• Question 1
2 out of 2 points
Jane Dickson's Stairwell (p. 211) illustrates the _______ printmaking process, which relies for its effect not on line but on tonal areas of light and dark.
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Selected Answer:
aquatint
• Question 2
2 out of 2 points
Because in lithography the printing surface is completely flat (p. 211), it is referred to as a ________ printmaking process.
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Selected Answer:
planographic
• Question 3
2 out of 2 points
When ink is diluted with water and applied in broad flat areas, the result is called a:
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Selected Answer:
wash.
• Question 4
2 out of 2 points
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 (p. 176). This process was called:
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Selected Answer:
metalpoint.
• Question 5
2 out of 2 points
Marcia Gygli King's Springs Upstate is different from traditional painting in that:
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Selected Answer:
it projects into three-dimensional space.
• Question 6
2 out of 2 points
Dry drawing media consists of coloring agents, which are mixed with _______ that hold them together (p. 176).
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Selected Answer:
binders
• Question 7
2 out of 2 points
One of the greatest of the early masters of the intaglio process was the artist:
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Selected Answer:
Albrecht Dürer.
• Question 8
2 out of 2 points
Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was executed in a process called:
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Selected Answer:
buon fresco.
• Question 9
2 out of 2 points
What is the main advantage of linocut over woodcut printmaking?
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Selected Answer:
it is easier to cut into linoleum instead of wood
• Question 10
2 out of 2 points
Winslow Homer's A Wall, Nassau was made using:
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Selected Answer:
watercolor washes.
• Question 11
2 out of 2 points
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 (p. 172). This type of drawing is called:
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Selected Answer:
a cartoon.
• Question 12
2 out of 2 points
Painting was largely considered a craft, lesser than other "arts" like poetry and music, until:
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Selected Answer:
the Renaissance.
• Question 13
2 out of 2 points
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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Selected Answer:
Henri Matisse.
• Question 14
2 out of 2 points
Antonio Lopez Garcia's New Refrigerator may seem like odd subject matter for a painting, but it actually falls within a long line of which of these artistic traditions?
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Selected Answer:
still-life
• Question 15
2 out of 2 points
Artists can create a sense of luminous materiality in oil painting (p. 231) by brushing thin films of transparent color onto the surface, a process called:
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Selected Answer:
glazing.
• Question 16
2 out of 2 points
When and where was printmaking first developed?
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Selected Answer:
in the 9th century in China
• Question 17
0 out of 2 points
With the technique of fresco secco, as illustrated in the Ajanta Buddhist caves, the artist:
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Selected Answer:
incorrect**applies the paint on top of a dried ground, making it easier for the artist to get a high degree of detail.
• Question 18
2 out of 2 points
What is the chief advantage of printmaking over other media?
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Selected Answer:
the artist can make multiple copies of a single image
• Question 19
2 out of 2 points
Painter Helen Frankenthaler (p. 242) moved from staining her canvases with oil to using which painting medium?
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Selected Answer:
acrylic
• Question 20
2 out of 2 points
The longest continuously practiced (from 40,000 years ago to present) artistic tradition in the world comes from _____________.
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Selected Answer:
Australian Aborigines
• Question 21
2 out of 2 points
How did David Hammons "draw" his piece, Out of Bounds?
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Selected Answer:
by bouncing a dirty basketball on the paper
• Question 22
2 out of 2 points
Which of these was normal subject matter and ukiyo-e or nishiki-e prints?
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Selected Answer:
women engaged in everyday activities
• Question 23
2 out of 2 points
Vija Celmin's drawing of the ocean (p. 179) is an example of a highly developed photorealist _______ drawing on paper.
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Selected Answer:
pencil
• Question 24
2 out of 2 points
What was early paper in the West made of?
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Selected Answer:
cloth rags
• Question 25
2 out of 2 points
In European fresco painting from the early-Renaissance to the late Baroque, the goal of artists was to:
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Selected Answer:
create the illusion of real space and realistic figures.
• Question 26
2 out of 2 points
In Käthe Kollwitz's Self-Portrait, Drawing (p. 178), the artist has revealed the expressive capabilities of _______ as a medium.
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Selected Answer:
charcoal
• Question 27
2 out of 2 points
Known for his role in the Pop art movement, Andy Warhol created many artworks using which commercial process (p. 219)?
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Selected Answer:
silkscreen
• Question 28
2 out of 2 points
Andrew Wyeth's Braids (p. 231) illustrates the detail the artist is able to achieve using the medium of _______.
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Selected Answer:
egg tempera
• Question 29
2 out of 2 points
In printmaking, what is an edition?
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Selected Answer:
the number of impressions authorized by the artists made from a single master image
• Question 30
2 out of 2 points
The Diamond Sutra is remarkable because________.
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Selected Answer:
it is the frontispiece for the earliest known printed book
• Question 31
2 out of 2 points
How did Xu Wei, with paintings like Grapes, change traditional Chinese watercolor painting?
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Selected Answer:
he introduced a more free-forma and expressive style
• Question 32
2 out of 2 points
_______ is a form of soft carbon discovered in England in 1564 (p. 178); it became the medium in one of the most common drawing tools-the pencil.
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Selected Answer:
Graphite
• Question 33
2 out of 2 points
If an artist pushes the point of a burin across a metal plate, forcing the metal up in slivers in front of the burin, the process (p. 205) is called:
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Selected Answer:
engraving.
• Question 34
2 out of 2 points
A woodcut print such as Emile Nolde's Prophet is an example of:
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Selected Answer:
a relief print.
• Question 35
2 out of 2 points
By the end of the 15th century, artists and collectors such as Vasari had come to recognize that drawings could:
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Selected Answer:
embody the artist's creative genius.
• Question 36
2 out of 2 points
The _____________is the substance in paint that holds the particles of pigment together and often defines the characteristics of the various painting media.
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Selected Answer:
binder
• Question 37
2 out of 2 points
Paintings that consist of three painted panels, such as The Annunciation [Mérode Altarpiece] by Robert Campin, are called:
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Selected Answer:
triptychs.
• Question 38
2 out of 2 points
Which process best describes intaglio printing (p. 204)?
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Selected Answer:
The area that prints is below the surface of the plate.
• Question 39
2 out of 2 points
Whitfield Lovell's Whispers from the Walls is an example of ___________.
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Selected Answer:
installation art
• Question 40
2 out of 2 points
What is the main advantage of using oil paint over other paint media?
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Selected Answer:
it dries slower allowing for more naturalistic development
• Question 41
2 out of 2 points
When was the The Nuremberg Chronicle printed and what is its subject matter?
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Selected Answer:
in the 15th century and it is a history of the world to that point
• Question 42
2 out of 2 points
The artist of Rue Transnonain was a famous French illustrator and political caricaturist in the 19th century. The artist's name is:
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Selected Answer:
Honoré Daumier.
• Question 43
2 out of 2 points
Illusionism in fresco painting reaches its apogee in________, perhaps the most famous fresco painting ever produced.
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Selected Answer:
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling
• Question 44
2 out of 2 points
The word paper is derived from ____________.
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Selected Answer:
Egyptian papyrus
• Question 45
2 out of 2 points
According to Sayre, Jean Dubuffet's Corps de Dame can be read as:
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Selected Answer:
an attack on academic figure drawing.
• Question 46
2 out of 2 points
Which of these statements about drawing is NOT true?
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Selected Answer:
It is now, and always has been, exclusively, a means of pure representation.
• Question 47
2 out of 2 points
Watercolor painting is such a spontaneous process (p. 238) that many people think of it as:
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Selected Answer:
a form of drawing.
• Question 48
2 out of 2 points
Mummy Portrait of a Man was created using _______, a combination of pigment and hot wax.
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Selected Answer:
encaustic
• Question 49
2 out of 2 points
Monotype is unique among printmaking processes because it produces (p. 218):
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Selected Answer:
only one print from the plate.
• Question 50
2 out of 2 points
When did artists in the Western world first have ready access to paper?
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Selected Answer:
in Italy in the early Renaissance