Art midterm chapter 6-8 – Flashcards
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Edgar degas drew a grid over his study of a dancer in order to make the drawing easier to __________.
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copy
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The predecessor of the graphite pencil, especially popular during the renaissance, is _____________.
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metalpoint
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________________ is the most common of all drawing media.
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graphite pencil
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Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #122 is an example of _________ art.
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conceptual
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The difference in the color and consistency of different types of crayons and pastels is due to the use of different ___________.
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binders
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The style used by Georges Seurat in Café-concert is _____________.
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pointillism
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What part of the pen conveys the ink to the drawing surface?
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the nib
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Because the 20th century artist, _________, dated most of his drawings over the course of his lifetime, we have nearly a complete visual record of his mind at work.
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Picasso
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In Shahzia Sikander's I from 51 Ways of looking ______ was used as the medium
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graphite
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Vonne Jacquette's Three Mile Island, Night I uses the medium of _________.
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charcoal
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The 20th century master of the fresco technique who created the work of Mixtec Culture is __________.
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Diego Rivera
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What is pigment in paint?
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a powdered color
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_________ is an example of a non aqueous medium.
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oil paint
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The painting technique used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome that involves the use of wax is ____________.
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encaustic
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In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to wet ________.
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plaster
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After building a canvas and before painting it, a painter generally applies a coat of ________.
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primer
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In fresco painting, a drawing called a ________ is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment.
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cartoon
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Watercolor's primary characteristic is its ___________.
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transparency
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Two ancient painting media that are still in use today are ________________.
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encaustic and fresco
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The first acclaimed artist to understand and exploit oil painting was ______________.
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Jan van Eyck
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_________ is watercolor that has been made opaque by adding inert white pigment to it.
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Gouache
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Pope Julius II employed which two Italian Renaissance artists to paint frescoes for him?
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Michelangelo and Raphael
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A nonaqueous paint is one that ________ in something other than water.
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dissolves
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Technically, tempera is paint in which the vehicle is in an ____________.
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emulsion
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Except in the case of __________, identical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking.
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monotypes
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If a print is numbered 4/100, it can be deciphered that there are _____ other prints in the edition.
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99
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The earliest known printed book contains the earliest surviving woodcut image. The book was made in the 9th century C.E. in the country of _______.
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china
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A rubber stamp creates what type of print?
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relief
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One of the main differences between the intaglio and the relief printing processes is that with intaglio the ink ________________ the surface of the printing plate.
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lies below
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The earliest-known woodcut was made in ______.
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china
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A good example of the use of aquatint in creating areas of unmodulated, translucent color is the print _____________________________.
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Woman bathing by Mary Cassatt
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Which printing technique is especially capable of producing subtle shades of gray?
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mezzotint
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In printmaking, a plate or block will be cancelled so that no more _______ can be made from it.
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prints
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The idea that a print is made from a matrix has been altered by the use of an _______________ printer to make prints.
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artist quality
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Lithography is a _____________ process, which means that the printing surface is flat, not raised.
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planographic
