Architecture
Media I
Media II
Key Terms
Columns
100
This image depicts which Roman architectural form?
An aqueduct
100
The Great Serpent Mound in Ohio, created by Indigenous artists of the Americas, employs which sculptural method?
Additive
100
The image above, View from the Window at Le Gras, was important to the photographic medium for what reason?
It is considered to be the first photograph.
100
The fresco technique, famously used by Michelangelo for the Sistine Chapel ceiling, requires the artist to paint onto what type of surface?
Freshly applied wet plaster
100
The three architectural orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, belonged to which ancient society?
Ancient Greece
200
This image demonstrates what type of architectural method?
A barrel vault
200
What method of hand-building ceramics involves creating objects from long rope-like pieces of clay that have been rolled out on a flat surface?
Coil
200
What is the key binding agent in the encaustic painting method?
Wax
200
The technology used to animate the character Gollum in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings by translating an actor's live performance into a digital format is known as:
Motion-capture
200
What architectural order does this column belong to?
Corinthian
300
Which type of construction was used in the creation of the Great Court at Temple of Amun-Re?
Post-and-lintel
300
Halidrys siliquosa ß minor by Anna Atkins is an example of what photographic process?
Cyanotype
300
The Two Ways of Life by Oscar Gustav Rejlander was significant for the photographic medium as it sought to do what?
Elevate photography as a fine art by comparing it to painting
300
What is the term for the textural quality of a paper's surface that allows it to hold particles of drawing media like charcoal or pastel in place?
Tooth
300
What part of a column most clearly distinguishes between the three architectural orders of classical Greek architecture?
The capital
400
These structural elements designed to support the weight of roofs or vaulted ceilings in Gothic architecture are known as what?
Flying buttresses
400
What is the name of the first major American feature-length propaganda film?
Birth of a Nation
400
Which artist is associated with action painting?
Jackson Pollock
400
Which early cinematic device, described as an 'antique, European toy,' creates the illusion of continuous motion by spinning a cylinder with a sequence of images inside?
Zoetrope
400
What architectural order does this column belong to?
Ionic
500
This image from the tomb of Nasir ud din Mahmud, Ghori, New Delhi demonstrates what type of architectural method?
Corbeled Arch
500
The Horse in Motion study is considered the catalyst that led to film as it was the first motion picture. This work was completed by which artist?
Eadweard Muybridge
500
A sequence of drawings with directions and dialogue that visualizes a film's scenes before shooting is known as what?
Storyboard
500
What is a readymade?
An everyday object that an artist has presented as a work of art
500
What is the middle part of a column called?
The shaft