ART 111: Test 6

The ________ was a German school of art and design that operated in the early twentieth century. The students at the school were immersed in the idea that "form follows function."

Bauhaus

The oldest pottery wheels we know of belonged to this ancient culture.

China

Wang Xizhi was one of the great calligraphers of the Jin Dynasty from this ancient culture.

China

This American artist uses glass to create dramatic and colorful interior installations, such as the one at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.

Dale Chihuly

This American artist used quilting as a way to express her experiences of childhood growing up in New York City.

Faith Ringgold

The only reason artists glaze their pottery is practical: to add a layer of protection.

False

Stained glass was integral to the development of this medieval French architectural style.

Gothic

Who was the German inventor of the printing press and movable type?

Johannes Gutenberg

Glass was probably first used by this ancient culture.

Mesopotamia

The first people ( c. 3400 BCE) to employ picture symbols in a consistent language system were the ________.

Mesopotamians

The ancient Zapotec people used the coil method to create ceramic objects. The Zapotec culture was located in which modern country?

Mexico

Ceramic artwork from this Chinese era is highly regarded for its multiple glaze layers.

Ming Dynasty

This American web designer created a website at the Carolina Photojournalism Workshop that cleverly integrates image and text.

Moser-Katz

Interactive web designs engage a viewer using changing visual, sound, and interactive features. A great example of this was the website created for an exhibition at the __________ of the work of the Belgian artist René Magritte.

Museum of Modern Art

This twentieth-century American ceramist created large expressive works using the slab method of clay construction.

Peter Voulkos

The division between art and craft began during this period.

Renaissance

Albrecht Dürer's standard of letterforms was based on the alphabetic characters of this culture.

Rome

The Ford Motor Company created a logo from this handwriting style, which was practiced in nineteenth-century America.

Spencerian script

If an artist wanted to make an object that was a simple shape and very durable, stoneware would be a good clay to use.

True

If you were to design an instruction manual for building a car, good illustration as well as text would be vital.

True

James Montgomery Flagg created an illustration of this character, who the artist used for recruitment posters during World Wars I and II.

Uncle Sam

The German designer Herbert Bayer created a sans-serif typeface called ________ that could not be immediately associated with any one culture.

Universal

Commercial printing uses an area of patterned dots called a ________. The dots vary in size depending on the level of color needed.

_

The British artist Mary Linwood used sewn thread to create her fiber art. This process is called:

_

When a metalwork artist works the back side of a sheet of metal with a hammer to imprint a design from behind it is called ________.

_

What is the name of the oven used to fire clay objects so that they become ceramics?

a kiln

A piece of thrown pottery is created using this potter's tool.

a wheel

If you were to design a party invitation, you might put important information, such as the date, time, and place in ________.

any of the other answers

This mythical creature from the folklore of the Tewa people is a water guardian serpent:

avanyu

Wherever literacy takes hold, ________ usually develops as a form of art that expresses layers of meaning and feelings by means of the shape of the written letterforms.

calligraphy

When a metalwork artist works the front side of a sheet of metal with a hammer to imprint a texture from below it is called ________.

chasing

The Portland Vase, an amazing piece of Roman glassblowing technique, used this method to create dual glass colors and high detail on a single piece.

dip-overlay

This is a group of letterforms designed to have a uniform appearance.

font

The glassy finished surface applied to a ceramic object is called ________.

glaze

These simple, symbolic graphics are often used for products that people of many different cultures use, so that there is no need for language translation:

icons

These handwritten, illustrated books were created during the Middle Ages.

illuminated manuscripts

Our word ceramic comes from this Greek word.

keramos

The South African wood turner Andrew Early creates his work using a power-driven spinning support called a ________.

lathe

This is the art of organizing type, logos, and illustrations in traditional print media:

layout design

This is most often a carefully designed piece of type that is unique and easily identified.

logo

This method of clay production is based on the creation of flat sheets of wet clay.

slab

Clay that has a great deal of water mixed into it, making it very thin, is known as ________.

slip

The art of arranging colored glass into mosaic-like window forms is called ________.

stained glass

The native American Heiltsuk artists who create wooden bent-corner chests use a method where the wood is softened and bent to create the corners. Which of the following processes is integral to this method?

steaming

The essence of visual communication design is the use of ________ to communicate information and ideas.

symbols

This type of image is generated by math-based computer applications often used by designers who create illustrations in digital media.

vector

The Tlingit people of the Pacific Northwest use this fiber process to create their ceremonial Chilkat blankets, by intertwining goat wool and cedar bark into a large flat textile decorated with abstract patterning.

weaving

Which of the following methods is not used in forming metal artworks?

wheel throwing