Art 100: Chapter 12, 14, and 15 Quiz
Which of the following is not related to the ancient civilizations?
Absence of architectural structures.
Murujuga Petroglyphs
Australia
The overhanging portion of a beam or slab extended beyond a supporting wall or column
Cantilever
Father Figure. 2007. Casting.
Charles Ray
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)
Burial Urn
China
An exterior wall that is not load-baring
Curtain wall
What architectural technique was employed in the construction of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, 532-535?
Dome on pendentives
What architectural technique was employed in the construction of 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.
Egypt, Old Kingdom (c. 2500 BCE)
The Great Pyramids at Giza
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.
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)
The triangular framework used to span or to support
Trusses
Mask from Mummy Case was found in the tomb of which pharaoh?
Tutankhamen
Bauhaus Building. 1926.
Walter Gropius
Mesopotamia (Sumer)
Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu
The Roman aqueduct Pont du Gard is a good example of the _____________ method of construction.
arch and arcade
Sculpture that is not freestanding, but projects slightly from the surface.
bas-relief
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
Using 3-dimensional media to visually tell a story, often involving an entire space is called a:
installation
Sculpture that moves is called ________ sculpture.
kinetic
Alexander Calder was one of the first artists to explore the possibilities of __________.
kinetic sculpture
Casting process often used for bronze is called a:
lost-wax process
Petroglyph
rock engraving
Michelangelo's Awakening Slave is a good example of this kind of sculpture:
subtractive
Paleolithic Period
the era of prehistory that lasted from at least 2 million B.C. to about 9000 B.C.; also called the Old Stone Age
Neolithic Period
the final era of prehistory, which began about 10, 000 B.C.; also called the New Stone Age
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
Stonehenge was erected around 2,000 B.C.E., which we refer to as the _______ period.
Neolithic
What architectural technique was employed in the construction of Seagram Building, NYC, 1956-1958?
Steel-frame construction
Neolithic Europe (England)
Stonehenge
The architect Frank O. Gehry has the idea that architecture is similar to functional sculpture, as can be seen in his _______________.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Pig-Deer and Hand. Cave painting
Indonesia
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.
Grim Boy. 2005. Mixed Media.
Lara Schnitger
Domino Construction System. 1914.
Le Corbusier
The Chicago School of architecture was led by the first great modern American architect:
Louis Sullivan
Wainwright Building. 1890.
Louis Sullivan
Throne for the Greatest Rapper of All Time. 2005. Constructing and Assembling.
Marc Andre Robinson
Mother and Child #2. 1971. Carving.
Elizabeth Catlett
Fallingwater. Pennsylvania, U.S. 1936-1939 C.E. Reinforced concrete, sandstone, steel, and glass It's a house that doesn't even appear to stand on solid ground, but instead stretches out over a 30' waterfall. It captured everyone's imagination when it was on the cover of Time magazine in 1938.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Egypt/New Kingdom (c. 1450 B.C.E.)
Funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
What architectural technique was employed in the construction of Aqua Tower, Chicago, Illinois, 2010?
Green construction
The intersection of two barrel vaults
Groin vault
