PRAXIS 2 ART EVALUATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Middle Ages - ✔✔Celtic art, Carolingian Renaissance, Romanesque, Gothic
(500-1400)
ex:
St. Sernin, Durham Cathedral, Notre Dame, Chartres, Cimabue,
Duccio, Giotto
✔✔Early and High Renaissance - ✔✔Rebirth of classical culture
(1400-1550)
ex:
Ghiberti's Doors, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli,
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael
✔✔Venetian and North Renaissance - ✔✔The Renaissance spreads north- ward to
France, the Low
Countries, Poland, Germany, and England
(1430-1550)
ex:
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Bruegel, Bosch, Jan van
Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden
✔✔Mannerism - ✔✔Art that breaks the rules; artifice over nature
(1527-1580)
ex:
Tintoretto, El Greco, Pontormo, Bronzino, Cellini
✔✔Baroque - ✔✔Splendor and flourish for God; art as a weapon in the religious wars
, (1600-1750)
ex:
Reubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Palace of Versailles
✔✔Neoclassical - ✔✔Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur
(1750-1850)
ex:
David, Ingres, Greuze, Canova
✔✔Romanticism - ✔✔The triumph of imagination and individuality
(1780-1850)
ex:
Caspar Friedrich, Gericault, Delacroix, Turner, Benjamin
West
✔✔Realism - ✔✔Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air
rustic painting
(1848-1900)
ex:
Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Millet
✔✔Impressionism - ✔✔Capturing fleeting effects of natural light
(1865-1885)
ex:
Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cassatt, Morisot, Degas
✔✔Post-Impressionism - ✔✔A soft revolt against Impressionism
(1885-1910)
ex:
Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat
✔✔Fauvism and Expressionism - ✔✔Harsh colors and flat surfaces (Fauvism); emotion
distorting
form
(1900-1935)
ex:
Matisse, Kirchner, Kandinsky, Marc
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Middle Ages - ✔✔Celtic art, Carolingian Renaissance, Romanesque, Gothic
(500-1400)
ex:
St. Sernin, Durham Cathedral, Notre Dame, Chartres, Cimabue,
Duccio, Giotto
✔✔Early and High Renaissance - ✔✔Rebirth of classical culture
(1400-1550)
ex:
Ghiberti's Doors, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli,
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael
✔✔Venetian and North Renaissance - ✔✔The Renaissance spreads north- ward to
France, the Low
Countries, Poland, Germany, and England
(1430-1550)
ex:
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Bruegel, Bosch, Jan van
Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden
✔✔Mannerism - ✔✔Art that breaks the rules; artifice over nature
(1527-1580)
ex:
Tintoretto, El Greco, Pontormo, Bronzino, Cellini
✔✔Baroque - ✔✔Splendor and flourish for God; art as a weapon in the religious wars
, (1600-1750)
ex:
Reubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Palace of Versailles
✔✔Neoclassical - ✔✔Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur
(1750-1850)
ex:
David, Ingres, Greuze, Canova
✔✔Romanticism - ✔✔The triumph of imagination and individuality
(1780-1850)
ex:
Caspar Friedrich, Gericault, Delacroix, Turner, Benjamin
West
✔✔Realism - ✔✔Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air
rustic painting
(1848-1900)
ex:
Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Millet
✔✔Impressionism - ✔✔Capturing fleeting effects of natural light
(1865-1885)
ex:
Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cassatt, Morisot, Degas
✔✔Post-Impressionism - ✔✔A soft revolt against Impressionism
(1885-1910)
ex:
Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat
✔✔Fauvism and Expressionism - ✔✔Harsh colors and flat surfaces (Fauvism); emotion
distorting
form
(1900-1935)
ex:
Matisse, Kirchner, Kandinsky, Marc
