TEST #2 of five results

1. What is(are) the analogous color(s) of the color blue?

Green & Violet

2. What is the “line” that many humans stand on in Ancient Egyptian art?

Anchor Line

3. Polytheist culture means what exactly?

The belief of numerous gods and goddesses

4. A stone Stele is an upright stone slab with visual communication carved into it.  

TRUE  or   FALSE

5. Ancient Egyptians portrayed humans in very accurate human gestures.  T    or   FALSE

6. Hierarchic Scale suggests that relative size indicates relative importance within the culture  =        

TRUE                or            FALSE     

7. It can be said that Ancient Egyptian culture “lived to die.”    TRUE        or        F

8. This cultural group was very different to the Ancient Egyptians in how they looked and acted towards life with full liveliness.  Who?

Those who lived in the Ancient Aegean world.

9. The Sumerians, roughly around 3500-2340 BCE, developed the wagon wheel    =                                                TRUE          or               FALSE 

10. Ancient Egyptians settled along the Nile River for these reasons:

Its fertility

11. The Sumerians, roughly 3400-3200 BCE, invented the first form of writing.

  TRUE         or                FALSE   

12. Egyptian artists followed strict conventions based on natural observation and what they thought they knew about the afterlife.      TRUE          or       F

13. Wedge-shaped symbols inscribed into wet clay tablets are called cuneiforms

14. Describe what a ziggurat form is exactly.  Or please draw it.

It's a piece of architecture that looks like a pyramid with a flat topped.  It can be stepped.

15, What is meant by a composite pose? Describe, please:

Ancient Egyptian world = head in PROFILE / eye is FRONTAL / upper torso is FRONTAL / lower torso is PROFILE / legs in PROFILE.  This is an unnatural gesture

16. Registers are found throughout Mesopotamia relief forms on vessels and on walls.  Describe what their purpose is.

To organize visual information, sometimes of hierarchical  importance.

17. A Ka was a statue of the deceased in Ancient Egypt.     TRUE    or     F

18. Throughout our course study, we have seen how various cultures follow style and conventions of the way of representing the human figure in their artistic forms.  

TRUE           or              FALSE   

19. Small votive figures of Mesopotamia were created to represent what specifically?

The individuals who purchased them to put into worship areas as a surrogate of themselves thereby appeasing the gods.

20. What is the difference between a Mastaba and a Pyramid?  

Explain fully and/or draw.

21. What is a lyre? Circle the correct answer.

a. musical instrument  

b. a sharp tool to carve with    

c.  a part of architecture found in Sumeria

22. Ancient Egypt is split into two periods.

1. The  LOWER Kingdom  and
2. The  UPPER  Kingdom

23. Cylinder seals of alabaster, lapis, jade, were created by making use of what process:  

a.  additive or   b. subtractive       Circle the correct answer.

24. Explain what medium (media) creates a lost wax cast:

Usually bronze from what we have discovered in our course together. But, other metals too!

25. A contrapposto pose has:   

a.  symmetrical  design    or       b.  asymmetrical   design

26. Ancient Greece created beautiful architectural forms.  More specifically they created three different “Greek Orders.”  Name two of them.

Doric  Ionic  Corinthian 

27. Geographically where is the Ancient Aegean world?

Islands around modern day Greece

28. The Geometric Period in Ancient Greece is earlier than the Archaic Period.   

TRUE          or             FALSE   

29. She was the Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War.  Who?

Athena

30. Close to 4,000 years ago, Thera reshaped the world.  What, or who,  was Thera?

It was an enormous volcanic eruption

31. Lions are often symbolic of what?

Strength and power

32. Cycladic figures followed strict representational styles. They followed:

a. Strict stylization of form

b. Strict symmetry and basic geometric forms

c. All of the above

d. None of these

33. The Entablature is a horizontal, continuous lintel on a classical building supported by columns with architrave, frieze, and cornice.  TRUE         or         FALSE 

BONUS POINTS, each worth two points, availability of 14 extra points here!

34. Explain fully what “Black Figure” pottery is:

Painted designs including human figures on terra cotta pottery found in Ancient Greece

35. The Hittites was a huge civilization and thrived in trade, travel and conquest.  

TRUE         or                FALSE

36. Explain what a Caryatid is:

A statue of a female god in contrapasso pose that holds up the pediment in early Ancient Greek architecture

37. A lost wax cast is a sculpture that is:

1. can be solid or hollow        b.  is a relief         c. is carved into stone

38. The  'new' style of sculptural forms found in Ancient Egypt, the period that Nefertiti belonged, seems to be tighter and geometric in form, not naturalistic in the least.

TRUE           or           FALSE

39. We can see two different plant forms on the tops of Ancient Egyptian columns.  What plants do they represent?

Papyrus and Lotus plants

40. King Akhenaten from East Karnak made many radical changes in culture.

Name two:

Became monotheist worshipping only the Sun

Moved the capital of Thebes in Ancient Egypt north

And changed his name numerous times to = Amenophis IV or Amenhotep 
And, "One Who is Effective on Behalf of the Aten."