Art 1301 - Exam 2 - Douglas Peck - Part 2

The Taj Mahal was built by the 17th-century Moslem emperor for what purpose?

As a tomb for his wife

What term is used to describe how text and images appear on a page?

Layout

Andy Goldsworthy uses ________ materials to create sculptures that are ephemeral.

natural

When clay is wet, it becomes moldable and cohesive, or ________.

plastic

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

The lost-wax process is what type of sculptural method?

Casting

What characteristic can be seen in the sculpture, Apoxyomenos (Scraper)?

Contrapposto

________ was developed by ancient Greeks as a naturalistic pose for sculptures of the human figure.

Contrapposto

Serpent Mound and Spiral Jetty are what type of works?

Earthworks

Built for the World's Fair in 1889, the ________ was an early experiment in iron construction.

Eiffel Tower

What is one result from the passage of NAGPRA, in 1990?

Excavation of native graves or sacred sites was prohibited.

What aspect of media design has been introduced by the digital revolution?

Interactivity

What is a characteristic of relief sculpture?

It is often used to decorate architecture.

Built almost 2000 years ago, the ________ is an enduring testament to the Roman use of the arch.

Pont du Gard at Nîmes

The Tree of Jesse is what type of work?

Stained glass

The carving method is what type of process?

Subtractive

What term is used to describe the ability of a material to withstand tension?

Tensile strength

What is another term used to describe fired clay?

Terra cotta

The sculptor Olowe of Ise is associated with what culture?

Yoruba

Islamic cultures have focused a great deal of aesthetic attention on ________.

carpets

What type of structure is generated by rotating an arch 360 degrees about a vertical central axis?

dome

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

high-relief

Casting is known as a(n) ________ method.

indirect

A flying buttress is an arched exterior support system found on what style of building?

Gothic

The Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian styles are known as what architectural style?

Greek orders

What celebrated nineteenth-century artist created posters for the cabarets and dance halls of Paris?

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

What message was conveyed in Shepard Fairey's immensely popular poster that became the unofficial symbol of Barak Obama's presidential campaign?

Hope

What does the rainbow symbolize on the LGBT flag?

Inclusion and acceptance

What genre conceives of a space and everything in it as a work of art?

Installation

What qualities are common in the artwork of Christo and Jeanne-Claude?

Installations are temporary and transitory.

What are some elements of J. Howard Miller's We Can Do It! poster that speak to its design?

Interactivity

What is a characteristic of Minimalist art?

It attempts to offer a pure experience by letting the materials speak for themselves.

Why is wood such a popular craft material?

It is abundant and relatively easy to work.

What is the most common way to shape a hollow glass vessel?

Blowing

The Byodo-in Temple in Kyoto, Japan, is an elegant example of what structural system?

Post-and-lintel

What is the fastest method of creating a hollow, rounded clay form?

Potter's wheel

What invention made it possible to devise a notice that could be reproduced in large numbers and distributed widely?

Printing press

________ is most famous for his design of the geodesic dome.

R. Buckminster Fuller

What traditional craft does contemporary artist Faig Ahmed incorporate into his art?

Rug weaving

What is the principal ingredient in glass?

Sand

What method of sculpture illustrates the additive process?

Modeling

What structure used digital fabrication in its construction?

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain

What material did Shigeru Ban use in his Centre Pompidou-Metz, that updated the ancient idea of fabric architecture?

Fiberglass

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

Assemblage

What structure is a horizontal form supported at only one end?

Cantilever

In sculpture, what is the most popular modeling material?

Clay

Pueblo potter María Martínez used what method to create her striking blackware?

Coiling

How is high-relief sculpture different from low-relief sculpture?

Elements of high-relief may be in the round, unattached to the background.

What technique shapes metal through hammer blows?

Forging

Fallingwater (the Kaufmann House in Mill Run, Pennsylvania) is a prime example of the "organic" architecture of what designer?

Frank Lloyd Wright

What is the most common product of woodworking art?

Furniture

The skeleton-and-skin structure the Crystal Palace was designed by ________ in 1851.

Joseph Paxton

What material is made from the sap of a tree?

Lacquer

"Stacking and piling" is another term for what structural system?

Load-bearing construction

How is Cassidy Curtis's Graffiti Archaeology organized, in order to effectively display its subject?

Location and time

What term is used to described sculpture in which figures project only slightly from the background?

Low relief

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

The Arts and Crafts movement came about as a reaction to what event?

The Industrial Revolution

The ancient Olmecs of Mesoamerica prized ________ for its translucence, which they associated with rainwater.

jade

Identify the two developments that created graphic design, as we know it today.

The printing press and the Industrial Revolution

What is the key difference between the process of lost-wax casting as practiced in ancient times and that same process today?

Today, multiples can be created from the process.

What work illustrates the pinnacle of stained-glass art?

Tree of Jesse

Using a steel framework with masonry sheathing, the ________, designed by Louis Sullivan, is thought by many to be the first genuinely modern building.

Wainwright Building

Sculptors will often create a "sketch" out of ________ to test ideas before proceeding to their medium of choice.

clay

Alexsandr Rodchenko worked in the ________ style, his works marked by abstraction and geometric shapes that emphasized the formal elements of line, color, and texture.

constructivist

When a large hall is built using post-and-lintel construction methods, the resulting "virtual forest of columns" is called a ________.

hypostyle hall

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 round opening in the dome of the Pantheon is called a(n) ________.

oculus

The secret of ________ was discovered and perfected in China, and for hundreds of years potters elsewhere failed to duplicate it.

porcelain