Art 100: Chapter 12, 14, and 15 Quiz

Which of the following is not related to the ancient civilizations?

Absence of architectural structures.

Murujuga Petroglyphs

Australia

The overhanging portion of a beam or slab extended beyond a supporting wall or column

Cantilever

Father Figure. 2007. Casting.

Charles Ray

The first Paleolithic wall paintings were found in the caves of France and Spain just a short 100 years ago. The most recently discovered paintings, found in 1994 in the _________ , turned out to be the oldest (about 30,000 years old).

Chauvet cave (France)

Burial Urn

China

An exterior wall that is not load-baring

Curtain wall

What architectural technique was employed in the construction of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, 532-535?

Dome on pendentives

What architectural technique was employed in the construction of Jeppesen Terminal Building, Denver International Airport, 1994?

Suspension structure

The 25,000-year-old carved figurine, Venus of Willendorf, is associated with:

The Great Mother Goddess.

Egypt, Old Kingdom (c. 2500 BCE)

The Great Pyramids at Giza

Which is not true about Paleolithic art?

The cave paintings are not naturalistic (life-like) depictions of animals but rather abstract patterns.

What distinguishes the imagery in the Chauvet Cave from that of the Great Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon?

The figures are naturalistic.

All four ancient civilizations emerged in the valleys of the big rivers. Which territory was named Mesopotamia -"the land between the rivers?"

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers valley (in Iraq)

The triangular framework used to span or to support

Trusses

Mask from Mummy Case was found in the tomb of which pharaoh?

Tutankhamen

Bauhaus Building. 1926.

Walter Gropius

Mesopotamia (Sumer)

Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu

The Roman aqueduct Pont du Gard is a good example of the _____________ method of construction.

arch and arcade

Sculpture that is not freestanding, but projects slightly from the surface.

bas-relief

The Crystal Palace by Joseph Paxton is an excellent example of architecture using:

cast iron and glass

Gothic builders were able to open large wall areas for windows because of the use of the pointed arch and _________________.

flying buttresses

The cast aluminum work Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence by artist Robert Longo is an excellent example of a __________ sculpture.

high-relief

Using 3-dimensional media to visually tell a story, often involving an entire space is called a:

installation

Sculpture that moves is called ________ sculpture.

kinetic

Alexander Calder was one of the first artists to explore the possibilities of __________.

kinetic sculpture

Casting process often used for bronze is called a:

lost-wax process

Petroglyph

rock engraving

Michelangelo's Awakening Slave is a good example of this kind of sculpture:

subtractive

Paleolithic Period

the era of prehistory that lasted from at least 2 million B.C. to about 9000 B.C.; also called the Old Stone Age

Neolithic Period

the final era of prehistory, which began about 10, 000 B.C.; also called the New Stone Age

America's contribution to twentieth-century architecture was:

the skyscraper

Egyptian pyramids were built to serve as:

tombs

Julio Gonzalez was the sculptor who first used the _____________ to create his metal sculptures.

welding torch

Sumer was the first civilization in a succession of Mesopotamian peoples/cultures. The ancient Sumerians developed the world's first wheel, plow and _______.

writing system

The Sumerians worshiped their nature gods in shrines set atop gigantic platforms called ________, which were made of sun-baked bricks (core) and fired bricks (facing).

ziggurats

Stonehenge was erected around 2,000 B.C.E., which we refer to as the _______ period.

Neolithic

What architectural technique was employed in the construction of Seagram Building, NYC, 1956-1958?

Steel-frame construction

Neolithic Europe (England)

Stonehenge

The architect Frank O. Gehry has the idea that architecture is similar to functional sculpture, as can be seen in his _______________.

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Pig-Deer and Hand. Cave painting

Indonesia

Earthenware Beaker

Iran

Which is not true about Egyptian art?

It is literature, and not the tombs, that is the main source of our knowledge about ancient Egypt.

Grim Boy. 2005. Mixed Media.

Lara Schnitger

Domino Construction System. 1914.

Le Corbusier

The Chicago School of architecture was led by the first great modern American architect:

Louis Sullivan

Wainwright Building. 1890.

Louis Sullivan

Throne for the Greatest Rapper of All Time. 2005. Constructing and Assembling.

Marc Andre Robinson

Mother and Child #2. 1971. Carving.

Elizabeth Catlett

Fallingwater. Pennsylvania, U.S. 1936-1939 C.E. Reinforced concrete, sandstone, steel, and glass It's a house that doesn't even appear to stand on solid ground, but instead stretches out over a 30' waterfall. It captured everyone's imagination when it was on the cover of Time magazine in 1938.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Egypt/New Kingdom (c. 1450 B.C.E.)

Funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut

What architectural technique was employed in the construction of Aqua Tower, Chicago, Illinois, 2010?

Green construction

The intersection of two barrel vaults

Groin vault