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Example Question #42 : Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century 2 D Art
On the basis of style, this work can be attributed to which of the following artists?
Caravaggio
Diego Velásquez
Johannes Vermeer
Rembrandt van Rijn
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer, one of the most renowned painters of the Dutch Golden Age, is known for his portrayals of genre scenes that most often depicted women. Many of his compositions show a single figure framed by the light emanating from a window.
Image: Young Woman with a Water Pitcher by Johannes Vermeer (c. 1660–1665). From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_with_a_Water_Jug#/media/File:Jan_Vermeer_van_Delft_019.jpg.
Example Question #43 : Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century 2 D Art
On the basis of style, the above work can be attributed to ____________________.
Anthony van Dyck
Caravaggio
Diego Velazquez
Rembrandt van Rijn
Diego Velazquez
While Diego Velazquez had many similarities to his Baroque contemporaries, notably a strong contrast between light and dark elements, he also had a number of distinguishing characteristics. Velazquez' portrayal of his subjects was much more unflinching than other seventeenth century artists, demonstrating an ability to accurately but sympathetically show the faults of his subjects. Additionally, the color palette used by the Spaniard Velazquez was more muted than painters in other parts of Europe in the 1600s.
Image is in the public domain, accessed through Wikipedia Media Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Las_Meninas,_by_Diego_Velázquez,_from_Prado_in_Google_Earth.jpg
Example Question #44 : Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century 2 D Art
The work shown here was created in which European country?
The Netherlands
Spain
England
Italy
The Netherlands
While an etching rather than his signature paintings, this work shows many hallmarks of the artist Rembrandt van Rijn, which were also signature elements of his fellow artists working in the Netherlands. Self-Portrait with Saskia, which is shown here, not only pictures Rembrandt, but also focuses on everyday people in everyday clothing. The work also has a number of examples of strong contrast, which was a hallmark of Dutch Golden Age painting.
Image is in the public domain, accessed through Wikipedia Media Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self-portrait_with_Saskia.jpg
Example Question #45 : Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century 2 D Art
The medium in which the work shown here was created was ___________________.
ink drawing
oil-on-canvas painting
etching
watercolor-on-paper painting
etching
This work by Rembrandt van Rijn, known as Self-Portrait with Saskia, is one of his many etchings. An etching, which involved carving an image into a metal plate, then printing it onto paper, was an easier work to produce than a large-scale painting and easier to reproduce. Etchings were much more commonly passed around Europe, making Rembrandt's fame in the seventeenth century much more than his paintings.
Image is in the public domain, accessed through Wikipedia Media Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self-portrait_with_Saskia.jpg
Example Question #571 : Ap Art History
Markers of the artistic style of the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) include all of the following EXCEPT __________.
large-form landscapes
portraits of individuals
a use of very rich and dark colors
dramatic use of lighting
the insertion of himself into his group paintings
large-form landscapes
Rembrandt van Rijn was one of the great masters of the Dutch Golden Age of painting during the seventeenth century. His style was notable for featuring bold colors and dramatic lighting in "everyday scenes" of commonfolk, as well as portraits and scenes out of the Bible. Almost all of Rembrandt's paintings featured people, and he almost never drew landscapes.
Example Question #52 : Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century 2 D Art
Which eighteenth-through-twenty-first-century Western architectural movement drew inspiration from Roman and Greek art and culture and coincided with the eighteenth-century Age of Enlightenment?
Art Nouveau
The Renaissance
Mannerist Architecture
Neoclassicism
Art Deco
Neoclassicism
The term neoclassicism can be broken down into two parts: "Neo" and "Classic." This refers to the fact that is a new ("neo") interpretation of classic architectural and artistic concepts pioneered by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Art Deco and Art Nouveau are movements firmly planted in the twentieth century, and Mannerism and the Renaissance are much too far in the past to even be considered for a question that is about an eighteenth-through-twenty-first-century artistic movement.
Example Question #53 : Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century 2 D Art
Who is the creator of this painting?
Joseph Turner
Thomas Cole
William Hogarth
Joseph Wright of Derby
Jacques-Louis David
Joseph Wright of Derby
Joseph Wright of Derby painted A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery. It was painted between 1763 and 1765 CE. He was later considered the unofficial artist of the Enlightenment as a result of his paintings that largely had to do with scientific topics.
Image is in the public domain, accessed through Wikipedia Media Commons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wright_of_Derby,_The_Orrery.jpg
Example Question #54 : Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century 2 D Art
What artist created this and other, similar etchings between 1797 and 1798?
Guardi
Goya
Tiepolo
Velasquez
Rembrandt
Goya
Goya created these etchings as a series of criticisms leveled at the frivolity of Spanish society at the time. This fits with Goya's other work, in which social commentary was a frequent presence. Rembrandt and Velasquez were 17th century painters, while Tiepolo and Guardi were not quite contemporaries of Goya, both being from a previous generation and dying before these etchings were made.
Image is in the public domain, accessed through WikiArt: http://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/what-will-he-die-1799
Example Question #55 : Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century 2 D Art
http://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/what-will-he-die-1799
What is the name of the series of 80 etchings that includes this work?
The Madhouse
The Disasters of War
Los Caprichos
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Witches' Sabbath
Los Caprichos
Los Caprichos is Goya's series created from 1797-1798, and it is notable for its recurring portraits of asses, bats, and other figures. The Disasters of War is a later series of etchings Goya made between 1810 and 1820 as a war protest. The Sleep of Reason... is perhaps the most famous etching from Los Caprichos, and Witches' Sabbath and The Madhouse are unrelated Goya works.
Image is in the public domain, accessed through WikiArt: http://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/what-will-he-die-1799
Example Question #56 : Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century 2 D Art
On the basis of style, the work shown can be attributed to _____________________.
Goya
Renoir
Rembrandt
Matisse
El Greco
Rembrandt
This image is recognizably Rembrandt. Rembrandt is famous for portraits and self-portraits with stark lighting on the subject's face and a dark background behind. In addition, he often had his subjects pose in elaborate costumes like this, which depicts an old man in a turban.
Image is in the public domain, accessed through WikiArt: http://www.wikiart.org/en/rembrandt/old-man-with-turban