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Realism and Impressionism

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name the Romantic Artist who painted "Raft of the Medusa" 1819

a)

Gericault

b)

Ingres

c)

Jacques Louis David

2.

Jacques Louis David was a master of the Neo Classical style but why was his influence so great

a)

He was a teacher in The Academie de Beaux Arts

b)

He was responsible for the selection of work purchased by the French Authorities

c)

He had a long and successful career as an artist

3.

Millet was one of the founding members of the hugely influential Barbizon School which developed Realism. What is the name of this painting by Millet ?

a)

The Gleaners 1857

b)

The Potato Harvesters 1855

c)

Dejeuner Sur L'herbe 1863

4.

Gustave Courbet was a Realist Artist but how did he influence the Impressionists?

a)

He depicted French Society

b)

He painted landscapes outdoors

c)

He rebelled against the Salon and the Establishment

5.

Gustave Courbet the painted the Realist painting "Burial at Ornans" 1850 but what was unique about it?

a)

it's dimensions were huge 315 cm × 660 cm

b)

It depicted everyday people at an average rural French funeral

c)

It has a dog in the foreground

6.

Impressionism was a reaction against Academia and Romanticism, what is the name of this work and artist? You will find this work in the Louvre in Paris

a)

L'Odalisques 1863 by Ingres

b)

Fete Champetre by Titian

c)

The Turkish Bath 1862 by Ingres

7.

Manet never considered himself an Impressionist but rather a Realist, however he was highly influential on the younger Impressionist Artists and in time adopted their new style, what is the name of his most impressionistic painting

a)

Bar at Folies Bergere 1882

b)

L'Olympia 1865

c)

Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe 1863

8.

In 1863, so many paintings had been rejected by the Academie des Beaux Arts Salon's selection jury, Napoleon ordered another exhibition, this second exhibition was called?

(a)  

9.

What was the name of the Classical artist and painting which influenced Manet's Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe

a)

Titian's Fete Champetre

b)

Giorgione's Fete Champetre

c)

Both of the above

10.

Venus et Urbino by Titian influenced what famous Manet painting ?

a)

Dejeuner Sur L Herbe 1863

b)

L'Olympia 1865

c)

Birth of Venus 1865

11.

The Industrial Revolution was a huge influence on society and therefore the Impressionist Artists, choose the most important change for artists from the four influences listed

a)

Hausmannisation (Slum removal and redevelopment of urban Paris)

b)

Emergence of middle classes

c)

Invention of the Camera

d)

New Art Easels, Tubes and Brushes enabling Plein Air painting

12.

Japanese or Oriental Art arrived in Europe around the 1860's , which one of these 5 artistic characteristics did not derive from oriental Art

a)

strange sense of balance, large blank areas

b)

cut off composition

c)

strange use of perspective

d)

using colour in shadow

e)

unusual viewpoints

13.

Monet famously painted the reaction of light on his subject matter, list a series of paintings were he painted the same subject matter repeatedly

(a)  

14.

What is the name of this Monet work?

a)

Waterloo Bridge

b)

Westminster Bridge

c)

Foggy Sunrise in London

15.

What is the name of Monet's famous garden?

(a)  

16.

Edgar Degas didn't consider himself an Impressionist rather an Independent Realist, which of these statements regarding Degas is false

a)

Degas loved to paint en plein air

b)

Degas used Japanese Art as an influence

c)

Degas painted people in everyday society

d)

Degas sometimes painted horses

17.

Which Impressionist artist due to his modest upbringing had to paint more commercial style portraits to sustain his income compared to the other Impressionists

a)

Monet

b)

Morisot

c)

Renoir

d)

Degas

18.

Where did the first Impressionist exhibition take place in 1874

a)

Sant Lazare Railway Station

b)

Salon des Refuses

c)

Nadar's Photography Studio

d)

Monet's Giverny Garden

19.

Name this Renoir painting from 1876

a)

Moulin de la Galette

b)

Luncheon of the Boating Party

c)

Montmatre Dancing

d)

The Dance

20.

How many Impressionist exhibitions were there in total ?

a)

10

b)

6

c)

5

d)

8

21.

The inclusion of whose work caused Monet to get angry at the last Impressionist exhibition in 1886 and led to the break up of the informal arrangement between the Impressionists

a)

Renoir

b)

Pissarro

c)

Seurat

d)

Degas

22.

Which famous actress appears as a hungover woman in Degas' L'Absinthe and as a socialite in Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party

a)

Berthe Morisot

b)

Mette Gauguin

c)

Ellen Andree

d)

Camille Monet

23.

What is the French term for painting outdoors which has passed into everyday Artistic terminology

(a)  

24.

The Impressionists used complimentary colours beside each other to add luminosity to their works, which of these colour pairs are not complimentary

a)

Red and Green

b)

Orange and Blue

c)

Purple and Green

d)

Yellow and Purple

25.

What colour did the Impressionists abandon in their quest to capture light

a)

red

b)

black

c)

brown

d)

white