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According to Sayre, Jean Dubuffet's Corps de Dame can be read as?
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an attack on academic figure drawing
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Which of these best describes the Australian Mimis and kangaroo rock art?
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they are layered images, done many years apart, with the kangaroos on the top layer executed in the X-ray style.
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Whitfield Lovell's Whispers from the Walls is an example of ?
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installation art.
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What is the narrative related by Marjane Satrapi in the graphic novel Persepolis?
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it is the author's story of growing up in Iran and the difficulties she faced as Western and Eastern cultures collided
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Where did Marjane Satrapi draw the title of her graphic novel Persepolis?
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from the ceremonial capital of ancient Persia under Cyrus and Darius
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Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing, Madonna and Child with St. Anne and Infant St. John the Baptist, for a fresco of the same title. This type of drawing is called?
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a cartoon
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By the end of the 15th century, artists and collectors such as Vasari had come to recognize that drawings could?
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embody the artist's creative genius
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Dry drawing media consists of coloring agents, which are mixed with what to hold them together?
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binders
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A popular drawing medium during the Renaissance consisted of a stylus of gold, silver, or other metal that was dragged across a prepared ground of lead white, bone, and water. This process was called?
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metalpoint.
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The artist who felt that a cut line made with scissors could acquire more feeling than a pencil or charcoal was?
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Henri Matisse
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When ink is diluted with water and applied in broad flat areas, the result is called a?
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wash.
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Which of the following is a form of soft carbon discovered in England in 1564?
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Graphite
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The longest continuously practiced (from 40,000 years ago to present) artistic tradition in the world comes from?
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Australian Aborigines
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When did artists in the Western world first have ready access to paper?
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in Italy in the early Renaissance
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. The word paper is derived from ?
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Egyptian papyrus
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What was early paper in the West made of?
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cloth rags
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What is the chief advantage of oilstick over pastels?
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more gestural freedom
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Which of these statements about drawing is not true?
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It is now, and always has been, exclusively, a means of pure representation
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