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Art Appreciation Quizzes 7-13 - Fresco

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The 20th-century master of the fresco technique who created the work Mixtec Culture is:
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Diego Rivera
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What is a pigment in paint
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A powdered color
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Which of the following is an example of a nonaqueous medium?
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Oil paint
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The painting technique used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome that involves the use of wax is:
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encaustic.
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In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to:
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wet plaster.
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After building a canvas and before painting it, a painter generally applies a coat of:
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primer.
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Watercolor's primary characteristic is its:
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transparency.
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Two ancient painting media that are still in use today are:
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encaustic and fresco.
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In oil painting, linseed oil acts as:
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a binder
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In oil painting, thin veils of translucent color applied over a layer of opaque paint are known as:
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glazes.
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One of the advantages of oil painting is that it dries very slowly. This allows for:
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a subtle blending of colors... the painting to be reworked indefinitely... the application of layers of paint on top of one another... an almost infinite range of consistencies... (All of these answers are correct.)
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________ is watercolor that has been made opaque by adding inert white pigment to it.
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Gouache
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By the 1950s, this new synthetic paint would challenge oils as the principal painting medium. What is it?
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Acrylic
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Pope Julius II employed which two Italian Renaissance artists to paint frescoes for him?
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Michelangelo and Raphael
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Except in the case of ________, identical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking.
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monotypes.
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A rubber stamp creates what type of print?
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Relief
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A good example of the use of aquatint in creating areas of unmodulated, translucent color is the print:
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Woman Bathing by Mary Cassatt.
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The ancient Olmecs of Mesoamerica prized ________ for its translucence, which they associated with rainwater.
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jade
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Two factors that decide the success of any structural system are:
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weight and tensile strength
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The Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian styles are known as the:
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greek orders
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The Byodo-in Temple in Kyoto, Japan, is an elegant example of:
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post-and-lintel architecture.
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The ability of a material to span horizontal distances with a minimum of support is called:
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tensile strength
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Built almost 2000 years ago, the ________ is an enduring testament to the Roman use of the arch.
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Pont du Gard at Nîmes
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________ is most famous for his design of the geodesic dome.
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R. buckminster Fuller
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The International style emphasizes:
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clean lines. geometric form. avoidance of superficial decoration. All of these.
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A ________ is a horizontal form supported at only one end.
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cantilever
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A dome is generated by rotating ________ 360 degrees about a vertical central axis.
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an arch
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Built for the World's Fair in 1889, the ________ was an early experiment in iron construction.
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Eiffel tower