Deck 14: Print-making

Question 1

The wash-like appearance of Goya's print Giant was created using this process.

A) aquatint
B) woodblock
C) engraving
D) silkscreen
E) lithography

Answer 1

A

Question 2

This printmaking tool is a sharp instrument used to mark the surface of a plate.

A) register
B) palette knife
C) levigator Engraving
D) screen
E) burin

Answer 2

E

Question 3

This style of printmaking means "pictures of the floating world" and was practiced by the Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro.

A) Ukiyo-e
B) mezzotint
C) fan printing
D) planography
E) Expressionism

Answer 3

A

Question 4

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many masters of woodblock printing in this country, whose work reflected the lifestyle of an urban cultural class.

A) United States
B) Austria
C) France
D) Japan
E) Siam

Question 5

Which of the following is a printmaking process?

A) intaglio
B) glazing
C) scumbling
D) intonaco
E) arriccio

Question 6

If you were to carve away the surface of a woodblock, removing the shape of a star, then ink the block and make a print, you would be left with a negative star shape on the paper.

Question 7

The earliest existing printed artworks on paper were created in this culture.

A) Rome
B) Mesopotamia
C) Egypt Relief Printmaking
D) Greece
E) China

Question 8

This type of printmaking is done by carving away part of a block in order to leave a raised surface that can be inked and printed.

A) lithography
B) mezzotint
C) etching Woodblock
D) relief
(d) silkscreen

Question 9

This Spanish artist created artworks in both print and paint that depict horrific events that happened during the French occupation of Spain between 1808 and 1814.

A) Albrecht Dürer
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Francisco Goya
Mezzotint
D) Max Beckmann
E) Rembrandt

Question 10

Images were first reproduced by printmaking in this ancient culture.

A) Mesopotamia
B) Greece
C) Rome
D) India
E) Japan

Question 11

If an artist wants to create a print with very fine detail and precise, even lines, drypoint would be a good method to use.

Question 12

When a printmaker rolls ink onto a raised surface and presses a piece of paper onto it, the resulting image on the paper is known as ________.

A) a batten
B) an edition
C) an impression Context of Printmaking
D) a buzz up
E) an impasto

Question 13

To create a color woodblock, such as Hokusai's famous "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," a printer must produce a new ________ for each separate color.

A) style
B) piece of paper
C) relief block Intaglio Printmaking
D) design
E) medium

Question 14

For his print Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Albrecht Dürer hired expert craftsmen to ________.

A) market the prints
B) make the paper for the print
C) interpret the Book of Revelation
D) manufacture the ink
E) create the block and cut the lines into it

Question 15

This term for plate printmaking means "cut into" in Italian.

A) intaglio
B) impasto
C) intermezzo
D) sgraffito
E) graffiti

Question 16

If an artist were to create a woodblock print with three different colors, how many separate relief blocks would he or she need?

A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four
E) five

Question 17

This twentieth-century German artist used the natural grain and splintering of the woodblock to make his work Prophet more expressive.

A) Emil Nolde
B) Albrecht Dürer
C) Dox Thrash Gateway to Art:
Hokusai, "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa:" Using the Woodblock 
Printing Method
D) Kitagawa Utamaro
E) Katsushika Hokusai

Question 18

If an artist wanted to create a print that visually resembled brush-and-ink painting, ________ would be a good method to use.

A) engraving
B) drypoint
C) aquatint Gateway to Art:
Goya, The Third of May, 1808: Prints as Art and as Creative Tools
D) silkscreen
E) woodblock

Question 19

A relief print created out of a solid wood block is called ________.

A) a woodcut
B) a linocut
C) a woodograph
D) an intarsia
E) a planograph

Question 20

This intaglio process is achieved by pulling a burin across the surface of a metal plate, leaving a burr where the ink will collect.

A) drypoint
B) engraving
C) etching
D) aquatint
E) mezzotint

Question 21

This female artist practiced monotype printmaking and was a member of a group of abstract painters called The Irascibles.

A) Mary Cassatt
B) Kathy Strauss
C) Hedda Sterne
D) Kitagawa Utamaro
E) Andy Warhol

Question 22

The African-American artist Dox Thrash wanted to use dark, rich tones to reflect the somber mood of the nation during World War II in this mezzotint from c.1941.

A) Defense Worker
B) Adam and Eve
C) Giant
D) Double Elvis
E) Prophet

Question 23

This printmaking process means "stone writing" in Greek.

A) etching
B) intaglio
C) aquatint
D) lithography
E) linocut

Question 24

This process can be used to create a unique printed image, and involves a clean plate of metal or glass on which the artist carefully inks the image then prints.

A) monotype
B) mezzotint
C) etching
D) relief
E) linocut

Question 25

Why do you think that Andy Warhol chose the process of silkscreen to depict his subjects, be they famous icons or humble cans of soup? Research silkscreen prints by Warhol. What does the process he used add to the meaning of these artworks? Do you think that they would have been as effective if they were paintings?

Question 26

This printmaking process is used for t-shirts, solar panels, and circuit boards.

A) mezzotint
B) lithograph
C) intaglio
D) silkscreen
E) linocut

Question 27

If you wanted to create a poster that displayed exactly the same information, and could be reproduced in thousands of copies, monoprint would be a good process to use.

Question 28

Match the artwork with its medium:

Question 29

Silkscreen printing uses a stencil process, and was first developed in ________ during the Sung Dynasty.

A) China
B) Germany
C) Japan
D) Russia
E) Egypt

Question 30

In one of his lithographic images, this French artist depicted the aftermath of a violent incidence of police brutality where a family was killed in a case of mistaken identity.

A) Honoré Daumier
B) Francisco Goya
C) Rembrandt Silkscreen Printing
D) Albrecht Dürer
E) Andy Warhol

Question 31

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

A) a draw
B) a pull
C) a bite
Monotypes and Monoprints
D) a ream
E) an edition

Question 32

This intaglio process is achieved by roughening the entire metal plate surface with a rocking tool, then smoothing the areas where the ink is to be wiped away.

A) mezzotint
B) etching
C) aquatint
D) engraving
E) drypoint

Question 33

This type of printmaking does not require the artist to cut into a surface; the ink is suspended by other means to complete the print.

A) intaglio
B) planographic
C) relief Lithography
D) impasto
E) glazing

Question 34

This U.S. government program helped to create jobs for artists (and many other occupations) during the Great Depression and World War II. It allowed African-American artist Dox Thrash and other artists to use their art in support of the country. What was this extensive program called?

A) Peace Corps
B) Printer's Guild
C) Conservation Corps
D) Americorps
E) Works Projects Administration

Question 35

These prints can be made using any print process, but with the intention of creating a unique image rather than an edition.

A) monoprint
B) intaglio
C) linocut
D) relief
E) etching