History of Graphic Design: PART IV Review of Chapter 16 & 17

Question 1

Jan Tschichold designed a 24 p. book explaining a new type style, Sans serif, to typesetters, printers & designers.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Many visionary developments in the 20th century took place with Expressionism being intensely influential.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

The WPA hired creatives suffering from the huge economic downturn of the 1929 Great Depression. WPA means:

Accepted Answer

Works Progress Administration

Question 4

A growing threat of war & oppression sent many of the Bauhaus faculty across the ocean, influencing the course of ___

Accepted Answer

American design

Question 5

Conflicts continued in Weimar. Gropius made arrangements to move the school in 1924 to the rural German town of

Accepted Answer

Dessau

Question 6

As part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's “New Deal,” the federal government created the WPA in 1935, hiring ______.

Accepted Answer

artists, designers & craftsmen

Question 7

_____ attended the Weimar Bauhaus School exhibit & was deeply impressed. He assimilated Bauhaus style in his work.

Accepted Answer

Jan Tschichold

Question 8

The Bauhaus’ core objective was a radical concept: To revitalize the representational painting of Renaissance art.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

Universal visual language systems developed by using the Isotype concept led development in ___ & information systems.

Accepted Answer

signage

Question 10

At the German design school, the Bauhaus, no distinction was made between the ______ arts & the fine arts.

Accepted Answer

applied arts

Question 11

In 1928, Gropius left the Bauhaus. Other headmasters filled in until 1931, then ____ dominated the town of Dessau.

Accepted Answer

Nazis

Question 12

The growing cloud of Nazi persecution led many Bauhaus members to join the flight of intellectuals and artists to ___

Accepted Answer

America

Question 13

In 1956 influential Bauhaus magazine began publication.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

Billboards and advertising in American graphic design in the 1920s and 1930s hardly featured traditional illustration.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

American corporate designer Lester Beall, understood Tschichold’s sans serif new typography and Dadaism's __________.

Accepted Answer

ALL of these

Question 16

The Bauhaus School in Germany had three locations in its lifetime: 1919 Weimar, 1926 Dessau and 1940 Mainz .

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

Conflicts with the local authorities in Weimar, led them to insist the Bauhaus show their accomplishments by hosting

Accepted Answer

an exhibition.

Question 18

In 1919, Walter Gropius hired as a director of an art school, renamed it Das Staatliche Bauhaus “the Bauhaus,” meaning

Accepted Answer

Both

Question 19

The hope at Bauhaus was creating design w/an artistically trained designer could “Breathe a soul into the dead ____.

Accepted Answer

product of the machine

Question 20

The Bauhaus had workshops that they produced many items that they sold through Bauhaus Corporation. Some examples:

Accepted Answer

Chairs

Question 21

Former Bauhaus student Herbert Bayer worked on the Bauhaus magazine & got rid of the use of capital letters

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

Five former students were hired by the Bauhaus. Herbert Bayer was one who became the professor of the newly added

Accepted Answer

typography department.

Question 23

From 1935-1939, the WPA Federal Art Project, produced over 2 million copies of approximately 35,000 poster designs.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

Modernist European art did not become a significant influence in America until the 1930s.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

The Bauhaus magazine used ____________ almost exclusively.

Accepted Answer

Sans-serif fonts

Question 26

Walter Gropius sought a new unity of art and _________________________

Accepted Answer

technology

Question 27

After political sympathizers replaced the faculty, the school of Bauhaus closed in 1933.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

The Thuringian government, in Weimar, wanted proof of actual teaching at Bauhaus, due to student rauccous behavior.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

Otto Neurath's ISOTYPE movement concept involves elementary______ to convey ideas and factual information.

Accepted Answer

pictographs

Question 30

When the fabled 1913 ___ introduced modernism to America it met a storm of protest. Modern art & design was rejected.

Accepted Answer

Armory Show

Question 31

Ideas from advanced art & design movements were explored, combined & applied to problems of functional design & ____ .

Accepted Answer

machine production

Question 32

Launched in the fall of 1935, the WPA Federal Art Project enabled _______ to continue their professional careers.

Accepted Answer

artists, musicians and writers

Question 33

Gropius used a new slogan for Bauhaus after a successful, massive exhibit in Weimar: “Art & Technology, A NEW Unity.”

Accepted Answer

True

History of Graphic Design: PART IV Review of Chapter 16 & 17

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History of Graphic Design: PART IV Review of Chapter 16 & 17

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