Art Appreciation CH 6-12

True

A logo is often the first and key element in creating a complete corporate identity.

relief

A rubber stamp creates what type of print?

False

After building a canvas and before painting it, a painter generally applies a coat of linseed oil.

natural

Andy Goldsworthy uses ________ materials to create sculptures that are ephemeral.

True

Andy Warhol often blurred the line between commercial design and fine art.

potter's wheel

By far the fastest method of creating a hollow, rounded clay form is by means of the:

monotypes

Except in the case of ________, identical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking.

True

Fired clay is sometimes called terra cotta.

False

Forging technique shapes metal through hammer blows.

modeling, casting, carving, and assembling.

Four basic methods for making a sculpture are:

True

Hope was the message conveyed by Shepard Fairey's immensely popular poster that became the unofficial symbol of Barak Obama's presidential campaign.

False

Images from the world's earliest known printed book a copy of the Diamond Sutra, was made using drypoint.

a binder

In oil painting, linseed oil acts as:

True

In oil painting, thin veils of translucent color applied over a layer of opaque paint are known as glazes.

an impression

In printmaking, where multiple images are made from the same original design, each individual print is called:

False

In sculpture, what is the most popular modeling material is marble.

False

In typography, signs are the short cross-lines that end the principal strokes of individual letters.

warp

In weaving, the set of fibers that is held taut on a loom or frame is called the:

True

Islamic cultures have focused a great deal of aesthetic attention on carpets.

True

Planographic is associated with lithography.

coiling

Pueblo potter Maria Martinez used what method to create her striking blackware?

Diego Rivera

The 20th-century master of the fresco technique who created the work Mixtec Culture is:

high relief sculpture

The Indian sculpture Durga Fighting the Buffalo Demon is an example of:

true

The Tree of Jesse is a work from the golden age of stained glass.

True

The additive process of sculpture includes both assembling and modeling.

substractive

The carving method is what type of process?

True

The invention of the printing press made it possible to devise a notice that could be reproduced in large numbers and distributed widely.

casting

The lost-wax process is what type of sculptural method?

blowing

The most common way to shape a hollow glass vessel is by:

True

The painting technique used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome that involves the use of wax is encaustic.

True

The principal ingredient of glass is sand.

matrix

The printmaking, a(n)____________is a surface on which a design is prepared before being transferred through pressure to a receiving surface such as paper.

True

Two ancient painting media that are still in use today are encaustic and fresco.

transparency

Watercolor's primary characteristic is its:

interactivity

What are some elements of J. Howard Miller's We Can Do It! poster that speak to its design?

Prints are made using an indirect process and this process results in multiples of the same image.

What are the two main differences between prints and most other forms of art?

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

What celebrated nineteenth-century artist created posters for the cabarets and dance halls of Paris?

installation art

What genre conceives of a space and everything in it as a work of art?

a powdered color

What is pigment in paint?

furniture

What is the most common product of woodworking art?

serigraphy

What term is used to describe "silk writing"?

layout

What term is used to describe how text and images appear on a page?

low relief

What term is used to describe sculptures in which figures project only slightly from the background?

plastic

When clay is wet, it becomes moldable and cohesive, or____________.

logotype

When the name of a company, institution, or product is given a distinctive graphic treatment, it is known as a ____________.

Gouache

Which is NOT one of the four basic printmaking processes?

Linocut

Which of the following is NOT one of the techniques of intaglio printing?

oil paint

Which of the following is an example of a nonaqueous medium?

gouache

________ is watercolor that has been made opaque by adding inert white pigment to it.

Symbols

_________, such as directional arrows, convey information and embody ideas.