Impressionism

The primary objective when painting was to show the effects of _____

• converging lines
• complimentary colors
• light on color
• linear perspective

What was Monet's objective in doing the series paintings?

• get it right by doing the same painting multiple times
• please prospective buyers
• show effect of light on color at different times of the day
• prove his talent, that he was not just a caricaturist

The emergence of cameras and photography  _____ .

• freed the artists to paint emotion rather than reality
• allowed artists to take pictures of things and paint them later
• meant that artists could now focus on other subjects besides portrait painting
• all of the above

The phenomena of many small areas of different colors viewed together in the brain as one overall color (like pixels) is called

• optical mixing

• spectral mixing

• light spectrum

• separation reversal

"En plein air" refers to painting ______.

• with lots of air
• outdoors
• fully
• in the spring

Impressionists used complimentary colors in order to _____ of a painting.

• intensify two colors placed next to each other
• fill in the background
• show depth
• show perspective

Which statement describes Impressionism's legacy?

• contemporary life fully acknowledged as a subject for art
• the root of all modern art
• revolutionized the method and concept of painting
• all the above

Advances in chemistry lead to the expansion of _____.

• colors for the artist's palette
• the narrow streets of Paris
• the number of impressionist artists
• ready-made canvases

He has been often called the father of impressionism.

• Matisse
• Manet
• Monet
• Bazille

When you SHOW something in your painting, you ___________ a deer.

• depict

• impression

• van Gogh

• Monet