art chapter 9 – Flashcards
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            Sergi Einstein's film The Battleship Potemkin iwas an International hit. It is noted for its:
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        innovative editing techniques
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            A major difference between the video works of Nam June Paik and the films of modern filmmakers is
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        Paik's electronically manipulated images.
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            According to the author, "the individual most responsible for establishing photography as an art form" was:
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        Alfred Steiglitz.
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            The widespread use by artists of the camera obscura in the 16th century was tied to the developement of lenses that could
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        focus the image it projected.
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            Jean Luc Godard, because of his personal stamp on the movies he made:
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        fit the concept of auteur in filmmaking.
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            Julia Margaret Cameron's portraits may be characterized by the photographer's preference for:
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        ****NOT****a pictorialist approach to portraiture.
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            Early examples of art photography often imitated:
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        the narrative (or storytelling) form of painting.
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            In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge photographed a galloping horse, and discovered that:
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        horses occasionally gallop with all four hooves off the ground.
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            True or False? Thomas Edison created a one hour movie entitled Fred Ott's Sneeze in 1894 .
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        False
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            The photographic style which was formed after World War I and focused on the unconscious was:
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        Dada
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            Despite an enthusiastic public acceptance, the success of the daguerreotype was limited by:
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        the inability to make multiple images from one negative.
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            In 1888 the Kodak camera changed the history of photography
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        by making photography easily accessible to the general public.
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            True or False? Alfred Steiglitz was a photographer who stated that "...photography should not try to be painting"
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        True
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            In Raghubir Singh work was unusual because of his use of
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        color
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            The film, "A Trip to the Moon", by Georges Melies was created using
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        real actors and painted scenery
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            The Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture:
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        paid photographers like Dorothea Lange to document the Great Depression.
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            The term for a director whose films are marked by consistent individual style is auteur
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        True
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            Richard Throssel's Crow Camp is remarkable because it is so
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        unremarkable and self reflective.
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            The artist who poses herself as a variety of female archtypes, like the abandoned girlfriend, the vengeful hussy, the pert secretary and many others is _________.
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        Cindy Sherman
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            The photograph by Henry Peach Robinson
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        used manipulation and a combination of different photographic images in one work
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            Initially artists primarily used the camera obscura to:
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        as a drawing tool
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            True or False? The revolutionary nature of Breathless lies in it's story.
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        False
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            True or False? The issue of censorship of the arts was brought to public attention in 1989 when an exhibit of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe was canceled.
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        True
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            The work of a "pure" or "straight" photographer, such as Alfred Steiglitz refers to:
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        not crop or manipulate the image in the darkroom
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            Man Ray was originally trained as a
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        painter
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            Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans
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        is a portrait of graphic design.
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            The American graphic designer who created some of the most memorable logos for IBM, UPS, and ABC is
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        Paul Rand
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            Which graphic design team developed the familiar set of symbols used today to communicate information across language barriers to international travelers?
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        Cook and Shanosky
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            The video about the Audi TT sedan by designers Matt Pyke at Universal Everything and Karsten Schmidt at PostSpectacular
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        used a programming language called Processing; never actually showed the car; and did not require production work after it was originally shot.
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            In 1525, with the advent of moveable type, ________ created a unified alphabet that could be mass-produced.
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        Albrecht Dürer
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            The development of ________ in the 19th century introduced the widespread use of color in posters.
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        color lithography
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            One of the most effective and easiest ways for a company to change its image is
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        to redesign its logo
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            Barbara Kruger uses the familiar look of graphic design to create
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        to convey unexpected and unsettling messages
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            A ________ is often the first and key element in creating a complete corporate identity.
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        logo
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            One of the most celebrated 19th-century artists, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, created posters for the famous dance hall called
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        the Moulin Rouge
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            An image created to accompany words is called
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        an illustration
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            Which graphic artist used texts from first person accounts of political terror in El Salvadore, fragmenting and layering their words.
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        Joan Dobkin
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            Cassidy Curtis's Graffiti Archaeology is organized by ________ to effectively display its subject.
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        location and time
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            With the digital revolution a new element was added for designers to work with ________ by means of an interface.
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        interacttivity
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            The ancient symbol from Chinese philosophy that embodies a worldview of mutual interdependence is the ________ symbol.
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        yin-yang
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            The ________ first made it possible to devise a notice that could be reproduced in large numbers and distributed widely.
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        The Printing press
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            The video about the Audi TT sedan by designers Matt Pyke at Universal Everything and Karsten Schmidt at PostSpectacular
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        used a programming language called Processing; never actually showed the car; and did not require production work after it was originally shot. (all answers correct)
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            A designer's blueprint for books and magazines and other works in print is called
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        a layout
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            The task of the Graphic design (your text states) has as its goal
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        to limit interpretation and control meaning as much as possible.
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            According to the author, graphic design as we know it today has its roots in two developments. They are
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        the printing press and the Industrial Revolution.
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            Relief sculpture is:
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        all of the above.
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            Because Kiki Smith's sculpture is made out of beeswax it
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        all of the above
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            True or False? Gilded is the term used to indicate that a work has been covered with a thin layer of gold.
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        True
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            The ______ process, also known as cire-perdue, produces a hollow sculpture and dates back to the 3rd millennium BCE.
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        lost-wax
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            In Yayoi Kusama's installation, he created a room literally composed of :
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        mirrors and a reflecting pools
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            Which one of these techniques is a subtractive process :
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        carving
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            In contrast to modeling, casting seems like a (an) ______ method.
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        indirect
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            In the earthworks of __________, the element of time moves to center stage because they ephemeral.
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        Andy Goldsworthy
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            The sculpture by Kosho depicts a Buddist monk with little buddahs emerging from his mouth each one representing
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        the syllable of a chant to help people enter paradise
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            The Serpent Mound in Ohio was once thought to be:
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        an ancient Hopewell Indian site.
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            True or False? The Serpent Mound, found near Locust Grove Ohio was found to contain no burials.
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        True
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            ________ is a sculptural process of bringing together individual pieces, segments, or objects to form a sculpture.
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        Assemblage
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            Four basic methods for making a sculpture are:
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        modeling, casting, carving, and assembling.
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            The process of lost-wax casting uses a ________
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        core of specially prepared clay with a layer of wax.
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            The artworks of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are intended:
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        all of the above
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            Many of Andy Goldsworthy's sculptures often last
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        no more than a few hours
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            True or False? In creating the Colossal Head, Olmec artists used the lost-wax method of sculpting.
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        False
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            The Indian sculpture Durga Fighting the Buffalo Demon is an example of:
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        high-relief sculpture.
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            Thomas Hirschhorn's artwork is assembled from among other things
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        transparent plastic foil, books, chains, basins,
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            Contrapposto (meaning counter poise or counterbalance) was developed by ________ as a pose for sculptures of the human figure.
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        ancient Greeks
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            The gates by Christo and Jeanne Claude was carried out using
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        hundreds of paid workers helped build temporary installation
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            True or False? A sculpture by Michelangelo could be used to illustrate contrapposto.
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        True
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            True or False? The term earthwork refers to a work created for a particular site and specifically by an ancient civilization.
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        False
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            Spirit Spouse is a 20th century carving from Baule and is made to keep a spouse from the spirit world ____.
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        happy and un-jealous
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            Fired clay is sometimes called:
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        terra cotta
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            Although symbols convey information and embody ideas,
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        they have no meaning in themselves; their meaning is invented by cultural use; and the ideas they embody may change radically with time
