Deck 13: Painting

Question 1

Californian artist Joan Brown used this painting technique, created by applying thick layers of paint to a surface.

A) sgraffito
B) glazing
C) impasto
D) scumbling
E) broken stroke

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Tempera lends itself to high ________ because it is usually applied with a brush in short, thin strokes.

A) impasto
B) color
C) value
D) detail
E) gloss

Answer 2

D

Question 3

This component of paint has traditionally been extracted from minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal by-products.

A) glaze
B) solvent
C) polymers
D) pigment
E) impasto

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Artists used oil paint on cave walls thousands of years ago.

Question 5

The binding agent in encaustic painting is ________.

A) beeswax
B) egg yolk
C) milk casein
D) linseed oil
E) gum arabic

Question 6

Why do you think that fresco was chosen as the medium for the political works of the Mexican Muralists? Discuss how the medium plays a role in enhancing the message in works of art. What kind of role do you think art played in the Mexican Revolution? Oil
20) This painting binder is a by-product of flax production and first came into common use during 
the late Middle Ages and the Northern Renaissance.

A) beeswax
B) linseed oil
C) gum arabic
D) milk casein
E) egg

Question 7

This painting tool can be used to apply thick encaustic paint.

A) arrezzo
B) airbrush
C) impasto
D) intonaco
E) palette knife

Question 8

If an artist wanted to create an artwork that they could easily alter, and in which they could quickly fix any mistakes, buon fresco would be a good method to use.

Question 9

There are two types of fresco. Fresco secco, which means dry fresco, and this kind, which means good fresco.

A) calabria
B) mezzo
C) unum
D) buon
E) tondo

Question 10

The Renaissance artist and writer Giorgio Vasari credited this Flemish painter with the invention of oil paint.

A) Robert Campin
B) Pieter Bruegel
C) Jan van Eyck
D) Peter Paul Rubens
E) Rembrandt van Rijn

Question 11

Point out the advantages and disadvantages of encaustic painting. What may have been the reasons that this painting medium was preferred by the artists of the Fayum Oasis in Egypt?

Question 12

Naturalistic encaustic portraits of the Roman era, from the Fayum Oasis in Egypt, were created as ________.

A) historical records
B) home decorations
C) funerary adornments
D) government identification
E) practice studies

Question 13

The binding agent for tempera paint is ________.

A) egg
B) milk
C) beeswax
D) oil
E) gum arabic

Question 14

The transparency of oil paint allows a painter to use a process called glazing in order to add a high degree of ________ to a painting.

A) sgraffito
B) saturation
C) value
D) luminosity
E) impasto

Question 15

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

A) Michelangelo
B) Raphael
C) Giotto
D) Leonardo
E) Bronzino

Question 16

This painting process relies on freshly applied lime plaster to hold the pigment in place.

A) casein
B) encaustic
C) fresco
D) tempera
E) oil

Question 17

The best surface to paint the medium of encaustic on is fabric.

Question 18

The earliest examples of fresco, found at the Palace of Knossos on the Mediterranean island of ________, date to c. 1600-1500 bce.

A) Crete
B) Malta
C) Elba
D) Rhodes
E) Sicily

Question 19

This is not a traditional paint binder.

A) beeswax
B) lye
C) egg yolk Encaustic
D) gum arabic
E) walnut oil

Question 20

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

A) pigment
B) glaze
C) impasto
D) beeswax
E) tempera

Question 21

This Japanese-American artist used acrylic paint to express the relationship between American and Japanese cultures.

A) Melchor Peredo
B) Hung Liu
C) Suzuki Shōnen Watercolor and Gouache
D) Riza Abbasi
E) Roger Shimomura

Question 22

Sonia Delaunay used this medium for her lively illustrations accompanying Blaise Cendrars's poetry in their "simultaneous" artist's book.

A) oil
B) ink
C) acrylic Ink Painting
D) watercolor
E) fresco

Question 23

This contemporary painting medium uses a polymer resin as a binder.

A) acrylic
B) oil
C) encaustic
D) tempera
E) ink

Question 24

This painting medium is transparent, applied to a paper surface, and has a gum arabic binder (the French version uses honey.)

A) watercolor
B) soot ink
C) gall ink
D) bistre
E) sepia

Question 25

This painting technique was used by the prehistoric cave painters of Lascaux, France, and is still used by contemporary graffiti artists.

A) broken stroke
B) scumbling
C) spray paint
D) glazing
E) impasto

Question 26

This German artist's naturalistic depiction Hare was created using a combination of watercolor and gouache highlighting.

A) Hung Liu
B) Melchor Peredo
C) Albrecht Dürer
D) Sonia Delaunay
E) Joan Brown

Question 27

This painting medium is opaque, applied to a paper surface, and uses a gum arabic binder.

A) soot ink
B) gouache
C) tempera
D) oil
E) acrylic

Question 28

We have discovered paintings at Lascaux in France that have been made by artists dating back ________ years.

A) 18
B) 1800
C) 180
D) 18,000
E) 180,000

Question 29

This Japanese artist exploited the rich, dark value of ink painting to capture the character of a river by moonlight.

A) Hung Liu
B) Suzuki Shōnen
C) Roger Shimomura Spray Paint and Wall Art
D) Melchor Peredo
E) Albrecht Dürer

Question 30

Match the painting with its medium:

Question 31

This medium is made of pigment suspended in water so that it adheres to the fibers of 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.

A) ink
B) tempera
C) oil
D) acrylic
E) encaustic

Question 32

________ can create many different effects, depending on how it is applied. Chinese-born artist Hung Liu utilized these qualities to separate reality and the ideal in her work Interregnum.

A) oil paint
B) tempera
C) fresco
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D) encaustic
E) all of the other answers

Question 33

Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi used this medium for her Allegory of Painting, a self-portrait of the artist with a paintbrush in hand.

A) acrylic paint
B) fresco
C) oil paint Acrylic
D) tempera
E) encaustic

Question 34

This French artist created street art using a process that involved stencils and spray paint.

A) Blek Le Rat
B) Mary Cassatt
C) Georges Seurat
41) Graffiti artist Crash has created many works in public places without permission, but he has also had his art exhibited in a museum. How do you think these different settings affect the way that viewers react 
to his artworks? What is it about spray paint that makes its artists thrive on creating works in unexpected places and away from traditional art venues? [DR L3]
Conclusion
D) Vincent van Gogh
E) Edgar Degas

Question 35

One of the advantages of acrylic paint is that it can be cleaned up using this liquid.

A) turpentine
B) oil
C) water
D) kerosene
E) Dr. Pepper

Question 36

If an artist wanted to work on a painting over a number of days, blending and making changes, acrylic paint would be a good medium to use.

Question 37

An artist paints the U.S. flag using the medium of watercolor, but forgets to do the white stars. To add them to the painting, the artist just needs to use the white watercolor pigment.

Question 38

This tag artist started out creating graffiti art in New York City subway cars, before producing museum works like Aeroplane 1.

A) Crash
B) Melchor Peredo
C) Hung Liu
D) Joan Brown
E) Roger Shimomura