Module 4 Quiz

Match these Stone Age objects of art to the locations where they were discovered: Murujuga Petroglyphs

Australia

Sculpture that is not freestanding, but projects slightly from a surface

Bas-relief

Match the architect with his famous work: Walter Gropius

Bauhaus, 1926

The overhanging portion of a beam or slab extended beyond a supporting wall or column

Cantilever

The first Paleolithic wall paintings were found in the caves of France and Spain just a short 100 years ago. The most recently discovered paintings, found in 1994 in the _________ , turned out to be the oldest (about 30,000 years old).

Chauvet cave (France)

Match these Stone Age objects of art to the locations where they were discovered: Burial Urn

China

An exterior wall that is not load-bearing

Curtain wall

Match the following buildings with the architectural technique employed in its construction: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, 532-535

Dome on pendentives

Match the architect with his famous work: Le Corbusier

Domino Construction System, 1914

Relate these ancient architectural monuments to the correct culture/period: Funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut

Egypt, New Kingdom

Relate these ancient architectural monuments to the correct culture/period: The Great Pyramids at Giza

Egypt, Old Kingdom

Match the architect with his famous work: Frank Lloyd Wright

Fallingwater, 1936

Match the following artists with his/her sculpture: Charles Ray

Father Figure, 2007

Match the following buildings with the architectural technique employed in its construction: Aqua Tower, Chicago, Illinois, 2010

Green construction

Match the following artists with his/her sculpture: Lara Schnitger

Grim Boy, 2005

The intersection of two barrel vaults

Groin vault

The architect Frank O. Gehry has the idea that architecture is similar to functional sculpture, as can be seen in his _______________.

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Match these Stone Age objects of art to the locations where they were discovered: Pig-Deer and Hand. Cave painting

Indonesia

Using 3-dimensional media to visually tell a story, often involving an entire space

Installation

Match these Stone Age objects of art to the locations where they were discovered: Earthenware Beaker

Iran

Which is NOT true about Egyptian art?

It is literature, and not the tombs, that is the main source of our knowledge about ancient Egypt.

Sculpture that moves

Kinetic

Casting process often used for bronze

Lost-wax process

The Chicago School of architecture was led by the first great modern American architect:

Louis Sullivan

Relate these ancient architectural monuments to the correct culture/period: Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu

Mesopotamia (Sumer)

Match the following artists with his/her sculpture: Elizabeth Catlett

Mother and Child #2, 1971

Stonehenge was erected around 2,000 B.C.E., which we refer to as the _______ period.

Neolithic

Relate these ancient architectural monuments to the correct culture/period: Stonehenge

Neolithic Europe (England)

New Stone Age

Neolithic era

Old Stone Age

Paleolithic era

Rock engraving

Petroglyph

Match the following buildings with the architectural technique employed in its construction: Seagram Building, NYC, 1956-1958

Steel-frame construction

Match the following buildings with the architectural technique employed in its construction: Jeppesen Terminal Building, Denver International Airport, 1994

Suspension structure

The 25,000-year-old carved figurine, Venus of Willendorf, is associated with:

The Great Mother Goddess.

Which is NOT true about Paleolithic art?

The cave paintings are not naturalistic (life-like) depictions of animals but rather abstract patterns.

What distinguishes the imagery in the Chauvet Cave from that of the Great Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon?

The figures are naturalistic.

Match the following artists with his/her sculpture: Marc Andre Robinson

Throne for the Greatest Rapper of All Time

All four ancient civilizations emerged in the valleys of the big rivers. Which territory was named Mesopotamia -"the land between the rivers?"

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers valley (in Iraq)

Triangular framework used to span or support

Trusses

Mask from Mummy Case was found in the tomb of which pharaoh?

Tutankhamen

Match the architect with his famous work: Louis Sullivan

Wainwright Building, 1890

Which of the following is NOT related to the ancient civilizations?

absence of architectural structures

The Roman aqueduct Pont du Gard is a good example of the _____________ method of construction.

arch and arcade

The Crystal Palace by Joseph Paxton is an excellent example of architecture using:

cast iron and glass

Gothic builders were able to open large wall areas for windows because of the use of the pointed arch and _________________.

flying buttresses

The cast aluminum work Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence by artist Robert Longo is an excellent example of a __________ sculpture.

high-relief

Alexander Calder was one of the first artists to explore the possibilities of __________.

kinetic sculpture

Michelangelo's Awakening Slave is a good example of this kind of sculpture:

subtractive

America's contribution to twentieth-century architecture was:

the skyscraper

Egyptian pyramids were built to serve as:

tombs

Julio Gonzalez was the sculptor who first used the _____________ to create his metal sculptures.

welding torch

Sumer was the first civilization in a succession of Mesopotamian peoples/cultures. The ancient Sumerians developed the world's first wheel, plow and _______.

writing system

The Sumerians worshiped their nature gods in shrines set atop gigantic platforms called ________, which were made of sun-baked bricks (core) and fired bricks (facing).

ziggurats