Multiple Choice Questions

An artwork that consists of cutting off someone's tie and pouring shampoo on his head would best be described as ________________.
  • readymades
  • conceptual art
  • performance art
  • surface texture
In addition to its fiber content and weight, paper is also classified as its _____________________.
  • surface texture
  • Marcel Duchamp
  • performance art
  • Construction
The binding agent for tempera paint is ____________________.
  • silverpoint
  • egg
  • wax
  • beeswax
One of the advantages of acrylic paint is that it can be cleaned up using this liquid.
  • Casting
  • False
  • Water
  • wax
Color pencil is much like graphite pencil, but the lead is made from pigment and __________________.
  • wax
  • beeswax
  • egg
  • False
The binding agent in encaustic paint is _____________________.
  • brush
  • beeswax
  • egg
  • acrylic
East Asian artists have traditionally applied ink using a _____________.
  • brush
  • False
  • acrylic
  • buon
This artist took a urinal, turned it on its side, made some other slight alterations, and presented it as an art objected titled Fountain.
  • readymades
  • performance art
  • appropriation
  • Marcel Duchamp
An artwork can fit into only one of the following categories: performance art, conceptual art, installation art.
  • True
  • False
Another name for free standing sculpture is _____________________.
  • chiseling
  • extreme performance pieces
  • silverpoint
  • in the round
Artists used oil paint on cave walls thousands of years ago.
  • True
  • False
Unlike freestanding sculpture, this type of sculpture produces an image that is still connected to its material of origin, and can only be viewed from one side.
  • glazing
  • relief
  • False
  • bas-relief
If an artist wanted to work on a painting over a number of days, blending and making changes, egg tempera would be a great medium to use.
  • True
  • False
Before the invention of paper, drawings were done on _______________.
  • animal hide, papyrus, cloth, wood (all of the above)
  • direct experience & visual documentation or personal accounts
  • in the round
  • vine, compressed
If a sculptor wanted to create a relief that was visible from more than one angle , bas-relief would be a good method to use.
  • True
  • False
Which of these is not an additive process of sculpting?
  • Casting
  • chiseling
  • bas-relief
  • a kinetic
When artists use objects which they did not make, but found already existing, these objects are called _________________.
  • readymades
  • buon fresco
  • bas-relief
  • performance art
Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark. If you wanted a dark value, which of these following pencil numbers would be the darkest?
  • glazing
  • False
  • 9B
  • relief
Artworks made using alternative media are best accessed by _________________ but often exist only in the form of __________________.
  • an installation
  • Break down categories of traditional artworks, break down the traditional boundaries between art and life, focus our attention on objects, actions, and events we might otherwise overlook. (ALL OF THE ABOVE)
  • direct experience & visual documentation or personal accounts
  • conceptual art
An artist who is using brush and ink will often control the value of the ink by _________________.
  • high relief
  • earthworks
  • diluting with water
  • installation
In which country was paper invented by Cai Lun, who made it out of macerated plant fibers suspended in water?
  • diluting with water
  • True
  • Bronze
  • China
Michelangelo used an additive method to produce his sculpture.
  • True
  • False
What methods did Lorenzo Ghiberti use in this panel to suggest an illusion of three-dimensional space?
  • direct experience & visual documentation or personal accounts
  • animal hide, papyrus, cloth, wood (all of the above)
  • Wax, Stone, Plastic, Ice (ALL OF THE ABOVE)
  • Overlapping, varying degrees of relief, linear perspective, scale (ALL OF THE ABOVE)
If an artist wanted to create a relief in which a tree appeared further away than a park bench, carving the park bench more deeply (in high relief) would achieve this effect.
  • True
  • False
This sculptural process is the act of creating an environment that a viewer will experience within a space.
  • earthworks
  • diluting with water
  • installation
  • bas-relief
This component of paint has traditionally been extracted from minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal by-products.
  • pigment
  • appropriation
  • acrylic
  • glazing
This is not a traditional paint binder.
  • False
  • egg
  • Lye
  • ink
An artwork that consists exclusively of drawings, designs, and plans would best be described as ___________________.
  • Construction
  • Marcel Duchamp
  • an installation
  • conceptual art
If an artist wanted to create an artwork that they could easily alter, and in which they could fix any mistake, buon fresco would be a good method of use.
  • True
  • False
Artists' crayon is made by mixing pigment with ___________.
  • egg
  • gum arabic
  • False
  • wax
If an artist wanted to create an area of darkness using the medium of silverpoint, he or she would use the technique of _________________.
  • earthworks
  • an armature
  • hatching
  • diluting with water
Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________________ and a liquid binder.
  • in the round
  • silverpoint
  • chiseling
  • pigment
These two types of charcoal are the most commonly used as drawing materials:
  • vine, compressed
  • readymades
  • buon fresco
  • in the round
As an artist, Marina Abramovic is known for her __________________.
  • extreme performance pieces
  • they exist in three-dimensional space
  • in the round
  • surface texture
When a sculpture is designed to be viewed from one side, and protrudes dynamically from its background plane or is carved with deeply incised marks, this is called ___________________.
  • diluting with water
  • installation
  • hatching
  • high relief
Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi used this medium for her Allegory of Painting, a self-portrait of the artist with a paintbrush in hand.
  • conceptual art
  • oil paint
  • pigment
  • buon fresco
There are two types of fresco. Fresco secco, which means dry fresco, and this kind, which means good fresco.
  • Construction
  • pigment
  • buon
  • False
The transparency of oil paint allows a painter to use a process called _________________ in order to add a high degree of luminosity to a painting.
  • pigment
  • oil paint
  • casting
  • glazing
The ________________ process relies on a modeled original form made from pliable material, and results in the final sculpture of bronze.
  • appropriation
  • performance art
  • lost-wax casting
  • an installation
If an artist wanted to paint a very detailed miniature forest scene, egg tempera would be a good medium to use.
  • True
  • False
Artworks made using alternative media and processes ______________.
  • in the round
  • Break down categories of traditional artworks, break down the traditional boundaries between art and life, focus our attention on objects, actions, and events we might otherwise overlook. (ALL OF THE ABOVE)
  • animal hide, papyrus, cloth, wood (all of the above)
  • direct experience & visual documentation or personal accounts
An artwork that consists of re-created bedroom with videos projected onto the walls would best be described as _______________.
  • Construction
  • appropriation
  • an installation
  • surface texture
This process involves taking over a pre-existing image or object and altering its apperance in a way that changes its original meaning or purpose.
  • appropriation
  • lost-wax casting
  • buon fresco
  • an installation
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