unit 2

Question 1

three basic functions of a drawing

Answer 1

-notation
-study
-to serve as a complete work of art

Question 2

Rodin

Answer 2

“cambodian dancers”
-notation

Question 3

madonna and child with st. anne

Answer 3

-By Leonardo
-cartoon: a large drawing intended to become a painting
-pouncing: poking small holes into a drawing in order to transfer the design

Question 4

study of drapery

Answer 4

-By Leonardo
-Heightening: adding white highlights to a drawing

Question 5

study for the libyan sybil

Answer 5

-Michelangelo

Question 6

Guernica

Answer 6

-by Picasso
-guernica= a spanish town that the nazi’s bombed
-most famous anti-war painting
-horse= human creativity/spirit

Question 7

self portrait

Answer 7

-by kollwitz
-made from charcoal
-fixative: thin varnish sprayed to adhere loose charcoal to paper
-key to being a good artist is to have good hand-eye coordination

Question 8

Architecture

Answer 8

-topography: distinct landscape characteristics of the building site

Question 9

adobe

Answer 9

sun-dried bricks of clay

Question 10

stonehenge neolithic

Answer 10

-calender of some sort
-no wheel
-the uk

Question 11

megalith

Answer 11

-a large stone

Question 12

post and lintel

Answer 12

-the most basic and earliest for
of building

Question 13

Great pyramids at Giza

Answer 13

-located in egypt
-they were tombs for the kings

Question 14

Ziggurat at Ur

Answer 14

-ziggurat: a stepped temple
-nanna: the moon goddess
-sumerians invented the wheel and an alphabet

Question 15

ben-ben

Answer 15

-egyptian concept of the world’s first mountain

Question 16

tensile strength

Answer 16

-the ability of a building material to span horizontally without without support and without buckling

Question 17

Lion Gate at Mycenae

Answer 17

-Relieving triangle: empty triangular void above a doorway
-meant to intimidate

Question 18

greek

Answer 18

-colonnade: a row of columns
-entasis: a bulge in a column
-doric: square shape
-ionic: shaped like a scroll
-corinthian: flower shaped

Question 19

the parthenon

Answer 19

-by iktinos and kallikrates
-greece is the world’s first democracy
-athena: goddess of war

Question 20

rome

Answer 20

-the roman arch
-voussoirs: wedge shaped stores that makeup the sides of the arch
-keystone: the stone at the very top of the arch

Question 21

pont du gard

Answer 21

-located in nimes, france
-“arcade”

Question 22

roman colosseum

Answer 22

-barrel vault (tunnel)
-up to 50,000 spectators could come and watch

Question 23

notre dame

Answer 23

-in paris
-flying buttresses: gothic support system

Question 24

eiffel tower

Answer 24

-gutave eiffel
-cast iron structure
-without this we would not have skyscrapers

Question 25

falling water

Answer 25

-by wright
-the point of it is to destress
-called an organic architecture

Question 26

guggenheim museum

Answer 26

-by wright
-point is to stand out