Chapter 6 & 7 Living With Art Quiz – Flashcards
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Leonardo da Vinci used drawings to explore ideas in
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engineering, architecture, astronomy, anatomy.
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Historically in silverpoint, lines were drawn with a silver __________ onto a surface coated with bone dust.
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wire
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Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #9 is an example of
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conceptual art.
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Because this 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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Julie Mehretu's use of the rapidograph and translucent mylar intentionally evoke
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architectural drafting
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Pablo Picasso's study for Guernica can best be described as _________ drawings.
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gestural
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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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Pen and ink, if used to produce a line quality that varies in thickness is often described as
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calligraphic.
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In a time when most artists worked in color, __________ concentrated in black and white.
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Käthe Kollwitz
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The ability to draw with light is accomplished by using:
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computers
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The coloring material in virtually all drawing media is known as:
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pigment.
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Elizabeth Murray created Shake using __________ as her medium.
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charcoal
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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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By the 1950s this new synthetic paint would replace oils as the principle painting medium. What is it?
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acrylic
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Pope Julius II employed which two Italian Renaissance artists to paint frescos for him?
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Michelangelo and Raphael
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A nonaqueous paint is one that:
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dissolves in something other than water.
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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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Which 20th-century artist used tempera to create the painting That Gentleman?
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Andrew Wyeth
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An example of "classic" watercolor technique is:
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John Singer Sargent's Mountain Stream.
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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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In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to:
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wet plaster.
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Considered one of the leading figures in 20th-century American art, the painter __________ studied at the Harlem Art Workshop and was one of many prominent artists to work for the W.P.A. during the Great Depression.
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Jacob Lawrence
