Deck 8: Painting

Question 1

The transition to oil paint in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was gradual.For many years,it was only used for __________ in order to give the paintings a high sheen.

A) ​glossing 
B) ​finishing 
C) ​intarsia 
D) ​embossing 
E) ​glazing

Answer 1

  E

Question 2

Master graffiti artists almost always add "tags" to their artworks,which are __________.

A) anonymous symbols​ 
B) ​comic strip Benday dots 
C) ​gang symbols 
D) ​stylized signatures 
E) ​skulls

Answer 2

  D

Question 3

While creating an encaustic painting,an artist must keep the __________ at a constant temperature.

A) ​linseed oil 
B) ​water 
C) ​pigment 
D) ​plaster 
E) ​molten wax

Answer 3

  E

Question 4

The ancient Egyptians and Greeks tinted their sculptures with __________ to give them a lifelike appearance.

A) ​encaustic 
B) ​oils 
C) ​tempera 
D) ​gouache 
E) ​aquarelle

Question 5

Gilbert Stuart's eighteenth-century traditional portrait George Washington achieves a realistic likeness largely through __________.

A) ​cross-hatching 
B) ​abstraction 
C) ​stippling 
D) ​modeling 
E) ​balance

Question 6

Miriam Schapiro's Maid of Honour is a paint-and-fabric construction that she labeled __________.

A) ​pattern painting 
B) ​tapestry 
C) ​feminine tapestry 
D) ​combine painting 
E) ​femmage

Question 7

Rembrandt used __________ to create his oil-on-board painting of the Head of St.Matthew.

A) ​tenebrism 
B) ​plasticity 
C) ​impasto 
D) ​relief 
E) ​cross-hatching

Question 8

In both tempera and oil painting,the surface of the wood or canvas is covered with a ground of powdered chalk or plaster and animal glue known as __________.

A) ​gum Arabic 
B) ​plaster 
C) ​veneer 
D) ​gesso 
E) ​vellum

Question 9

In Roger Shimomura's Untitled painting,he has blended traditional Japanese imagery with American cartoon characters and includes a self-portrait in which he is depicted as __________.

A) ​a Japanese Samurai 
B) ​the Statue of Liberty 
C) ​Dick Tracy 
D) ​a contemporary Japanese 
E) ​Donald Duck

Question 10

__________ was the principal painting medium during the Byzantine and Romanesque eras of Christian art.

A) ​Gouache 
B) ​Watercolor 
C) ​Tempera 
D) ​Fresco 
E) ​Oil

Question 11

Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's portrait George Washington is an oil-on-canvas image that most resembles a(n)__________.

A) ​three-dimensional president 
B) ​psychological study 
C) ​unfinished effort 
D) ​comic-book hero 
E) ​expressionist portrayal

Question 12

The binding agent that powdered pigment is mixed with to form paint is known as the __________.

A) ​medium 
B) ​canvas 
C) ​vehicle 
D) ​turpentine 
E) ​support

Question 13

True fresco,or __________,is executed on  __________.

A) ​fresco secco; dry plaster 
B) ​buon fresco; lime plaster 
C) ​fresco verite; lime plaster 
D) ​fresco secco; walls 
E) ​fresco; plaster

Question 14

Contemporary watercolor is referred to as __________,made up of pigments and a vehicle of __________.

A) ​gouache; gum arabic 
B) ​tempera; milk and tree sap 
C) ​acrylic; synthetic resin 
D) ​aquarelle; gum arabic 
E) ​watercolor; water

Question 15

__________ was the exclusive painting medium of artists during the medieval era.

A) ​Oil 
B) ​Tempera 
C) ​Encaustic 
D) ​Fresco 
E) ​Gouache

Question 16

The Synthetic Cubists were the first to create papiers collés,or collages,in the early twentieth century.The two major figures of this movement were __________.

A) ​Cézanne and Matisse 
B) ​Picasso and Braque 
C) ​van Gogh and Gauguin 
D) ​Seurat and Signac 
E) ​Monet and Renoir

Question 17

In Giotto's fourteenth-century painting Lamentation,seams can clearly be seen that break the blue sky into numerous sections.This occurred because of the ___________.

A) ​desire of the artist 
B) ​limitations of oil painting 
C) ​limitations of tempera 
D) ​limitations of fresco 
E) ​limitations of watercolor

Question 18

When a painter's oil paint becomes too thick,he has to thin it with a __________.

A) ​vehicle of turpentine 
B) ​medium of turpentine 
C) ​medium of linseed oil 
D) ​vehicle of linseed oil 
E) ​medium of water

Question 19

__________ is a mixture of pigment and a plastic vehicle that can be thinned with water.

A) ​Tempera 
B) ​Aquarelle 
C) ​Gouache 
D) ​Gum arabic 
E) ​Acrylic

Question 20

The traditional composition of tempera,rarely used today,consisted of __________.

A) ​wax and pigment 
B) ​oil, pigment, and turpentine 
C) ​egg, pigment, and water 
D) ​gum Arabic, pigment, and water 
E) ​lime plaster, pigment, and water

Question 21

Analyze graffiti and street art as an art form,and explain whether you believe it deserves to rise to the level of gallery art.

Question 22

What advantages does canvas have over wood as a painting surface?

Question 23

Considering the advantages and disadvantages of each medium,do you think oil or acrylic is the better medium?

Question 24

Discuss the cultural tensions symbolized in Roger Shimomura's Untitled painting.

Question 25

What are the limitations of working in fresco?

Question 26

What are the advantages and limitations of working in tempera?

Question 27

From what sources do pigments derive their many colors?

Question 28

Describe and discuss Howardena Pindell's mixed media composition,Autobiography: Water/Ancestors,Middle Passage/Family Ghosts.What is the main theme of the work?

Question 29

Why is a gesso surface needed to prepare tempera and oil paintings?

Question 30

What are the advantages of painting with oils?

Question 31

What type of painting was Vasari referring to when he said it "is the most masterly and beautiful because it consists in doing in a single day that which,in other methods,may be retouched day after day,over the work already done"?

Question 32

Compare and contrast the paintings of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Roy Lichtenstein.

Question 33

List seven commonly used paint vehicles.

Question 34

Describe the process of buon fresco.

Question 35

Describe three ancient uses for encaustic painting.