ART Unit 4 – Flashcards
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"Metallic flower" is the description given by
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Frank Gehry for his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
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A sub-category of constructed sculpture -- seen in the works of Deborah Butterfield -- that involves the use of familiar objects in new ways is
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assemblage. KEY: Deborah doesn't wear a bra, she rides free on her horse made of butter, in the fields, with an emblem on its ass.
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Alexander Calder was one of the first artists to explore the possibilities of
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kinetic sculpture
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Aqua Tower, Chicago
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Green construction
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Bas-relief; aka low-relief
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Sculpture that is not freestanding, but projects slightly from a surface.
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Cantilever
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the overhanging portion of a beam or slab extended beyond its means of support
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Chauvet Cave paintings
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Paleolithic France. KEY: When the French were Pale in their Caves, they said: Chau? wee! which meant Cave? yes!
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Curtain wall
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an exterior wall that is not load bearing
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During the Neolithic period, art went from
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naturalistic to abstract.
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Early stone tools were developed about
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2,000,000 years ago. TOOLS = 2 Ooo Ooo
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Egyptian art remained relatively unchanged for about 2,500 years
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TRUE
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Egyptian art's main focus was on life here on earth
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FALSE
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Fallingwater, 1936
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Gothic builders were able to open large wall areas for windows because of the use of:
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pointed arches and flying buttresses
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Great Pyramids at Giza
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Egypt Old Kingdom (c. 2500 BCE)
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Groin vault
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the intersection of two barrel vaults
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Hagia Sophia, Instanbul
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Dome on pendentives
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Head of Akkadian Ruler
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Bronze
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In Egyptian art, the larger size of important figures in paintings and reliefs is referred to as a hierarchic scale
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TRUE
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Installation
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Using 3-dimensional media to visually tell a story, often involving an entire space.
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Jeppesen Terminal Building, Denver
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Suspension
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Kinetic
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Sculpture that moves.
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King Menkaure and Queen Khamerenebty
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Greywacke stone
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Le Corbusier
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Domino Construction System, 1914
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LEED gives awards to architects for
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environmental design
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Lost-wax process
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A casting process often used for bronze.
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Louis Sullivan
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Wainwright Building, 1890
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Lyre from the Kings Grave
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Wood, gold, lapis lazuli, shell and silver
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Michelangelos's Awakening Slave is a good example of this kind of sculpture:
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subtractive
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Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project is an example of
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site-specific art
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Our main source of knowledge about Egyptian art is from tombs
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TRUE
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Petroglyphs are made by
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scratching an image onto a stone surface
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Robert Longo's Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence is an example of
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a high-relief sculpture
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Sculpture that is created by removing material, as from a block of wood or stone, is called _____ sculpture.
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subtractive
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Seagram Building, NYC
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Steel-frame construction
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Stonehenge
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Neolithic England
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The 25,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf is associated with
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the Great Mother Goddess
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The ancient Sumerians developed the world's first wheel, plow and
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writing system
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The Chicago School's contribution to 20th-century architecture was
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the skyscraper
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The Crystal Palace by Joseph Paxton is an excellent example of architecture using
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Cast iron, glass and prefabricated modular units
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The Mesopotamians built their temples, such as that of Ur-Nammu, on a type of structure called a
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ziggurat
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The Seagram Building is created using steel-frame construction and glass curtain walls -- this is typical of the
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Bauhaus style
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Trusses
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triangular framework used to span or support
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Wall Painting from the Tomb of Nabamun
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Paint on dry plaster
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Walter Gropius
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Bauhaus, 1926
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Which architect famously stated, "Less is more"?
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Mies van der Rohe
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Which structure features a ring of posts and lintels?
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Stonehenge
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Which structure features an arcade of round arches?
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Pont du Gard
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Which work is an example of assemblage?
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Pablo Picasso's Bull's Head
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Who led the Chicago School and is generally regarded as the first great modern architect?
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Louis Sullivan
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Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu
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Mesopotamia (Sumer)
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From a bicycle seat and handlebars, the artist ______________ formed a sculpture and titled it Bull's Head.
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Pablo Picasso
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The Crystal Palace by Joseph Paxton is an excellent example of architecture using:
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cast iron and glass
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Michelangelo's Awakening Slave is a good example of this kind of sculpture:
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subtractive
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The architect Frank O. Gehry has the idea that architecture is similar to functional sculpture, as can be seen in his _______________.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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Julio Gonzalez was the sculptor who first used the _____________ to create his metal sculptures.
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welding torch
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The Roman aqueduct Pont du Gard is a good example of the _____________ method of construction.
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arch and arcade
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The Chicago School of architecture was led by the first great modern American architect:
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Louis Sullivan
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The cast aluminum work Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence by artist Robert Longo is an excellent example of a __________ sculpture.
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high-relief
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Gothic builders were able to open large wall areas for windows because of the use of the pointed arch and _________________.
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flying buttresses
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America's contribution to twentieth-century architecture was:
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the skyscraper
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Lara Schnitger
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Grim Boy, 2005
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Marc Andre Robinson
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Throne for the Greatest Rapper of All Time, 2005
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Elizabeth Catlett
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Mother and Child #2, 1971
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Charles Ray
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Father Figure, 2007
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All four ancient civilizations emerged in the valleys of the big rivers. Which territory was named Mesopotamia "the land between the rivers?"
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Tigris and Euphrates Rivers valley -- in Iraq
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Egyptian pyramids were built to serve as:
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tombs
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Mask from Mummy Case was found in the tomb of which pharaoh?
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Tutankhamen
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Paleolithic period
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Old Stone Age
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Neolithic period
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New Stone Age
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Petroglyph
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Rock engraving
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Earthenware Beaker
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Iran
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Burial Urn
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China
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Murujuga Petroglyphs
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Australia
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Deer and Hands (Las Manos Cave)
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Argentina
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Stonehenge
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Neolithic Europe (England)
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The Great Pyramids at Giza
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Egypt, Old Kingdom (c. 2500 BCE)
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Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu
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Mesopotamia (Sumer)
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Funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
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Egypt, New Kingdom (c. 1450 BCE)
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Stonehenge was erected around 2,000 B.C.E., which we refer to as the _______ period.
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Neolithic
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The ancient Sumerians developed the world's first wheel, plow and _______.
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writing system
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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).
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ziggurats
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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).
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Chauvet cave, France
