Deck 2: Pictures: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, and Photography

Question 1

Which of the following is a wall-painting technique in which pigments are applied to fresh, wet plaster?

A)Fresco
B)Ink
C)Oil
D)Gouache

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Define the term "hue," including its subsidiary characteristics of primary, secondary, and tertiary.

Answer 2

no answer

Question 3

What is the difference between art and documentary photography?

Answer 3

no answer

Question 4

Explain the concept of "balance," including in your answer a definition of the terms symmetry and asymmetry.

Question 5

Which of the following is a watercolor medium in which gum is added to ground opaque colors mixed with water?

A)Gouache
B)Aquatint
C)Intaglio
D)Acrylics

Question 6

Oils, perhaps the most popular of the painting media, were developed near the beginning of what century?

A)12^th
B)14^th
C)15^th
D)16^th

Question 7

Explain the visual properties of a medium and trace its development.

Question 8

Woodcut and wood engraving are examples of which of the following?

A)The planographic process
B)Lithography
C)Intaglio
D)Relief printing

Question 9

Explain the properties of color and how artists can use them in creating works of art.

Question 10

Define "focal area" and indicate the various techniques that can be utilized to achieve it.

Question 11

Which of the following is a painting medium that is transparent and thinned with water?

A)Oil
B)Watercolor
C)Gouache
D)Tempera

Question 12

Explain the basic characteristics of intaglio, woodcut, serigraphy, and lithography.

Question 13

Which of the following is a printmaking technique in which the surface of a plate is scratched with a needle?

A)Aquatint
B)Etching
C)Drypoint
D)Serigraphy

Question 14

Outline the elements and principles of composition.

Question 15

Because of the process used to produce them, prints and reproductions are always considered to be _____ works of art.

A)valuable
B)original
C)stable
D)unoriginal

Question 16

Which of the following is a modern, synthetic painting medium?

A)Fresco
B)Watercolor
C)Gouache
D)Acrylic

Question 17

Which of the following is a planographic process?

A)Lithography
B)Woodcut
C)Etching
D)Collograph

Question 18

Which of the following is an example of intaglio?

A)Collage
B)Woodcut
C)Serigraphy
D)Aquatint

Question 19

Which of the following is responsible for the fact that watercolors produce a delicacy that cannot be produced by other media?

A)Chiaroscuro
B)Transparency
C)Opaqueness
D)Pigments

Question 20

Analyze the effects of linear, atmospheric, and shifting perspective.

Question 21

Orange, resulting from mixing equal amounts of red and yellow, is which of the following?

A)Tertiary hue
B)Secondary hue
C)Primary hue
D)Saturated hue

Question 22

Which of the following is not a purpose for which artists utilize line?

A)To control vision
B)To create unity
C)To create meaning
D)To simulate weight

Question 23

Since the late nineteenth century, photographers have focused the camera lens on social issues through _____ photography.

A)fashion
B)news
C)documentary
D)all of the above

Question 24

_____ perspective is often used in Chinese landscapes in order to create a sense of depth.

A)Atmospheric
B)Linear
C)Shifting
D)Compositional

Question 25

Which of the following is one of the three basic characteristics of line?

A)Thickness
B)Color
C)Implication
D)Angularity

Question 26

Initially, the photographic medium was presented more like _____.

A)drawing
B)printmaking
C)painting
D)news reporting

Question 27

One can gray a hue by using its _____.

A)value
B)saturation
C)chroma
D)complement

Question 28

_____ worked to get photography recognized as a fine art.

A)Man Ray
B)Alfred Stieglitz
C)Ansel Adams
D)Thomas Joshua Cooper

Question 29

Adding white to a hue creates a _____ of that hue.

A)saturation
B)shade
C)tint
D)gradation

Question 30

A squeegee is used in which printmaking technique?

A)Lithography
B)Aquatint
C)Collage
D)Serigraphy

Question 31

Which of the following terms are most closely related?

A)Line and mass
B)Mass and color
C)Color and form
D)Form and line

Question 32

A type of photography that advocated a more direct, sharply focused, unmanipulated style called _____ photography developed during the early twentieth century.

A)zone
B)aligned
C)tonal
D)straight

Question 33

_____ perspective uses changes in color, size, and focus in order to make objects appear distant.

A)Atmospheric
B)Linear
C)Shifting
D)Compositional

Question 34

_____ perspective is a visual representation of the phenomenon that parallel lines seem to converge as they move into the distance, like a set of railroad tracks.

A)Atmospheric
B)Linear
C)Shifting
D)Compositional

Question 35

The term _____ is often used to describe characteristics synonymous with value.

A)brilliance
B)chroma
C)hue
D)intensity

Question 36

A color edge is a manifestation of what element of composition?

A)Line
B)Form
C)Mass
D)Perspective

Question 37

The relationship of blacks to whites and grays is called which of the following?

A)Hue
B)Color
C)Value
D)Saturation

Question 38

Which of the following is the term for hues opposite each other on the color wheel?

A)Complementary
B)Equal in value
C)Tertiary hues
D)Secondary hues

Question 39

The artist _____ demonstrated the abstract and nonobjective potential for photography in his works.

A)Man Ray
B)Alfred Stieglitz
C)Ansel Adams
D)Thomas Joshua Cooper

Question 40

Which of the following is the term for the composite, or overall, use of color?

A)Tonality
B)Impasto
C)Palette
D)Saturation