Visual Arts:

Considered one of the leading figures in 20th-century American art, the painter __________ studied at the Harlem Art Workshop and was one of many prominent artists to work for the W.P.A. during the Great Depression

Jacob Lawrence

The first acclaimed artist to understand and exploit oil painting was

Jan van eyck

Pope Julius II employed which two Italian Renaissance artists to paint frescoes for him?

Michelangelo and Raphael

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

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

In oil painting, linseed oil acts as

a binder

By the 1950s, this new synthetic paint would challenge oil paints as the principal painting medium:

acrylic

One of the advantages of oil painting is that it dries very slowly. This allows for

all these answers are correct

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

an impression

In fresco painting, a drawing called a ________ is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment.

cartoon

Yvonne Jacquette's Three Mile Island, Night 1 uses the medium of

charcoal

Picasso and Braque, working side-by-side, glued bits of paper and other objects onto canvas to create:

collages

The work of Sol LeWitt can best be described as

conceptual

a non-aqueous paint is one that

dissolves in something other than water

Two ancient painting media that are still in use today are:

encaustic and fresco

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

encuastic

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

gouache

One of the main differences between the intaglio and the relief printing processes is that with intaglio the ink ______ the surface of the printing plate

lies below

which of the following is NOT on the techniques of intaglio printing?

linocut

The printing technique invented by a German playwright in search of an inexpensive means of publishing his plays is:

lithography

Which printmaking process did Philip Guston use to make Curtain

lithography

The predecessor of the graphite pencil, especially popular during the Renaissance, is

metalpoint

Which of the following printing techniques is especially capable of producing subtle shades of grey

mezzotint

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

monotypes

In printmaking, a plate or block will be canceled so that:

no more prints can be made from it

which of the following is an example of a non aqueous medium?

oil paint

An example of a liquid medium in drawing is

pen and ink

what is pigment in paint?

powdered color

after building a canvas and before painting it, a painter generally applies a coat of

primer

Which artist painted the fresco the school of athens?

raphael

Printing impressions on top of one another from separate blocks in order to achieve full-color woodcut prints requires careful alignment of the paper, known as

registration

A rubber stamp creates what type of print?

relief

Watercolor's primary characteristic is its:

transparency

In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to

wet plaster

in relief printing the ink is

??

What is the main difference between a woodcut and a wood engraving?

A woodcut is created on a surface cut along the grain, a wood engraving is created on a surface cut across the grain.

The earliest known printed book contains the earliest surviving woodcut image. The book was made in the 9th century C.E. in:

China

The 20th century master of the fresco technique who created the work Mixtec Culture is ______.

Diego Rivera