art chapter 9

Julia Margaret Cameron's portraits may be characterized by the photographer's preference for:

****NOT****a pictorialist approach to portraiture.

In 1525, with the advent of moveable type, ________ created a unified alphabet that could be mass-produced.

Albrecht Dürer

According to the author, "the individual most responsible for establishing photography as an art form" was:

Alfred Steiglitz.

In the earthworks of __________, the element of time moves to center stage because they ephemeral.

Andy Goldsworthy

________ is a sculptural process of bringing together individual pieces, segments, or objects to form a sculpture.

Assemblage

The artist who poses herself as a variety of female archtypes, like the abandoned girlfriend, the vengeful hussy, the pert secretary and many others is _________.

Cindy Sherman

Which graphic design team developed the familiar set of symbols used today to communicate information across language barriers to international travelers?

Cook and Shanosky

The photographic style which was formed after World War I and focused on the unconscious was:

Dada

True or False? In creating the Colossal Head, Olmec artists used the lost-wax method of sculpting.

False

True or False? The revolutionary nature of Breathless lies in it's story.

False

True or False? The term earthwork refers to a work created for a particular site and specifically by an ancient civilization.

False

True or False? Thomas Edison created a one hour movie entitled Fred Ott's Sneeze in 1894 .

False

Which graphic artist used texts from first person accounts of political terror in El Salvadore, fragmenting and layering their words.

Joan Dobkin

A major difference between the video works of Nam June Paik and the films of modern filmmakers is

Paik's electronically manipulated images.

The American graphic designer who created some of the most memorable logos for IBM, UPS, and ABC is

Paul Rand

The ________ first made it possible to devise a notice that could be reproduced in large numbers and distributed widely.

The Printing press

The term for a director whose films are marked by consistent individual style is auteur

True

True or False? A sculpture by Michelangelo could be used to illustrate contrapposto.

True

True or False? Alfred Steiglitz was a photographer who stated that "...photography should not try to be painting"

True

True or False? Gilded is the term used to indicate that a work has been covered with a thin layer of gold.

True

True or False? The Serpent Mound, found near Locust Grove Ohio was found to contain no burials.

True

True or False? The issue of censorship of the arts was brought to public attention in 1989 when an exhibit of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe was canceled.

True

A designer's blueprint for books and magazines and other works in print is called

a layout

Because Kiki Smith's sculpture is made out of beeswax it

all of the above

The artworks of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are intended:

all of the above

Relief sculpture is:

all of the above.

The Serpent Mound in Ohio was once thought to be:

an ancient Hopewell Indian site.

An image created to accompany words is called

an illustration

Contrapposto (meaning counter poise or counterbalance) was developed by ________ as a pose for sculptures of the human figure.

ancient Greeks

Initially artists primarily used the camera obscura to:

as a drawing tool

In 1888 the Kodak camera changed the history of photography

by making photography easily accessible to the general public.

Which one of these techniques is a subtractive process :

carving

In Raghubir Singh work was unusual because of his use of

color

The development of ________ in the 19th century introduced the widespread use of color in posters.

color lithography

The process of lost-wax casting uses a ________

core of specially prepared clay with a layer of wax.

Jean Luc Godard, because of his personal stamp on the movies he made:

fit the concept of auteur in filmmaking.

The widespread use by artists of the camera obscura in the 16th century was tied to the developement of lenses that could

focus the image it projected.

Spirit Spouse is a 20th century carving from Baule and is made to keep a spouse from the spirit world ____.

happy and un-jealous

The Indian sculpture Durga Fighting the Buffalo Demon is an example of:

high-relief sculpture.

In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge photographed a galloping horse, and discovered that:

horses occasionally gallop with all four hooves off the ground.

The gates by Christo and Jeanne Claude was carried out using

hundreds of paid workers helped build temporary installation

In contrast to modeling, casting seems like a (an) ______ method.

indirect

Sergi Einstein's film The Battleship Potemkin iwas an International hit. It is noted for its:

innovative editing techniques

With the digital revolution a new element was added for designers to work with ________ by means of an interface.

interacttivity

Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans

is a portrait of graphic design.

Cassidy Curtis's Graffiti Archaeology is organized by ________ to effectively display its subject.

location and time

A ________ is often the first and key element in creating a complete corporate identity.

logo

The ______ process, also known as cire-perdue, produces a hollow sculpture and dates back to the 3rd millennium BCE.

lost-wax

In Yayoi Kusama's installation, he created a room literally composed of :

mirrors and a reflecting pools

Four basic methods for making a sculpture are:

modeling, casting, carving, and assembling.

Many of Andy Goldsworthy's sculptures often last

no more than a few hours

The work of a "pure" or "straight" photographer, such as Alfred Steiglitz refers to:

not crop or manipulate the image in the darkroom

The Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture:

paid photographers like Dorothea Lange to document the Great Depression.

Man Ray was originally trained as a

painter

The film, "A Trip to the Moon", by Georges Melies was created using

real actors and painted scenery

Fired clay is sometimes called:

terra cotta

One of the most celebrated 19th-century artists, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, created posters for the famous dance hall called

the Moulin Rouge

Despite an enthusiastic public acceptance, the success of the daguerreotype was limited by:

the inability to make multiple images from one negative.

Early examples of art photography often imitated:

the narrative (or storytelling) form of painting.

According to the author, graphic design as we know it today has its roots in two developments. They are

the printing press and the Industrial Revolution.

The sculpture by Kosho depicts a Buddist monk with little buddahs emerging from his mouth each one representing

the syllable of a chant to help people enter paradise

Although symbols convey information and embody ideas,

they have no meaning in themselves; their meaning is invented by cultural use; and the ideas they embody may change radically with time

Barbara Kruger uses the familiar look of graphic design to create

to convey unexpected and unsettling messages

The task of the Graphic design (your text states) has as its goal

to limit interpretation and control meaning as much as possible.

One of the most effective and easiest ways for a company to change its image is

to redesign its logo

Thomas Hirschhorn's artwork is assembled from among other things

transparent plastic foil, books, chains, basins,

Richard Throssel's Crow Camp is remarkable because it is so

unremarkable and self reflective.

The video about the Audi TT sedan by designers Matt Pyke at Universal Everything and Karsten Schmidt at PostSpectacular

used a programming language called Processing; never actually showed the car; and did not require production work after it was originally shot.

The video about the Audi TT sedan by designers Matt Pyke at Universal Everything and Karsten Schmidt at PostSpectacular

used a programming language called Processing; never actually showed the car; and did not require production work after it was originally shot. (all answers correct)

The photograph by Henry Peach Robinson

used manipulation and a combination of different photographic images in one work

The ancient symbol from Chinese philosophy that embodies a worldview of mutual interdependence is the ________ symbol.

yin-yang