WorksheetsRealism and Impressionism
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name the Romantic Artist who painted "Raft of the Medusa" 1819
Gericault
Ingres
Jacques Louis David
Jacques Louis David was a master of the Neo Classical style but why was his influence so great
He was a teacher in The Academie de Beaux Arts
He was responsible for the selection of work purchased by the French Authorities
He had a long and successful career as an artist
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 ?
The Gleaners 1857
The Potato Harvesters 1855
Dejeuner Sur L'herbe 1863
Gustave Courbet was a Realist Artist but how did he influence the Impressionists?
He depicted French Society
He painted landscapes outdoors
He rebelled against the Salon and the Establishment
Gustave Courbet the painted the Realist painting "Burial at Ornans" 1850 but what was unique about it?
it's dimensions were huge 315 cm × 660 cm
It depicted everyday people at an average rural French funeral
It has a dog in the foreground
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
L'Odalisques 1863 by Ingres
Fete Champetre by Titian
The Turkish Bath 1862 by Ingres
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
Bar at Folies Bergere 1882
L'Olympia 1865
Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe 1863
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)
What was the name of the Classical artist and painting which influenced Manet's Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe
Titian's Fete Champetre
Giorgione's Fete Champetre
Both of the above
Venus et Urbino by Titian influenced what famous Manet painting ?
Dejeuner Sur L Herbe 1863
L'Olympia 1865
Birth of Venus 1865
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
Hausmannisation (Slum removal and redevelopment of urban Paris)
Emergence of middle classes
Invention of the Camera
New Art Easels, Tubes and Brushes enabling Plein Air painting
Japanese or Oriental Art arrived in Europe around the 1860's , which one of these 5 artistic characteristics did not derive from oriental Art
strange sense of balance, large blank areas
cut off composition
strange use of perspective
using colour in shadow
unusual viewpoints
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)
What is the name of this Monet work?
Waterloo Bridge
Westminster Bridge
Foggy Sunrise in London
What is the name of Monet's famous garden?
(a)
Edgar Degas didn't consider himself an Impressionist rather an Independent Realist, which of these statements regarding Degas is false
Degas loved to paint en plein air
Degas used Japanese Art as an influence
Degas painted people in everyday society
Degas sometimes painted horses
Which Impressionist artist due to his modest upbringing had to paint more commercial style portraits to sustain his income compared to the other Impressionists
Monet
Morisot
Renoir
Degas
Where did the first Impressionist exhibition take place in 1874
Sant Lazare Railway Station
Salon des Refuses
Nadar's Photography Studio
Monet's Giverny Garden
Name this Renoir painting from 1876
Moulin de la Galette
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Montmatre Dancing
The Dance
How many Impressionist exhibitions were there in total ?
10
6
5
8
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
Renoir
Pissarro
Seurat
Degas
Which famous actress appears as a hungover woman in Degas' L'Absinthe and as a socialite in Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party
Berthe Morisot
Mette Gauguin
Ellen Andree
Camille Monet
What is the French term for painting outdoors which has passed into everyday Artistic terminology
(a)
The Impressionists used complimentary colours beside each other to add luminosity to their works, which of these colour pairs are not complimentary
Red and Green
Orange and Blue
Purple and Green
Yellow and Purple
What colour did the Impressionists abandon in their quest to capture light
red
black
brown
white
