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1. Eadweard Muybridge, who helped settle a bet on the positioning of a galloping horse's legs, conducted experiments that became the basis for ______.

2. The Hangul alphabet consists of fourteen consonants represented by __________

3. Futurism was launched when the Italian ____________ Filippo Marinetti published his Manifesto of Futurism, calling for artists to test their ideas and forms against the new realities of a scientific and industrial society.

4. Jules Charet, father of the modern poster, created the Cherette. This female figure ________.

5. A 'Die Bracke' artist, ____________ had great empathy for the suffering of women and children. Her figurative paintings and woodblock prints were forged with thick, raw strokes, often becoming bold statements about alienation, anxiety, and despair.

6. The practical reason many wood-type posters included mixed styles of fonts was ____.

7. Surrealists such as founder André Breton turned from the anger and pranks of the Dada movement to the less destructive world of ________.

8. The role of graphic design and graphic communications expanded during the Industrial Revolution due to three of the following factors. Which does NOT belong?

9. The earliest dated examples of typographic printing were ________.

10. The _________ is a steel bar with a character engraved into the top. This is then pressed into a softer metal to make a negative impression of the character.

11. The typestyle that conveys a bold, machine-like feeling through sellback rectangular serifs, an even weight throughout the letters, and short ascenders and descenders is called____.

12. The Greeks modified Phoenician letter shapes by making them ________

13. Three of the following advances in graphic design occurred during the Victorian era. Which does NOT belong?

14. Among those who drew inspiration from the Glasgow School were _____________ , who created medieval-style fantasy illustrations accompanied by stylized lettering, and _____________ , who applied geometric spatial division and lyrical organic forms to mass communication while working for the publishing firm Blackie's.

15. Although art nouveau artists did not use a historicist approach to their designs, they were influenced by past as well as contemporary art. All but one of the influences listed below impacted art nouveau artists. Which does NOT belong?

16. During the Romanesque period (c. 1000-1150 ce), manuscript design elements of different regions began to blend. One reason is that styles were cross-fertilized when ________.

17. The Dutch book design style of Nieuwe Kunst could be described as all of the following EXCEPT:

18. One of Dutch designer Han Toorop's biggest sources of inspiration was:

19. Upon viewing Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations in La Mort d'Arthur, William Morris ________.

20. The periodical Ver Sacrum was innovative primarily because

21. The Vatican Virgil, an example of the ________ manuscript style, includes Virgil's Aeneid and the Georgics.

22. Guillaume Apollinaire's unique contribution to graphic design was the 1918 publication of a book entitled ___________, poems in which the letterforms are arranged to form a visual design, figure, or pictograph.

23. 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.

24. The Vienna Secession formed in 1897 when a group of young Viennese artists________.

25. Robert Thorne of England created a major category of type designs around 1803 called ______, roman faces whose contrast and weight were greatly increased by expanding the thickness of their heavy strokes.

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