Ch.6 Test Bank Drawing Getlein

Living with Art, 12e (Getlein)

Chapter 6 Drawing

1) Ideas quickly jotted down for later development are called ________.

A) binders

B) sketches

C) grounds

D) media

2) The ________ are credited with the invention of paper around 105 C.E.

A) Greeks

B) Chinese

C) Egyptians

D) Persians

3) What drawing material was the predecessor of the graphite pencil and was especially popular during the Renaissance?

A) Charcoal

B) Metalpoint

C) Ground

D) Pastel

4) The coloring material in virtually all drawing media is known as ________.

A) pastel

B) binder

C) pigment

D) wash

5) What substance allows drawing media to be shaped into sticks (for dry media) or suspended in fluid (for liquid media), and to adhere to the drawing surface?

A) Pigment

B) Ground

C) Binder

D) Wash

6) In metalpoint, lines are drawn with a silver ________ onto a surface coated with a preliminary coating of paint.

A) dagger

B) coin

C) wire

D) dart

7) Chris Ofili used what medium in his work, Prince among Thieves with Flowers?

A) Pen and ink

B) Brush and ink

C) Pencil

D) Charcoal

8) Why is there variety in the color and consistency of different types of crayons and pastels? 

A) Different binders are used.

B) Pigment quality is better for crayons.

C) Crayons are made for children, while pastels are made for artists.

D) Liquid pigmentation is used.

9) Georges Seurat used what medium in his pointillist work, Café-concert? 

A) Conté crayon

B) Pastel

C) Watercolor

D) Pencil

10) What is an example of a liquid medium?

A) Graphite

B) Pastel

C) Ink

D) Silverpoint

11) What part of the pen determines the quality of the line (thick, thin, even in width or variable, coarse, or flowing)?

A) Ground

B) Wash

C) Brush

D) Nib

12) In her work, Untitled from 2011, what medium does Julie Mehretu use to intentionally evoke architectural drafting?

A) Brush and ink

B) Rapidograph

C) Metalpoint

D) Pastel

13) What type of drawing medium is most likely to produce a line that swells in the middle, but tapers at both ends?

A) Metalpoint

B) Rapidograph

C) Crayon

D) Brush and ink

14) Beside paper, what other materials have served to support drawings?

A) Marble

B) Silk

C) Fired clay

D) Papyrus 

E) Earth

15) In Howling Wolf's ledger drawing from your text, Ute Indian, what mediums are used?

A) Pen, ink, and watercolor

B) Brush, ink, and pastels

C) Crayons and pastels

D) Crayons, charcoal, and graphite

16) Because this 20th-century artist dated most of his drawings over the course of his lifetime, we have nearly a complete visual record of his mind at work.

A) Ingres

B) Picasso

C) Rembrandt

D) Degas

17) Romare Bearden's Mysteries can be considered what type of work?

A) Watercolor

B) Pointillist

C) Collage

D) Acrylic

18) How can Mia Pearlman's installation Inrush, best be described?

A) Exploded drawing

B) Delicate silhouettes

C) Spatial collage

D) Papier collé

19) Vonne Jacquette's Three Mile Island, Night I uses the medium of ________.

A) chalk

B) pastel

C) brush and ink

D) charcoal

20) Review the works in this chapter by Filippino Lippi and Rembrandt, and discuss the different qualities and characteristic appearances of the medium each artist used.

21) Describe three differences between a sketch and a completed work based on a sketch. Select one specific painting, sculpture, or architectural work for which you can find several preliminary drawings; then comment on the specific similarities and differences between the sketches and the final work. Conclude with your assessment of the process of preliminary drawings as an essential or nonessential part of the process of completing a work.

22) What was the subject matter often found in the ledger drawings of Native Americans, such as those by Howling Wolf? Discuss the materials used and the visual elements common to these drawings.

23) Summarize the history of papermaking, discussing the technological processes required. Cover its origins and its transmission to other cultures and describe some of the writing and drawing surfaces it replaced. What are paper's advantages over these materials? 

24) Give three examples of ways in which paper can be used as a medium. How have contemporary artists differed from traditional artists in their uses of the medium? Refer to specific works to support your statements.  

25) Consider Pettibon's No Title (Not a single armorer . . .). Discuss the artist's use of the drawing medium, as well as the use of brush and ink in the work. Why is this work thought of as a drawing and not a painting? 

26) Discuss the characteristics and different forms of charcoal. Considering Yvonne Jacquette's Three Mile Island, Night I, explain how the medium of charcoal is employed in her drawing.