Exam #2 Art Appreciation

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Artists draw for many reasons, including:

all of the other answers (define, plan, resolve issues, or record visual observations)

Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark. If you wanted a dark value, which of these pencil numbers would be the darkest?

9B

In her self-portrait, the artist Ilka Gedö used pencil and varied the ________ in order to suggest texture, create emphasis, and to produce darker values.

pressure

Color pencil is much like graphite pencil, but the lead is made from pigment and ________.

wax

If an artist wanted to create an area of darkness using the medium of silverpoint, he or she would use the technique of ________.

hatching

Artists’ crayon is made by mixing pigment with ________.

wax

This red chalk was used by Renaissance artists, including Michelangelo in his Studies for the Libyan Sibyl.

sanguine

This contemporary version of carbon ink is a favorite of comic book artists.

india ink

Quills are a common tool for ink drawing. They were originally made from ________.

bird feathers

An artist who is using brush and ink will often control the value of the ink by ________.

diluting the water

This French artist created a sense of depth in the work The Tiber from Monte Mario Looking South using thoughtful brushstrokes and ink wash.

Claude Lorraine

Before the invention of paper, drawings were done on ________.

all of the other answers (animal hide, papyrus, cloth, wood)

In which country was paper invented by Cai Lun, who made it out of macerated plant fibers suspended in water?

China

Which of the following fibers is not used to make paper?

wool

This is the practice of drawing from a live model or other actual objects.

life drawing

This type of drawing aims to identify and react to the main visual and expressive characteristics of a form.

genre

In the gestural drawing Muscular Dynamism by Umberto Boccioni, the artist used chalk and charcoal to depict the undulating surface of ________.

the human body

This is not a traditional paint binder.

lye

The binding agent in encaustic painting is ________.

beeswax

This painting tool can be used to apply thick encaustic paint.

palette knife

This twentieth-century American painter chose tempera to describe his neighbor’s "extraordinary conquest of life" in the work Christina’s World.

Andrew Wyeth

This painting process relies on freshly applied lime plaster to hold the pigment in place.

fresco

Taking four years to complete, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the buon fresco method.

Michelangelo

The Renaissance artist and writer Giorgio Vasari credited this Flemish painter with the invention of oil paint.

Jan van Eyck

The transparency of oil paint allows a painter to use a process called glazing in order to add a high degree of ________ to a painting.

luminosity

________ can create many different effects, depending on how it is applied. Chinese-born artist Hung Liu utilized these qualities to separate reality and the ideal in her work Interregnum.

oil paint

Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi used this medium for her Allegory of Painting, a self-portrait of the artist with a paintbrush in hand.

oil paint

This contemporary painting medium uses a polymer resin as a binder.

acrylic

This painting medium is transparent, applied to a paper surface, and has a gum arabic binder (the French version uses honey.)

watercolor

This painting technique was used by the prehistoric cave painters of Lascaux, France, and is still used by contemporary graffiti artists.

spray paint

This French artist created street art using a process that involved stencils and spray paint.

Blek Le Rat

We have discovered paintings at Lascaux in France that have been made by artists dating back ________ years.

18,000

Which of the following is a printmaking process?

intaglio

Images were first reproduced by printmaking in this ancient culture.

Mesopotamia

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

A relief print created out of a solid wood block is called ________.

woodcut

For his print Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Albrecht Dürer hired expert craftsmen to ________.

create the block and cut the lines into it

This twentieth-century German artist used the natural grain and splintering of the woodblock to make his work Prophet more expressive.

Emil Nolde

To create a color woodblock, such as Hokusai’s famous "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," a printer must produce a new ________ for each separate color.

relief block

This term for plate printmaking means "cut into" in Italian.

intaglio

This printmaking tool is a sharp instrument used to mark the surface of a plate.

burin

This intaglio printing process involves carefully and cleanly scoring a metal plate.

engraving

One advantage of using a metal plate over a woodblock for printmaking is that it ________.

is longer lasting

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

This U.S. government program helped to create jobs for artists (and many other occupations) during the Great Depression and World War II. It allowed African-American artist Dox Thrash and other artists to use their art in support of the country. What was this extensive program called?

Works Projects Administration

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

This printmaking process means "stone writing" in Greek.

lithography

This printmaking process is used for t-shirts, solar panels, and circuit boards.

silkscreen

This female artist practiced monotype printmaking and was a member of a group of abstract painters called The Irascibles.

Hedda Sterne

The first people (c. 3400 BCE) to employ picture symbols in a consistent language system were the ________.

Mesopotamians

Egyptian picture symbols are called ________.

hieroglyphics

Wherever literacy takes hold, ________ usually develops as a form of art that expresses layers of meaning and feelings by means of the shape of the written letterforms.

calligraphy

Wang Xizhi was one of the great calligraphers of the Jin Dynasty from this ancient culture.

China

Albrecht Dürer’s standard of letterforms was based on the alphabetic characters of this culture.

Rome

This is most often a carefully designed piece of type that is unique and easily identified.

logo

The Ford Motor Company created a logo from this handwriting style, which was practiced in nineteenth-century America.

Spencerian Script

The nineteenth-century artists Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris created a handcrafted version of this writer’s works as a rejection of rampant industrialization.

Chaucer

Norman Rockwell created an illustration of this character to support the war effort on the home front during World War II.

Rosie the Riveter

Some illustrators, for example the Malaysian designer Kok Cheow Yeoh, use multiple processes to create digital images. Yeoh draws the work, then does this to digitize the image.

scan

This type of design can incorporate text, image, recorded sound, and moving images.

web design

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