Exam 2

Which style developed out of the Arts and Crafts movement and adapted natural forms to the needs of architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts?

Art Nouveau

Members of which movement dedicated themselves to producing functional objects with high aesthetic value for a wide public?

Arts and Crafts

Which structure visually expresses its architect's approach, in which the building is conceived as a whole and molded as a sculptor might shape a figure from clay?

Casa Mila

In Modern Architecture (1896) Otto Wagner wrote "the architect always has to develop the art-form out of ........"

Construction

William Morris embraced luxury and encouraged the middle classes to buy mass-produced objects to decorate their houses.

False

Typical of Wright's "prairie houses," the Robie House has a bold "wondering" asymmetrical plan with inticately joined open and closed spaces grouped freely around a great central ...

Fireplace

Organic architecture and the prairie style are architectural ideas associated with which architect?

Frank Lloyd Wright

Which structure best embodies Louis Sullivan's dictum "form follows function," expressing the relationship between the building's interior and its exterior?

Guaranty (Prudential) Building

Which statement best describes Gustav Klimt's The Kiss, pictured here?

It combines abstract patterns with naturalistic elements, such as the face.

Adolf Loos advocated for the removal of ................. from utilitarian objects.

Ornament

For Henry Van de Velde "... a line is a force... This force and this energy affects the mechanism of the eye in the way that they force it - the eye- into directions. These directions complement each other, combine with one another and in the end create definite forms."

True

In "Ornament in Architecture" Louis Sullivan wrote "I believe, as I have said, that an excellent and beautiful building may be designed that shall bear no ornament whatever; but I believe just as firmly that a decorated structure, harmoniously conceived, well considered, cannot be stripped of its system of ornament without destroying its individuality."

True

In 1898, August Endell wrote "the architect must be a form-artist; the path to new architecture leads only through the art of pure form."

True

Which artist explored the capabilities of colors and distorted forms to express his emotions as he confronted nature?

Vincent van Gogh

In which Art Nouveau building massive forms are integrated with organic and opulent decoration?

ienna Secession Building by Joseph Maria Olbrich