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