Art Test Photo and Design
What characteristic helps to define the style of "pure" or "straight" photography?
A photograph is not cropped or manipulated in any way.
________ 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
______ is the suppression of words or pictures that a group or individuals find offensive, indecent or dangerous.
Censorship
Alexsandr Rodchenko worked in the ______ style, his works marked byabstraction and geometric shapes that emphasized the formal elements of line, color, and texture.
Constructivist
In a daguerreo type, what type of surface is used to record light?
Copper plate covered with silver iodine
The work of Hannah Höch is considered to be a part of what artistic style?
Dada
What celebrated nineteenth-century artist created posters for the cabarets and dance halls of Paris?
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
What are some elements ofJ. Howard Miller's We Can Do It! poster that speak to its design?
Interactivity
What are the Lumière brothers known for?
Inventing the first workable film projector
During what time period did experiments with the camera obscurafirst begin?
Italian Renaissance
What is the source material for Thomas Ruff's work,Substratum 12 III?
Japanese manga
What filmmaker and film is an example of the New Wave movement?
Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless
What term is used to describe how text and images appear on a page?
Layout
What 16th-century development allowed the camera obscurato focus the image it projected?
Lenses
What subject was the study of Eadweard Muybridge's photographic experiments?
Motion
What quality of the Kodak camera helped change the history of photography?
Portability
Julia Margaret Cameron is renowned for her _______.
Portraits
Photojournalists were hired by the Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to record what historical event?
The Great Depression
Identify the two developments that created graphic design, as we know it today.
The printing press and the Industrial Revolution
What does the rainbow symbolize on the LGBT flag?
Inclusion and acceptance
What aspect of media design has been introduced by the digital revolution?
Interactivity
Early examples of art photography often imitated what genre?
Painting
What description best summarizes Andy Warhol's film Empire?
Passage of Time
What feature of video appeals to many artists?
Recorded footage can be instantaneously displayed on a monitor.
In typography, what are the short cross-lines that end the principal strokes of individual letters?
Serifs
______, such as directional arrows, convey information and embody ideas.
Symbols
For what purpose was color photography first widely used?
Advertising
In 1525, with the advent of moveable type, ________ created a unified alphabet that could be mass-produced.
Albrecht Dürer
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 message was conveyed in Shepard Fairey's immensely popular poster that became the unofficial symbol of Barak Obama's presidential campaign?
Hope
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
When the name of a company, institution, or product is given a distinctive graphic treatment, it is known as a ______.
Logotype
The creation of a photographic body of work around an event, place, or culture is known as ______.
Photojournalisim
What invention made it possible to devise a notice that could be reproduced in large numbers and distributed widely?
Printing press
Man Ray created mysterious images, called _________, that looked like ordinary photographs but did not require a camera to record them.
Rayograms
The Dada movement was formed as a reaction to what historical happening?
The horrors of World War 1
What drawback hindered the success of the daguerreotype?
The inability to make multiple copies from the captured image