Ch 10 Quiz

What is the main advantage of linocut over woodcut printmaking, and what special effects does this advantage offer? It dries more quickly and thus enables the artist to produce a greater number of prints. It is less toxic than other forms and enables the artist to work more safely. It is easier to cut into linoleum than wood and therefore the artist can create more flexible, fluid lines. It allows the artist to make more realistic images and thus can be used for many more types of illustrations.

One of the greatest masters of the intaglio process was the artist Rembrandt van Rijn. Johannes Gutenberg. Vincent van Gogh. J. M. W. Turner.

The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds by Rembrandt van Rijn reveals how etching differs from other printmaking techniques in its use of colors that create a bold statement. immediate effects that approximate a sketch drawn by the artist's hand. clear contour lines. dark shadows and mysterious light.

An early form of printmaking used in the West was monotype. movable type with a wooden printing press. silkscreen. lithography.

Kitagawa Utamaro's The Fickle Type represents what can be described as a(n) japonaiserie print. intaglio print. ukiyo-e print. mitate print.

When and where was printmaking first developed? in the fifteenth century in Europe in the eighteenth century in the United States in the fifth century BCE in Athens in the ninth century in China

Which printmaking process-a process that relies for its effect not on line but on tonal areas of light and dark-does Jane Dickson's Stairwell illustrate? aquatint etching intaglio relief

Previously used in commercial packaging, silkscreen printing was first used as an art medium in the fifteenth century in Italy. the mid-twentieth century in the United States. the late nineteenth century in France. the mid-twentieth century in Japan.

What is the chief advantage of printmaking over other media? The artist can make multiple copies of a single image. It lends itself to expressive mark-making. It is a quick, accessible process. It dries quickly.

Which of these was normal subject matter for ukiyo-e or nishiki-e prints? Samurai warriors the animal world bustling city life women engaged in everyday activities

Which of the following is an example of relief printmaking? burin mezzotint silkscreen woodcut

What is the process that assures that the colors of a linocut or other relief print will align perfectly? proofing intaglio registration editioning

What printmaking technique was used in The Nuremberg Chronicle, and why was this technique successful for this image? woodcut, because it enabled the artist to define details clearly intaglio, because it enabled the artist to create atmospheric effects monotype, because the artist wanted an image that looked like painting silkscreen, because it enabled the artist the create bold, bright colors

Two Courtesans, Inside and Outside the Display Window by Suzuki Harunobu is an example of what kind of art? Chinese printmaking Buddhist sculpture Hindu engravings Japanese nishiki-e

Which process best describes intaglio printing? The image to be printed is raised above the surface of the plate. The image is painted on a plate and run through a press. The area that prints is below the surface of the plate. It involves drawing on limestone with a greasy medium.

Because in lithography the printing surface is completely flat, it is referred to as intaglio. negative. planographic. positive.

Which famous French illustrator called for political and social reform by stirring emotion in prints such as Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834? Edouard Manet Honoré Daumier Gustave Courbet Albrecht Dürer

In any type of printmaking, after an initial set of prints is made and the block or plate is destroyed, the set of prints is referred to as an edition. a ream. a folio. a run.

When was The Nuremberg Chronicle printed and what is its subject matter? in the fifth century and it is an imaginative story of the beginning of civilization in the first century and it is a record of a series of historical battles in the eighteenth century and it is a travelogue in the fifteenth century and it is a history of the world to that point

Jim Dine's Toothbrushes #4 can be seen as a formalist exercise. play on popular images and processes. work influenced by psychoanalysis. play on ideas of good and evil.

The Diamond Sutra is remarkable because it represented the Buddha in human form for the first time. of its vital role in the mass distribution of ideas. several hundred still exist. it was printed in Europe at a time when Christianity was the dominant religion.

Roger Shimomura's Enter the Rice Cooker is an example of what kind of printmaking? intaglio lithography woodcut silkscreen

Monotype is unique among printmaking processes because it produces an image from a "positive" plate. only one print from the plate. an image from a "negative" plate. an edition of prints from a single plate.

A woodcut print such as Erich Heckel's Fränzi Reclining is an example of lithography. a relief print. a monotype print. silkscreen.

What is the name of the process in which an artist pushes the point of a burin across a metal plate, forcing the metal up in slivers in front of the burin? mezzotint. engraving drypoint etching