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Graphic Design History - Early Modernism

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

At the end of the nineteenth century, architects, along with fashion, graphic, and product designers, moved away from the floral, curvilinear elements of Art Nouveau and toward a more __________ style of composition.

a)

Victorian

b)

international

c)

geometric

d)

Celtic

2.

The German artist, architect, and designer ____________ sought typographic reform and was an early advocate of sans-serif typography. He was the first to use sans-serif type as running book text.

a)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

b)

Peter Behrens

c)

Talwin Morris

d)

Josef Hoffmann

3.

In 1916, the eminent calligrapher Edward Johnston was chosen to design an exclusive, patented typeface for the world’s first __________. The strokes of this sans-serif typeface have consistent weight; however, the letters have the basic proportions of classical Roman inscriptions.

a)

design magazine

b)

world’s fair

c)

underground electric railway system

d)

corporate identity

4.

The _____________ was an outgrowth of Sezessionstil and sought a close union of the fine and applied arts in the design of lamps, fabrics, books, greeting cards, and other printed matter as an alternative to poorly designed, mass-produced articles and trite historicism.

a)

Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops)

b)

Deutsche Werkbund (German Association of Craftsmen)

c)

The Glasgow School

d)

The Bauhaus School

5.

The AEG graphic identity program made consistent use of three linchpin elements. Which element below does NOT belong?

a)

a typeface

b)

a consistent layout of elements

c)

a clear concept

d)

a logo

6.

1.    The design of the typeface Akzidenz Grotesk marked a major step in the evolution of the unified and systematized type family.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

At the close of the 19th century, manufacturers and retailers were interested in achieving superior design and printing for their advertising.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Newspaper ads promoting cabarets, theater, circuses, music halls, and other cultural events were immensely important decoration to the urban environment.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Poster design began to flower in the Early Modernism era and revitalize the art of the business-advertising.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

British artists William Nicholson and James Pryde were otherwise known as...

a)

The Blues Brothers

b)

The Bash Brothers

c)

J. & W. Beggarstaff Brothers

d)

Captain America and Wolverine

11.

The Beggarstaffs were inspired by design from...

a)

Spain

b)

England

c)

Italy

d)

Japan

12.

The Beggarstaffs used _________ to compose their designs

a)

silk screen

b)

lithography

c)

cut colored paper

d)

oil paint

13.

In an effort to interest manufacturers in their approach, they made _________ posters which they offered for sale at trade expositions.

a)

prototype

b)

dummy

c)

detailed

d)

fill-in-the-blank

14.

The Beggarstaffs had considerable influence on what would become known as the __________ poster in Europe and America.

a)

dummy

b)

modernist

c)

object

d)

advertising

15.

The Wiener Werkstätte (“Vienna Workshop”), built its ethic upon the idea of 

a)

Sachplakat

b)

expressionism

c)

Plakatstil

d)

gesamtkunstwerk

16.

Gesamtkunstwerk can be translated to mean...

a)

the complete work of art

b)

the poster

c)

the object

d)

the cafeteria

17.

The Deutscher Werkbund's purpose was “to overcome the alienation that had arisen between those who invent and those who carry out.”

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Peter Behrens was considered to be...

a)

the father of the poster

b)

the first graphic designer

c)

the first corporate design director

d)

the only designer to create logos

19.

This logo, designed by Peter Behrens, was designed for...

a)

Apple Education Group

b)

Allgemeine Elektricitaets Gesellschaft

c)

American Economic Gallery

d)

Alpine Edible Gesamtkunstwerk

20.

In the first years of contact between design and industry, the _________ was the testing ground that demonstrated that collaboration was both possible and profitable. 

a)

design lab

b)

internet

c)

newspaper ad

d)

poster

21.

In 1896, _________ became the home of the exciting movement known as Plakatstil.

a)

Berlin

b)

Munich

c)

London

d)

Paris

22.

The famous poster shown here is the design of...

a)

Lucian Bernhard

b)

Ludwig Hohlwein

c)

Hans Rudi Erdt

d)

Jon Micah Tyson

23.

The famous ad shown here is the design of...

a)

Lucian Bernhard

b)

Ludwig Hohlwein

c)

Hans Rudi Erdt

d)

Peter Behrens

24.

Plakatstil is German for...

a)

"object style"

b)

"poster style"

c)

"national style"

d)

"propaganda"

25.

Sachplakat is German for...

a)

"object style"

b)

"poster style"

c)

"national style"

d)

"propaganda"

26.

This design by __________ is an example of innovative use of typography in posters.

a)

Hans Rudi Erdt

b)

Lucian Bernhard

c)

Ludwig Hohlwein

d)

Peter Behrens

27.

The designer is an allegorical torchbearer in keeping with the Werkbund view that design is.....

a)

saving the earth right after rock and roll does.

b)

a necessary evil.

c)

an enlightening and humanizing social force.

d)

a profitable collaboration with industry.

28.

The poster shown here is the work of...

a)

Ludwig Hohlwein

b)

Lucian Bernhard

c)

Peter Behrens

d)

Hans Rudi Erdt

29.

The art shown here demonstrates...

a)

American designers are better at stamp design than Europeans.

b)

the title must be the largest thing in the design.

c)

colors can be a crutch.

d)

if the design works at a small size, it will work at a large one.

30.

Expressionism is a mindset whereby the artist seeks...

a)

not to show what the world feels like but rather how it looks.

b)

not to show what the world looks like but rather how it feels.

c)

not to show what the world wants but rather what it wants.

d)

not to show what the world is but rather what it should be.

31.

Expressionism was an amalgam of many isms at the turn of the century all attempting to free society from its past and cure its ills through rational effort.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

The techniques and subject matter influenced graphic illustration and poster art in that the emphasis on social and political activism provided a vital model for graphic designers addressing problems of the human condition and environment at the turn of the century but is no longer relevant.

a)

True

b)

False

33.

The typeface shown here designed by Edward Johnston is one of the first __________ typefaces of the century.

a)

sans-serif

b)

serif

c)

decorative

d)

script

34.

The typeface shown here designed by Edward Johnston is the exclusive patented typeface used in the...

a)

Austrian Alps Railroad

b)

Swiss International Roadways

c)

German Autobohn

d)

Underground Electric Railways of London

35.

The typeface shown here was designed by the Berthold Foundry and was called Standard in the United States. What was it called in Germany?

a)

Akzidenz Grotesk

b)

Helvetica

c)

Behrensschrift

d)

Gesamkultur