Deck 5: Painting

Question 1

Some nonobjective painters of the twentieth century worked on unsized canvas __________.

A) so that they could cut it to whatever size they wanted
B) because they wanted to mold it into different shapes
C) so that the paint would be absorbed right into the canvas
D) when they were pressed for time and could not size it

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In painting,the word for the surface on which the painting is created is the __________.

A) binder
B) support
C) mount
D) intonaco

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Correggio's painting Danae seems to glow because the artist used __________: layers of pigment suspended in a transparent medium.

A) glazes
B) entasis
C) luminosity
D) mixed media

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Vermeer's painting Girl with a Pearl Earring is a good example of the use of __________ medium.

A) encaustic
B) oil
C) watercolor
D) tempera

Question 5

Marc Chagall's The Crow Who Wanted to be an Eagle uses the __________ medium.

A) oil
B) buon fresco
C) tempera
D) gouache

Question 6

Mosaic is(are)__________ whose subtle effects can be viewed in The Battle of Issus .

A) only seen in secular works from antiquity to today
B) done by a single master who works alone
C) an ancient technique of embedding small tiles, called tesserae, into cement
D) both A and B

Question 7

In general,paint is made by suspending __________ in a liquid medium and adding a binder.

A) pigment
B) underpainting
C) linseed oil
D) texture

Question 8

Typical of __________ is the medium's liquid transparent airiness as seen in Joseph Mallord William Turner's Looking Out to Sea: A Whale Aground .

A) oil
B) tempera
C) watercolor
D) encaustic

Question 9

Of painting media,the only one that does not dry quickly is __________.

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

Question 10

In early tempera paintings that used gold leaf,the gold was applied __________.

A) over a surface of red gilder's clay, then burnished
B) directly to a sticky surface of animal glue
C) on top of gold paint
D) only on the frame, and never on the painting itself

Question 11

One of the main properties of tempera paint is __________.

A) it looks very glossy because of its egg yolk base
B) the colors can be blended well on the surface
C) it dries quickly to a matte finish
D) it does not require much preparation

Question 12

The final layer of plaster,or __________,is applied over the underlying cartoon in sections small enough to be painted on that day while the plaster is still damp.

A) buon fresco
B) gouache
C) encaustic
D) intonaco

Question 13

The Young Woman with a Gold Pectoral is an example of the early method of painting known as __________ in which pigment is suspended in hot wax.

A) photorealism
B) encaustic
C) the spectrum of color
D) airbrushing

Question 14

Tibetan sand paintings are in the form of the __________ that can symbolize the divine nature of the world,the process by which the mind becomes enlightened,and the way that the spiritually adept balance the body's energies and the mind's light.

A) mudra
B) ushnisha
C) mandala
D) urna

Question 15

Vincent Van Gogh's painting The Starry Night shows his use of impasto,which gives the painting surface textures __________.

A) three-dimensionality
B) flatness
C) translucency
D) alla prima

Question 16

The medium used by Kurt Schwitters for Merz 19 is called __________.

A) mosaic
B) collage
C) synthetic
D) alla prima

Question 17

For his painting Portrait of a Young Man ,Agnolo Bronzino prepared many drawings using the __________ method.

A) professional
B) direct
C) impasto
D) indirect

Question 18

Frank demonstrates how Chuck Close creates monumental photorealistic human heads with flawless gradations in value by using __________.

A) very finely sharpened graphite pencils
B) acrylic paint applied with an airbrush
C) oil paint and working very slowly and deliberately with fine brushes
D) tempera to get a matte finish

Question 19

For his huge murals of Mexican political history,Diego Rivera __________.

A) designed the entire scene then had his assistants actually do the painting
B) did the mural during the summer, so the working surface would be dry
C) worked in short bursts of activity, for only one to two hours a day
D) sketched directly onto the wall with red chalk or charcoal

Question 20

Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Allegory of Peace is a fresco that was painted directly onto __________.

A) unsized canvas
B) wet plaster walls
C) panel treated with glue
D) paper that has been left in the sun to dry completely

Question 21

Encaustic must always be kept cool while it is being applied.

Question 22

In theory,acrylic paints are permanent and will never deteriorate.

Question 23

Mosaics are an art form that is still used today.

Question 24

Drawing and painting are two separate things,with no similarities between them.

Question 25

Collage was introduced as an art form in the early twentieth century.