Art Appreciation 1 - Test 3 Ch. 7,8,9,10

Cave Walls

​A form of charcoal was used by Stone Age humans to create images on __________.

Southern Shack Dwellers

​After meeting Ms. Mary Lou Furcron, African American artist Beverly Buchanan’s life and art have focused on __________, as seen in Henriette’s Yard.

Drawing

​Broadly defined, __________ is the art of running an implement that leaves a mark over a surface.

Crumpled paper and string

Claudio Bravo’s Package is an excellently executed trompe l’oeil drawing that presents the illusion of a package wrapped in __________.

Cartoon

​In its original meaning, a __________ was a full-scale preliminary drawing executed on paper for projects such as frescoes, stained glass, oil paintings, or tapestries.

Bone dust or chalk mixed with gum, water, and pigment

​In metalpoint drawings, the drawing surface must be coated with a ground of __________.

Charcoal

​Käthe Kollwitz’s Self Portrait reveals one aspect of the character of ________________.

1400s

​Pastels consist of ground chalk mixed with powdered pigments and a binder. Whereas chalk drawings can be traced to prehistoric times, pastels did not come into wide use until the_______.

Linear

​Pen and ink are used to create drawings that are essentially __________.

Charcoal, chalk, and pastel

​The effects of __________ when each is drawn against a paper surface are very similar.

Metalpoint (11)

​The medium of __________ was widely used for drawing from the late Middle Ages to the early 1500s, when it was largely replaced by the lead pencil.

Carbon black and water

​The oldest known type of ink is India or China ink, made from a solution of __________.

Metalpoint (13)

​Which of the following drawing materials cannot be smudged or rubbed for a hazy effect?

Texture

​With a drawing, the quality of line and the nature of shading are very much affected by the __________ of the support.

Japanese; everyday writing and works of art

​ __________ artists are masters of the brush-and-ink medium. They have used it for centuries for all types of __________.

Adrian Piper

​__________________ chose the medium of drawing to render the dramatic Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features.

aquarelle; gum arabic

​Contemporary watercolor is referred to as __________, made up of pigments and a vehicle of __________.

modeling

​Gilbert Stuart’s eighteenth-century traditional portrait George Washington achieves a realistic likeness largely through __________.

​limitations of fresco

​In Giotto’s fourteenth-century painting Lamentation, seams can clearly be seen that break the blue sky into numerous sections. This occurred because of the ___________.

the Statue of Liberty

​In Roger Shimomura’s Untitled painting, he has blended traditional Japanese imagery with American cartoon characters and includes a self-portrait in which he is depicted as __________.

gesso

​In both tempera and oil painting, the surface of the wood or canvas is covered with a ground of powdered chalk or plaster and animal glue known as __________.

stylized signatures

​Master graffiti artists almost always add “tags” to their artworks, which are __________.

femmage

​Miriam Schapiro’s Maid of Honour is a paint-and-fabric construction that she labeled __________.

comic-book hero

​Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s portrait George Washington is an oil-on-canvas image that most resembles a(n) __________.

​impasto

​Rembrandt used __________ to create his oil-on-board painting of the Head of St. Matthew.

Picasso and Braque

​The Synthetic Cubists were the first to create papiers collés, or collages, in the early twentieth century. The two major figures of this movement were __________.

encaustic

​The ancient Egyptians and Greeks tinted their sculptures with __________ to give them a lifelike appearance.

vehicle

​The binding agent that powdered pigment is mixed with to form paint is known as the __________.

egg, pigment, and water

​The traditional composition of tempera, rarely used today, consisted of __________.

glazing

​The transition to oil paint in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was gradual. For many years, it was only used for __________ in order to give the paintings a high sheen.

buon fresco; lime plaster

​True fresco, or __________, is executed on __________.

medium of turpentine

​When a painter’s oil paint becomes too thick, he has to thin it with a __________.

molten wax

While creating an encaustic painting, an artist must keep the __________ at a constant temperature.

Acrylic

​__________ is a mixture of pigment and a plastic vehicle that can be thinned with water.

Tempera

​__________ was the exclusive painting medium of artists during the medieval era.

Gouache

​__________ was the principal painting medium during the Byzantine and Romanesque eras of Christian art.

​it only yields a single, unique image

​A monotype differs from all other printmaking techniques because __________.

wash drawings

​Aquatint is frequently used along with line etching to resemble the effects produced by __________.

color lithograph

​Chinese artist Wang Guangyi’s Great Criticism: Coca-Cola is a __________ that resembles a commercially produced propaganda poster.

only a few uniformly etched lines

​Etching is a very versatile medium. In Henri Matisse’s Loulou Distracted, he used __________ to represent the essential features of a woman.

matrix

The working surface from which a print is made is called a __________.

precise lines and tonal gradations

​In Paul Landacre’s Growing Corn, we see a good example of the __________ that can be obtained from the skillful use of wood engraving.

aquatint

​In The Painter and His Model, Picasso was able to approximate the effects of mezzotint with a much simpler technique known as __________.

soft, velvety lines

​In creating his Christ Crucified between Two Thieves, Rembrandt used a drypoint needle in order to create __________.

engraving

​In the __________ process, the artist creates clean-cut lines on a plate of copper, zinc, or steel by forcing a sharp burin across the surface with the heel of the hand.

half-tint; hatcher

​In the seventeenth century, a Dutchman developed a technique for mezzotint, from the Italian for __________, in which the metal plate is worked over with a multi-toothed tool called a __________.

make known the degradation of previous generations of Chinese women

​In works such as her Untitled mixed-media print of Chinese girls, Hung Liu’s purpose is to __________.

metal plates

​Intaglio prints are made from __________ into which lines have been incised.

surface; stone slab

​Lithography, invented in the beginning of the nineteenth century by a German playwright, is a planographic, or __________, printing process in which a __________ is used.

it is a painstaking and time consuming procedure

​Mezzotint is rarely used because__________.

commercial; Andy Warhol

​Serigraphy, or silkscreen, was first developed for use as a(n) __________ medium, a fitting medium because Pop artist __________ used it to create Four Multi-Colored Marilyns.

supermodel icon

​The female image in Red Coat by Alex Katz is most reminiscent of a __________.

​woodcut; Chinese

​The oldest form of printmaking is __________, and most likely the first people to use it were the ancient __________.

intaglio

​The popularity of relief printing declined with the introduction of the __________ process, which did not appear until the fifteenth century.

gauffrage

​The twentieth-century American abstract artist Josef Albers created Solo V, an inkless intaglio technique known as __________.

mezzotint

​Which of the following types of printmaking is not an essentially linear media?

hard, nondirectional

​Woodcuts make use of the flat surface of wooden boards, but wood engravings use the end sections of the boards, yielding a __________ surface.

woodcut; below

​Zhao Xiaomo’s Family by the Lotus Pond is a __________. The areas that were not meant to be printed were carved out __________ the surface of the wood.

Soft-ground etching

​__________ is a type of etching that can be used to produce the effects of crayon or pencil drawings.

serigraphy

​__________ is the only printmaking process in which prints can be rendered in paint as well as ink.

montage

​A flash or whirl of abruptly changing images conveys the progression of time and events in a film is known as a __________.

telephoto lens

​A(n) __________ magnifies faraway objects and collapses the spaces between ordinarily distant objects.

​autochrome

​After the daguerreotype, the next major advance in the history of photography was the development of the __________ process, an example of which is Young Lady with an Umbrella.

United States Civil War; whatsit

​Alexander Gardner’s Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg is a graphic photo taken during the __________, probably from a camera in a wagon known as a __________.

a growing middle class

By the 1850s, photographic portrait studios became quite popular and began to serve the needs of __________.

​the Great Depression

​Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother is a touching photograph taken during the period of __________.

The Flatiron Building—Evening

​Edward Steichen’s __________, taken in 1906, is one of the foremost early examples of the photograph as a work of art.

resolution

​Higher quality digital cameras have __________ similar to film images.

human eye

​In both the camera and the __________, light enters a narrow opening and is projected onto a photosensitive surface.

Buchenwald during the Holocaust

Margaret Bourke-White wrote, “Using the camera was almost a relief; it interposed a slight barrier between myself and the white horror in front of me . . .” Here, Bourke-White is describing __________

​evoke instinctive reactions of repulsion and attraction

​Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel’s 1928 surrealistic film Un Chien Andalou was intended by the creators to __________.

emulsion; silver halide

The “active layer” of film contains a(n) __________ of small particles of __________.

​Daguerre

​The Artist’s Studio, taken in 1837, was the first photograph of its kind and was produced on silver-plated copper by __________.

“to write with light.”

​The word photography is derived from Greek roots that mean __________

candid

​When a camera shutter opens for a few thousandths of a second over and over again in quick succession, __________ shots are being taken.

The Wizard of Oz

Which classic early color film depicted real life in black and white and imaginary life in expressionistic color?

plants; negative

William Henry Fox Talbot’s first “photogenic drawings” were eerie, delicate photographs of __________, produced from a __________.

Picasso’s Old Guitarist

​William Wegman’s Blue Period is a canine riff on __________.

heliography

​The first photographic process to leave a permanent image was invented in 1826 and known as __________.