Art App Unit 3 (Quizzes 6-7)
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Which of the following fibers is not used to make paper?
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wool
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This German artist's naturalistic depiction Hare was created using a combination of watercolor and gouache highlighting.
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Albrecht Durer
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Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark. If you wanted a dark value, which of these pencil numbers would be the darkest?
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9B
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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.
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a cartoon
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This contemporary painting medium uses a polymer resin as a binder.
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acrylic
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This drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder.
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silverpoint
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This medium is made of pigment suspended in water so that it adheres to the fibers of paper to which it is commonly applied. Usually there is a small amount of gum arabic in this medium, and it most often uses only black pigment.
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ink
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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.
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hatching
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In which country was paper invented by Cai Lun, who made it out of macerated plant fibers suspended in water?
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China
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If an artist wanted to work on a painting over a number of days, blending and making changes, what would be the best medium to use?
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oil paints
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Artists draw for many reasons, including:
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all of the other answers
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This painting process relies on freshly applied lime plaster to hold the pigment in place.
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fresco
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Artists' crayon is made by mixing pigment with ________.
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wax
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This painting medium is opaque, applied to a paper surface, and uses a gum arabic binder.
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gouache
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Match the painting with its medium: Albrecht Dürer, Hare
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watercolor and gouache
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Match the painting with its medium: Roger Shimomura, Untitled
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acrylic
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Match the painting with its medium: Hung Liu, Interregnum
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oil
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Match the painting with its medium: Michaelangelo, The Libyan Sibyl
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fresco
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Match the painting with its medium: Riza Abbasi, Two Lovers
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tempera
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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.
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luminosity
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Match the artwork with its drawing medium: Ilka Gedö, Self-portrait
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graphite
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Match the artwork with its drawing medium: Edgar Degas, The Tub
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pastel
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Match the artwork with its drawing medium: Vincent van Gogh, Sower with Setting Sun
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reed pen and ink
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Match the artwork with its drawing medium: Michelangelo, Studies for the Libyan Sibyl
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red chalk
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Match the artwork with its drawing medium: Käthe Kollwitz, Self-portrait in Profile to Left
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charcoal
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Quills are a common tool for ink drawing. They were originally made from ________.
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bird feathers
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The binding agent for tempera paint is ________.
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egg
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This painting tool can be used to apply thick encaustic paint.
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palette knife
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Taking four years to complete, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using which type of method?
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Michaelangelo, buon fresco
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These two types of charcoal are the most commonly used as drawing materials:
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compressed, vine
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Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder.
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pigment
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The Renaissance artist and writer Giorgio Vasari credited this Flemish painter with the invention of oil paint.
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Jan van Eyck
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Color pencil is much like graphite pencil, but the lead is made from pigment and ________.
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wax
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This component of paint has traditionally been extracted from minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal by-products.
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pigment
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There are two types of fresco. Fresco secco, which means dry fresco, and this kind, which means good fresco.
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buon
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This type of drawing involves the use of long continuous lines to capture the changing surface and outline of an object.
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contour
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This tag artist started out creating graffiti art in New York City subway cars, before producing museum works like Aeroplane 1.
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Crash
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One of the advantages of acrylic paint is that it can be cleaned up using this liquid.
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water
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The French Impressionist Edgar Degas used this dry drawing medium when he created The Tub in 1886.
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pastel
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The binding agent in encaustic painting is ________.
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beeswax
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Samples of this drawing medium have been dated back to 30,000 BCE.
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charcoal
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The French artist Georges Seurat created a study for his huge painting La Grande Jatte using this waxy medium.
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Conte crayon
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This type of drawing aims to identify and react to the main visual and expressive characteristics of a form.
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gesture
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Artists, such as Vincent van Gogh, vary the width of a reed pen stroke by ________.
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pressing harder
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Before the invention of paper, drawings were done on ________.
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all of the other answers
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When Raphael was preparing to paint his fresco The School of Athens he did a large drawing called a ________ to help place the design on the wall.
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cartoon
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The ancient Romans perfected this type of arch and often used it in their architecture.
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rounded
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This style of architecture, which began in the 1980s, combines the hard rectangles of Modernism with unusual materials and stylistic features from the past.
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Postmodernism
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Sculptures created using this method often require the movement of large amounts of soil from one location to another.
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earthworks
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This type of window was used in Gothic cathedrals to enhance the religious experience of the worshiper.
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stained-glass
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This type of arch was integrated into Gothic architecture in order to help direct the worshiper's gaze upward.
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pointed
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Ancient Greek sculptors sometimes created cast sculptures from ________, an alloy of copper and tin.
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bronze
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Even though it is a freestanding sculpture, Sculpture of the Lady Sennuwy was made to be displayed in what fashion?
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With its back to a pillar or wall
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater cultivates an organic relationship between the building and its location by:
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all of the other answers
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A ______ is an architectural space that is created by using a series of columns, or a colonnade, to support a flat ceiling.
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hypostyle hall
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A relief sculpture is one that is designed to be seen from one side. The two kinds of relief sculpture are ______, which is deeply cut, and ______, which has little depth.
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high relief, bas-relief
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This is the large central space of a Romanesque or Gothic cathedral.
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nave
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Objects found or already existing outside of the context of art, which are used as component parts in a work or to create an entire sculpture, are called ________.
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readymades
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Another name for freestanding sculpture is ________.
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in the sound
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Vaults that have an exposed structural beam protruding from them for decorative purposes are called ________.
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rib vaults
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The most impressive feature of the Church of Hagia Sophia is its enormous ______ roof.
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domed
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If an architect wanted to build a large square building with a domed roof, he or she would use this structural feature to transfer the load of the roof.
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pendentive
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What is one of the main reasons that the creation of the Olmec colossal heads is so impressive?
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they were crafted without metal tools
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The name of this bronze-casting process relies on a modeled original form made from a pliable material. This method is known as ________.
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lost-wax casting
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The Pont du Gard is a Roman construction used for conveying water, called ________.
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an aqueduct
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These windows are set high above the nave in order to allow light into large open areas, such as the interior of the Hagia Sophia.
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clerestory
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This feature of Gothic architecture allowed the weight of the ceiling to be transferred away from the walls so that larger windows could be built.
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flying buttresses
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The Greek architect Kallikrates designed the Temple of Athena Nike using this style of column, named after a region in coastal Greece.
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Ionic
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A sculpture intended by the artist to move is called a ________ sculpture.
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kinetic
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Which style of church architecture emulates the architectural style of the ancient Romans and uses rounded vaults and vaulted aisles in its plan?
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Romanesque
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The Great Pyramid of Khufu is an example of sophisticated engineering and ________ construction.
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load-bearing
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Which type of arch, which is made up of stones that are progressively stepped inwards, was used by the ancient Babylonians and Mycenaeans?
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Corbeled arch
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The visionary church leader Abbot Suger sought to intensify the spiritual experience of worshipers by revolutionizing church architecture. He was instrumental in establishing the architectural style known as ________.
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Gothic
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Which ruler of Renaissance Florence commissioned Giambologna to sculpt a symbol of the city's strength to create a favorable image?
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Francesco de Medici
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What method of sculpture is the artist using when they assemble component parts in order to create an artwork?
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construction
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In the nineteenth century, this material became both less costly and more widely available for construction.
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all of the other answers
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The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, by Damien Hirst, is an example of the broad range of materials that can be used in a work of art. It presents a ________ suspended in a tank of formaldehyde.
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shark
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Over time, exposure to the elements can add this surface coloration to metals. It can also be created with the use of chemical preparations.
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patina
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This artist took a urinal, turned it on its side, made some other slight alterations, and presented it as an art object titled Fountain.
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Marcel Duchamp
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The bronze sculpture Riace Warrior A was created as an ______ representation of the human body.
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idealized
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Michelangelo believed ________ to be the finest and most challenging of all the visual arts.
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sculpture
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This sculptural process is the act of creating an environment that a viewer will experience within a space.
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installation
