ART 111 - Final
These two types of charcoal are the most commonly used as drawing materials:
vine, compressed
Artists' crayon is made by mixing pigment with ___________.
wax
Color pencil is much like graphite pencil, but the lead is made from pigment and __________________.
wax
Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark. If you wanted a dark value, which of these following pencil numbers would be the darkest?
9B
If an artist wanted to create an artwork that they could easily alter, and in which they could fix any mistake, buon fresco would be a good method of use.
False
If an artist wanted to work on a painting over a number of days, blending and making changes, egg tempera would be a great medium to use.
False
If you wanted to create a colorful drawing that could easily be erased or altered, gal ink would be a good medium to use.
False
Michelangelo used an additive method to produce his sculpture.
False
This is not a traditional paint binder.
Lye
This artist took a urinal, turned it on its side, made some other slight alterations, and presented it as an art objected titled Fountain.
Marcel Duchamp
What methods did Lorenzo Ghiberti use in this panel to suggest an illusion of three-dimensional space?
Overlapping, varying degrees of relief, linear perspective, scale (ALL OF THE ABOVE)
Artists who model forms using soft pliable materials, such as clay or wax, sometimes employ this kind of support when creating their work.
an armature
An artwork that consists of re-created bedroom with videos projected onto the walls would best be described as _______________.
an installation
Before the invention of paper, drawings were done on _______________.
animal hide, papyrus, cloth, wood (all of the above)
This process involves taking over a pre-existing image or object and altering its apperance in a way that changes its original meaning or purpose.
appropriation
The sculptural process in which the artist carves only in shallow depth is called __________________.
bas-relief
The binding agent in encaustic paint is _____________________.
beeswax
East Asian artists have traditionally applied ink using a _____________.
brush
There are two types of fresco. Fresco secco, which means dry fresco, and this kind, which means good fresco.
buon
Taking four years to complete, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the _________________ method.
buon fresco
This sculpting process involves adding a liquid or pliable material to a mold.
casting
Which of these is not an additive process of sculpting?
chiseling
An artwork that consists exclusively of drawings, designs, and plans would best be described as ___________________.
conceptual art
Tempera lends itself to high ______________ because it is usually applied with a brush in short thin strokes.
detail
An artist who is using brush and ink will often control the value of the ink by _________________.
diluting with water
Artworks made using alternative media are best accessed by _________________ but often exist only in the form of __________________.
direct experience & visual documentation or personal accounts
Sculptures created using this method often require the movement of large amounts of soil from one location to another.
earthworks
The binding agent for tempera paint is ____________________.
egg
As an artist, Marina Abramovic is known for her __________________.
extreme performance pieces
The transparency of oil paint allows a painter to use a process called _________________ in order to add a high degree of luminosity to a painting.
glazing
Artists' chalk is powdered calcium carbonate combined with this binder.
gum arabic
If an artist wanted to create a relief in which a tree appeared further away than a park bench, carving the park bench more deeply (in high relief) would achieve this effect.
True
If an artist wanted to paint a very detailed miniature forest scene, egg tempera would be a good medium to use.
True
One of the advantages of acrylic paint is that it can be cleaned up using this liquid.
Water
Which of these materials can be used to create a sculpture?
Wax, Stone, Plastic, Ice (ALL OF THE ABOVE)
A sculpture intended by the artist to move is called _______________ sculpture.
a kinetic
This contemporary painting medium uses polymer resin as a binder.
acrylic
If an artist wanted to create an area of darkness using the medium of silverpoint, he or she would use the technique of _________________.
hatching
When a sculpture is designed to be viewed from one side, and protrudes dynamically from its background plane or is carved with deeply incised marks, this is called ___________________.
high relief
Another name for free standing sculpture is _____________________.
in the round
This medium is made of pigment suspended in water so that it adheres to the fibers of the 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
This sculptural process is the act of creating an environment that a viewer will experience within a space.
installation
The ________________ process relies on a modeled original form made from pliable material, and results in the final sculpture of bronze.
lost-wax casting
When artists use objects which they did not make, but found already existing, these objects are called _________________.
readymades
Unlike freestanding sculpture, this type of sculpture produces an image that is still connected to its material of origin, and can only be viewed from one side.
relief
This drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder.
silverpoint
In addition to its fiber content and weight, paper is also classified as its _____________________.
surface texture
All sculptures have this characteristic in common:
they exist in three-dimensional space
If a sculptor wanted to create a relief that was visible from more than one angle , bas-relief would be a good method to use.
False
Artworks made using alternative media and processes ______________.
Break down categories of traditional artworks, break down the traditional boundaries between art and life, focus our attention on objects, actions, and events we might otherwise overlook. (ALL OF THE ABOVE)
Ancient Greek sculptors sometimes created cast sculptures from ____________________, an alloy of copper and tin.
Bronze
Which of these is not a subtractive method of sculpting?
Casting
In which country was paper invented by Cai Lun, who made it out of macerated plant fibers suspended in water?
China
What method of sculpture is the artist using when he / she assembles component parts in order to create an artwork?
Construction
An artwork can fit into only one of the following categories: performance art, conceptual art, installation art.
False
Artists used oil paint on cave walls thousands of years ago.
False
Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi used this medium for her Allegory of Painting, a self-portrait of the artist with a paintbrush in hand.
oil paint
An artwork that consists of cutting off someone's tie and pouring shampoo on his head would best be described as ________________.
performance art
Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________________ and a liquid binder.
pigment
This component of paint has traditionally been extracted from minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal by-products.
pigment