ART HISTORY MODERN FINAL EXAM
STUDY GUIDE FULLY SOLVED EDITION
WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 2026
⩥ academic training. Answer: Training how to properly produce
academic art
⩥ atelier. Answer: Artist's studio
⩥ the Classical tradition. Answer: artwork that draws inspiration from
ancient Roman or ancient Greek culture, architecture, literature, and art.
Classicism was most popular in Western art during the Renaissance
period and often depicted scenes from mythology
⩥ Antiquity. Answer: refers to the distant past, meaning the period
between about 4,500 BCE (the beginnings of Western civilization) and
about 450 CE (the beginning of the Middle Ages).
⩥ drawing from life. Answer: Going outside in plain air and drawing
what you see as you see it - Realism
⩥ copying the masters. Answer: As a part of training or improving artists
would attempt to copy the masters (successful artist)
,⩥ hierarchy of genres. Answer: history painting, portraiture, genre
painting, landscape and still life
⩥ the Salon de Paris. Answer: the official art exhibition of the French
Academy of Fine Arts
⩥ the École des Beaux Arts. Answer: School known for demanding
classwork and setting the highest standards for education
⩥ sketch. Answer: A rough drawing representing the main features of an
object or scene and often made as a preliminary study.
⩥ finish. Answer: the completion of painting fine details
⩥ modernism vs. modern art. Answer: focus on individual style
avant-garde
new techniques, subject matter, and materials
⩥ the avant-garde. Answer: new and unusual or experimental ideas
⩥ formal experimentation. Answer:
⩥ innovation. Answer:
,⩥ abstraction. Answer:
⩥ the art of everyday life/the art of modern life. Answer: modernism
⩥ formalism. Answer: the most important aspect of a work of art is its
form - the way it is made and its purely visual aspects - rather than its
narrative content or its relationship to the visible world
⩥ individuality/originality. Answer:
⩥ genius. Answer:
⩥ Positivism. Answer:
⩥ photography. Answer:
⩥ daguerreotype. Answer: photograph created by exposing a positive
image on a metal plate
⩥ calotype. Answer: A photographic process in which a positive image
is made by shining light through a negative image onto a sheet of
sensitized paper.
, ⩥ portraiture in photography. Answer:
⩥ combination printing. Answer:
⩥ the Victorian era. Answer:
⩥ the Revolutions of 1848. Answer: French over turn government
⩥ the Second Republic. Answer: Result of revolutions it represents
moving away from monarchy. It has some socialism. Artists worked in
workshops. It becomes repressive but ppl were excited for labor at first.
⩥ Realism. Answer: Reject academic historical mythology subject
matter in favor for contemporary modern life. Paint what you see with
your eyes. Has political bend to gain sympathy for hard lives of laborers.
⩥ the Realist Salon of 1851. Answer: Seen as repressive by the second
republic
⩥ the industrial revolution. Answer: A period of rapid growth in the use
of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-
1700s
STUDY GUIDE FULLY SOLVED EDITION
WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 2026
⩥ academic training. Answer: Training how to properly produce
academic art
⩥ atelier. Answer: Artist's studio
⩥ the Classical tradition. Answer: artwork that draws inspiration from
ancient Roman or ancient Greek culture, architecture, literature, and art.
Classicism was most popular in Western art during the Renaissance
period and often depicted scenes from mythology
⩥ Antiquity. Answer: refers to the distant past, meaning the period
between about 4,500 BCE (the beginnings of Western civilization) and
about 450 CE (the beginning of the Middle Ages).
⩥ drawing from life. Answer: Going outside in plain air and drawing
what you see as you see it - Realism
⩥ copying the masters. Answer: As a part of training or improving artists
would attempt to copy the masters (successful artist)
,⩥ hierarchy of genres. Answer: history painting, portraiture, genre
painting, landscape and still life
⩥ the Salon de Paris. Answer: the official art exhibition of the French
Academy of Fine Arts
⩥ the École des Beaux Arts. Answer: School known for demanding
classwork and setting the highest standards for education
⩥ sketch. Answer: A rough drawing representing the main features of an
object or scene and often made as a preliminary study.
⩥ finish. Answer: the completion of painting fine details
⩥ modernism vs. modern art. Answer: focus on individual style
avant-garde
new techniques, subject matter, and materials
⩥ the avant-garde. Answer: new and unusual or experimental ideas
⩥ formal experimentation. Answer:
⩥ innovation. Answer:
,⩥ abstraction. Answer:
⩥ the art of everyday life/the art of modern life. Answer: modernism
⩥ formalism. Answer: the most important aspect of a work of art is its
form - the way it is made and its purely visual aspects - rather than its
narrative content or its relationship to the visible world
⩥ individuality/originality. Answer:
⩥ genius. Answer:
⩥ Positivism. Answer:
⩥ photography. Answer:
⩥ daguerreotype. Answer: photograph created by exposing a positive
image on a metal plate
⩥ calotype. Answer: A photographic process in which a positive image
is made by shining light through a negative image onto a sheet of
sensitized paper.
, ⩥ portraiture in photography. Answer:
⩥ combination printing. Answer:
⩥ the Victorian era. Answer:
⩥ the Revolutions of 1848. Answer: French over turn government
⩥ the Second Republic. Answer: Result of revolutions it represents
moving away from monarchy. It has some socialism. Artists worked in
workshops. It becomes repressive but ppl were excited for labor at first.
⩥ Realism. Answer: Reject academic historical mythology subject
matter in favor for contemporary modern life. Paint what you see with
your eyes. Has political bend to gain sympathy for hard lives of laborers.
⩥ the Realist Salon of 1851. Answer: Seen as repressive by the second
republic
⩥ the industrial revolution. Answer: A period of rapid growth in the use
of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-
1700s
