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ARTS FINAL

Marissa Holloway Arts English 58 cards

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1Artists draw for many reasons, including:All of the above
2When 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.Cartoon
3Which two types of charcoal are used most commonly as drawing materials?Vine or compressed
4This drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder.Silverpoint
5An artist who is using brush and ink will often control the value of the ink by ________.Diluting with water
6True or false: the techniques of hatching and crosshatching can be used only in dry media.False
7Artists, such as Vincent van Gogh, vary the width of a reed pen stroke by ________.Pressing harder
8This type of drawing involves the use of long continuous lines to capture the changing surface and outline of an object.Contour
9Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder.Pigment
10The binding agent in encaustic painting is ________.Beeswax
11True or false: the best surface to paint the medium of encaustic on is fabric.False
12The binding agent for tempera paint is ________.Egg
13This painting process relies on freshly applied lime plaster to hold the pigment in place.Fresco
14This painting binder is a by-product of flax production and first came into common use during the late Middle Ages and the Northern Renaissance.Linseed oil
15The transparency of oil paint allows a painter to use a process called glazing in order to add a high degree of ________ to a painting.Luminosity
16This painting medium is transparent, applied to a paper surface, and has a gum arabic binder.Watercolor
17This contemporary painting medium uses a polymer resin as a binder.Acrylic
18One of the advantages of acrylic paint is that it can be cleaned up using this liquid.Water
19True or false: 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.True
20This intaglio process employs acid to mar the surface of a metal plate.Mezzotint
21This intaglio process is achieved by pulling a burin across the surface of a metal plate, leaving a burr where the ink will collect.Drypoint
22This printmaking process means “stone writing” in Greek.Lithography
23The sculptural process in which the artist carves only in shallow depth is called ________.Bas-relief
24Another name for freestanding sculpture is ________.In the round
25This architectural term means/describes a structure created from a pile of material.Load-bearing
26Architects consider this when designing a building.All of the above
27This architectural construction method consists of two uprights and a crossbeam.Post-and-lintel
28This type of window was used in Gothic cathedrals to enhance the religious experience of the worshiper.Stained-glass
29This type of arch was integrated into Gothic architecture in order to help direct the worshiper’s gaze upward.Pointed
30This feature of Gothic architecture allowed the weight of the ceiling to be transferred away from the walls so that larger windows could be built.Flying buttresses
31This nineteenth-century North American construction method uses lightweight wooden frames, instead of heavy timbers, to support the building.Balloon framing
32The exterior of the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri, reflects the elements of this architectural form.Column
33What does the word “photograph” mean?Writing with light
34The mechanics of the camera are very similar to those of ________.A human eye
35True or false: photographic portraits can never be poetic or introspective.False
36An artwork that consists of cutting off someone’s tie and pouring shampoo on his head would best be described as ________.Performance art
37An artwork that consists of a re-created bedroom with videos projected onto the walls would best be described as ________.An installation
38In Joseph Beuys’s Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me, the artist:Wrapped himself in felt and lived for five days alone in an art gallery with a coyote
39Medium?Graphite
40Medium?Pastel
41Medium?Ink
42Medium?Red chalk
43Medium?Charcoal
44Medium?Bronze
45Medium?Granite
46Medium?Bioart: Glass, steel, silicone, formaldehyde solution, and shark
47Medium?Earthen works: Basalt rock, salt crystals, earth, water
48Medium?Stainless steel
49Medium?Fresco
50—Acrylic
51"Hare"Watercolor
52"Interregnum"Oil
53"Two Lovers"Tempura
54This 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.Relief
55Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater cultivates an organic relationship between the building and its location by:All of the above
56A relief print created out of a solid wood block is called ________.Woodcut
57A relief print created out of a sheet of linoleum is called ________.Linocut
58One advantage of using a metal plate over a woodblock for printmaking is that it ________.Is longer lasting