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
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:
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:
True
The additive process of sculpture includes both assembling and modeling.
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.
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 ____________.
oil paint
Which of the following is an example of a nonaqueous medium?
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
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:
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.
substractive
The carving method is what type of process?
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?
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?
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.
False
Forging technique shapes metal through hammer blows.
modeling, casting, carving, and assembling.
Four basic methods for making a sculpture are: