Austin Community College Paula King Intro to Visual Arts 1301 Midterm
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Maya Lin's major work is
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Vietnam Veteran Memorial
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What are the roles artists fill?
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Create places for some human purpose, create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects, record and commemorate, give tangible form to the unknown, give tangible form to feelings and ideas.
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Methods used by prehistoric painters
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Charcoal, tinted clays, MnO2 pigments mixed with blood, animal fat, or Ca rich cave water. Fingers, animal hair brushes, blown through hollow reeds.
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Things you know about the drawings and paintings found in Chauvet Cave
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In France, paintings from Upper Paleolithic era, depicts animals.
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Relate theories regarding the purpose of Stonehenge
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Graveyard marker, religious complex
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The sculpture \"Shiva Nataraja\" represents
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the Hindu god Shiva
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We know about Van Gogh's life due to this fact:
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Vincent wrote letters to his brother Theo
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Art created by nonprofessionals is referred to with these labels
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Folk, naive, intuitive, primitive, art brut
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To discover why the sculptor of the 'Amida Nyorai' depicted the subject with elongated earlobes, specific hand gestures, and a bun atop his head requires the use of
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Iconography
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Our modern ideas about art carry with them ideas about
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The artist and the audience
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What is the 'Pieta' in Christian art?
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Mary holding her son after he was taken down from the cross
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What is the definition of \"naturalistic\"?
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derived from real life or nature
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When discussing a work of art's ______ we are discussing the size, shape, material, color, and composition.
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Form
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What did you learn about Jeff Wall's \"A Sudden Gust of Wind\"?
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\"Art behind the art\", photography based on art
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Hieronymus Bosh best-known work of art?
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The Garden of Earthly Delights
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The pyramids at Giza in Egypt were built as
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Tombs of the pharaohs Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu
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Frida Kahlo uses her own life's events as her subject
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Self portraits
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\"Themes in art\" found in your textbook
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The sacred realm, politics and social order, stories and histories, looking outward, human experience, invention and fantasy, the natural world,
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What do these have in common? Sainte-Chapelle, the Great Mosque at Córdoba, and the Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan
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Iconoclasm
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What is learned from the inscription in the painting White Clouds over Xiao and Xiang by Wang Jian?
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His painting was inspired by Zhao Mengfu.
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The \"Rocky Mountains, Landers Peak\" and atmospheric perspective
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Fading off into the distance effect, ethereal light
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What are some of the ways 'line' is used in art
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symbols, shapes, outline, contour lines help perceive 3D forms, show direction and movement
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Relate the ways the 'vanishing point' in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper
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Walls converge to imply depth
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Mixing two primary colors produces a ________ color
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Secondary
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Which artist uses light itself as the main material and whose work increases our awareness of light as a presence in the world?
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Doug Wheeler
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The 18th-century Indian painting of Maharana Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats utilizes the two most basic visual cues for implying depth on a flat surface. What are they?
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Position and overlap
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Raphael's The Madonna of the Meadows is composed using the implied shape of a _____.
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Triangle
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\"The path of a moving point\" is a ________.
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Line
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The architect Le Corbusier designed the 'Modulor', what was its purpose?
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Defining perfect human proportion
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Another term for asymmetrical balance is
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Informal
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Artists will often add ________ to provide interest.
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Variety
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The use of scale to indicate relative importance is known as ________ scale.
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Hierarchical
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The design principle of 'balance' functions in these ways
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to help communicate a work's moods and meanings, encourage our active participation in a work, and lead our eyes around a work.
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen created shock value through use of ________.
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Scale
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Symmetrical balance is used to express
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Order, harmony, authority
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Pablo Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror explores the traditional theme of ___________.
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Vanitas
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The implied center of gravity is in a 2D work that is balanced symmetrically is where?
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Vertical axis
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In a 2D work with asymmetrical balance, the appearance of balance is achieved how?
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VIsual weight balance
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What medium is used in Yvonne Jacquette's 'Three Mile Island, Night'?
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Charcoal
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Name some other materials used by artists to draw upon (other than paper)?
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Silk, fired clay, cave walls, papyrus.
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Chris Ofili created Prince among Thieves with Flowers with this medium?
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Pencil
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In metalpoint, lines are drawn with a silver ________ onto a surface.
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Wire
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The nature of perception suggests that the most important key to looking at art is
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to become aware of the process of looking itself.
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What are the properties of tempera paint?
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Oil/water emulsion with oil, fat, wax, or resin
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Traditional Chinese artists used _________ and they are the oldest painting medium in continuous use.
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Ink sticks
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Define nonaqueous paint.
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Oil
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Pope Julius II employed which two Italian Renaissance artists to paint frescoes for him?
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Raphael and Michelangelo
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What are the advantages of oil painting?
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Wet on wet, can be scraped away for revisions or effect
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In fresco painting, a drawing called a ________ is transferred to the prepared surface.
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Cartoon
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In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to
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Wet lime plaster
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'Singing Their Songs' was created by
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Elizabeth Catlett
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The idea that a print is made from a matrix has been altered by the use of ________ to make prints.
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Inkjet
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The earliest-known woodcut was made in _______.
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China
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What are the two main differences between prints and most other forms of art?
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Prints are made using an indirect process and results in multiples of the same image.
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A rubber stamp creates what type of print?
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Relief
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If a print is numbered 4/100, what information can be deciphered?
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It is the fourth of one hundred to be made.
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Single impressions are printed with this type of printing
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Monotype
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Nam Jun Paik is best known for
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TV Buddha
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What is an 'auteur'?
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a director whose films are marked by a consistent, individual style
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Man Ray created mysterious images, called ________.
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Rayograms
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How did the Kodak camera changed the history of photography?
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Lightweight, handheld camera
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What is the importance of the 'The Steerage' by Alfred Stiglitz?
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Photography should be true to its own nature and not try to be a painting
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Dada collage artist Hannah Höch used \"found\" photographs to express
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disdain for the slaughter of World War I
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A daguerreotype was an early photographic method created using a
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Light sensitive copper plate coated with silver iodide, easily duplicated
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The use by artists of the camera obscura (literally dark room) began in
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The Renaissance
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What is the goal of graphic design?
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Communication of some specific message to a group of people
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_________ created a typeface or a unified alphabet in 1525.
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Albrecht Durer
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How does a company change it's image?
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Redo their logo
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What was the breakthrough of lithography?
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Planographic, no relief
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Graphic design used to be known as ________ art.
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Commercial
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Define \"layout\"
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Blueprint for an extended work in print, such as a book or magazine
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A symbol for the corporate identity
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Logo
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Graphic design as we know it today, has its roots in two developments:
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Printing Press and the Industrial Revolution
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The ancient symbol from Chinese philosophy
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Yin-Yang
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What are the properties of the 'carving' method of sculpture?
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Subtractive process, starts with mass larger than final product
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Four basic methods for making a sculpture are
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Modeling, casting, carving, assembling
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In sculpture, what is the most popular modeling material?
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Clay
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The ________ process dates back to the 3rd millennium B.C.E. (relates to sculpture)
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Lost-wax
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High-relief sculpture is different than low-relief sculpture in that
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Low relief figures project slightly, high relief figures project boldly
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Contrapposto (meaning counter poise or counterbalance) was developed by ________.
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The ancient Greeks
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Serpent Mound and Spiral Jetty are known as
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Earthwork
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Who is the artist that created the sculpture, The Dying Slave?
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Michelangelo
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Who is Toots Zynsky?
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A glass artist
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The fastest method of creating a hollow, rounded clay form is
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Potter's wheel
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The ancient Olmecs of Mesoamerica prized ________ for its translucence.
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Green jade
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Wood is a popular craft material because
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It is widely available, renewable, and relatively easy to work with
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An archaeologist asked ________ to reconstruct an entire pot from a broken piece.
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Maria Martinez
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______ used in China for hundreds of years by potters.
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Porcelain
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Forging
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The shaping of metal by hammer blows
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The Arts and Crafts movement came about as a reaction to
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The Industrial Revolution
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A ________ is a horizontal form supported at only one end.
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Cantilever
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The Crystal Palace, was designed by ____________ in 1851.
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Joseph Paxton
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Hypostyle
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Beneath columns
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An arched exterior support system found on a Gothic cathedral is a ________.
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Flying buttress
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The round opening in the dome of the Pantheon is called the ____________.
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Oculus
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Using a steel framework with masonry sheathing, the ________, was designed by Louis Sullivan.
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Wainwright Building
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What are characteristics of the International style?
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Clean lines, geometric form, avoidance of superficial decoration.
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What is a barrel vault?
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Vault forming half cylinder
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R. Buckminster Fuller was famous for this design
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Geodesic domes
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When rotated 360 degrees on its axis it is called a dome?
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Arch
