Art Appreciation Ch 6, 7, 8 Test Questions – Flashcards
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The three purposes of drawing are: to record, to ______________, and to make a finished artwork
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study
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A type of paint utilizing egg yolk as a binder is:
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Tempera
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In painting media, the pigment most notably provides:
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color
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To create Guernica, a monumental painting depicting the horrors of war, this artist made many preliminary sketches.
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Pablo Picasso
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Madonna and Child with the Chancellor Rolin, by the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck, is an excellent example of a(n)___________ painting.
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oil and tempera
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stencils
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screenprinting
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charcoal
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drawing
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tusche
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lithography
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glazing
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oil painting
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Rosalba Carriera, Portrait of a Girl with a Bussola, 1725-30
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pastel on paper
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Sandro Botticelli, The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (I), 1440-45
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tempera on panel
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Emil Nolde, Prophet, 1912
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woodcut
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Vija Celmins, Web #5, 1999
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charcoal on paper
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Pigment suspended in hot wax
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encaustic
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Printmaking technique based on the antipathy of oil and water.
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lithography
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An opaque, water-soluble paint.
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Gouache
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Any printmaking technique in which lines and areas to be inked are recessed below the printing plate surface.
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Intaglio
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The gradations of light and dark values in two-dimensional imagery.
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Chiaroscuro
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Drawing one set of lines over another, in a different direction, to suggest shadows or darker areas.
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cross-hatching
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An extremely thick application of oil paint
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Impasto
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A painting technique in which pigments are applied to a damp plaster surface.
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Fresco
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Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834, Lithograph
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Honore Daumier
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The Knight, Death and the Devil, Engraving
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Albrecht Durer
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The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011, iPad drawing
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David Hockney
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Carpenter, Black crayon
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Vincent van Gogh
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A(n) _______ drawing must be sprayed with a solution of thinned varnish to keep particles of the medium affixed to the surface.
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charcoal
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Which effect can be achieved by using charcoal on roughly textured paper?
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A wide range of light to dark tonal value
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Rosalba Carriera, creator of Portrait of Girl with a Bussola, was a popular eighteenth-century artist whose medium of choice offered rich colors and a smooth surface. Identify the medium
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pastel
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Which term is used to describe drawings that record the appearance of things that we see?
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receptive
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The original meaning of the term ______________ is a type of preparatory drawing that is a full-sized drawing made as a guide for a larger work in another medium.
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cartoon
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Which of the following media used today is similar to drawing media used by prehistoric people?
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charcoal
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Drawings done with ink thinned with water and executed with a brush are referred to as _______.
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washes
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Charles White used the technique of _______ to give the figure in Preacher a feeling of figural mass.
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cross-hatching
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How is Marjane Satrapi's bold drawing style especially appropriate for graphic novels?
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It parallels the story's clear narrative
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A very thin, transparent film of color painted over an already-painted surface is called:
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glaze
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In painting media, the pigment provides:
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color
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A type of painting utilizing egg yolk as a binder is _______.
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tempera
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The Chinese believe that painting is derived from the art of:
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calligraphy
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One of the advantages of oil paint is its:
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slow drying time
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Engraving, etching and _______ are intaglio processes.
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dry point
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Lithography is a surface or _______ printing process.
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planographic
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What characteristic of lithography makes it appropriate for images like Honore Daumier's Rue Transnonain?
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Its potential for quick and efficient reproduction
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The _______ cut is a modern development in relief printing.
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linoleum
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What term describes the metal plate used to produce Rembrandt's Christ Preaching?
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matrix
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At various stages in the printmaking process, artists make what are called _______ to check on the developing image.
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proofs
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The rubber-edged tool used in silk-screening is called a(n) _______.
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squeegee
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The fraction that appears in the center of a print below the image is referred to as the _______
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edition
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Which of the following is a type of stencil printing?
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serigraphy
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the worlds largest painting was created by
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judy baca
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in buon fresco the pigments, combined with water, are applied to
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wet plaster
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Tempera paint is always thinned with
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water
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Another name for opaque watercolor is
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gouache
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Large paintings done in this technique requires that the artist finish sections completely
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before fresco
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In ______________ the artist allows for the white of the paper to produce "highlights" through the transparent color.
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watercolor
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________________ is oil paint that is applied "wet into wet" and completed in one sitting.
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Direct painting
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Learning to draw may be easier to learn because drawing is less ______________ than writing.
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abstract
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Pencil, charcoal, and chalk are examples of ________________.
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dry media
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When an artist places parallel lines closely together to create shade in a drawing it is referred to as __________.
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hatching
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Drawing is considered to be the ______________ of all other media.
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foundation
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__________________ is best known for his/her paintings of flowers
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o keefe
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The process of printing came to Europe from _________.
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china
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An intaglio printing process in which a metal plate is scraped and burnished to achieve effects of light and shadow is called:
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aquatint
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A(n) _________ work of art is one that an artist is physically involved with the production of the work of art.
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original
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In which of the following media does the artist draw an image with a greasy crayon directly on a flat stone slab?
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lithography
