Deck 3: Media

Question 1

What is a silverpoint drawing?

A)A work made by using metallic-colored chalks or pastels
B)A technique largely produced in Indonesia
C)A drawing made by using a thin stylus made of silver
D)A preliminary sketch for a relief print

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What's the meaning of the Italian verb that the term intaglio comes from?

A)To add to
B)To integrate
C)To cut into
D)To ornament

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What is the intense colorful powder used to make paint called?

A)Oil
B)Pigment
C)Tempera
D)Chiaroscuro

Answer 3

B

Question 4

With the exception of very small works, which technique is used to make cast sculptures?

A)Subtractive method
B)Cire perdue
C)Solid bronze casting
D)Mixed media

Question 5

What is the name for a carbon stick created from burnt wood and commonly used to make drawings?

A)Silverpoint
B)Pastel
C)Pencil
D)Charcoal

Question 6

Which type of paint was invented in the prior century and combines pigments and a synthetic polymer liquid binder?

A)Tempera
B)Alla prima
C)Acrylic
D)Airbrush

Question 7

Which of the following is an example of a relief print?

A)Woodblock
B)Intaglio
C)Serigraphy
D)Lithography

Question 8

What kind of process is used for a marble sculpture made by cutting away stone?

A)Subtractive
B)Constructed
C)Additive
D)Haute relief

Question 9

What acts as the binder with pigments in traditional tempera paint?

A)Wax
B)Water
C)Gouache
D)Egg yolk

Question 10

What effect is tempera paint often used to create?

A)Thin, translucent glazes of color
B)Heavily textured impasto surfaces
C)Sharp lines and details
D)Complex tonal variations in color

Question 11

What are some of the oldest surviving paintings made on?

A)Ritual masks
B)Clay vessels
C)Carved totems
D)Ceremonial wooden boats

Question 12

Which is an early type of photographic process?

A)Cire perdue
B)Photomontage
C)Stereoscope
D)Daguerreotype

Question 13

What kind of sculptures are meant to be viewed from all sides?

A)Bas relief
B)Assemblage
C)Freestanding
D)Haute relief

Question 14

What is the term for a surface or material that underlies a two-dimensional work of art?

A)Support
B)Slip
C)Pigment
D)Plate

Question 15

What are the actual material substances used to create an artwork called?

A)Disciplines
B)Media
C)Found objects
D)Support

Question 16

What element is required to make a kinetic sculpture complete?

A)Movement
B)Performance
C)Sound
D)Site-specific context

Question 17

Which type of printmaking process uses a slab of limestone or metal with oily crayons, pencils, or liquid?

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

Question 18

What is a graphite rod in a wood or metal holder called?

A)Charcoal
B)Conte crayon
C)Pencil
D)Silverpoint

Question 19

In what kind of printing are areas that are not to be printed cut away from the printing surface, so the areas to be printed are left higher?

A)Drypoint
B)Relief
C)Screen
D)Monotype

Question 20

Which painting medium is millennia old and uses pigments mixed with hot beeswax?

A)Buon fresco
B)Oil
C)Encaustic
D)Gesso

Question 21

​ Which statement is true regarding Alexander Calder's sculpture Crinkly with a Red Disk ?

A)It displays Calder's command of modeling.
B)The sculpture was carved by Calder from metal plates.
C)This is a low-relief sculpture.
D)It is one of Calder's famed kinetic sculptures.

Question 22

​ What is Arata Isozaki's Nara Convention Hall ?

A)An installation
B)A site-specific work
C)A photomontage
D)A computer-generated print

Question 23

​ Which of the following terms for describing sculpture can be applied to the Monumental Heads of Easter Island?

A)Relief
B)Cire perdue
C)Kinetic
D)Freestanding

Question 24

Unlike most printmaking processes, monoprinting is a type of printmaking that makes only one copy of an image.

Question 25

What do we call a live-action event staged as an artwork?

A)Installation
B)Assemblage
C)Performance
D)Freestanding sculpture

Question 26

Slip is an acid-resistant resin used to make aquatints.

Question 27

Because oil paints dry quickly, it is difficult for artists to make changes to these paintings.

Question 28

​ How does technique affect Titian's painting Venus of Urbino ?

A)It has the characteristic fine detailing of airbrush.
B)It has the rich, intense colors of oil painting.
C)It has the opaque density of gouache.
D)It has the durability of buon fresco.

Question 29

Because material is built up to create sculptural form in modeling, what kind of process is it considered?

A)Subtractive
B)Combines
C)Additive
D)Collage

Question 30

​ Which statement about Mi Wanzhong's Tree, Bamboo and Rock is correct?

A)It illustrates the clear distinction between drawing and monochromatic painting.
B)Gesso is the underlying ground for the painting.
C)It was created by both a pen and brush.
D)It is a rare instance of ink being used in a wet medium artwork.

Question 31

How do we categorize an assembled artwork made with a variety of techniques?

A)Collage
B)Additive process
C)Found objects
D)Mixed media

Question 32

From a historical perspective, drawing is one of the newest forms of art making.

Question 33

​ Which feature describes Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Running Fence ?

A)This work permanently transformed its setting through its balance of light and shade.
B)It was constructed of cloth stretched across miles of California countryside.
C)It was a departure for the artists, who mostly created kinetic sculptures.
D)As an assemblage, we see the way it incorporates found objects into an artwork.

Question 34

Ceramics are found from almost every culture, from ancient times to the present.

Question 35

​ How can the technique used for Hans Holbein the Elder's Portrait of a Woman be described?

A)It combines silverpoint with the use of gesso.
B)It has the heavy, expressive lines characteristic of silverpoint.
C)This drawing is an early example of acrylic medium.
D)The delicate, precise lines are achieved by using pencil.

Question 36

​ How was Douris's Red Figure Kylix made?

A)The foundation for the background was a sand painting.
B)Serigraphy was the main technique employed.
C)The red figures were created through a combination of engraving and etching.
D)A slip created the background for this very early example of painting.

Question 37

Tempera, gouache, and watercolor are all water-based paint media.

Question 38

​ Which point is correct about Glass Bowl with Fruit ?

A)It displays the delicate colors of watercolor.
B)It has lasted since antiquity because it was painted with tempera.
C)Its survival over 2,000 years is a testimony to the durability of the buon fresco technique.
D)It shows the ancient origins of encaustic painting.

Question 39

​ Which statement is true of Lorna Simpson's Easy to Remember ?

A)It is Simpson's homage to the daguerreotype.
B)Its audio element alludes to her African American childhood.
C)It is categorized as a performance because it includes song.
D)It is a photomontage, following the tradition of Exquisite Cadaver .

Question 40

What is a mixed-media artwork designed for a specific place called?

A)Installation
B)Performance art
C)Kinetic sculpture
D)Collage