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When a printmaker rolls ink onto a raised surface and presses a piece of paper onto it, the resulting image on the paper is known as ________. |
an impression |
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The earliest existing printed artworks on paper were created in this culture. |
china |
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This type of printmaking is done by carving away part of a block in order to leave a raised surface that can be inked and printed. |
relief |
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A relief print created out of a solid wood block is called ________. |
a woodcut |
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For his print Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Albrecht Dürer hired expert craftsmen to ________. |
create the block and cut the lines into it |
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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many masters of woodblock printing in this country, whose work reflected the lifestyle of an urban cultural class |
Japan |
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This style of printmaking means "pictures of the floating world" and was practiced by the Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro. |
Ukiyo-e |
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This term for plate printmaking means "cut into" in Italian. |
intaglio |
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This intaglio printing process involves carefully and cleanly scoring a metal plate |
engraving |
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One advantage of using a metal plate over a woodblock for printmaking is that it ________. |
is longer lasting |
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This intaglio process is achieved by pulling a burin across the surface of a metal plate, leaving a burr where the ink will collect. |
drypoint |
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This intaglio process employs acid to mar the surface of a metal plate. |
etching |
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This intaglio process makes an image that resembles the effect created by water-based media, and uses melted rosin to create an acid-resistant coating |
aquatint |
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The wash-like appearance of Goya’s print Giant was created using this process |
aquatint |
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If an artist wanted to create a print that visually resembled brush-and-ink painting, ________ would be a good method to use. |
aquatint |
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This intaglio process is achieved by roughening the entire metal plate surface with a rocking tool, then smoothing the areas where the ink is to be wiped away. |
mezzotint |
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The African-American artist Dox Thrash wanted to use dark, rich tones to reflect the somber mood of the nation during World War II in this mezzotint from c.1941 |
Defense Worker |
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This type of printmaking does not require the artist to cut into a surface; the ink is suspended by other means to complete the print. |
planographic |
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This printmaking process means "stone writing" in Greek. |
lithography |
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This printmaking process is used for t-shirts, solar panels, and circuit boards |
silkscreen |
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A group of prints that are identical and produced in a limited number is called ________. |
an edition |
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If you were to carve away the surface of a woodblock, removing the shape of a star, then ink the block and make a print, you would be left with a negative star shape on the paper. |
True |
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If an artist wants to create a print with very fine detail and precise, even lines, drypoint would be a good method to use. |
false |
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If an artist wanted to create an image of a bright moon in the night sky using mezzotint, he or she should smooth the burrs on the surface of the plate for the area of the moon. |
true |
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If you wanted to create a poster that displayed exactly the same information, and could be reproduced in thousands of copies, monoprint would be a good process to use |
false |
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What does the word "photograph" mean? |
writing with light |
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The mechanics of the camera are very similar to those of ________ |
a human eye |
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The name of the opening that lets light into any camera is called ________. |
the aperture |
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When were the first successful photographs made using a camera? |
early 1800s |
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Daguerreotypes are made on ________. |
polished metal plates |
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A major benefit of the daguerreotype process is that ________. |
it creates very detailed images |
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When she made the photograph called Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange |
first passed the pea-pickers’ camp, but decided to turn back to take pictures |
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Landscape photographs, such as those taken by Ansel Adams, help raise awareness about: |
nature’s grandeur and the wilderness of the American West |
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One of the earliest surviving photographs is a still life by Daguerre featuring: |
plaster casts, a framed picture, and a wine flask, by a window |
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The American photographer Edward Weston focused closely on the subject of his Pepper No. 30, making the viewer concentrate on the ________ and ________ of the vegetable. |
form . . . texture |
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The photographer of Afghan Girl was able to locate the girl many years later using ________ as a means of identification. |
iris-patterns from the original photograph |
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When did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine arts museums? |
1980s |
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Loretta Lux digitally manipulates such elements as ________ to create the effect she wants in her pictures. |
scale color backgrounds proportion |
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What is it called when a photographer chooses to make a photograph look candid and spontaneous? |
snapshot aesthetic |
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Hannah Höch was part of a movement known as ________. |
Dada |
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Untitled—Passage on the Underground Railroad digitally combines |
images from the past and present |
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The medium of Valley of the Shadow of Death is ________. |
black-and-white photograph |
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Sally Mann’s 1989 photograph The New Mothers was made ________. |
in black and white |
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Shining a light through a film negative reverses the tones so that multiple positive prints can be made. |
True |
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The visual effect created by a camera obscura can occur in any room, whether it is light or dark. |
False |
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Images in a camera obscura can be recorded mechanically or chemically. |
True |
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The final step in developing a film in a darkroom is washing and drying the print. |
True |
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Photographic portraits can never be poetic or introspective. |
False |
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Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine went undercover in factories and mines to expose the injustices of child labor. |
True |
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Garry Winogrand frequently posed his subjects and set up his shots beforehand. |
False |
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