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| What are the three classic materials? |
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| What are three disadvantages of wood? |
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Highly combustible, Responsive to heat and moisture changes, Prone to organic decomposition.
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| What are three disadvantages of stone? |
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Heavy, Costly to transport, Expensive to erect
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| What ratio does the author suggest might be an index of the freedom of a civilization's people? |
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| What material was the first metal substitute for wooden posts and stone columns? |
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| Why does ferro-concrete appeal to designers? |
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There is no distinct break point
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| A _______ is a system of triangles arranged to work as a beam or lintel. |
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| _________ are the separate units of bricks or cut stones in an arch 'welded' together into a single curved member by compressed weight. |
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| A ________ is a series of arches in rank order, side by side. |
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| The oldest and best example of a dome on pendentives is __________. |
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| Why did the geodesic dome never catch on as 'architecture'? |
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Long term durability and weather resistance problems.
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| Sculpture that projects from a background surface is __________. |
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| Most ________ are examples of bas-relief. |
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| In high relief, how much of the forms' circumferences project out from the surrounding surfaces? |
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| List three materials used in the modeling method: |
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| Who realistically painted a man holding a bowl of grapes? |
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| Who developed joined-block construction? |
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| Picasso's Baboon and Young is an example of the __________ method. |
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| What artist produced sculpture that moves? |
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| What artist produced sculpture that moves? |
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| Stonehenge and the Vietnam War Memorial are both examples of _____________. |
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Site Specific installations
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| Leonardo was born in what small town near Florence, Italy in 1452? |
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| What art medium in Italy during the 1500's rose to a high level of prominence? |
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| Leonardo originated what techniques or methods of scientific illustrations? |
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Cutaway and exploded views.
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| The Italian word for drawing is disegno but what is its other meaning which was quite important in Renaissance Italy? |
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| Despite the fact that for much of its life, Leonardo's Last Supper has existed in a ruined state, this large fresco is regarded by many as the artist's most __________. |
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| The title of Leonardo's best known portrait, the Mona Lisa, what does the word Mona mean? |
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| To what is the attributed the reason for the ambiguous but famous smile of the Mona Lisa? |
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The consequence of fascination and skill with chiaroscuro and atmospheric perspective.
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| What is the focal point of all converging perspective lines in the painting of The Last Supper? |
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| ________ is the Greek term for the imitation of reality. |
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| _____________ is a particularly Western phenomenon that laid the groundwork for the photography, film, and video. |
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Illusionism, a desire to achieve lifelike illusions.
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_______ were the simultaneous inventors of photography.
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| Literal meaning of the word photography: ________ |
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| Why is exposed film called a 'negative?' |
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Te light and shade recorded on it are reversed.
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| _______ was the group most excited by the introduction of photography. |
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| ________ is the technique in which images of two or more negatives are combined and developed into a final print. |
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| How were the pictorialists different from the previous photographers? |
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They thought their photography was art.
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| Title of the silent film classic that was both acclaimed and denounced |
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| __________ is the most famous surrealist film. |
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| Three noted directors who learned from the surrealist legacy? |
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Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa
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| _______ was the F.S.A. photographer called "the supreme humanist.' |
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| ________ appropriates images from newspapers and magazines, takes apart and transforms the original meaning of the images, and adds text to make forceful comments on the media and cultural stereotypes. |
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| In graphic design, how is the success of a design measured? |
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How well the message is conveyed
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| The field of graphic design has its roots in what two recent developments? |
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Invention of the printing press, Industrial revolution
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| ______ convey information or embody idea. |
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| _________ are among the most pervasive symbols in our visual environment today. |
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| An impressive number of logos are the work of _______ one of the most influential of all American graphic designers. |
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| Symbol used by the Nazis to distinguish homosexuals from other undesirables such as Jews and Gypsies: |
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| What artist turned his attention to the design of well-balanced letters? |
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| _______ are the short cross-lines that finish the principal strokes. |
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| _____________ are the typefaces in which the text of the book and the contrasting chapter titles are set |
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| Determine what the running foot of page 243 is. What does it Say? |
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| David Carson claims that _________ are not the same thing? |
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legibility and communication
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| Among the most famous of all 19th-Century posters are those created by _______ or the cabarets and dance halls of Paris. |
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| The Russian art movement called ________ believed artists should apply their skills to designing posters, magazines and other useful objects, instead of making paintings and sculpture for an elite audience. |
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| An ________ is an image created to accompany words. |
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| The two important respects in which prints differ from most other works of art. |
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It is an indirect process, The process results in a nearly identical images.
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| The declared limit to the number of impressions that will be made: _____ |
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| Any printing method in which the image to be printed is raised from a background: _____ |
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| Material most commonly associated with relief:______ |
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| Lining up blocks perfectly with no gaps or overlapping of color: ________ |
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| List of the three team members or specialists involved in the production of Japanese woodcuts |
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| The burin is a basic tool of: ______ |
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| Ludwig von Siegen invented _______ in the 17th century. |
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| _________ is done with acids. |
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| Which printing method does not print lines and therefore is nearly always combined with one or more of the intaglio techniques? |
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| The exception to the rule that prints are an art of multiples: ________. |
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