Multiple Choice Questions

__________________________ painting medium, developed after chemists created strong, weatherproof, industrial paints, has challenged the supremacy of oil painting
  • acrylic
  • tempera
  • watercolor
  • encaustic
A _____________________________ paint is one that dissolves in something other than water
  • non-aqueous
  • transparency
  • gouache
  • gesso
Encaustic painting requires the application of a _______________ source close to the surface to fuse the colors on a completed painting
  • heat
  • glaze
  • wet
  • tesserae
Traditional Chinese artists used ink sticks and they are the oldest painting medium in continuous use
  • tempera
  • F
  • T
  • gesso
The technique of creating a design or image by arranging bits of colored ceramic, stone, glass or other suitable materials and fixing them into a bed of cement or plaster
  • encaustic
  • mosaic
  • alla prima
  • impasto
Inert white pigment is used in gouache to make the colors transparent
  • T
  • F
  • impasto
  • buon fresco
Italian for " all in one go". In oil painting, the technique of completing a painting in a single session, as opposed to building it up slowly over a period of time
  • encaustic
  • impasto
  • alla prima
  • watercolor
A paint medium created with acrylic resin, polymerized through emulsion in water
  • acrylics
  • primer
  • gouache
  • watercolor
Two ancient painting media that are still in use today are ___________________ and fresco
  • oil
  • encaustic
  • gouache
  • tempera
_____________________ paint dries so slowly that the finished painting may not be completely dry for months
  • Raphael
  • vehicle
  • gesso
  • oil
In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to __________ plaster
  • oil
  • wet
  • binder
  • tempera
A preliminary coating applied to a painting support to improve adhesion of paints
  • primer
  • tempera
  • impasto
  • cartoon
In mosaic, a small, usually cubic piece of colored ceramic, stone, or glass used as the basic unit of composition
  • cartoon
  • tessera
  • gesso
  • primer
Considered one of the leading figures in 20th century American art, the painter ____________________________(2) studied at the Harlem Art Workshop
  • Diego Rivera
  • mosaic
  • Jacob Lawrence
  • buon fresco
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