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Which two artists drew lots to see who would buy this work from the 1895 Cézanne exhibition at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris?
Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro
Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas
Chaïm Soutine and Amedeo Modigliani
Modigliani’s sculpture shows the strong influence of African art. He also translated those ideas to his paintings. Look at Jean Cocteau’s face. Which elements could be compared to the West African art that inspired sculptures like Head?
the severe elongation, narrow nose, and small mouth
the pose of the figure, with his hands in his lap
the color scheme of reds, browns, and grays
Toulouse Lautrec and his friends at the Académie Cormon created this parody after seeing which artist’s The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses at the annual Salon in Paris?
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Claude Monet
Honoré Daumier
The village of Céret provided the catalyst for the development of Chaïm Soutine’s signature painting style. The attributes of his style include:
illegibility and instability
a clear distinction between foreground and background
a sense of stasis and calm
In a letter to his brother, Theo, Vincent van Gogh compared the style of this painting to the work of two artists he greatly admired. They were:
Adolphe Monticelli and Claude Monet
Camille Corot and Paul Gauguin
Eugène Delacroix and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Cézanne’s approach to watercolor was multilayered and often involved a play between drawing and color. Which of these statements is most accurate regarding his approach?
Cézanne always used graphite to design a composition and then used watercolor over the pencil.
Cézanne used watercolor to rough out a composition and then went over it in graphite.
Cézanne used graphite underdrawing under watercolor as well as pencil marks that cross over strokes of watercolor.
The woman represented in this painting by Édouard Manet could best be described as:
a wealthy Parisienne
a woman in a fashionable outfit designed for promenading about town
a woman of the French lower class
Mont Sainte-Victoire, which dominates the countryside near Cézanne’s hometown of Aix-en-Provence, was an important subject in the artist’s oeuvre. Scholars speculate that this was because:
Cézanne and his childhood friends explored this landscape in their youth
The mountain formed part of the history of the region, as the site of a Roman defeat of an invading Teutonic army.
Both a & b
Paul Gauguin’s Te Fare Amu demonstrates the artist’s interest in direct carving. He created this particular sculpture:
to decorate his apartment in Paris
to offend a puritanical American audience
to help realize his dream of integrating art into the fabric of daily life
On his first trip to Europe, in 1948, Henry Pearlman met Oskar Kokoschka and commissioned the artist to paint this portrait. In which city did the men meet?
London
Paris
Vienna