Art Final

_______________ work with words and pictures to enhance communication.

_______________ work with words and pictures to enhance communication.

Graphic Designers

______ is the art and technique of composing printed materials from type or designing letterforms themselves.

Typography

Short lines that end the upper and lower strokes of a letter in some fonts are _____________.

Serifs

Of the following choices, which is most important to Graphic designers and typographers when selecting a font ?

Readability

Companies often have graphic designers create symbols or _______________ for them. It can become the 'mark' of the company that can be recognized in the blink of an eye.

logos

At least since the 19th century, artists have used lithography and relief printmaking to quickly produce large numbers of ________________ to advertise a variety of events and social causes.

Correct answer:

Posters

Who created the opening motion graphics for the movie Sev7en ?

Kyle Cooper

QR Codes are an example of ________________.

Interactive Design

Today's smartphones have been evolving since the late 1950's when the first handheld ____________ was sold in great quantities.

Transistor Radio

________________ designers design products that integrate the utility of a product with technology and design (the way it looks and feels).

Correct answer:

Industrial

The National Park Service sponsored a competition to choose a ________________ for Battery Park.

Chair

Sculpture in which three-dimensional forms project from the flat background of which they are a part is referred to as _____________.

Relief Sculpture

____________ is often used as a means to decorate architecture.

Motion graphics

Relief Sculpture

Working a pliable material such as clay or wax into three-dimensional forms is _________.

Modeling

A rigid framework serving as a supporting inner core for clay and other soft sculpting materials is ___________________.

An Armature

Any piece or type of sculpture that is meant to be seen from all sides is ______________.

Freestanding/in-the-round

The sculptor August Rodin worked around the same time as _______________.

The French Impressionists

A process that involves pouring liquid material such as molten metal, clay, wax, or plaster into a mold; when the liquid hardens, the mold is removed, and a form in the shape of the mold is left is ________________.

Casting

Of the following, cast sculptures are most often __________________.

Hollow

______________ makes sculptures that are cast from live models and then paints them to look hyper-realistic.

Charles Ray

___________ is a subtractive process in which a sculpture is formed by removing material from a block or mass of wood, stone, or other material, with the use of sharpened tools.

Craving

__________ is a way of creating a work of sculpture by putting together pieces that are already formed by the artist.

Incorrect answer:

Construction

________ first made sculptures from welded metal.

Julio Gonzalez

__________ is know for his kinetic sculptures.

Alexander Calder

In his sculpture entitled “Sculpture,” ___________ places seemingly unrelated objects together causing the viewer to make connections between the objects. Most of the objects come from thrift stores.

Nick Cave

__________ is an art medium in which the artist arranges objects or artworks in a room, thinking of the entire space as the medium to be manipulated.

Installation

___________ is any work made for a certain place, which cannot be separated or exhibited apart from its intended environment.

Site-Specific

Who promoted the use of art for use in everyday life? He founded an interior design company in 1861.

William Morris

Ceramists who specialize in making dishes and functional objects are ___________.

Potters

The earliest people who had a pottery making tradition were the __________ who lived in coastal Japan.

Jomon

Which of the following is not a type of clay?

Porcelain

_________ is the process of forming clay objects on the potters’s wheel.

firing

Throwing

One of the most common colors used for decorating porcelain is _____________. It is used a lot because it can withstand the high temperatures to which porcelain is fired.

Blue

Pieces of glass cut from a flat sheet and pieced together using lead or some other type of joining material is referred to as ___________. This type of decoration is often used in windows.

Stained Glass

Dale Chihuly is an artist who works with ______________.

Blown Glass

_________________ is a technique in which multiple small pieces of wood in different colors and textures are laid down in a design with no bounding wall between them.

Marquetry

_________________ is process of interlacing strands of fiber together.

Weaving

Which place has had an active quilting group of African-American women for over 100 years?

Gee Bend, AL

________________ is the art and science of designing and constructing spaces not only for practical purposes but also for symbolic and aesthetic ones.

Architecture

__________ is a building technique in which stones or bricks are laid atop one another in a pattern. When no mortar is used it is gravity that holds the stones in place.

Masonry

The Colonnade and Court of Amenhotep III was constructed using _______________.

Post and Beam

________ is a curved structure designed to span an opening, usually made of stone or other masonry.

Correct answer:

The arch

A ________________ is formed by the intersection of two barrel vaults.

groin vault

The Pont du Gard is ______________________.

a Roman aquaduct

Who invented concrete?

the Romans

______________ is a generally hemispherical roof or vault, can also be described as an arch rotated on its vertical axis 180 degrees.

A dome

_______________ is a curving triangle that points downward; a common support for domes in Byzantine architecture.

A pendentive

In Gothic cathedrals, stained glass windows were made possible because of _____________________.

flying buttresses

Pointed arches and vaults are associated with which style of architecture ?

Gothic

The Crystal Palace was constructed of __________.

cast iron and glass

One of the earliest skyscrapers that used steel frame construction and had a facade designed following the structure of the building is _________________.

the Wainwright Building

One of the newest building materials is ________________.

carbon fiber

In the US, the ____________ gives designations and awards for leadership in environmentally sensitive design.

Green Building Council

What were some of the earliest things made by humans?

sharp edges

Some of the earliest art dates from ______________.

the end of the last Ice Age

Another name for the Paleolithic Period is _____________.

the Old Stone Age

Small figurines like the Woman of Willendorf were made by _______________.

nomadic people

______________ refers to an image or a symbol carved in shallow relief on a rock surface, usually ancient.

Petroglyph

The potter's wheel was around by __________________.

4000 BCE

During the Neolithic Period in China, burial urns were made of _________________.

Clay

One theory about Stonehenge is that it was used _________________.

as a site for burial rituals and ceremonies

During the Bronze age the use of metal provided some advantages to people who knew how to work with it. Which of the following was NOT one of the advantages?

improving weaving

The ancient land in the Middle East that was between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers was called ____________ by the ancient Greeks.

Mesopotamia

What was one way that Mesopotamian cities protected themselves?

They build walls around their cities.

The Sumerians contributed the wheel, the plow and ____________ text which was an early written language.

cuneiform

A ______________ is a rectangular or square stepped pyramid built by the Sumerians. They often had a temple on the top.

ziggurat

The Mesopotamian "Warka Vase" is decorated with the theme of _____________.

fertility

In the Mesopotamian "Head of an Akkadian Ruler," the simplification of the hair is an example of ________________.

stylization

The Great Pyramids at Giza were all built during the ______________ period of ancient Egyptian art.

The Old Kingdom

The Pyramid of Chefren is the largest of the Pyramids at Giza. It is __________ tall.

450 feet

Queen _______________ was one of only a few women who ruled in ancient Egypt.

Hatshepsut

In ancient Egyptian sculpture of pharaohs like the Group Statue of King Mycerinus, the poses of the figures are very _____________.

formal

A lot of ancient Egyptian sculpture was carved _____________.

in very high relief

In a lot of 2D art from ancient Egypt, human figures are drawn in profile or in profile with some parts drawn frontally. For example, a head might be drawn in profile with the eye is drawn frontally. These types of poses are referred to as ______________.

composite

_____________ is the use of unnatural proportions, scale or size to show the relative importance of figures.

Hierarchic scaling

Which of the following is not seen in the art of the ancient Greeks?

realism

Most ancient Greek pottery is made of _______________.

terra cotta

A style of pottery decoration from the Archaic period of Greek art is __________.

red figure painting

In ___________ pottery, a krater is a wide-mouthed bowl with handles that would have been used to mix wine and water for drinking.

Greek

Kouros figures are associated with _________________.

Greek Art

The contrapposto pose first developed in _______________.

the Classical period of ancient Greece

The stone hillside that overlooks the city of Athens is the _____________.

Acropolis

A slight swelling or bulge in the center of a column, which corrects the illusion of concave tapering produced by parallel straight lines is called ______________.

entasis

The largest building on the Athenian Acropolis is ______________.

the Parthenon

The subject of the metopes on the Parthenon is _______________.

the battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs

The Greek time period that is characterized by emotion, drama and interaction of sculptural forms with the surrounding space is the _________________ period.

Hellenistic

Roman portraits heads are generally _________________.

realistic

The round arch and concrete were architectural contributions made by the _____________.

Romans

The dome of the Pantheon is made of

concrete

_________ are decorative sunken panels on the underside of a ceiling.

Coffers

Most of the Roman painting that survives was ____________________.

buried by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius

Underground places for people to practice their religion secretly in ancient Rome are called ______. They were also used for burials.

catacombs

Of the following choices, which one was a major contributing factor to the decline of the Roman Empire ?

the Germanic tribes

The Roman _____________ was used by early Christians as the first churches.

basilica

The tall central space of a church or cathedral, usually flanked by side aisles is the __________.

nave

__________ are images or patterns on floors, ceilings or walls that are made of tesserae or small pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic material.

Mosaics

The floor plan of San Vitale is ___________________.

octagonal

In Byzantine art, one who opposes the creation of images of holy persons, believing that they promote idolatry is referred to as ________________.

an iconoclast

A title for Christ, especially as he is depicted in Byzantine art, that literally mean “ruler of everything” is _______________

Pantocrator