Cassatt, Letter, 1891
Berthe Morisot, The Cradle, 1873
Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1873
Claude Monet, Garden at Sainte-Adresse, c. 1866–1867
Claude Monet, Bassin des Nymphéas (Water-Lily Pond), 1904
Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, Sunlight, 1894
Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, the Portal and the Tower of Albane, the Morning, 1894
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pont-Neuf, 1872
Camille Pissarro, Place du Théâtre Français, 1898
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Fourth Position Front, on the Left Leg, c. 1880s
Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, 1879–1889
Auguste Rodin, Balzac, 1892–1897
Auguste Rodin, Monument to Balzac, 1898
Beauford Delaney, Balzac by Rodin, 1960s
Winslow Homer, The Army of the Potomac—A Sharpshooter on Picket Duty, 1862
Winslow Homer, Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), 1873–1876
John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold (The Falling Rocket), c. 1875
Whistler versus Ruskin: An Appeal to the Law, from Punch, December 7, 1878, p. 254
Maps, Diagrams, and Projections
Plan of the Opéra, Paris
Key Terms
casting
impasto
plein-air
naturalism
salon
japonisme
Window on the World
Japanese Woodblock Prints
Key Works
Utagawa Kunisada, The Actor Seki Sanjuro in the Role of the Kiogoku Takumi, 1860
Utagawa Kunisada, Scene from Sukeroku, c. 1835
Utagawa Toyokuni, Portrait of the Actor Onoe Matsusuke as the Villain Kudo Suketsune, 1800
Kitagawa Utamaro, Young Woman with Blackened Teeth Examining her Features in a Mirror, from the series Ten Facial Types of Women, c. 1792–1793
Keisei Eisen, Oiran on Parade, c. 1830
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Tairano Koremochi Waking up from a Drunken Sleep, 1843
Katsushika Hokusai, Great Wave of Kanagawa, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji, 1831
Katsushika Hokusai, Horsetail Gatherer, c. 1840
Utagawa Hiroshige, Travelers in the Snow at Oi, late 1830s
Utagawa Hiroshige, Saruwaka-cho Theater, 1856
Maps, Diagrams, and Projections
Map of Japan in the 19th century
Key Terms
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