Art History Final #1

The interior of the Egyptian temple of Amen-Ra at Karnak is filled by a virtual forest of columns because of the _____________.

weight of the massive stone lintels

Which of the following materials cannot be used for casting?

wood

Zhao Xiaomo's Family by the Lotus Pond is a ___________. The areas that were not meant to be printed were carved out __________ the surface of the wood.

woodcut, below

The oldest form of printmaking is ___________, and most likely the first people to use it were the ancient ___________.

wooduct, chinese

Antoni Gaudi was known for his playful, organic mosaic forms that defined the Parc Guell located in________?

Barcelona

Margaret Bourke-White wrote, "Using the camera was almost a relief; it interposed a slight barrier between myself and the white horror in front of me...." Here, Bourke-White is describing ____________.

Buchenwald during the Holocaust

Nineteenth-century industrialization led to the development of ________ as a building material, and it was the first material to allow the erection of tall buildings with relatively slender walls. This material was used for the Crystal Palace

Cast Iron

Located in Chicago's Millennium Park, Anish Kapoor's public sculpture is called ___________?

Cloud gate

Lacy buttressing, Rose Windows, Flying Buttresses, and pointed arches are architectural features of _____________Cathedrals.

Gothic

One of the most beloved and iconic public sculptures in America is Emma Stebbins' Angel of the Waters, located __________.

NY Central Park

One of the best preserved ancient Roman aqueduct systems is the ________ near Nimes, France. The ____ of the limestone blocks allowed for the weight of three tiers of arches.

Pont du Gard; compressive strength

In Paul Landacre's Growing Corn, we see a good example of the ________ that can be obtained from the skillful use of wood engraving.

Precise lines and tonal gradations

The Church of St. Sernin in Toulouse France is an example of what type of architecture__________?

Romanesque

The One World Trade Center in NYC is an amazing building that is beautiful and the ultimate in_________?

Safety and sustainability

By the 1850s, photographic portrait studios became quite popular and began to serve the needs of __________.

a growing middle class

Maya Ying Lin's site- specific polished black granite wall is __________

a monument to the victims of Vietnam War

Which of the following is central to Peter Eisenman's Holocaust Memorial in Berlin?

a sense of loss and absence for those who were killed in the Holocaust

Louise Nevelson's sculptures are considered __________. in the round

assemblages

After the daguerrotype, the major advance in the history of photography was the development of the ___________ process, an example of which is Young Lady with an Umbrella.

autochrome

In Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Fallingwater, he made use of reinforced concrete to produce _______________.

cantilevered decks

Which of the following is not an additive sculptural process?

carving

__________ is very likely the most demanding type of sculpture because the artist must have a clear concept of the final product from the very beginning of the process, since there are no opportunity for errors.

carving

French artist Edgar Degas sculpture, The Little Dancer, was originally exhibited as a wax model, and then later was___________?

cast in bronze

Alexander Gardner's Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg, is a graphic photo taken during the _______________, probably from a camera in a wagon known as a _________.

civil war, whatsit

The Native American dwellings at Mesa Verde, Colorado, used _________ as part of the back support for more than 100 rectangular _______.

cliff walls, apartments

The Artist's Studio, taken in 1837, was the first photograph of its kind and was produced on silver-plated copper by __________.

daguerre

In the _________ process, the artist creates clean-cut lines on a plate of copper, zinc, or steel by forcing a sharp burin across the surface with the heel of the hand.

engraving

Richard Serra's direct metal sculptures are meant to be ____________?

experienced rather than viewed

Site Specific works are distinguished from other artworks in that they are produced __________.

for one location

The word photography is derived from the Greek roots that mean ________.

"to write with light"

For The Ice Cube Project, Marco Evaristti and his crew sprayed non toxic red dye on an almost 10,000 square foot iceberg off the Greenland coast to conceptually convey___________?

global warming

Andy Goldsworthy's Ice Piece was produced using __________.

his breath

In both the camera and the _________, light enters a narrow opening and is projected onto a photosensitive surface.

human eye

The popularity of relief printing declined with the introduction of the _________ process, which did not appear until the fifteenth century.

intaglio

Walter de Maria's The Lightning Field is considered a spectacular example of __________.

land art

The Dying Lioness found in the ancient city of Nineveh, Mesopotamia, (modern day Iraq), is a great example of ___________ sculpture?

low relief

In works such as her Untitled mixed-media print of Chinese girls, Hung Liu's purpose is to ______.

make known the degradation of previous generations of Chinese women

The working surface from which a print is made is called a __________

matrix

Intaglio prints are made from _______ into which lines have been incised.

metal plates

The primary purpose of __________ is to preserve memories of persons or events.

monuments

William Henry Fox Talbot's first "photogenic drawings" were eerie, delicate photographs of plants, produced from a _____________.

negative

The prehistoric Stonehenge is one of the earliest examples of __________ construction, in which two stones were set vertically and a third stone laid across them, creating an opening beneath.

post-and-lintel

The Eiffel Tower's magnificent iron trusses were __________.

prefabricated

According to Marcel Duchamp, the function of the ready-made was to _________

prompt the viewer to think and think again

Higher quality digital cameras have ____________ similar to film images.

resolution

___________ is the only printmaking process in which prints can be rendered in paint as well as ink.

serigraphy

In creating his Christ Crucified between Two Thieves, Rembrandt used a drypoint needle in order to create _________.

soft, velvety lines

Michelangelo's The Cross-Legged Captive is an example of ________ sculpture.

subtractive

The Etruscan Sarcophagus from Cerveteri is modeled out of___________?

terra cotta clay

Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother is a touching photograph taken during the period of ___________.

the great depression