Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

pigment

Question 2

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

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pigment

Question 3

This is not a traditional paint binder.

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lye

Question 4

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

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palette knife

Question 5

The binding agent for tempera paint is ______.

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egg

Question 6

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

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detail

Question 7

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

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fresco

Question 8

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

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Crete

Question 9

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.

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linseed oil

Question 10

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

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Jan van Eyck

Question 11

The transparency of oil paint allows a painter to use a process called glazing in order to add high degree of ______ to a painting.

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luminosity

Question 12

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

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impasto

Question 13

_______ can create many different effects, depending on how it is applied. Chinese-born artist Hung Liu utilized these qualities to separate reality and the ideal in her work Interregnum.

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Oil paint

Question 14

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

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oil paint

Question 15

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

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acrylic

Question 16

One of the advantages of acrylic paint is that it can be cleaned up using this liquid.

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water

Question 17

This Japanese-American artist used acrylic paint to express the relationship between American and Japanese cultures.

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Roger Shimomura

Question 18

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

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watercolor

Question 19

This painting medium is opaque, applied to a paper surface, and uses gum arabic binder.

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gouache

Question 20

This German artist\'s naturalistic depiction of Hare was created using a combination of watercolor and gouache highlighting.

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Albrecht Durer

Question 21

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

Question 22

This Japaneses artist exploited the rich, dark value of ink painting to capture the characters of a river by moonlight.

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Suzuki Shonen

Question 23

This painting technique was used by prehistoric cave painters of Lascaux, France, and is still used by contemporary graffiti artists.

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spray paint

Question 24

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

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Crash (John Matos)

Question 25

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

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18, 000

Question 26

the size of an object or artwork relative to another object or artwork, or to a system of measurement

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Scale

Question 27

the material on which a painting is done

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Support

Question 28

a very realistic or lifelike style of making images

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Naturalism

Question 29

the artistic skill or trick of making something look real

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Illusionism

Question 30

art that represents objects in an exaggerated way to emphasize certain aspects of the object

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Stylized

Question 31

a bright, glowing quality

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Luminosity

Question 32

European artistic and architectural style of the late sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries, characterized by extravagance and emotional intensity

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Baroque

Question 33

not transparent

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Opaque

Question 34

a book produced by an artist, usually an expensive limited edition, often using specialized printing processes

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Artist\'s book

Question 35

in spray painting or silkscreen painting, a barrier the shape of which blocks the paint

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Mask

Question 36

a perforated template allowing ink or paint to pass through to print a design

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Stencil

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