Deck 11: Drawing

Question 1

To transfer the design of The School of Athens to the wall,Raphael ________ a large drawing,then used powdered charcoal dust to leave an impression of the original image.

A) framed
B) perforated
C) added color to
D) cut out
E) glued

Answer 1

B

Question 2

By depicting full,dark hair and thinning,grayed hair in her drawing in charcoal and graphite titled Life Strands,Zhang Chun Hong successfully creates a metaphor for:

A) the passage of time
B) robotics
C) musical wistfulness
D) interstellar space travel
E) romantic love

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark.If you wanted a dark value,which of these pencil numbers would be the darkest?

A) 9B
B) HB
C) 9H
D) 2B
E) 2H

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What does D.J.Hall's rich use of colored pencil communicate to the viewer in her drawing Piece of Cake?

A) the intense light of a California afternoon
B) a feeling of doom
C) an atmosphere of chaos
D) that it is a night scene
E) that it is set in the future

Question 5

When creating his silverpoint drawing Heads of the Virgin and Child,Raphael employed ________,a process in which the artist uses closely arranged parallel lines to create value.

A) hatching
B) arriccio
C) intonaco
D) scratching
E) sgraffito

Question 6

Leonardo da Vinci's sketched studies of a foetus in the womb,c.1510-13,were commissioned by the Catholic Church.

Question 7

Which two types of charcoal are used most commonly as drawing materials?

A) vine
B) compressed
C) bone
D) lamp
E) chunk
F) dry

Question 8

When Raphael was preparing to paint his fresco The School of Athens he did a large drawing called ________ to help place the design on the wall.

A) a cartoon
B) a layout
C) a sketch
D) an intonaco
E) an arrezzo

Question 9

Artists draw for many reasons,including:

A) to define their ideas
B) to plan for larger projects
C) to resolve design issues in preparatory sketches
D) to record their visual observations
E) all of the other answers

Question 10

If an artist wanted to draw a dynamic scene of a storm at night,charcoal would be a good medium to use.

Question 11

Color pencil is much like graphite pencil,but the lead is made from pigment and ________.

A) chalk
B) lead
C) zinc
D) oil
E) wax

Question 12

Both Kollwitz's Self-portrait and Lhermitte's An Elderly Peasant Woman are portraits of elderly women,were created using charcoal,and were completed within fifty years of each other.Yet they are visually very different.In what ways do these works differ from each other? How does this affect how the works are viewed?

Question 13

Samples of this drawing medium have been dated back to 30,000 BCE.

A) silverpoint
B) charcoal
C) pencil
D) color pencil
E) pastel

Question 14

If an artist wanted to create an area of darkness using the medium of silverpoint,he or she would use the technique of ________.

A) hatching
B) arriccio
C) intonaco
D) scratching
E) sgraffito

Question 15

Sticks of chalk,pastel,and crayon are all made by combining pigment with ________.

A) turpentine
B) water
C) chalk
D) sawdust
E) binder

Question 16

Before African-American artist John Biggers installed his mural Night of the Poor in Burrowes Hall at Pennsylvania State University,he did a large drawing in this medium.

A) pencil
B) silverpoint
C) charcoal
D) pastel
E) crayon

Question 17

This drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder.

A) sanguine
B) pencil
C) bister
D) silverpoint
E) gum arabic

Question 18

In her self-portrait,the artist Ilka Gedö used pencil and varied the ________ in order to suggest texture,create emphasis,and to produce darker values.

A) tooth
B) value
C) color
D) pressure
E) tone

Question 19

Pencils are a common medium,but they may not be appropriate for every drawing.What are the attributes of pencils that make them a desirable art medium? Can you think of a situation where a pencil might not be the best choice for a drawing?

Question 20

In Leonardo da Vinci's design for a flying machine he used a ________ as his inspiration.

A) leaf
B) flying squirrel
C) balloon
D) flying fish
E) bird's wing

Question 21

In which country was paper invented by Cai Lun,who made it out of macerated plant fibers suspended in water?

A) India
B) China
C) Korea
D) Japan
E) Turkey

Question 22

In the ink brush painting of bamboo by Wu Zhen,the work is created in a way that expresses the central beliefs of balanced opposites from this religion.

A) Hinduism
B) Taoism
C) Jainism
D) Christianity
E) Islam

Question 23

The techniques of hatching and cross-hatching can be used only in dry media.

Question 24

If you wanted to create a colorful drawing that could be easily erased or altered,gall ink would be a good medium to use.

Question 25

East Asian artists have traditionally applied ink using a ________.

A) quill
B) stick
C) trowel
D) cloth
E) brush

Question 26

Robert Rauschenberg made his own artwork by erasing parts of another artist's creation.Do you think that the eraser is a valid artistic medium when used in this way? Which of the two artists do you think deserves more credit for this work? What factors affect your decision?

Question 27

This French artist created a sense of depth in the work The Tiber from Monte Mario Looking South using thoughtful brushstrokes and ink wash.

A) Claude Lorrain
B) Mary Cassatt
C) Georges Seurat
D) Vincent van Gogh
E) Edgar Degas

Question 28

The French artist Georges Seurat created a study for his huge painting La Grande Jatte using this waxy medium.

A) Conté crayon
B) charcoal
C) pencil
D) silverpoint
E) ink

Question 29

The album of ink brush paintings of bamboo by the Chinese artist Wu Zhen was created as an instructional model to help this person learn the art of brushwork.

A) his student
B) the Emperor
C) Confucius
D) his son
E) his wife

Question 30

An artist who is using brush and ink will often control the value of the ink by ________.

A) diluting with water
B) using different values of ink
C) changing the drawing tool
D) using different values of paper
E) scratching the surface of the paper

Question 31

Artists,such as Vincent van Gogh,vary the width of a reed pen stroke by ________.

A) dipping the pen more often
B) using the other end of the pen
C) pressing harder
D) lightly touching the paper
E) adding water

Question 32

The French Impressionist Edgar Degas used this dry drawing medium when he created The Tub in 1886.

A) Conté crayon
B) pastel
C) charcoal
D) sanguine
E) silverpoint

Question 33

Artists' chalk is powdered calcium carbonate combined with this binder.

A) oil
B) wax
C) gum arabic
D) glue
E) egg

Question 34

Pastels are limited to black and white because color cannot be added to a pastel binder.

Question 35

Before the invention of paper,drawings were done on ________.

A) animal hide
B) papyrus
C) cloth
D) wood
E) all of the other answers

Question 36

Erasers can be used by artists as drawing tools.In 1953 Robert Rauschenberg created a work by erasing a drawing by this famous Abstract Expressionist painter.

A) Michelangelo
B) Georges Seurat
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Willem de Kooning
E) Edgar Degas

Question 37

This red chalk was used by Renaissance artists,including Michelangelo in his Studies for the Libyan Sibyl.

A) sanguine
B) arriccio
C) intonaco
D) sgraffito
E) cinnabar

Question 38

This contemporary version of carbon ink is a favorite of comic book artists.

A) india ink
B) soot ink
C) gall ink
D) bister
E) sepia

Question 39

Artists' crayon is made by mixing pigment with ________.

A) glue
B) gum arabic
C) oil
D) wax
E) egg

Question 40

Quills are a common tool for ink drawing.They were originally made from ________.

A) rocks
B) tree branches
C) bird feathers
D) metal tubes
E) plastic

Question 41

In addition to its fiber content and weight,paper is also classified by its surface texture.What is the type of paper that is created on a screen with a grid-like structure?

A) wove
B) laid
C) ridge
D) graph
E) carbon

Question 42

Match the artwork with its drawing medium:
a.reed pen and ink
d.graphite
b.charcoal
e.pastel
c.red chalk
Michelangelo,Studies for the Libyan Sibyl

Question 43

Match the artwork with its drawing medium:
a.reed pen and ink
d.graphite
b.charcoal
e.pastel
c.red chalk
Edgar Degas,The Tub

Question 44

This type of drawing involves the use of long continuous lines to capture the changing surface and outline of an object.

A) contour
B) gesture
C) life
D) genre
E) fantasy

Question 45

This Austrian artist focused on the contoured outline of a mother and child in his/her drawing Mutter und Kind.

A) Egon Schiele
B) Claude Lorrain
C) Edgar Degas
D) Georges Seurat
E) Mary Cassatt

Question 46

This Swiss artist,who drew the work The City Square,captures the moment by focusing on and quickly recording the scene in front of him/herself.

A) Alberto Giacometti
B) Claude Lorrain
C) Edgar Degas
D) Georges Seurat
E) Mary Cassatt

Question 47

Hishikawa Moronobu's seventeenth-century woodblock print depicts the art of ________.

A) harvesting crops
B) firing clay
C) pen-and-ink drawing
D) making quill pens
E) papermaking

Question 48

This is the practice of drawing from a live model or other actual objects.

A) fantasy drawing
B) gesture drawing
C) contour drawing
D) genre drawing
E) life drawing

Question 49

In the gestural drawing Muscular Dynamism by Umberto Boccioni,the artist used chalk and charcoal to depict the undulating surface of ________.

A) the human body
B) machinery
C) architecture
D) a landscape
E) a cityscape

Question 50

Match the artwork with its drawing medium:
a.reed pen and ink
d.graphite
b.charcoal
e.pastel
c.red chalk
Vincent van Gogh,Sower with Setting Sun

Question 51

This type of drawing aims to identify and react to the main visual and expressive characteristics of a form.

A) genre
B) contour
C) life
D) gesture
E) fantasy

Question 52

Match the artwork with its drawing medium:
a.reed pen and ink
d.graphite
b.charcoal
e.pastel
c.red chalk
Ilka Gedö,Self-portrait

Question 53

In the drawing Mutter und Kind,the artist uses only contour lines because it is impossible to create areas of value using black Conté crayon.

Question 54

Match the artwork with its drawing medium:
a.reed pen and ink
d.graphite
b.charcoal
e.pastel
c.red chalk
Käthe Kollwitz,Self-portrait in Profile to Left

Question 55

Which of the following fibers is not used to make paper?

A) flax
B) hemp
C) abaca
D) wool
E) cotton