Unit Five

Question 1

Chiswick House

Answer 1

• Neoclassical architecture
• Lord Burlington & William Kent
• completed: 1729
• UK
• house & grounds: 65.1 acres
• visual elements from Parthenon & Pantheon
• influenced by the sixteenth-century designs of Andrea Palladio

Question 2

The Death of Socrates

Answer 2

• Neoclassical Art
• Jacques Louis-David
• 1787
• France
• oil, canvas
• 51” x 77.2”
• from Plato’s Phaedo
• contextualism

Question 3

Watson and the Shark

Answer 3

• American Romanticism
• John Singleton Copley
• 1778
• US
• oil, canvas
• 71.7” x 90.43”
• commissioned by Brook Watson
• biographical

Question 4

Arrangement in Grey and Black #1

Answer 4

• American Realism
• James Abbot MacNeill Whistle
• 1871
• US
• oil, canvas
• 56.8” x 64”
• autobiographical/biographical
• contextualism
• psychoanalysis

Question 5

Ophelia

Answer 5

• Pre-Raphaelite Art
• John Everett Millais
• 1852
• UK
• oil, canvas
• 30” x 44”
• poetic death scene from Hamlet: Claudius & Gertrude, Polonius & Ophelia
• Psychoanalysis
• Contextualism
• Feminism

Question 6

Impression, Sunrise

Answer 6

• Claude Monet
• France
• 1872
• oil, canvas
• 18.9” x 24.8”

Question 7

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Answer 7

• Neo-Impressionism
• Georges Seurat
• France
• 1886
• oil, canvas
• 81.7” x 121.3”
• Contextualism

Question 8

The Scream

Answer 8

• Post Impressionism: Symbolism
• Edvard Munch
• Norway
• 1893
• oil, tempera, pastel, crayon, cardboard
• 36” x 28.9”
• Psychoanalytical

Question 9

Starry Night

Answer 9

• Cloisonnism/Japanaiserie
• Vincent van Gogh
• Netherlands
• 1889
• oil, canvas
• 29.01” x 36.26”
• Traditional
• Psychoanalytical

Question 10

The Kiss

Answer 10

• Post Impressionism: Vienna Secession
• Gustav Klimt
• Austria
• 1908
• oil, gold, silver, platinum, canvas
• 71” x 71”
• Traditional subject
• Vienna secession with art nouveau/arts and crafts influence