Reality Through the Arts 8th Edition Sporre Test Bank

ISBN-10: 0205858228

ISBN-13: 9780205858224 978-0205858224

Chapter ONE: TWO-DIMENSIONAL ART

Multiple Choice Questions

1) Which of the following is considered the foundation of two-dimensional art?
a) drawing
b) painting
c) sculpture
d) printmaking
Answer: a
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2) Chalk, charcoal, pastel, and graphite are what kind of materials?
a) wet media
b) soft media
c) dry media
d) hard media
Answer: c
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3) Pen and ink, and wash and brush are what kind of materials?
a) dry media
b) wet media
c) soft media
d) hard media
Answer: b
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4) The popularity of oil paintings stems from what fact?
a) are inexpensive and can be easily purchased
b) have a long lifespan
c) are fast-drying
d) offer a wide range of color possibilities and can be reworked
Answer: d
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5) What painting media traditionally refers to a transparent paint usually applied to paper?
a) watercolor
b) acrylic
c) tempera
d) fresco
Answer: a
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6) Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel is an example of what kind of painting media?
a) tempera
b) oil
c) fresco
d) mixed media
Answer: c
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7) What printing technique includes etching, drypoint and aquatint?
a) intaglio
b) relief
c) lithography
d) planography
Answer: a
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8) Albrecht Durer’s Lamentation, 1497-1500 is an example of what kind of printmaking technique?
a) lithography
b) woodcut
c) silkscreen
d) intaglio
Answer: b
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A-Head: Formal and Technical Qualities

9) Which of the following is the most common stencil processes?
a) monotype
b) aquatint
c) silkscreen
d) etching
Answer: c
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10) Which artist is considered the driving force behind recognition of photography as a fine art?
a) Ansel Adams
b) Man Ray
c) Dorothea Lange
d) Alfred Stieglitz
Answer: d
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11) Dorothea Lange’s Dust Bowl Farm in Texas, 1936 is an example of what kind of photography?
a) straight
b) photogram
c) documentary
d) camera obscura
Answer: c
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12) To copy nature accurately, artists of the sixteenth century used what photographic technique:
a) daguerreotype
b) camera obscura
c) photogenesis
d) calotype
Answer: b
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13) What photographic technology has rendered film obsolete?
a) digital
b) photogenesis
c) calotype
d) wet-plate collodion
Answer: a
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14) What is the basic building block of any design?
a) shape
b) space
c) color
d) line
Answer: d
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15) Hung Liu utilizes what kinds of lines in her painting 2005 painting, Relic 12? (Hung Liu is a female artist. There is a typo in the text.)
a) expressive and straight
b) contour and dominant
c) classical and curved
d) implied and outline
Answer: d
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16) What term denotes the measurable wavelength of a specific color?
a) tint
b) shade
c) hue
d) value
Answer: c
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17) Adding white to any color is called a
a) shade
b) tint
c) value
d) hue
Answer: b
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18) The hues red, yellow and blue are what kinds of colors?
a) secondary
b) primary
c) tertiary
d) complementary
Answer: b
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19) What is the result when complementary colors are mixed together in equal proportions?
a) gray
b) black
c) white
d) brown
Answer: a
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20) What is the relationship of blacks to whites and gray?
a) complementary
b) tertiary
c) shade
d) value
Answer: d
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21) What term describes not only surface reflectance but also characteristics synonymous with value?
a) intensity
b) chroma
c) brilliance
d) saturation
Answer: c
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22) What term describes the application of thick paint with a palette knife?
a) impasto
b) mass
c) palette
d) intensity
Answer: a
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23) What design principle constitutes rhythm, harmony and variation?
a) repetition
b) pattern
c) texture
d) unity
Answer: a
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24) What are the four basic Principles of Design?
a) unity, harmony, texture, perspective
b) repetition, line, value, illusion
c) balance, line, shape, perspective
d) repetition, unity, balance, focal areas
Answer: d
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25) Linear, atmosphere, and shifting are examples of?
a) elements of design
b) perspective
c) principles of design
d) verisimilitude
Answer: b
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26) Which term refers to the suggestion of three-dimensional forms via “light and shade?”
a) chiaroscuro
b) shifting perspective
c) atmospheric perspective
d) verisimilitude
Answer: a
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27) What term refers to the balancing of like forms and colors on opposite sides of the vertical axis of a composition?
a) asymmetry
b) radial symmetry
c) psychological balance
d) symmetry
Answer: d
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28) Which of the following techniques constitutes a form of illusionistic painting?
a) verisimilitude
b) trompe l’oeil
c) juxtaposition
d) perspective
Answer: b
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A-Head: Sense Stimuli
Essay Questions

29) Explain the differences between the following printmaking processes: intaglio, relief, and planography. Include specific artworks for each technique.