CLEP Humanities : Answering Other Questions About 2D Visual Art
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Example Question #1 : Answering Other Questions About Twentieth Century 2 D Art
Which of the following artistic movements was heavily influenced by the freeform nature of jazz music?
Abstract Expressionism
Bauhaus
Cubism
Impressionism
Futurism
Abstract Expressionism
The eclectic, improvisational nature of jazz had a wide influence in other artistic forms. In particular, visual artists sought to take some of jazz's extemporaneous elements and apply them to painting and sculpture. This idea greatly influence Jackson Pollock's "drip method" and other aspects of Abstract Expressionist art from the 1940s and 1950s.
Example Question #43 : Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century 2 D Art
The artist Francisco Goya is from what country?
Brazil
France
Italy
Spain
Argentina
Spain
Francisco Goya is from Spain.
Example Question #32 : 2 D Art Beyond European Artistic Traditions
The above picture is an example of art from what nation?
India
Indonesia
Japan
China
Korea
Japan
This image, "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Hokusai, is one of the iconic and indelible images of Japanes art. Done in the ukiyo-e woodblock printing style, the print is in many copies throughout the world, and in the usual fashion of nineteenth-century Japanese art, it depicts a dramatic force of nature in a landscape. Additionally, its formalism and representational elements are indicative of art from the Edo period (1603-1867).
Example Question #1 : Answering Other Questions About Nineteenth Century 2 D Visual Art
The poet Lord Byron, the musical composer Frederic Chopin, and the painter Eugene Delacroix were all a part of what widespread artistic movement?
Romanticism
Impressionism
Neoclassicism
Modernism
Baroque
Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic movement across many disciplines during the first part of the nineteenth century which was a reaction to the empiricism of the Enlightenment and the formalism of Neoclassicism. Works like Lord Byron's poem Don Juan celebrated a bold hero devoted to the good life. Frederic Chopin used folk melodies to create sweeping, emotional music for the piano and symphonies. Eugene Delacroix's The Massacre at Chios commemorated a moment in the nationalist uprising of the Greek Revolution.
Example Question #3 : Answering Other Questions About 2 D Visual Art
The artistic movement known as Impressionism was reacting against what establishment that set standards in French culture?
Le Salon d'Automne
Le Salon de Paris
Le Exposition Universelle de 1889
L'ecole des Beaux Arts
Le Sorbonne
Le Salon de Paris
The Salon was the absolute pinnacle of the French art world from 1725 to 1890. In the late nineteenth century, the committee in charge of what art work was shown at the Salon valued grand historical and dramatic landscape paintings done in a clean realist style. The Impressionists desired to make paintings of vivid emotion with visible brushstrokes about scenes of everyday life.
Example Question #2 : Answering Other Questions About Nineteenth Century 2 D Visual Art
Which 19th-century art movement began in Paris with an emphasis on the changing quality of light and visible brushstrokes?
Modernism
Impressionism
Expressionism
Cubism
Neoclassicism
Impressionism
Expressionism and Cubism began in the 20th century. Becoming more popular after World War I, Modernism led to more abstract works. Neoclassicism began during the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century and recalled the art and culture of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.
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