MEGG'S History of Graphic Design - CH 3 and 4 Quiz

The painting of bamboo from _____ by Li Fangying shows how the strokes of the brush join calligraphy and painting, poetry and illustration, into a unified communication.

Album of Eight Leaves

In the later Gothic period and in the 1400s, the _____, a private devotional text, became the most popular manuscript book produced.

Book of Hours

_____, a Chinese government official, is credited with the invention of paper in 105 CE, although the Chinese might have invented it before then.

Cai Lun

_____ was a pictograph writing system inscribed on cast-bronze objects and was also used for important treaties, penal codes, and legal contracts.

Chia-ku-wen

_____ was an early pictographic writing system that was inscribed on oracle bones and used to convey communications between the living and the dead.

Chiaku-wen

The oldest extant printed manuscript from China (868 CE) is the _____, which is in a scroll about sixteen feet long.

Diamond Sutra

A _____ was a seal made by carving calligraphic characters into a flat surface of jade, gold, or ivory.

chop

Manuscripts in the _____ style were often lettered in rustic capitals in one wide column on each page, with illustrations the same width as the text column framed in bright bands of color.

classical

The Vatican Vergil, an example of the _____ manuscript style, includes Virgil's Aeneid and the Georgics.

classical

The _____ of a manuscript or book is an inscription, usually at the end, containing facts about its production.

colophon

A Buddhist charm, called a _____, was printed and placed in a pagoda to help lengthen one's life.

dharani

The Chinese calligraphic writing system consists of logograms, or graphic characters that represent _____.

entire words

Chinese calligraphy is considered in China to be a higher art form than sculpture, but a lower art form than painting.

false

During the Han Dynasty, seals called chops were made by carving the background away from a calligraphic character. The resulting print was a red character on a white background.

false

Early pieces of type used by Pi Sheng in his movable type process were organized alphabetically by the first letter of the word they represented.

false

Illuminated manuscripts in the Middle Ages were costly and time consuming to produce. In addition to expensive minerals for ink, the skins of up to five animals were often required to make parchment for one text.

false

In manuscripts created in the Renaissance style such as the Vatican Vergil, the text is lettered in crisp, rustic capitals. Illustrations were usually positioned at the top, middle, or bottom of the page adjacent to a single column of text.

false

In the tenth century CE, Prime Minister Fang [*Feng] Tao ordered the use of wood blocks to print Confucian classics so that they would be available to the masses.

false

Influenced by the half-uncials, Caroline minuscules are the forerunners of our contemporary lowercase or small-letter alphabet.

false

Islamic texts such as the Qur'an include exquisite illuminated miniatures of religious figures in narrative accounts.

false

Shitao Yuanji created Album of Eight Leaves, and in doing so demonstrated the ability of Chinese calligraphy to evoke natural objects.

false

The Book of Kells, a masterpiece of Celtic design, is unique because of the textual accuracy.

false

The Chinese calligraphic system consists of forty characters.

false

The Chinese were immediately receptive to the use of paper in the early decades because of its greater elitist appeal.

false

The frontispiece of a manuscript is the front cover, usually made of ivory or precious metals encrusted with semi precious gems.

false

The pages of the Pen Ts'ao medical herbal were assembled as a folded accordian-style book, which replaced the scroll format in the ninth and tenth centuries.

false

The uncial letter originally invented by the Greeks, was drafted on four guidelines. It was the basis of our lower case letters.

false

Between the scroll and the stitched book, the Chinese had a transitional format that resembled _____.

folded scrolls (with accordian-style folds)

In the early scriptoriums, the _____ was responsible for the execution of ornament and image in visual support of the text.

illuminator

Charlemagne attempted to restore the lost glory of the Roman Empire by reviving scholarship and standardizing writing. In this Caroline graphic revival, Charlemagne _____.

imported the scholar Alcuin of York from England

The final step in the evolution of Chinese calligraphy --- the writing still in use today --- is called _____.

k'ai-shu

The Celtic manuscript was revolutionary in terms of design innovation because writers _____.

left spaces between words

In the early fifteenth century, the Limbourg brothers created their masterpiece, _____, which included an illustrated calendar depicting seasonal activities of each month crowned with graphic astronomical charts.

les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

The textura lettering style seen in Gothic manuscripts --- composed of vertical strokes capped with pointed serifs --- was called _____ in its time.

littera moderna

China became the first society in which ordinary people were in daily contact with printed images because of the use of printed _____ around the year 1000 CE.

money

Celtic design, as seen in the Book of Kells, is best described by all but one of the following terms. Which does NOT belong?

naturalistic

The ancient Chinese invented three of the four innovations listed below. Which does NOT belong?

oil paint

Islamic illuminated manuscripts are characterized three of the elements below. Which does NOT belong?

religious icons

Production of illuminated manuscripts in the monasteries included the work of the _____, who were well-educated scholars functioning as editors and art directors with overall responsibility for manuscripts' design and production.

scrittori

Many examples of Moorish-influenced manuscripts from Spain are texts on _____.

the Book of Revelation

The early Chinese practice of making rubbings allowed for copies to be made of _____ after 165 CE. The originals were carved in stone and required a great deal of space for storage.

the Confucian classics

According to legend, calligraphy was invented about 1800 BCE by Ts-ang Chieh, who was inspired by _____.

the claw marks of birds and the footprints of animals

Printing with movable type never came into extensive use in the Far East because

the sheer number of characters made the process too tedious

During the Romanesque period (c. 1000-1150 CE), manuscript design elements of different regions began to blend. One reason is that styles were cross-fertilized when _____.

travel increased during crusades and pilgrimages

Aniconism was a common theme used in Islamic manuscripts.

true

Charlemagne's scribes at Aachen developed a legible writing style using minuscule letters that became the forerunner to our system of upper and lowercase letters.

true

Chinese calligraphy is a purely visual language.

true

Illustrators in late medieval illuminated manuscripts from the fifteenth century are characterized by elongated, vertical figures and increase naturalism.

true

In contrast to Western writing, Chinese calligraphic strokes express spiritual states and deep feelings.

true

Interlace and lacertine patterns in intricate Celtic designs were often created by scribes with the use of drafting instruments.

true

Pi Sheng developed a method of printing with movable type in the eleventh century CE.

true

Relief printing is the process of removing the negative spaces surrounding an image and inking the raised surface, which is then rubbed onto paper.

true

The "bone and shell" style of writing that was used from 1800 to 1200 BCE was closely related to the art of communicating with dead ancestors.

true

The Haggadot are Judaic texts containing Jewish historical accounts of proverbs.

true

The earliest datable relief printing from China is from around 770 CE.

true

The illustrations and decorations in illuminated manuscripts were intended to educate the reader as well as beautify the book.

true

The invention of musical notation has also been attributed to scribes working in medieval monastaries.

true

The third phase in Chinese calligraphic writing was the standardization of characters into the hsiao chuan style developed by Prime Minister Li Ssu.

true

The transition from large, introductory script to smaller text is called a diminuendo.

true

So named because they were written between two guidelines that were one inch apart, _____ were rounded, freely drawn letters for suited to rapid writing.

uncials