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