ART108 Quiz 3 Test Questions
________ was a photographer who became dissatisfied with Pictorialism and promoted the idea that photography should be true to its own nature rather than trying to imitate painting.
Alfred Steiglitz
Pueblo potter María Martínez used what method to create her striking blackware?
Blowing
Aleksandr Rodchenko worked in the ______ style, his works marked by abstraction and geometric shapes that emphasized the formal elements of line, color, and texture.
Constructivist
The work of Hannah Höch is considered to be a part of what artistic style?
Dada
What is one result from the passage of NAGPRA, in 1990?
Excavation of native grave sites and artifacts was prohibited
What technique shapes metal through hammer blows?
Forging
What is the most common product of woodworking art?
Furniture
What celebrated nineteenth-century artist created posters for the cabarets and dance halls of Paris?
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
What does the rainbow symbolize on the LGBT flag?
Inclusion and acceptance
What are the Lumière brothers known for?
Inventing first workable film projector
Why is wood such a popular craft material?
It is abundant and easy to work
What material is made from the sap of a tree?
Lacquer
How is Cassidy Curtis's Graffiti Archaeology organized, in order to effectively display its subject?
Location and Time
A ________ is often the first and key element in creating a complete corporate identity.
Logo
Early examples of art photography often imitated what genre?
Painting
What invention made it possible to devise a notice that could be reproduced in large numbers and distributed widely?
Printing Press
Identify the developments that created graphic design, as we know it today.
Printing press, industrial revolution
What is the principal ingredient in glass?
Sand
What work illustrates the pinnacle of stained-glass art?
Tree of Jesse
When the name of a company, institution, or product is given a distinctive graphic treatment, it is known as a ______.
Typeface
In a daguerreotype, what type of surface is used to record light?
Plate of glass
The Dada movement was formed as a reaction to what historical happening?
The horrors of WWI
The sculptor Olowe of Ise is associated with what culture?
Yoruba
In 1525, with the advent of moveable type, ________ created a unified alphabet that could be mass-produced.
Albrecht Durer
What artist often blurred the line between commercial design and fine art?
Andy Warhol
A(n) _________ is a director whose films are marked by a consistent, individual style and is closely involved in conceiving the idea for the film's story and writing the script.
Auteur
What is the most common way to shape a hollow glass vessel?
Blowing
Islamic cultures have focused a great deal of aesthetic attention on ______.
Carpets
______ is the suppression of words or pictures that a group or individuals find offensive, indecent, or dangerous.
Censorship
Photojournalists were hired by the Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to record what historical event?
Great Depression
What message was conveyed in Shepard Fairey's immensely popular poster that became the unofficial symbol of Barak Obama's presidential campaign?
Hope
What drawback hindered the success of the daguerreotype?
Inability to make multiple copies from one picture
What term is used to describe how text and images appear on a page?
Layout
What 16th-century development allowed the camera obscura to focus the image it projected?
Lenses
The creation of a photographic body of work around an event, place, or culture is known as ______.
Photojournalism
What quality of the Kodak camera helped change the history of photography?
Portability
For what purpose was color photography first widely used?
Portraiture
What is the fastest method of creating a hollow, rounded clay form?
Potter's wheel
Man Ray created mysterious images, called _________, that looked like ordinary photographs but did not require a camera to record them.
Rayograms
What traditional craft does contemporary artist Faig Ahmed incorporate into his art?
Rug Weaving
What are some elements of J. Howard Miller's We Can Do It! poster that speak to its design?
Sans Serif Typeface
In typography, what are the short cross-lines that end the principal strokes of individual letters?
Serifs
The Tree of Jesse is what type of work?
Stained glass
______, such as directional arrows, convey information and embody ideas.
Symbols