IHU 101 Study Guide # 3

Chapter Four

  1. What is painting about?
  2. What is the difference between representational and abstract painting?
  3. On what does practical vision focus?
  4. What did Cezanne do with features and positions of things in Mont St. Victoire?
  5. Of what is the artistic medium of painting composed?
  6. How do abstract and representational painting treat sensa?
  7. What is a duration or a "spot in time"?
  8. What was the intention of The Madonna and Child by Coppo?
  9. What two Madonna paintings reflect a social change to a more secular life?
  10. Which of these paintings are representational and which abstract: The Flood; Mountain, Table, Anchor, Navel; Guernica ?
  11. Define sensa.

Chapter Five

  1. To which sense does sculpture appeal?
  2. In perceiving a sculpture how do we perceive the surface and in what space do we perceive it?
  3. Define "ready made" sculpture.
  4. Define sunken relief, low relief, high relief, surface relief.
  5. Who sculpted The Pieta and David?
  6. What do abstract sculptures represent?
  7. What is meant by "truth to materials" in sculpture?
  8. Define earth sculpture, space sculpture, and sculpture in the round.
  9. Why would a hole be worked into a sculpture?

Chapter Six

  1. What does centered space do for us?
  2. Why is the "power of space" often ignored?
  3. What type of lines does an earth-rooted building stress?
  4. Why is the Cathedral of Chartres considered a work of architecture?
  5. Give examples of structures "surrendering to gravity" and "defying gravity".
  6. Why is the inner centrality of the Parthenon considered to be weak?
  7. What does sky-oriented sculpture do?
  8. How does a building appear to defy gravity?
  9. Earth resting buildings usually have ______roofs and use the earth as _____.
  10. List the spatial requirements of a work of architecture and define them.
  11. What does the text suggest as partial solutions to city problems?
  12. Why is city planning viewed from an architectural perspective?