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 They were originally made from ________.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 |
Exam #2 Art Appreciation
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