SET B: HISTORY OF ARTS & INTERIOR DESIGN

Lotus Bud and Palm Frond

The following decorations are often found as part of the sculptural program in classical antiquity, except:

A. Anthemion and Acanthus

B. Egg and Dart

C. Guilloche

D. Lotus Bud and Palm Frond

Calado

This refers to the lace-style fretwork or latticework used to adorn room dividers and to allow air to circulate.

Hammerbeams

These refer to Tudor arches supported over large wall brackets, often seen spanning large ceilings.

Arcade, Tribune, Triforium, Clerestory

The elevation of the nave of a Gothic Cathedral would bear these levels, from lowest to highest.

Alessandro Botticelli

The painter of the famous Birth of Venus, a mythological composition that signaled the rebirth of civilization after the turmoil of the Middle Ages.

Sfumato

This technique used translucent layers of colored glaze to create soft and hazy transitions between colors and tones.

China

This form of ceramic, fired at 1200C to 1450C, is prized for its hardness and translucency, due to the addition of bone ash.

Chinoiserie

A European style of design that is meant to mimic elements of East Asian art and decoration

Fluting

It is the decoration of parallel grooves, concave, and semi-circular in sections on classical columns and friezes

De Stijl

This style was primarily concerned with concepts of pure abstraction painting and sculpture which had surfaced in cubist art and which were taken to their logical limits by such artists as Piet, Mondrian, Jean Arp, and Theo van Doesburg.

Lunette

It is a cresent or a half moon

Alvar Aalto

The following are Danish furniture designers except: Finn Juhl, Arne Jacobsen, Alvar Aalto, Hans Wegner

Monopodia

This furniture ornamentation is characterized by the use of the lion's head, chest, and foot as furniture support or legs.

Bauhaus

It was created in Germany in 1919. It serves as an avenue for architects, designers, and artists to pursue the philosophy of modernism in their crafts.

Tana

In Japanese residential architecture, a recess with built-in shelving usually adjoins a tokonama.

Recamier

A piece of furniture which was named after a French socialite painted by Jacques Louis David.

Historical Ornamentation

Which among the following is not a principle or design characteristic of the modernist style:

A. Functionality is the most important consideration

B. Historical Ornamentation

C. Embrace technology for common good

D. Use of materials such as glass and steel.

Sarimanok

A mythical creature, which is a typical motif in most Mindanao or Muslim design.

Rene Lalique

He produced decorative glass and figurines in the tradition of the Art Nouveau movement and was a reaction against the industrialized way of making glass where everything was machine-made.

Menhirs

A type of megalithic structure that are upright stone blocks as high as 16th carved with low-relief of attributes like weapons eyes, nose, and legs.

Strap Work

A pattern of curving, interlacing bands used in the Renaissance to ornament ceilings, fireplaces, and other elements

Mihrab

A niche or decorative panel in a mosque designing the qibla.

Trilithons

These monoliths were gigantic post and lintel structures and were arranged in a particular pattern, as found in Stonehenge.

Trumeau

What do you call the often decorated column found in the middle of the main western portals of many large Christian churches?

Horseshoe Arch

What was the Moorish Arch sometimes called?

Large plate glass was used as wall panel enrichment

Which description does not characterize the French Baroque?

A. Columns, pillasters and entablatures were enriched with gilded metal and carved ornaments

B. Rooms were sparingly furnished and furniture pieces massively built

C. Doors and window trims were architerturally treated with the heavy moldings

D. Large plate glass was used as wall panel enrichment

Seagram Building

An architectural collaboration between Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson found in New York

None of the above

Which among the following is not a Tudor style motif: Romayne Work, Tudor Rose, Linenfold, None of the Above.

Samuel Mcintire

An American furniture maker influenced by the works of Hepplewhite and Sheraton. His chairs include delicate carvings.

Corbel

What do we call a large bracket supporting an upper storey-projecting window?

William Morris

He is fueled by reviving the unique aesthetic and importance of craftsmanship against the mass-produced "evils" of the Industrial Revolution during the Victorian Period, his influence could be seen in all forms of decorative arts, from glass to wallpaper.

Gustav Klimt

He was one of the leading members of the Sezessionstil, known for his works in both decorative and fine arts, particularly his paintings using gold and contorted forms, such as The Kiss.

Frank Lloyd Wright

He believed that Form and Function are one' he practiced Organic architecture where a structure should blend well with its environment.

Sgabello

Which of the following chairs does not have an X-shaped frame? Dante, Savonarola, Curule, Sgabello

Mies van der Rohe

He is best known for his German Pavilion. A modernist structure espousing minimalism, simplicity, and buildings devoid of decoration and historicism, encapsulating his "LESS IS MORE" approach to construction.

Victorian

A type of Interior reflected in the over-decorated costume of the periodic having styles that were totally unrelated.

Shakers

An American Arts and Crafts Style substyle characterized by their simple designs governed by functional principles.

Baluster

A short pillar or column, typically decorative in design and goes in a linear alignment of the same designed pillar or column supporting a rail of a balcony

All of the above

Which innovation allowed the Romans to surpass the architectural marvels of their greek counterparts?

A. The invention of cement

B. The dome

C. The use of vaults

D. All of the above?

Hipped

A type of roof with all four sides sloping downward the wall

DAR

An Eames furniture produced for MOMA's Low-Cost Furniture Design in 1984

Boiserie

A carved woodwork picked out in guilt

Albrecht Durer

He is notably the best and most famous artist of the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th-century and German Art, best known for his engraving and wood-block prints.

Coconut Chair

Which among the following is not a cantilevered chair: Brno Chair, Cesca Chair, Panton Chair, Coconut Chair

Sideboard

This is an Adam innovation where two pedestals with urn carrying water for washing are placed on both side of a table

Impressionism

This art movement in painting was an abandonment of traditional classical techniques in favor of a more spontaneous approach in capturing fleeting, momentary instances if their subjects

Pad foot

A Dutch influence and a prominent type of chair foot during the William and Mary style.

Marlborough

The typical furniture legs during the Early Federal period

Qibla

This refers to the wall where often a niche is found where Muslims would face to pray and this indicated the direction toward Mecca

Repetition

What characterizes the pattern design of the guilloche the best? Symmetry, Repetition, Proportion, Alternation

Trifid

It is the Latin term for "split into three parts." This is a typical furniture foot during the American Georgian period.

Kostiyahe

This refers to the grid of supports from which the kisame is affixed to

The Crystal Palace

This prominent English architecture is considered a precursor to Modern architecture with the use glass and iron as main materials. It was also considered as the first prefabricated structure done for the Great Exhibition of 1851

Cabriole legs

This type of legs made possible the removal of stretchers because it evenly distributes the weight of the chair.

Cuneiform

This form of writing required indenting a reed stylus unto wet clay tablets, leaving wedge-shaped impressions.

Paimio Chair

This furniture is designed to allow the tuberculosis patients to sit in a position that enabled them to breathe easily

Batibot

The Philippine counterpart of the Vienna Bentwood Chair

Assyrians

Despite their notoriety, this Mesopotamian Empire was responsible for creating one of the most important libraries of the ancient world

Queen Anne

An English style also known as the Age of Walnut

Windsor chair

A Queen Anne innovation chair where a chair back type will have a comb-shape back.

Quadratura

The illusionistic architectural paintings usually painted on the ceiling of a Carolean Interior

Oils

This painting media is said to have been imported into italy from Flanders in norther Europe

Satyr's Mask

Early Georgian period motif resembling theater mask usually placed as carvings on splat, apron, and knees of chairs

Romans

Who were responsible for developing this concave triangular implement used to support domes over square bases?

Scagliola

A type of finish during the Early Georgian for console tabletop imitating a true marble with the use of marble chips

Gothic

This architectural style was birthed upon the renovation of the ambulatory of the Abbey of St. Denis