Chapter 9-10 Art – Flashcards
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Dada collage artist Hannah Höch used "found" photographs to express
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all of these: artistic composition; the overwhelming experience of the mechanized city; and disgust with a civilization that allowed the slaughter of World War I.
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________ is closely associated with Alfred Stieglitz's assertion that for photography to be an art, it should be true to its own nature.
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The Steerage
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In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge photographed a galloping horse, and discovered that
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galloping horses occasionally have all four hooves off the ground.
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The use by artists of the camera obscura (literally dark room) began in
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the Italian Renaissance.
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The supervision by one individual or group over the artistic expression of another individual or group is known as
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censorship.
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Early examples of art photography often imitated
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he narrative form of painting.
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The Lumière brothers
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The creation of a photographic body of work around an event, place, or culture is known as
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photojournalism.
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Andy Warhol's film Empire
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is a film about watching time pass.
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________ was a photographer who became dissatisfied with pictorialism and promoted the idea that photography should e true to its own nature rather than trying to imitate painting.
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Alfred Steiglitz.
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Julia Margaret Cameron is renowned for her
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portraits.
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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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A daguerreotype was an early photographic method created using a
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copper plate covered with silver iodine.
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Artists like Peter Campus became interested in video because
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video signals could be electronically manipulated into interesting images.
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The works of Henry Peach Robinson and Andreas Gursky exemplify the photographer's
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manipulation and combination of different photographic images in one work.
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Artists primarily used the camera obscura to
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produce naturalistic drawings of the world.
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The Dada movement was formed as a reaction to
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World War I.
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A major difference between the work of a "pure" or "straight" photographer, such as Alfred Stieglitz, and the work of a documentary photographer, such as Dorothea Lange, is
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the different intentions of each photographer.
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The Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
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paid photographers to document the Great Depression.
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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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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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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.
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W. Bradford Paley's TextArc program uses an entire text of a book and
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displays all of the text on screen, allowing users to explore relationships between its words.
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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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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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An image created to accompany words is called
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an illustration.
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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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Designing for the Web adds the potential for ________ reactions to choices made by a visitor to the site.
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motion and interactivity
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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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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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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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I n 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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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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Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans
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is a portrait of graphic design.
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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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Graphic designer John Maeda
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writes his own computer code to assist in his designs.
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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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The ________ first made it possible to devise a notice that could be reproduced in large numbers and distributed widely.
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printing press
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Graphic design used to be known as ________ art.
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commercial
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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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u sed a programming language called Processing; never actually showed the car; and did not require production work after it was originally shot.
