Details Title: Art 104 - Set 1 Description: History of Graphic Design- c.1,2 Total Flash Cards: 20 Created: 05/26/2009 15:53:24		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Art/Design Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term {image:93919|center} Definition     Cave Paintings  are the earliest images created by human beings. Term {image:93978|center} Definition   Pictographs  are simple picture-symbols used to communicate a concept or idea. Term {image:93921|center} Definition   Petroglyphs are picture symbols scratched or carved into rock. Term {image:93922|center} Definition   Cuneiform is an early form of wriitng from Sumeria.   Scribes pressed into clay tablets with a wooden stylus. Term {image:93923|center} Definition   Cylinder Seal   A small bead which was rolled onto clay to create an impression.   Used to identify the author (scribe). Term {image:93924|center} Definition     Hieroglyphs are pictographs used to express language in Ancient Egypt. Term {image:93979|center} Definition   Cartouche   Hieroglyphs surrounded by an oval usually used to express names. Can be read from any direction indicated by a line at one end of the oval.   Term {image:93926|center} Definition   Frontality is a convention of Egyptian Art. Figures are presented from the point of view most easily recognized by the viewer.   Term {image:93927|center} Definition     Registers are horizontal bands which organize the design space.   A convention of Egyptian art. Term {image:93980|center} Definition   The Rosetta Stone   is an engraved stone which was the key to "unlocking" hieroglyphic writing. Term {image:93929|center} Definition   An Alphabet is the symbols which create a wring system.   The term comes from the Greek letters  Alpha and Beta. Term {image:93930|center} Definition   The Phaistos Disk    was from ancient Crete.   One of the earliest examples of a writing system. Term {image:93984|center} Definition   Greek   Be able to visually identify this distinctive alphabet. Term {image:93933|center} Definition Serif, Ascender, Descender   Visually identify the parts of Roman letter forms. Term {image:93983|center} Definition   Capitals Monumentalis   A Roman letter form which was carved onto buildings and monuments.   (Visually identify its characteristics) Term {image:93941|center} Definition   Capitalis Quadrata   This Roman SQUARE lettering was carefully done and found on official documents. Term {image:93942|center} Definition   Capitalis Rustica   This less formal Roman letterform was used in everyday writing. Term {image:93973|center} Definition   Aramaic   This writing system was is the ancestor of both Hebrew and Arabic alphabets. Term {image:93943|center} Definition Hangul   This Korean alphabet is among the most recently developed.   It is meant to replicate the position of the mouth and tongue as sounds are formed. Term       Writing Definition     Writing is a method of human intercommunication by means of arbitrary visual marks forming a system.