15 Jan Saint Mark’s interior,

ART105 Introduction to Visual Art

Architecture, Craft, and Design QUIZ

Question 1Define architecture in your own words.

Question 2This poster for the French newspaper L’Intransigeant is an example of _____.

Cassandre, poster for L’Intransigeant, smaller.jpg

Question 3This bridge is an example of ______.

Old Little Belt Bridge, Denmark, smaller.jpg

Question 4These dresses best exemplify _____.

Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring 2009.jpg

Question 5These symbols are best categorized as _____.

Dreyfuss, Symbols, smaller.jpg

Question 6What is one drawback of a barrel vault?

Question 7In your own words, explain what design is.

Question 8This famous New York skyscraper is an example of ______ architecture.

Rohe and Johnson’s Seagram Building, smaller.jpg

Question 9Russian painter, photographer, and designer Alexander Rodchenko created this poster for the Leningrad Publishing House in 1924 by carefully arranged the type, photographs, and other elements, creating a _____.

Rodchenko, Poster for Leningrad Publishing House, smaller.jpg

Question 10If you didn’t have a potter’s wheel, how would you form a clay pot or vase?

Question 11Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Armchair, from late 1927 or 1928, is an example of _____.

Question 12The ceiling of the nave of this cathedral has been constructed via _____.

St. Sernin Nave, color, smaller.jpg.

Question 13According to your textbook, if you wanted to alter the natural color of a fired clay vessel, what would you use?

Question 14This temple is an example of _____.

Parthenon, smaller.jpg

Question 15Using what you have learned from the book’s description and what you see here, this piece is made from _____.

Pair of porcelain vases painted in an underglaze of cobalt blue, smaller.jpg

Question 16This French Cathedral, with its numerous, distinctive flying buttresses, is ______.

Notre Dame from the south, smaller.jpg

Question 17This painting shows what Paris looked like in 1876-77 after a major effort to modernize the city. This renovation included widening the boulevards, razing old buildings and replacing them with new multistory structures, putting in street lamps and new parks, and improving the sewers. This project (not the painting) is best regarded as _____.

Caillebotte’s Paris A Rainy Day, smaller.jpg

Question 18The complex interior space of this cathedral was created by the use of ______.

Saint Mark’s interior, smaller.jpg

Question 19This image for Fed Ex Ground is what graphic designers term a(n) _____.

Fed Ex Logo, smaller.jpg

Question 20 This well-known building is an example of _____.

Epcot Center, smaller.jpg

.Question 21Explain what the keystone is, and why it’s so important, in Andy Goldsworthy’s The Arch.

Goldsworthy, The Arch, smaller.jpg