2.1-2.4 Art Appreciation Quiz Questions

Chalk, pastel, and crayon are created using pigment with a binder. Which of the following is a binder?

Historically, when artists used silverpoint for a drawing they did so on wood that was covered with a thin coating of ________.

Life drawing is the process of:

Which material looks and writes like lead, was discovered in the mid-1500s, and became the medium for use in pencils?

When 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.

This drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder.

If an artist wanted to create an area of darkness using the medium of silverpoint, he or she would use the technique of ________.

Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark. If you wanted a dark value, which of these pencil numbers would be the darkest?

Color pencil is much like graphite pencil, but the lead is made from pigment and ________.

Samples of this drawing medium have been dated back to 30,000 BCE.

Sticks of chalk, pastel, and crayon are all made by combining pigment with ________.

This red chalk was used by Renaissance artists, including Michelangelo in his Studies for the Libyan Sibyl.

This contemporary version of carbon ink is a favorite of comic book artists.

East Asian artists have traditionally applied ink using a ________.

An artist who is using brush and ink will often control the value of the ink by ________.

Quills are a common tool for ink drawing. They were originally made from ________.

Artists, such as Vincent van Gogh, vary the width of a reed pen stroke by ________.

Before the invention of paper, drawings were done on ________.

This type of drawing aims to identify and react to the main visual and expressive characteristics of a form.

This type of drawing involves the use of long continuous lines to capture the changing surface and outline of an object.