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

What does D.J. Hall\'s rich use of colored pencil communicate to the viewer in her drawing \"Piece of Cake?\"

Accepted Answer

The intense light of a Californian afternoon

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

India ink

Question 4

East Asian artists have traditionally applied ink using a _____.

Accepted Answer

Brush

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Diluting the water

Question 6

This Swiss artist, who drew the work \"The City Square,\" captures the moment by focusing on and quickly recording the scene in from of him/herself

Accepted Answer

Alberto Giacometti

Question 7

This type of drawing involves the use of long continuous lines to capture the changing surface and outline of an object.

Accepted Answer

Contour

Question 8

This Austrian artist focused on the contoured outline of a mother and child in his/her drawing \"Mutter und Kind.\"

Accepted Answer

Egon Schiele

Question 9

We have discovered paintings at Pech Merle in France that have been made by artists dating back _____ years.

Accepted Answer

25,000

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

Buon

Question 11

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 12

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 13

An artist paints the US flag using the medium of watercolor, but forgets to do the white stars. To add them to the painting, the artist just needs to use the white watercolor pigment.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

The work \"Coalopolis\" by American artist Ralph M. Larmann utilizes acrylic paint. This medium is derived from modern manufacturing processes and conveys _____.

Accepted Answer

All of the answers

Question 15

When a printmaker rolls ink onto a raised surface and presses a piece of paper onto it, the resulting image on the paper is known as _____.

Accepted Answer

An impression

Question 16

The earliest existing printed artworks on paper were created in this culture.

Accepted Answer

China

Question 17

If you wanted to create a poster that displayed exactly the same information, and could be reproduced in thousands of copies, monoprinting would be a good process to use.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

Wood is not strong enough to create freestanding sculptures more than four feet tall.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

This sculpting process involves adding a liquid or pliable material to a mold.

Accepted Answer

Casting

Question 20

This Spanish artist combined a bicycle seat and handlebars into a form that was reminiscent of a bull\'s head.

Accepted Answer

Pablo Picasso

Question 21

This process involves taking over a pre-existing image or object and altering its appearance in a way that changes its original meaning or purpose.

Accepted Answer

Appropriation

Question 22

This Hungarian artist created works of art that were motorized, even featuring one as a character in a film.

Accepted Answer

Lazlo Moholy-Nagy

Question 23

In order to create an interior space, an architect must design a distance between two supports called _____.

Accepted Answer

A span

Question 24

The Greek architect Kallikrates designed the Temple of Athena Nike using this style of column, named after a region in coastal Greece.

Accepted Answer

Ionic

Question 25

This type of arched span was first used in ancient Babylon and Mycenae.

Accepted Answer

Corbeled

Question 26

This style of medieval cathedral was based on the architecture of Rome.

Accepted Answer

Romaneqsue

Question 27

The unique foundation structure of the Taj Mahal may be compromised because of lower water levels in the Yumuna River in recent years.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

Cast iron was only invented in the eighteenth century.

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False

Question 29

This cataclysmic event, which led to the rebuilding of the downtown area of a major city, provided an opportunity for creative young architects to experiment.

Accepted Answer

The Chicago Fire of 1871

Question 30

The Center of Maximum Potential Building Systems, co-directed by the architects Vittori and Fisk since 1991, was created to make buildings more _____.

Accepted Answer

Environmentally friendly

Question 31

Clay that has a great deal of water mixed into it, making it very thin, is known as ______.

Accepted Answer

Slip

Question 32

The only reason artists glaze their pottery is practical: to add a layer of protection.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 33

Before its use in Gothic stained-glass windows, glass was not employed as decorative art at all.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 34

In 1525, this German master printmaker wrote a manual establishing the first set of rules for the construction of letterforms.

Accepted Answer

Durer

Question 35

The German designed Herbert Bayer created a sans-serif typeface called _____ that could not be immediately associated with any one culture.

Accepted Answer

Universal

Question 36

This nineteenth-century artists Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris created a handcrafted version of this writer\'s works as a rejection of rampant industrialization

Accepted Answer

Chaucer

Question 37

This is the art of organizing type, logos, and illustrations in traditional print media:

Accepted Answer

Layout design

Question 38

Video-gaming tournaments create competitive sporting events for large groups of spectators to experience at the same time. The use of video monitors and digital projection devices make it possible to view competitions between players in such games as _____.

Accepted Answer

Starcraft

Question 39

Images in a camera obscura can be recorded mechanically or chemically.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

Daguerreotypes are made on _____.

Accepted Answer

Polished metal plates

Question 41

A major benefit of the daguerreotype process is that _____.

Accepted Answer

It creates very detailed images

Question 42

When she made the photograph called \"Migrant Mother,\" Dorothea Lange:

Accepted Answer

First passed the pea-picker\'s camp, but decided to turn back to take pictures

Question 43

One of the earliest surviving photographs is a still life by Daguerre, featuring:

Accepted Answer

Plaster casts, a framed picture, and a wine flask, by a window

Question 44

Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine went undercover in factories and mines to expose the injustices of child labor

Accepted Answer

True

Question 45

Hannah Hoch was part of a movement known as

Accepted Answer

Dada

Question 46

Color photographs could be made from the time that the first photograph processes were invented.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 47

Which of the following were used to create the visual effects in \"Lord of the Rings?\"

Accepted Answer

All of the other answers

Question 48

Auteur theory _____.

Accepted Answer

All of the other answers

Question 49

_____ films often include innovative technology, unexpected subject matter, and/or manipulated images.

Accepted Answer

Experimental

Question 50

Artworks made using alternative media are best accessed by _____ but often exist only in the form of _____.

Accepted Answer

Direct experience ... visual documentation or personal accounts

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