Picturesque Journeys Test

Which of the following would have been the most likely to inspire Georgia O'Keefe in her first paintings?

• a beautiful white rose
• a colossal business tower
• a smattering of half-buried animal skulls
• a rose-colored desert mesa

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Which artist was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin?

• Frida Kahlo

• Georgia O'Keeffe

• Paul Gauguin

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Which artist was a French Merchant Marine?

• Frida Kahlo

• Georgia O'Keeffe

• Paul Gauguin

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Which artist painted murals in Detroit for a North American company?

• Frida Kahlo

• Georgia O'Keeffe

• Paul Gauguin

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What important effect did O' Keefe's study under Arthur Wesley Dow have on her career?

• She learned how to create large-scale paintings of nature at close range.
• She became a master at painting mountain landscapes.
• She began to travel around the country teaching other painters her unique methods of painting flowers.
• She became one of the first American artists to draw in an abstract style.

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What was O'Keefe's inspiration for her art?

• Growing up on a farm

• Growing up in the city

• Her family

• Her pets

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Choose one similarity between Georgia O' Keefe and Frida Kahlo:

• They both focused on self-portraits as a means of expression.
• They were both influenced greatly by other female artists early in their careers.
• They both had family members from a Hungarian background.

• They both studied at an Art Institute in Chicago.

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Like Kahlo and O' Keefe, Gauguin was greatly influenced by his travels. Paul Gauguin's first experience with travel outside of his homeland was...

• when he joined the French Merchant Marine.
• when he got a job as a stockbroker.
• when his family left Paris in 1848 and moved to Peru.

• when he became interested in Japanese culture.

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Which of the following is an accurate contrast of travel in Gauguin's career as a professional artist to his travels in early life?

• When he was a professional artist, he traveled to find inspiration; before that, he traveled for family or business reasons.
• When he was a professional artist, he traveled to expand his technique with new brush strokes; before that, he traveled because his parents took him to different schools.
• Before he was a professional artist, he traveled across the world; when he was professional artist, he traveled mostly across France.
• Before he was a professional artist, he traveled to South America; when he was a professional artist, he spent the majority of his time in Japan.

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Which of the following statements would Paul Gauguin disagree with?

• Impressionist art is new and inspirational. I want to become the best Impressionist the world has ever known.
• I want only to do simple, very simple art.
• The beauty of the Caribbean landscape is amazing!
• European culture is artificial and dull.

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