Art Appreciation Test Review 3

This is not a painting binder for any medium.

Water.

In a fresco, the pigments, combined with water, are applied to ___.

Wet plaster

A group of prints that are identical and produced in a limited number are called ___.

an edition/editions

Projective drawing involves ___.

Creating something that only exists in the artist's mind

The primary colors that make up the basis for commercial printing are ___.

Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK)

An artist who is using brush and ink will often control the value of ink by doing what?

Diluting with water or using different values of ink.

When were the first successful photographs made using camera?

Early 1800s.

The binding agent for Tempera paint is ___.

Egg yolk

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre was unable to include people in his photographs, because in his time ___.

Exposure times were very long

Naturalistic encaustic portraits of the Fayum Oasis in Egypt were created as ___.

Funerary adornments

Opaque watercolor is also called ___.

Gouache

This nineteenth-century French artist is highly regarded for the outstanding layout design of his posters for a Parisian nightclub called the Moulin Rouge.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Egyptian picture symbols are called ___.

Hieroglyphs

Michelangelo created study of a Reclining Male Nude ___.

In preparation for a larger work.

Which of the following is a printmaking process?

Intaglio.

The word "photography" literally means ___.

Light writing, or drawing with light.

In which of the following media do the artists draw an image with a greasy crayon directly on a flat surface?

Lithography.

Identifying mark based on letters.

Logo.

The first people (c. 3400 B.C.E.) to employ picture symbols in a consistent language system were the ___.

Mesopotamians

Taking four years to complete, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was painted by this artist in sections, and used the fresco method.

Michelangelo.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril Jardin de Paris is a poster created using ___.

Offset lithography

Eadweard Muybridge is known for ___.

Photographing people and animals in motion.

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

Pigment

Daguerreotypes are made on ___.

Polished metal plates

Which of the following made graphic design possible?

Printing.

The primary colors used to create color in an electronic display are ___.

Red, green, and blue (RGB)

Type of printmaking process that is done by carving away parts of a block in order to leave a raised surface that can be inked and printed.

Relief.

the first cameras were ___.

Room-sized

The printmaking process is used today for t-shirts.

Screen printing or silkscreen.

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

Silverpoint.

Identifying mark based on images.

Symbol.

The essence of visual communication design is the use of ___ to communicate information and ideas.

Symbols

A style of paint medium utilizing egg yolk as a binder is ___.

Tempera

Although color photographic film was available to artists in the early twentieth century, many preferred black and white film because it was less expensive and less susceptible to technical problems, and because color prints ___.

Tended to fade over time

One of the first popular films to use color imagery was ___.

The Wizard of Oz then Gone with the Wind.

As Eadweard Muybridge's experiments with motion showed, ___.

The camera can capture what the human eye cannot see (frozen still images).

The visual form of printed letters, words, and text is called ___.

Typography

in full gallop 1878, a horse's legs are ___ when all of them are off the ground.

Underneath its body

The mechanics of the camera are very similar to those of ___.

A human eye

In the German expressionist horror film in 1922, Nosferatu, was ___.

A ripoff of Dracula

As added effects to the film with sound, what thriller genre director made the music score give the audience initiative on what was about to hapen?

Albert Hitchcock.

This artist is considered a master printer and used various processes of printmaking, here in depicting The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a woodblock print in 1498.

Albrecht Dürer.

Amongst the innovative aspects of Orson Welles's Citizen Kane are:

All of the other answers; camera movements, better narrative content with editing parallel events, fading in and out, close ups, long shots.

Encaustic is an ancient painting medium in which the pigments are suspended in ___.

Beeswax

Elizabeth Catlett's Sharecropper is an example of ___.

Bold visual style.

A major benefit of the calotype process is that ___.

Calotypes are negatives that can readily be reproduced.

Samples of this drawing medium have been dated back to 30,000 B.C.E.

Charcoal.

Which of the following media used today is most similar to drawing media used by prehistoric people?

Charcoal.

Movies were being shown all over Europe and the United States as early as ___.

1896

Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark. If you wanted a dark value, which of these pencil numbers would be the darkest?

9B or highest "B" value.