CDEP Quizzes Flashcards
This era saw the first uses of pottery
Mesolithic
The Greek orders do not include:
Doric
Corinthian
Tuscan
Ionic
Tuscan
Who designed the interlocking thin shells on a structure found on the Australian bay
John Utzon
The title “Women of Avignon refers to
Prostitutes in France
Which artist and style are paired correctly?
Brancusi-Suprematism
Mondrian-De Stijl
Gropius-Prairie Style
Wright-Cubism
Mondrian - De Stijl
Which is not a feature of Fallingwater?
Cantilever
Reinforced Concrete
Glass walls
Skeletal construction
Skeletal Construction
What were the main characteristics of Romanticism
Artistic emphasis on intuition, imagination and feeling
Strawberry Hill refers to
A Gothic Revival villa
Who of the ff did not work for Napoleon
David
Ingres
Canova
Lebrun
Le Brun
Which least inspired Jefferson’s architectural style
Palladio
Gothic revival
The pantheon
Neoclassicism
Gothic Revival
Which is not a tenet of Romanticism
Nostalgia
Exoticism
Social realism
The sublime
Exoticism
The Houses of Parliament are examples of what style?
Gothic Revival
Which is not a theme in Goya’s painting?
Social injustice
Child psychology
Irrational thinking
Frivolity
Frivolity
Until the middle of the nineteenth century, bridges were designed according to what method?
Truss
The ff are court painters except
Rembrandt
Hans Holbein
Agnolo Bronzino
Diego Velasquez
Agnolo Bronzino
Oath of Horatii was painted by
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was a leading representative of what style?
Neoclassicism
Which term best describes Seurat’s brushstrokes?
Spiraling
Divisionist
Blurred
Smooth
Divisionist
Art Nouveau was a European response against
Industrialization
Which Pop Artist was most likely to have painted repetitious advertising images
Johns
Warhol
Lichenstein
Kahlo
Warhol
His design for the Bauhaus School, Dessau Germany (1925) was the first example of the new international style architecture
Walter Gropius
Egyptian monumental architecture is essentially
Columnar and trabeated style
Romanesque architecture had for its greatest patron the
Christian church
The leader of the Chicago School of architecture and a pioneer in skyscraper design. The Auditorium Building, Chicago (1887) was his first major work.
Louis H. Sullivan
Which of the following painters was a leading realist?
Peter Paul Rubens
Henri Rousseau
Claude Monet
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
“The house is a machine to live in.”
Le Corbusier
The designer of the Casa Mila is
Antoni Gaudi
Which architect designed the Crystal Palace
Joseph Paxton
The artist who constructed paintings by using tiny strokes of color and relied on the theory of optical mixing?
Georges Seurat
Dutch Post-Impressionist artist is a pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism and had an enormous influence on 20th C art
Vincent Van Gogh
What style of art breaks from traditional perspective and depicts the subject matter from multiple points of view, fragmenting a 3-dimensional form in order to depict it on the 2-dimensional surface?
Cubism
The key design characteristics of De Stijl include all of the ff except
Rectangularity
Varied textures
Primary colors
Asymmetry
Varied textures
The last Tudor monarch
Elizabeth I
An austere Spanish Renaissance style that insisted on minimum ornamentation
Desornamentado
Transition period bet gothic and renaissance architecture
Tudor architecture
A character of French renaissance architecture is
Dormer windows
Paired columns
Portico
String cornices
Dormer windows
One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic architecture
Fallingwater
Robbie House
Petronas Tower
S.C. Johnson Co. Building
Fallingwater
Moorish influence of muslim features such as horseshoe arch pierced stone tracery and excessive ornament in Spanish gothic was due to
Religion
3 of these terms relate to works of ancient stone sculpture or architecture. Which does not belong?
Megaron
Menhir
Mastaba
Makemono
Makemono
Which of the ff buildings is an example of Byzantine Architecture?
Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)
Doge’s Palace (Venice)
Royal Courts of Justice (London)
Versailles (France)
Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)
Which ancient Greek pottery item was not used to hold liquid?
Rhyton
Kylix
Kore
Amphora
Kore
Continuous running or band ornament of interlacing circles
Guilloche
The art of civilization depicted sea life and included statues of a female snake goddess
Minoan
What style did much of ancient Egyptian art emphasize?
Golden mean
Distorted profile
Contrapposto
Hierarchical scale
Hierarchical scale
What was contrapposto designed to do?
Put the body in an S-curve
Italian term for the bell tower
Campanile
Which of the ff was not from the renaissance period?
Brunelleschi
Donatello
Raphael
Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio
His most iconic images are his woodcuts of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1947-1948) from the Apocalypse series, the “Rhinoceros”, and numerous self-portraits
Albercht Durer
What historical event was a major influence on religious art during and after the Baroque period?
The French Revolution
Although now commonly known as “The Colosseum”, the building does have a more formal name
The Flavian Amphitheatre
Optical illusion perceived only in the shafts of the Doric columns
Entassis
What is the correct name for a painting on a wall, ceiling, or other large permanent surface
Mural
The ff are parts of a Byzantine basilica except
Atrium Transept Bema Narthex None of the above
Bema
Last name of the artist Michelangelo
Buonarroti
The assumption that humans could reach godlike status (term)
Humanism
In what area did Giotto make great advances in painting techniques
Perspective
A distinctive style in western Europe form 1000-1400
Romanesque
Which is not a feature of the typical Romanesque portal
Tympanum
Lintel
Jamb
Transpet
Transept
Which is not a pair?
Rose-circle Towers-vertical Gable-rectangle Apse-semicircle Dome-hemisphere
Gable-rectangle
Which is not a feature of the Hospital of the Innocents
Arcades Round arches Doric colonnettes Bays Pediments
Doric colonnettes
The nearest sense of chiaroscuro would be
High contrast of light and dark
Which is not a meaning related to the Mannerist style?
Affectation Mannered Restrained Stylized Elongated
Restrained
Palladio used the ancient texts of
Vitruvius
Which is the most characteristic feature of Baroque style
Elongation
Violent action
Flat spaces
Frontal figures
Violent action
The court portrait painter of Charles I of England
Anthony Van Dyck
Which of the ff is not a Mesopotamian god?
Anu
Isis
Ishtar
Innana
Isis
