Later Europe & Americas unit test
A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.
The Two Fridas
The Kiss
Monticello
The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49
Carson, Pirie, Scott Building
Fallingwater
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Palace of Westminster
The Saint-Lazare Station
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils
Olympia
Slave Ship
Short answer 1. Define or explain: Oath of the Horatii
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: Goldfish
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: The Portuguese
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure)
3 ptsFree response
5 ptsCONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS (Question 4, 5 points). The images show exterior and interior views of Fallingwater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1936–1939 CE: the required-image-set house of cantilevered reinforced-concrete terraces hovering over a waterfall on Bear Run in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, its local-sandstone core rising from the rock ledge, with bands of glass and a low-ceilinged interior of stone floors and built-in furniture opening onto the stream.
Describe one visual characteristic of the building shown.
Describe the location of the building shown.
Using two examples of specific visual and/or contextual evidence, explain how the setting of Fallingwater influenced the architect’s decisions when designing the building.
Using specific visual or contextual evidence, explain how Fallingwater demonstrates changes in architectural design in the early twentieth century.