Art Final

5 Written Questions

1. deck or load bearing portion hung by cables or vertical suspenders, able to create a long span
2. -nigerian sculptor
   -carves in wood
3. -Moshe Safdie. Habitat, Montreal
   -roman apartments
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4. -Earth artist
   -makes art using only things found in nature
   -his work does not last long, he is interested in life being temporary and fragile
   -interested in time and change
5. an interior space filled with rows of columns that serve to support the roof

5 Matching Questions

1. international style
2. enabalature
3. industrial revolution
4. lost-cast waxing
5. art deco style

1. a a model of the object to be cast is created in wax, fitted w/wax rods, then encased in a heat resistant material such as plaster or clay, leaving the rods protruding. The ensemble is heated so that the wax melts and runs out (is lost), creating a mold. Molten metal is poured into the mold through the channels created by the melted wax rods, filling the void where the original used to be. when the metal has cooled, the mold is broken open to release the casting.
2. b art style of the 1920s and 1930s based on modern materials (steel, chrome, glass) and repetitive geometric forms
   example:the chrysler building
3. c no decoration, use of plaza area, repetitive, straight lines, vertical, meant for offices, started in 1950s, early modernist movement, rectangular geometric shapes, clean lines, minimum ornamentation, steel and glass
   example: Seagram building
4. d in classical architecture, the horizontal structure supported by capitals and supporting in turn the pediment or roof
5. e -prior to the revolution everything was load bearing and post and lintel
   -new materials like steel and iron now in use

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. a convex, evenly curved roof, technically an arch rotated 360 degrees on its vertical axis. like an arch, a dome might be hemispherical or pointed
   1. dome
   2. fired
   3. piers
   4. mobiles
2. engineering developments of the 1880s
   1. muses
   2. contrapposto
   3. piers
   4. skyscrapers
3. -self portraits
   -photography
   -dressed herself up in costumes and took pictures to make narrative pieces
   -heavily influenced by film
   1. gilded
   2. museums
   3. coffered
   4. Cindy Sherman
4. add to it. examples: assembling/casting
   1. flying buttress
   2. geodesic domes
   3. pointed arch
   4. additive process
5. -do not create a mold
   -no middle step
   -nancy graves (?)
   1. carving
   2. direct casting
   3. modeling
   4. kinetic art

5 True/False Questions

1. buttresses → thought to inspire all artists, 9 goddessed,daughters of the god zues, greek, each one represented a different form of art

   True        False

2. ouevre → an artist's body of work

   True        False

3. "In the round" → -sympathized with heroes facing death
   -statue was ground level and forced viewers to walk all the way around it to see all the faces of the men
   -expressions on figure all had different reactions
   -b. of calay (?)

   True        False

4. louis sullivan → -self portraits
   -photography
   -dressed herself up in costumes and took pictures to make narrative pieces
   -heavily influenced by film

   True        False

5. balloon frame construction → houses made of wood or two by fours then covered in lightweight skin or siding, can't be built very tall, inexpensive, openness and windows possible

   True        False