Question 1

In Leonardo da Vinci\'s design for a flying machine he used a ________ as his inspiration.

Accepted Answer

bird\'s wing

Question 2

When Raphael was preparing to paint his fresco The School of Athens he did a large drawing called ________ to help place the design on the wall.

Accepted Answer

a cartoon

Question 3

To transfer the design of The School of Athens to the wall, Raphael ________ a large drawing, then used powdered charcoal dust to leave an impression of the original image.

Accepted Answer

perforated

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

pressure

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

wax

Question 6

This drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder.

Accepted Answer

silverpoint

Question 7

When creating his silverpoint drawing Heads of the Virgin and Child, Raphael employed ________, a process in which the artist uses closely arranged parallel lines to create value.

Accepted Answer

hatching

Question 8

Samples of this drawing medium have been dated back to 30,000 BCE.

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charcoal

Question 9

Sticks of chalk, pastel, and crayon are all made by combining pigment with ________.

Accepted Answer

binder

Question 10

Artists\' chalk is powdered calcium carbonate combined with this binder.

Accepted Answer

gum arabic

Question 11

Artists\' crayon is made by mixing pigment with ________.

Accepted Answer

wax

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

sanguine

Question 13

Erasers can be used by artists as drawing tools. In 1953 Robert Rauschenberg created a work by erasing a drawing by this famous Abstract Expressionist painter

Accepted Answer

Willem de Kooning

Question 14

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 They were originally made from ________.

Accepted Answer

bird feathers

Question 15

East Asian artists have traditionally applied ink using a ________.

Accepted Answer

brush

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

diluting with water

Question 17

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

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cloth  animal hide  wood  papyrus

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

China

Question 19

Hishikawa Moronobu\'s seventeenth-century woodblock print depicts the art of ________.

Accepted Answer

papermaking

Question 20

Matisse called these works \"drawing with scissors\" because in them he concentrated on the contours of shapes.

Accepted Answer

cutouts

Question 21

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

Accepted Answer

the human body

Question 22

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

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

If you wanted to create a colorful drawing that could be easily erased or altered, gall ink would be a good medium to use

Accepted Answer

False

Question 24

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

Accepted Answer

False

Question 25

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

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder.

Accepted Answer

pigment

Question 27

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

Accepted Answer

pigment

Question 28

This is not a traditional paint binder.

Accepted Answer

lye

Question 29

The binding agent in encaustic painting is ________.

Accepted Answer

beeswax

Question 30

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

Accepted Answer

palette knife

Question 31

Naturalistic encaustic portraits of the Roman era, from the Fayum Oasis in Egypt, were created as ________.

Accepted Answer

funerary adornments

Question 32

The binding agent for tempera paint is ________.

Accepted Answer

egg

Question 33

Tempera lends itself to high ________ because it is usually applied with a brush in short, thin strokes.

Accepted Answer

detail

Question 34

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

Accepted Answer

Andrew Wyeth

Question 35

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

Accepted Answer

fresco

Question 36

The earliest examples of fresco, found at the Palace of Knossos on the Mediterranean island of ________, date to c. 1600-1500 bce.

Accepted Answer

Crete

Question 37

There are two types of fresco. Fresco secco, which means dry fresco, and this kind, which means good fresco.

Accepted Answer

buon

Question 38

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

Accepted Answer

Michelangelo

Question 39

This painting binder is a by-product of flax production and first came into common use during the late Middle Ages and the Northern Renaissance.

Accepted Answer

linseed oil

Question 40

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

Accepted Answer

Jan van Eyck

Question 41

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.

Accepted Answer

luminosity

Question 42

Californian artist Joan Brown used this painting technique, created by applying thick layers of paint to a surface.

Accepted Answer

impasto

Question 43

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

Accepted Answer

oil paint

Question 44

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

Accepted Answer

acrylic

Question 45

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

Accepted Answer

watercolor

Question 46

Sonia Delaunay used this medium for her lively illustrations accompanying Blaise Cendrars\'s  poetry in their \"simultaneous\" artist\'s book.

Accepted Answer

watercolor

Question 47

This tag artist started out creating graffiti art in New York City subway cars, before producing museum works like Aeroplane 1.

Accepted Answer

Crash

Question 48

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

Accepted Answer

Blek Le Rat

Question 49

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

Accepted Answer

18000

Question 50

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.

Accepted Answer

False

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