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Impressionism: Beyond the Painters Test

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5 Matching Questions

  1. Seurat- trait that made dif from other impressionists
  2. Which painter interpreted color as reflected light?
  3. Van Gogh-main traits
  4. Starry Night
  5. Cezanne-major traits
  1. a right @ threshold of modern art, all shapes of worls can be reduced to cone, sphere, or cylinder, sometimes painted things at dif stages
  2. b Van Gogh, vivid color(saturation- often raised on TV programs like golf), purity, vividness
  3. c Gauguin
  4. d Pointilism- paint placed on canvas by fine dots(points) of paint, stil able to use broken color, rich color when up close (@ dist pulls 2gether)
  5. e colorful, painterly, didn't use brush-used knife (spread paint on canvas), saturation

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. twilight state (btwn awake and asleep), fantasizes about nymph, dreamy atmosphere (blurry, vague, colorful), translation distorts it (doesn't convey all color), erotic implications
  2. Debussy, Mallarme
  3. a creature from mythology that is half man and half goat
  4. used by Seurat,paint placed on canvas by fine dots(points) of paint, stil able to use broken color, rich color when up close (@ dist pulls 2gether)
  5. 1912, to music of Debussy, stage painted like an impressionist canvas, faces profile of frontal to make it 2D, dancers move horizontally, erotic themes

5 True/False Questions

  1. Which painter used the technigue of pointilism?Gauguin

          

  2. Day of the GodsGauguin, reflected light interpreted as color- color is broad, flat(no modeling), very saturated, ppl look like they are just stuck on painting like stickeres, no desire to be 3D

          

  3. What dancer/choreo took Debussy's music and did a ballet to it?Seurat, painterly, 2D, color, ppl @ leisure, lacks detail, blurry, pointilism

          

  4. Which painter painted the same thing at different points of their career?Cezanne

          

  5. Sunday afternoon on the Island of Grande JatteSeurat, painterly, 2D, color, ppl @ leisure, lacks detail, blurry, pointilism