Final-test 2

Question 0

Cross-hatching

Answer 0

Used to build up figure’s mass and gesture in a forceful manner

Question 1

Cartoon

Answer 1

Full sized drawing made as a guide for a large work in another medium, particularly a fresco painting, mosaic, and tapestry

Question 2

What is advantage and disadvantage of charcoal?

Answer 2

adv: dark passages can be drawn quickly; hard to soft grades provide a flexible medium for both beginning and advanced artists
Dis: easy to smudge, blur, or erase

Question 3

Edgar Degas

Answer 3

Used different fixative than everyone else; layers colors

Question 4

Pastel

Answer 4

Similar to natural chalk; comprised mostly of pigment with little binding material; no drying needed and no change in color; doesn’t allow much detail

Question 5

Pigment, binder, vehicle

Answer 5

Pigment: provides color, usually powder
Binder: holds pigment particles together and attaches pigment to surface
Vehicle: makes paint a liquid; can be added for thinning

Question 6

Watercolor

Answer 6

Pigments mixed with water as vehicle and gum Arabic for binder

Question 7

Egg tempera

Answer 7

Has luminous, slightly matte finish; can’t be mixed after its applied; add in thin layers to build up desired shades of color

Question 8

Impasto

Answer 8

Oil applied thickly

Question 9

Buon fresco/fresco secco

Answer 9

Pigments suspended in water are applied to plaster; pigments dry and become part of plaster

Question 10

Printmaking

Answer 10

Multiple works of art, nearly all identical series, printed on paper

Question 11

Matrix

Answer 11

Make prints; metal, wood, or stone

Question 12

Artists proof

Answer 12

Prints made for artist’s record or personal use

Question 13

Relief printmaking

Answer 13

Cuts away all parts of printing surface not meant to carry ink

Question 14

Registration

Answer 14

Adding color to printing process

Question 15

Engraving

Answer 15

Artist cuts line into polished surface of metal plate

Question 16

Aquatint

Answer 16

Etching process used to obtain gray areas in black and white or color prints

Question 17

Lithography

Answer 17

Buvarian limestone; surface or planographic printing process based on mutual antipathy of oil and water color; completely flat surface

Question 18

Serigraphy/silk screen

Answer 18

Adhering stencil to a screen made of silk fabric stretched across a frame. A squeegee is used to push ink

Question 19

Photography means

Answer 19

Light writing / light drawing

Question 20

Joseph Niepce

Answer 20

1st person to capture photo; used pewter and chemicals; took 8 hours

Question 21

Julia Margaret Cameron

Answer 21

Softened down photographs

Question 22

Margaret Bourke-White

Answer 22

1st American photo journalist; chief photographer for fortune and life magazine