Unit 4.4

Joseph Mallord William Turner's Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) exemplifies the Romantic era through its

• emphasis on color as a means of eliciting intense emotion

• pairing of textual information with the visual via its long, specific title

• focus on a contemporary event as an antislavery statement

• attention to the overlooked genre of seascapes at sunset

The subject matter of Turner’s Slave Ship reflects

• concern for classical mythology

• Enlightenment interest in rationality

• Neoclassical interest in allegory

• Romantic interest in social injustice

The work shown, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, can be understood in the context of the artist’s

• strong sense of patriotic duty in times of war

• admiration for the political values of modern republics

• enthusiasm for new technological developments

• sympathies for the abolitionist movement

Joseph Mallord William Turner's Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) exemplifies the Romantic era through its

• emphasis on color as a means of eliciting intense emotion

• pairing of textual information with the visual via its long, specific title

• focus on a contemporary event as an antislavery statement

• attention to the overlooked genre of seascapes at sunset

In The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm), Thomas Cole contrasts a stormy mountain wilderness on the left with sunny cultivated farmland on the right, capturing his possible views regarding the

• westward expansion of American settlement

• eruption of the Civil War and the issue of state rights

• aesthetic legitimacy of the Académie des Beaux-Arts

• social plight of the rural poor in New England

What is the artist's name?

• Thomas Cole

• Winslow Homer

• Claude Monet

• Claude Lorrain

This painting addresses the concept of

• agriculture

• the Sublime

• revolution

• the Reformation

Which of the following is NOT a value of the Romantic Period?

• imagination
• innocence
• reason
• intuition

Romantics value industry over nature.

• True

• False

Romantics value education over intuition.

• True

• False