art app unit 2 quiz 1 – Flashcards

Which material that looks and writes like lead, was discovered in the mid-1500s, and became the medium for use in pencils?

This drawing medium is known for smudging easily, creating lines that can be easily altered, and it usually has a dark value. Samples of it have been dated back to 30,000 BCE.

Chalk, pastel, and crayon are created using pigment with a binder. Which of the following is a traditional binder?

Pastels are limited to black and white because color cannot be added to a pastel binder.

Artists, such as Vincent van Gogh, can vary the flow of ink in a reed pen stroke by ________.

The techniques of hatching and cross-hatching can be used only in dry media.

In the drawing Woman Seated in an Armchair the artist Henri Matisse uses only contour lines because it is impossible to create areas of value using the medium pen and ink.

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

This component of paint has traditionally been extracted from minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal by-products.

If an artist wanted to paint a very detailed miniature forest scene, tempera would be a good medium to use.

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

If an artist wanted to create an artwork that they could easily alter, and in which they could quickly fix any mistakes, buon fresco would be a good method to use.

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.

If an artist wanted to work on a painting over a number of days, blending and making changes, acrylic paint would be a good medium to use.

Encaustic

tempera

oil

acrylic

watercolor

goauche

The three processes of shaping clay to make ceramic objects are called ________.

The glassy finished surface applied to a ceramic object is called ________.

This word means the pliability of a material so that it can be easily formed into almost any orientation.

The art of arranging colored glass into mosaic-like window forms is called ________.

The only way an artist can work with metal is to heat it to a liquid state.

Which of the following methods is not used in forming metal artworks?

This particular medium uses threads, fabrics, and other textiles.

If an artist wanted to create an artwork sure to last for many thousands of years, wood would be a good material to use.

This component of paint has traditionally been extracted from minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal by-products.

If an artist wanted to paint a very detailed miniature forest scene, tempera would be a good medium to use.