The difference in the color and consistency of different types of crayons and pastels is due to: |
the different use of binders |
A traditional metalpoint ground recipe calls for a mixture of: |
all |
Edgar Degas drew a grid over his study of a dancer in order to: |
making the drawin easier to copy |
Leonardo da Vinci used drawings to explore ideas in: |
all |
Pen and ink was the favorite sketching medium of ________, one of the greatest draftsmen of the 17th century. |
rembrant |
What part of the pen conveys the ink to the drawing surface? |
the nib |
Vonne Jacquette’s Three Mile Island, Night I uses the medium of: |
charcoal |
The ________ are credited with the invention of paper around 105 C.E. |
chinese |
Which of the following media is the most common of all drawing media? |
graphite pencil |
Because this 20th-century artist dated most of his drawings over the course of his lifetime, we have nearly a complete visual record of his mind at work. |
picassso |
In Shahzia Sikander’s I from 51 Ways of Looking, _________ was used as the medium. |
graphite |
The predecessor of the graphite pencil, especially popular during the Renaissance, is: |
metalpoint |
The coloring material in virtually all drawing media is known as: |
pigment |
In metalpoint, lines are drawn with a silver ________ onto a surface coated with a preliminary coating of paint. |
wire |
The style used by Georges Seurat in Café-concert is: |
pointilism |
Julie Mehretu’s use of the rapidograph and translucent mylar intentionally evokes: |
architectural drafting |
An example of a liquid medium in drawing is: |
ink |
Chris Ofili created Prince among Thieves with Flowers using ________ as his medium. |
pencil |
________ is/are among the materials besides paper that have provided support for drawings. |
NOTTTTTTTTT papyrus |
After building a canvas and before painting it, a painter generally applies a coat of: |
primer |
Picasso and Braque, working side-by-side, glued bits of paper and other objects onto canvas to create: |
collages |
Which of the following is an example of a nonaqueous medium? |
oil paint |
In fresco painting, a drawing called a ________ is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment. |
cartoon |
By the 1950s, this new synthetic paint would challenge oils as the principal painting medium. What is it? |
acrylic |
Pope Julius II employed which two Italian Renaissance artists to paint frescoes for him? |
miichelangelo and rephael |
Watercolor’s primary characteristic is its: |
transperency |
________ is watercolor that has been made opaque by adding inert white pigment to it. |
gouache |
The painting technique used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome that involves the use of wax is: |
encaustic |
Two ancient painting media that are still in use today are: |
encaustic and fresco |
One of the advantages of oil painting is that it dries very slowly. This allows for: |
all |
Technically, tempera is paint in which the vehicle is in: |
emulsion |
Traditional Chinese artists used _________, the oldest painting medium in continuous use. |
ink sticks |
A nonaqueous paint is one that: |
dissolves in something other than water |
he 20th-century master of the fresco technique who created the work Mixtec Culture is: |
diego rivera |
The first acclaimed artist to understand and exploit oil painting was: |
jan van eyck |
hat is pigment in paint? |
a powdered color |
In oil painting, linseed oil acts as: |
binder |
In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to: |
wet plaster |
Lithography is a __________ process, which means that the printing surface is flat, not raised. |
planographic |
In printmaking, where multiple images are made from the same original design, each individual print is called: |
impression |
The earliest known printed book contains the earliest surviving woodcut image. The book was made in the 9th century C.E. in: |
china |
A rubber stamp creates what type of print? |
relief |
Although wood engraving sounds like an intaglio process, it is actually a ________ process. |
relief |
Which is NOT one of the four basic printmaking processes? |
gouche |
Which of the following printing techniques is especially capable of producing subtle shades of gray? |
mezzotint |
In printmaking, a plate or block will be canceled so that: |
no more prints can be made from it |
A good example of the use of aquatint in creating areas of unmodulated, translucent color is the print: |
woman bathing by mar cassatt |
The printing technique invented by a German playwright in search of an inexpensive means of publishing his plays is: |
lithography |
What are the two main differences between prints and most other forms of art? |
prints are made using an indirect process and this proces results |
Printing impressions on top of one another from separate blocks in order to achieve full-color woodcut prints requires careful alignment of the paper, known as: |
NOOOT monoprinting |
One of the main differences between the intaglio and the relief printing processes is that with intaglio the ink ________ the surface of the printing plate. |
lies below |
Singing Their Songs was created by: |
elizabeth catlett |
Except in the case of ________, identical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking. |
monotypes |
Serigraphy means, literally: |
silk writing |
hich of the following is NOT one of the techniques of intaglio printing? |
linocut |
The earliest-known woodcut was made in: |
china |
The idea that a print is made from a matrix has been altered by the use of ________ to make prints. |
an artist-quality printer |
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