QUESTIONS
HUM 202 FINAL EXAM STUDY QUESTIONS WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE
ANSWERS
Naturalism - Accurate Answers✔✔broad movement in nineteenth
century which represented things closer to the way we see them
Expressionism - Accurate Answers✔✔artistic style in which the artist
seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions
and responses that objects and events arouse within a person
Abstraction - Accurate Answers✔✔freedom from representational
qualities in art and not representing things pictorially
Who were the artists of modern sculpture? - Accurate Answers✔✔Rodin
,Rodin - Accurate Answers✔✔Devoted his life to representation of the
human figure
-The Burghers of Calais
-The Kiss
Who were the artists of Fauvism? - Accurate Answers✔✔Matisse
Matisse - Accurate Answers✔✔Rejected subdued palette and delicate
brush-work of Impressionism
-Subject matter centered on traditional nudes, still lifes, and landscapes
-Use of harsh, non-descriptive color, bold linear patterning, and distorted
form of perspective
-Harmony in Red (The Red Room)
Who were the artists of Expressionism? - Accurate Answers✔✔-Munch
-Kandinsky
-Kirchner
-Kollwitz
Munch - Accurate Answers✔✔-He was a Norwegian who studied in
Paris
-Somber style that reflected anguished preoccupation with fear and death
,-The Scream: portrayal of the pain and isolation that became his central
themes
Kandinsky - Accurate Answers✔✔-Left a career in law to become an
influential abstract painter and art theorist
-Improvisation 28: bold colors, lines and shapes tear dramatically across
the canvas
Kirchner - Accurate Answers✔✔-Mood of isolation and anxiety
-Dresden
-Founding member of German expressionists who called themselves Die
Brucke- the Bridge
Die Brucke - Accurate Answers✔✔German for The Bridge; a short-
lived German Expressionist movement characterized by boldly colored
landscapes and cityscapes and by violent portraits
Kollwitz - Accurate Answers✔✔-sought universal symbols for
inhumanity, injustice, and humankind's self-destruction
-The Outbreak: One of a series of seven prints representing the 16th-
century Peasants' War
-His work was confiscated and hung in a propagandistic exhibition of
so-called "degenerate art"
Who were the artists of Cubism? - Accurate Answers✔✔-Picasso
-Braque
, Picasso - Accurate Answers✔✔-Driving force behind Cubism
-First art phase was the Blue Period- melancholy subjects consisting of
poor and downtrodden individuals engaged in menial tasks or isolated in
their loneliness
-The Old Guitarist- blue period
-Gertrude Stein- in between Blue Period and Cubism
-Les Demoiselles d'Avignon- Cubism
Braque - Accurate Answers✔✔-graduated from Impressionism to
Fauvism to more structural compositions
-First to insert words and numberings in his Analytic Cubist
compositions
What were the architectural innovations using cast iron and steel? -
Accurate Answers✔✔-Eiffel Tower
-Crystal Palace
-Wainwright Building
Cast iron - Accurate Answers✔✔First material to allow erection of tall
buildings with slender walls
Steel-cage - Accurate Answers✔✔Made it possible to build skyscrapers
Eiffel Tower - Accurate Answers✔✔-Constructed by Gustave Eiffel