Hollyn White

Comparative Arts Literature Take-Home Final Exam

1. What was added to pigments in the fifteenth century in Northern Europe
that revolutionized painting? How did that substance affect how artists
painted? And, how did innovations in oil pigments in Venice in the sixteenth
century further affect painting?
2. What are three features of Palladian architecture? From what did
Palladio formulate his ideas of classical architecture?
3. What are two general characteristics of Venetian Renaissance paintings in
the sixteenth century?
4. Name the title of one painting of each of the following painters:
Giovanni Bellini: Madonna with saints
Titian: Venus of Urbino
Giorgione: Pastoral Concert
Tinteretto: Last Supper
Sofinisba Anguissola: Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola
Paolo Veronese: The Conversion of Mary Magdalene
5. What was the intent of the first phase of Italian mannerism in the
sixteenth century?
6. What are two features of the second phase of mannerism in the sixteenth
century? Name one work for each feature that exemplifies that feature.
7. How might the dark and light painting style of Caravaggio and
Gentileschi and Velzquez The Water Carrier of Seville have a parallel in the
monadic stile rappresentativo of early seventeenth-century Italian music?
8. How might the synthesis of various art mediums found in St. Teresa in
Ecstasy, at the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome, coincide with
opera, particularly early Baroque opera?
9. Describe the various scenes presented in El Grecos The Martyrdom of St.
Maurice and the Theban Legion. Is there any 20th-century equivalent that
attempts to show more than one aspect of a figure(s) in a painting or
sculpture?
10. What all is present in Velzquez Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)?
11. How do the styles of contemporary painters Peter Paul Rubens and
Nicholas Poussin differ? Name one painting by each artist.

12. Describe Christopher Wrens St. Pauls Cathedral in London.

13. Name the five (or six) categories of Dutch seventeenth-century painting,
and identify one seventeenth-century Dutch painting and its artist of each
category you name.
History painting:
Portrait painting:
Genre painting:
Landscape:
Still life:
14. How do the styles of Rembrandt and Jen Vermeer differ? Name two
paintings by each artist.
15. What does Antoine Watteaus Gersaints Signboard signify?
16. What does French Rococo art of the eighteenth century seem to have in
common with French harpsichord music of the Baroque, particularly that of
Franois Couperin? Name a painting and its artist that exemplifies Rococo
painting, as well as the title of a harpsichord piece by Couperin that exhibits
a similar feature.
17. What are two features of paintings from the Sturm und Drang period?
Name a painting and its artist that serves as an example of the Sturm und
Drang.
18. What monumental German literary work from the early nineteenth
century might be classified as Sturm und Drang? Name the author of that
work as well as three examples of its influence on later art, including music.
19. Identify neo-classical features in Angelica Kauffmans Cornelia Pointing
to Her Children and Her Treasures and in Davids The Lictors Bringing Back
to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons.
20. What two eighteenth-century books and their authors clarify the
difference between ancient Greek architecture and ancient Roman
architecture?
21. How does La Madeleine in Paris reflect both Greek and Roman
architecture?
22. What are general dates of the Greek revival in architecture in the
southern US? Name two common features of Greek-revival architecture in
structures in the US South.

23. What served as a model for Vendme Column in Paris? What is

characteristic of both?
24. The textbook identifies five themes present in the Romantic period.
What are those five? Also, name two works that exemplify each of those
themes, with different mediums when possible.
25. How might the paintings of J. M. W. Turner be considered the forerunner
of Impressionist painting?
26. Why did Eduard Manets Olympia cause a scandal?
27. Manet painted in various stylistic periods. Name one painting in his
realist style, and one in his impressionist style.
28. What Christian symbols are present in John Everett Millais Christ in the
House of His Parents (The Carpenters Shop)?
29. Why was Rodins Age of Bronze criticized? (At the Dixon gallery, there is
a Rodin bust!)
30. What building material revolutionized architecture in the mid-nineteenth
century? Name one structure that utilized that building material.
31. Your textbook contends that Asian (Oriental) art influenced Impressionist
artists and musicians (musicians are artists, just wanted to be inclusive
without doubt). Name a painting and name a piece of music that exhibit Far
Eastern influence.
32. What was (and is still sometimes imposed) a criticism of Impressionist
painting? Name five prominent Impressionist artists and a painting by each.
33. What optical discoveries in the nineteenth century influenced how
Impressionist painters used colors?
34. Does color for colors sake of the Impressionist period have any
equivalent in music?
35. How did Impressionist piano composers achieve the blurry effect that
is present in Impressionist paintings?
36. How can pointillism in Georges Seurats paintings be considered a
mathematical finale (your texts phrase) to Impressionism?
37. Is there any connection or similar philosophy between symbolist poetry
and Impressionist music and art?

38. What do art critics contend that post-Impressionist painting display that
was absent in Impressionist painting?
39. How did Paul Gauguin impose colors upon each other in his paintings?
40. What is evident in the various paintings of Paul Czannes depiction of
Mont Ste. Victoire?
41. What three shapes did Czanne identify in nature? Name a painting by
Czanne and objects in that painting that represent those three shapes.
42. How does The Scream by Edvard Munch represent thought in the
Expressionist period and turn-of-the-20th-century developments in
psychiatry?
43. Name two pieces of music that are representative of the Expressionist
period.
44. How did atonality of Schoenberg fit in with the Expressionist period?
45. Western artists became interested in primitive art of other cultures,
particularly from Africa. Name two art works and their respective artists, in
different mediums, that exhibit African influence.
46. What artists work is pictured on the cover of your textbook? How did
that artists The Green Stripe (Mme. Matisse) categorize his style as fauvist?
47. How is Constantin Brancusis Bird in Space depicted? Name the medium
and material as well.
48. In what harmonic language did Anton Webern compose many of his
works? What is unusual about the length of many of his pieces? For extra
credit, how did Weberns Symphony, Op. 21 correspond to Seurats Sunday
Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte?
49. At the Dixon gallery, we saw a painting by George Braque. With what
artistic movement is Braque associated? Name a painting by Braque that
exemplifies that style.
50. Pablo Picasso was of what nationality? Picasso worked in various styles
of the twentieth century. What is a cubist painting of his? Describe that
work.
51. How did Poulenc achieve cubism in his Mass in G?

52. How did Marcel Duchamp depict the subject in Nude Descending a
Staircase?
53. How Fernand Lger depict elements of a city in his The City?
54. What seems to be the intent of works from the Dada period? Name a
representative work and its artist of the Dada movement.
55. How did Surrealist artists give meaning to the Dada period?
56. What did Salvador Dali indent to depict in Persistence of Memory?
57. What is physic automatism?
58. How did Joan Milo come up with Painting?
59. Name two visual art works that exemplify the Neo-classical period
between the two world wars.
60. How does Paul Mondrian depict the city in New York I?
61. Jos Clemente Orozcos painting, The Epic of American Civilization:
Gods of the Modern World, is a disturbing painting (fresco). What seems to
be represented in that visual commentary?
62. What does William H. Johnsons The Chain Gang intend to convey?
63. What prompted Picassos Guernica? Has there been any specific similar
atrocious military action since 1960 that has been passed over as almost
routine?
64. What was Frank Lloyd Wrights intention when designing a structure?
Name two architectural works by Wright.
65. What are features of Art Deco painting? What are features of Art Deco
architecture? Name an example of each, including the artist involved in
each.
66. What is characteristic of the Bauhaus movement in architecture?
67. Milton Babbitts Three Compositions for Piano (1947) are the earliest
pieces written in total serialism, and is often described as hard to listen to,
to understand. What was Babbitts intent in his essay Who cares if you
listen?

68. Give a concise definition of abstract expressionism. Do not copy from

the glossary or the body of the textparaphrase by more than just
substituting or changing around words.
69. What process did Jackson Pollock carry out to produce his paintings?
70. In your opinion, is there any connection between Pollocks version of
physic automatism and Cages determining pitches, dynamics, etc. in Music
of Changes through dice rolling as inspired by I Ching?
71. What does Duane Hansons Supermarket Shopper represent? Comment
on the appearance of the human figure.
72. What trend does Carlo Maria Marianis It Is Forbidden to Awaken the
Gods represent and revive?
73. What period is revived in Michael Graves Portland Public Service
Building in Portland, Oregon?
74. Name one other item you learned or read this semester that was of
particular interest to you not addressed elsewhere on this examination.
75. Name one item you gleaned from a presentation since spring break that
is not addressed on this exam.