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Art History
Undergraduate 1
05/06/2015

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Which of the following is NOT depicted in J.M.W. Turner’s The Slave Ship?
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a heroic rescue
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Turner’s Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps, 1812, alludes to current events, specifically
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the Napoleonic Wars
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The shipwreck of the Medusa was
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a real event
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Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa, 1819 was the direct inspiration for Eugène Delacroix’s:
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The Bark of Dante and Virgil, 1822
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Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People depicts which revolution?
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the French Revolution of 1830
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Sardanapalus was NOT:
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a king of Morocco
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What is “gleaning”?
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picking up scraps of wheat left behind in the fields after the harvest
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Who was Black Anna?
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a leader of a sixteenth-century German peasant uprising
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What is a tarare?
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an early machine for sifting wheat from chaff
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What did the parodies and caricatures of Courbet’s work poke fun at?
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a.
his pointy beard
the stiffness of his figures
his huge ego
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Baudelaire compares the artist Monsieur G. to all of the following EXCEPT
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the peasant
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Which of the following does Baudelaire NOT mention in his list of subject-matter suitable for the modern artist?
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classical myth
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Who told Edouard Manet, "You are only the first in the degeneracy of your art"?
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Charles Baudelaire
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Louis Leroy was NOT:
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a friend of the Impressionists
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What does the author’s friend M. Joseph Vincent say about the Impressionists’ paintings at the beginning of their visit?
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not “finished” enough
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What does M. Joseph Vincent think about the some of the paintings by the end of his visit?
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too finished
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What made it possible for the Impressionists to paint "en plein air"?
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the manufacture of paint in tubes
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The bathing women depicted in Edgar Degas’ paintings and drawings were most likely
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prostitutes
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What does the term ukiyo mean?
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floating world
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What does the term nishiki-e mean?
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brocade pictures
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For what was the Yoshiwara district of Edo (modern Tokyo) famous?
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brothels
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What was NOT one of the subjects of Mary Cassatt’s mural “Modern Woman,” painted for the Women’s Building at the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition?
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young women drinking tea
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What did the protagonist of Dorothy Richardson’s 1915 novel Pilgrimage describe as the ultimate “feminine art”?
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the creation of atmospheres
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Cassatt’s Reading “Le Figaro,” 1877-78, depicts the artist’s mother as:
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an intellectual
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Where was Van Gogh "seriously sick at heart and in body," according to his letter to Gauguin?
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Paris
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What is depicted in the decoration Van Gogh has made for Gauguin's room in Arles?
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a poet's garden
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Which of the following artists portrays himself in his self-portrait as a Buddhist monk?
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Whose self-portrait, according to Van Gogh, portrays its maker as a "prisoner"
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Gauguin's
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Who created a poem and series of drawings entitled At The Brothel?
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Bernard
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Van Gogh writes that he is a "great advocate" of the system of exchanges of works of art among artists, because such exchanges were very common among:
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Japanese artists
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What is the color of the kaolin clay used by the Pende in healing rites?
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white
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What does “Mbangu” mean?
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the bewitched
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With which of the following statements does Strother NOT agree?
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all Mbangu masks look alike and have exactly the same meaning
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In traditional Pende belief, sickness is most frequently caused by:
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sorcery
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Among the Pende, the half black, half white coloration of the Mbangu mask is often said to represent
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the scars of someone who has fallen into the fire while asleep and suffered burns
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According to Strother, the Mbangu mask in the Africa-Museum in Tervuren, Belgium, is intended to trigger
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compassion
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