Art Appreciation Exam 2
What country is credited with the invention of paper around 105 C.E.?
China
What type of drawing is created from the mind of the artist?
Projective drawing
What are sketchbooks primarily used for?
Developing ideas or taking notes
What type of drawing is created to capture the physical appearance of something before the artist?
Receptive drawing
In metalpoint, lines are drawn with a silver ______ onto a surface with a preliminary coating of paint
Wire
What type of medium has to be set with a fixative to prevent smudging?
Charcoal
What materials besides paper have provided support for drawings?
Cave walls, Pottery, Papyrus, Parchment, Silk
What is an immediate way to communicate through imagery?
Drawing
What holds pigment particles together?
Binder
Which painting medium uses white rags as its support?
Water color
What painting technique was used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome that involves the use of wax?
Encaustic
After building a canvas and before painting it, a painter generally applies a coat of what?
Ground or Primer
In fresco painting, a drawing called a _______ is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment
Cartoon
What makes a paint liquid?
Vehicle
________ is watercolor that has been made opaque by adding inert white pigment to it
Gouache
What is the structure underneath a painting?
Support
Which painting medium is the favorite of Western art?
Oil painting
What is the surface an artist uses to create a print?
Matrix
Where was printmaking first developed?
China
What are the four printmaking processes used before the 20th century?
Relief, Intaglio, Lithography, Screen printing
What type of printmaking flourished in Japan?
Woodcut
What relief printmaking medium is commonly used in book illustrating?
Wood engraving
Printing impressions on top of one another from separate blocks in order to achieve full-color woodcut prints require careful alignment, which is known as what?
Registration
Who was one of the first lithographic artists?
Honore Daumier
One of the main differences between the intaglio and the relief printing processes is that with intaglio the ink is _______ the surface of the printing plate
Below
Who created the first photographic image?
Joseph Niepce
The use by artists of the camera obscura (literally dark room) began in what time period?
Renaissance
Artists primarily used the camera obscura to do what?
To project a non-permanent image upside down to be traced over; to create naturalistic drawings of the world
The creation of photographic body of work around an event, place, of culture is known as what?
Photojournalism
A daguerreotype was an early photographic method created using what?
A light sensitive copper plate coated with silver iodide
Which photographer was the first major artist to exhibit in color photography?
William Eggleston
The Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture did what?
Sent photographers out to document the Great Depresssion
______ was a photographer who became dissatisfied with pictorialism and promoted the idea that photography should be true to its own nature rather than trying to imitate painting
Alfred Stieglitz
Which director was the first to use the close-up shot?
D.W. Griffith
Which director is known for having made skillful use of montage?
Sergei Eisenstein
Which film is known for its use of unprecedented cinematic devices like extreme camera angles?
Citizen Kane
The __________ first made it possible to devise a notice that could be reproduced in large numbers and distributed widely
Printing Press
What is the most frequent art form encountered in daily life?
Graphic design
what is the art and technique of composing printed material from letterforms called?
Typography
One of the most celebrated 19th century artists, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, created posters for the famous dance hall called what?
Moulin Rouge
What is a concise visual announcement providing information through the integrated design of typographic and pictorial imagery called?
Poster
A _______ is often the first and key element in creating a complete corporate identity
Logo
What type of design organizes interactive information while keeping layouts attractive?
Interactive Designs
What type of sculpture is made intended to be seen from all sides?
“In the Round”
Which sculpture making method involves the use of a mold?
Casting
The additive processes of sculpture include what?
Modeling/assembling
What sculpture making method is the most challenging?
Carving
In sculpture, what is the most popular modeling material?
Clay
Fired clay is sometimes called what?
Terra Cotta
Serpent Mound and Spiral Jetty are what type of works?
Earth Works
