Art Appreciation Review

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Artists draw for many reasons; including

defining their ideas, planning for projects, resolve design issues in preparatory sketches, and to record their visual observations.

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To transfer the design of The School of Athens to the wall, Raphael BLANK a large drawing, than used powdered charcoal dust to leave an impression of the original image.

Perforated

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This drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder.

silverpoint

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If an artist wanted to create an area of darkness using the medium of silverpoint, he or she would use the technique of BLANK

Hatching

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Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark. If you wanted a dark value, what pencil number would be the darkest

9B

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Color pencil is much like the graphite pencil, bit the lead is made from pigment and BLANK

Wax

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Sticks to chalk, pastel, and crayon are all made by combining pigment with BLANK

Binder

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Artists’ chalk is powdered calcium carbonate combined with this binder.

Gum arabic

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Artists’ crayon is made by mixing pigment with BLANK

wax

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AN artist who is using brush and ink will often control the value of ink by BLANk

Diluting with water

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Before the invention of paper. Drawings were done on

Animal hide, papyrus, cloth, and wood

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Fibers used to make paper

Flax, wool, hemp, abaca, and cotton

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In addition to its fiber content and weight, paper is classified by its surface texture. What is the type of appear that is created on a screen with grid-like structure?

wove

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This type of drawing aims to identify and react to the main visual and expressive characteristics of a form.

Gesture

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This type of drawing involves the use of continuous lines to capture the changing surface and outline of an object.

Contour

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

pigment

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

Pigment

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The binding agent for encaustic painting is

Beeswax

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A brush called a filbert is best used for

Applying color, its short bristles offer more control and softened edges

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The painting tool can be used to apply a thick encaustic paint.

Palette knife

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Naturalistic encaustic portraits of the Roman era, from the Fayum Oasis us Egypt, were created as

funerary adornments

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

Fresco

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There are two types of fresco. Fresco secco, which means “dry fresco,” and this kind. Which means “good fresco” The word for good is

buon

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The binding agent for tempera paint is

Egg

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

Detail

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Islamic and Renaissance artists often used tempera in conjunction with oil and this material, which adds a rich appearance to the work.

gold leaf

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This painting binder is a by-product of flas production and first came into common use during the late Middle Ages and the Northern Renaissance.

linseed oil

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

Luminosity

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THis medium is made of a pigment 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.

Ink

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

watercolor

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

Gouache

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This contemporary painting medium uses a polymer resin as a binder

Acrylic

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

Water

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Which of the following is a printmaking process?

intaglio

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When a printmaker rolls ink onto a raised surface and presses a piece of paper onto it, the resulting image on the paper is known as

An impression

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Images were first reproduced but printmaking in this ancient culture.

Mesopotamia

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The earliest existing printed artworks on paper were created in this culture.

China

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This type of printmaking is done by carving away a part of a block in order to leave a raised surface that can be linked and printed.

relief

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A relief print created out of a solid wood block is called

A woodcut

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If an artist were to create a woodblock print with three different colors, and black, how many separate relief blocks would he or she need?

Four

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A relief print created out of a sheet of linoleum is called

A linocut

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This term for plate printmaking means “cut into” in Italian

Intaglio

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This print preparation involves carefully and clearly scoring a metal plate

Engraving

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One advantage of using a metal plate over a woodblock for printmaking is that

It’s longer lasting

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This print preparation process is achieved by pulling a bruin across the surface of a metal plate, leaving.a burr which ink connect.

Drypoint

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If an artist wants to create a print with very fine detail and precise lines, which of the following methods would be a good method to use?

engraving

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This intaglio process employs acid to mar the surface of a metal plate

Etching

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This print preparation process makes an image that resembles the effect created by water-based media, and uses melted rosin to create an acid-resistant coating.

aquatint

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If an artist wanted to create a print that visually resembled brush-and-ink painting

Aquatint

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This intaglio process is achieved by roughening the entire metal plate surface with a rock tool, then smoothing the areas where the ink is to be wiped away.

mezzotint

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The element of art form the basic BLANK of art

Vocabulary

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The principles of design are a kind of BLANK that artists apply to the elements of art.

grammar

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A flat work of art has two dimensions: BLANK and width.

height

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The dark printed words on the page of a book are easily read because they are printed on a light ground. This is an example of the principle of BLANK.

contrast

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One definition of this element is “a mark that connects two points.”

Line

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The line that defines the edge of a shape is called the BLANK

Outline

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A line that is a continuous mark is BLANK

An actual line

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A line that gives viewers the impression that they are seeing a line that is not continuous

An implied line

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When we touch an object we experience a tactile sensation that artists refer to as BLANK texture

Actual

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By orienting lines that they attract attention to a specific area of work of art the artist is using BLANK

Directional line

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If vertical lines communicate strength, horizontals calm, and diagonals action, then a vacation resort might want to choose a logo consisting of BLANK lines in order to show peaceful repose

Horizontal

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A shape made of perfectly straight lines would probably be classified as BLANK shape.

a geometric

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This type of shape is composed of unpredictable, irregular lines.

organic

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These four visual elements of art—form, volume, mass, and texture—are present in BLANK works

Three-dimensional

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Because it is three-dimensional, a form has these three spatial measurements: height, width, and BLANK

Depth

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A two-dimensional object is called a shape, and three dimensional object is known as a BLANK

Form

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Forms that tend to be irregular, and similar to naturally occurring objects, are known as BLANK

Organic

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Wheels across each other on the color wheel

Complimentary colors