Ch 8 Quiz

The word paper is derived from German papier. Egyptian papyrus. Greek xapti. Spanish papel.

Dry drawing media consists of coloring agents, which are mixed with what to hold them together? media grouts pigments binders

Which of the following is a form of soft carbon discovered in England in 1564? charcoal graphite conte metalpoint

Georges Seurat used which medium to create the dramatic tonal effects in his drawing ,The Artist's Mother ? silverpoint conte crayon charcoal graphite

Art Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale uses drawing to depict human beings as animals, the Jewish were depicted as cats gerbils dogs mice

Whitfield Lovell's Whispers from the Walls is an example of traditional sculpture. printmaking. installation art. traditional painting.

What is the narrative related by Marjane Satrapi in the graphic novel Persepolis? It is the story of a girl who believes she has become a superhero. It tells of the fall of the Persians to the Athenians and Spartans in the fifth century BCE. It recounts the story of the rise of the Persian Empire under Darius. It is the author's story of growing up in Iran and the difficulties she faced as Western and Eastern cultures collided.

Vija Celmin's Untitled (Ocean) is an example of a pen and ink drawing. a chalk preparatory study. a photorealist graphite drawing. a paper collage.

The chief advantage of oilstick over pastels is that they easier to erase. offer more gestural freedom. are nontoxic. are water soluble.

When ink is diluted with water and applied in broad flat areas, the result is called a wash. sinopie. cartoon. sketch.

The artist who felt that a cut line made with scissors could acquire more feeling than a pencil or charcoal was Whitfield Lovell. Henri Matisse. Liang Kai. Frank Auerbach.

Georgia O'Keeffe charcoal drawing ,Banana Flower achieves a sense of volume and space scale and proportion positive and negative space light and dark

A popular drawing medium during the Renaissance consisted of a stylus of gold, silver, or other metal that was dragged across a prepared ground of lead white, bone, and water. This process was called terazzii. graphite drawing. metalpoint. conte crayon.

When did artists in the Western world first have ready access to paper? 5,000 years ago in Egypt in Italy in the early Renaissance in the time of Caesar Augustus in Rome 200 years ago in Philadelphia

Which of these statements about drawing is NOT true? Because of its directness and accessibility, drawing is a quick means of expression. It was historically used as a preliminary study for paintings or sculptures. It is now, and always has been, exclusively, a means of pure representation. In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, drawings began to be preserved by artists and collected by connoisseurs.

In Käthe Kollwitz's Self-Portrait, Drawing, the artist has revealed the expressive capabilities of which medium? pen and ink chalk conte crayon charcoal

According to Sayre, Jean Dubuffet's Corps de Dame can be read as a casual doodle. an attack on academic figure drawing. a depiction of a femme fatale. an appreciation of the female nude.

By the end of the fifteenth century, artists and collectors such as Vasari had come to recognize that drawings could be made just as quickly as prints. replace fresco painting. embody the artist's creative genius. sell for as much as paintings sold for.

Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing, Madonna and Child with St. Anne and Infant St. John the Baptist, as a preparatory guide for a fresco or painting of the same title. This type of drawing is called dry media. a cartoon. a wash. an edition.

What was early paper in the West made of? grass cloth rags papyrus bark