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Multiple Choice

[QUESTION]
1. The 20th-century master of the fresco technique who created the work Mixtec Culture is
a. Raphael.
b. Diego Rivera.
c. Pablo Picasso.
d. Georges Braque.
e. Frida Kahlo.
Ans: b
Feedback: After a civil war in Mexico, Rivera and other artists were commissioned by the
government to create a series of murals about the glories of Mexico.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
2. What is pigment in paint?
a. a powdered color
b. a medium
c. a solvent
d. a binder
e. a vehicle
Ans: a
Feedback: Pigment is mixed with a binder to create a drawing or painting medium.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
3. Which of the following is an example of a nonaqueous medium?
a. fresco
b. oil paint
c. acrylic
d. watercolor
e. None of these answers is correct.
Ans: b
Feedback: Oil paint is a slow-drying pigment mixed with drying oils such as linseed.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
4. The painting technique used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome that involves the
use of wax is
a. fresco.
b. oil paint.
c. acrylic.
d. tempera.
e. encaustic.
Ans: e

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 Feedback: Encaustic painting is an ancient process where beeswax is liquefied and pigment
is mixed in, and then applied to a surface, typically wood.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
5. In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to
a. dry plaster.
b. stretched canvas.
c. hot beeswax.
d. wet plaster.
e. raw silk.
Ans: d
Feedback: Buon, or true, fresco is a technique in which the pigment is mixed with water and
applied to wet plaster on a wall, allowing the painting to become an actual part of the wall.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
6. After building a canvas and before painting it, a painter generally applies a coat of
a. fresco.
b. linseed oil.
c. primer.
d. a nonaqueous medium.
e. None of these answers is correct.
Ans: c
Feedback: Primers prepare a surface to receive a painting medium.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
7. In fresco painting, a drawing called a ________ is transferred to the prepared surface prior to
applying the pigment.
a. cartoon
b. mosaic
c. collage
d. gouache
e. sketch
Ans: a
Feedback: A cartoon is a study or final rendition of the image for the final fresco.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
8. Watercolor’s primary characteristic is its
a. permanency.
b. opacity.
c. ease of revision.
d. transparency.
e. textural qualities.

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 Ans: d
Feedback: The leading characteristic of watercolor is transparency and its ability to apply
thin transparent washes.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
9. Two ancient painting media that are still in use today are
a. acrylics and oils.
b. encaustic and fresco.
c. gouache and oils.
d. collage and acrylics.
e. gouache and fresco.
Ans: b
Feedback: Twentieth-century artists, such as Jasper Johns and Diego Rivera, draw on these
historical techniques to create artworks with contemporary themes.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
10. In oil painting, linseed oil acts as
a. a pigment.
b. a ground.
c. a border.
d. a support.
e. a binder.
Ans: e
Feedback: Pigments are mixed with linseed oil to bind the particles together.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
11. The first acclaimed artist to understand and exploit oil painting was
a. Jan van Eyck.
b. Leonardo da Vinci.
c. Michelangelo.
d. Oskar Kokoschka.
e. Georgia O’Keeffe.
Ans: a
Feedback: Although Jan van Eyck did not invent oil painting, he is credited as the first
prominent artist to understand and explore its possibilities.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
12. One of the advantages of oil painting is that it dries very slowly. This allows for
a. a subtle blending of colors.
b. the painting to be reworked indefinitely.
c. the application of layers of paint on top of one another.
d. an almost infinite range of consistencies.

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 e. All these answers are correct.
Ans: e
Feedback: Oil paint allows for flexibility of blending and reworking, and does not require the
immediacy of completion as other mediums.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
13. ________ is watercolor that has been made opaque by adding inert white pigment to it.
a. Encaustic
b. Impasto
c. Fresco
d. Gouache
e. None of these answers is correct.
Ans: d
Feedback: Gouche lends itself to more immediate techniques than watercolor, and dries to
different values than when wet.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
14. By the 1950s, this new synthetic paint would challenge oils as the principal painting medium.
What is it?
a. gouache
b. acrylic
c. encaustic
d. tempera
e. collage
Ans: b
Feedback: Acrylic paints are water soluble and quick drying, but cannot be rehydrated after
they dried.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
15. Pope Julius II employed which two Italian Renaissance artists to paint frescoes for him?
a. Rivera and Kahlo
b. Michelangelo and Raphael
c. Van Gogh and Gauguin
d. Vermeer and Van Eyck
e. Donatello and Titian
Ans: b
Feedback: Michelangelo and Raphael are famous for their work in the Sistine chapel and the
Vatican Palace, and their frescoes are considered the greatest of all Western art.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
16. Picasso and Braque, working side-by-side, glued bits of paper and other objects onto canvas
to create

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 a. mosaics.
b. tapestries.
c. collages.
d. egg tempera.
e. None of these answers is correct.
Ans: c
Feedback: Collage is French for “pasting or gluing” and Picasso and Braque were pioneers in
this technique.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
17. A nonaqueous paint is one that
a. is less expensive than most.
b. produces the most brilliant colors.
c. dissolves in water.
d. dissolves in something other than water.
e. is very fast-drying.
Ans: d
Feedback: Nonaqueous paints contain no water, such as oil paints that contain oil as a binder.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
18. Traditional Chinese artists used _________ and they are the oldest painting medium in
continuous use.
a. watercolor
b. encaustic paint
c. gouche
d. acrylic
e. ink sticks
Ans: e
Feedback: Ink sticks are black ink mixed with soot and animal fat, and hardened into a block.
Bloom's Level: Understand

[QUESTION]
19. Technically, tempera is paint in which the vehicle is in
a. a pigment.
b. an impasto.
c. a ground.
d. an emulsion.
e. a glaze.
Ans: d
Feedback: An emulsion is a stable mixture of an aqueous liquid with an oil, fat, wax, or resin.

Essay

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[QUESTION]
1. Select three of the painting media discussed in this chapter and briefly describe and explain
the qualities and characteristics of each, and the techniques used to apply each. Then discuss
a work created in each of the three media you have chosen.
Ans: Answers will vary depending selection of media and artwork. Possible media are: oil,
tempera, watercolor, gouche, and acrylic.
Bloom's Level: Apply, Analyze

[QUESTION]
2. Briefly outline the history of the fresco medium from ancient times through the 20th century.
Select one particular fresco work and explain how, where, and when it was created, who the
artist was, and in what thematic categories the work fits.
Ans: Answers will vary depending on selection of artwork. Frescos have survived to the
present day from the civilizations of ancient Mediterranean, from China and India, and from
the early civilizations of Mexico.
Bloom's Level: Apply, Analyze

[QUESTION]
3. Choose a painting medium and explain its characteristics. Select an artist who is known for
working primarily in one medium and discuss how this medium seems to meet the needs of
the artist’s subjects and messages.
Ans: Answers will vary depending on selection of painting medium and artist.
Bloom's Level: Apply, Analyze

[QUESTION]
4. Discuss the classification of collage as a painting medium. Do you agree or disagree with this
classification? If you disagree, explain how you would categorize the collage works of
Picasso and Braque.
Ans: Answers will vary. Consider why the collage technique was included in the painting
chapter and how the process identifies with other painting processes.
Bloom's Level: Apply, Analyze

[QUESTION]
5. Consider the work of two of the following artists: Sonsini, Sargent, and Mutu. Explain how
the content of works by the artists you have selected is expressed or emphasized by the media
and techniques used.
Ans: Answers will vary depending on artists selected.
Bloom's Level: Apply, Analyze

[QUESTION]
6. Consider Van Eyck’s Man in a Red Turban and Sonsini’s Fernando, Manuel, and David.
These two paintings present two very different styles of oil painting. Analyze the works and
the stylistic differences between them.
Ans: Van Eyck employed a slow and time-consuming technique of glaze building which
yielded a meticulous, detailed image. Sonsini employed an alla prima technique, which
conveys a more spontaneous approach of laying paint down on the canvas.

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Bloom's Level: Apply, Analyze

[QUESTION]
7. Consider Lam’s The Jungle and Sargent’s Mountain Stream. These works represent views of
nature. Explain how each artist uses the characteristics of his selected medium to express or
represent his subject, and his view of nature.
Ans: Sargent’s Mountain Stream is an example of a classic watercolor technique, controlled
yet spontaneous in feeling. Lam uses gouche, a watercolor paint with white pigment, and
exploits both the transparent and opaque possibilities of this medium.
Bloom's Level: Apply, Analyze

[QUESTION]
8. Discuss the medium employed in Saint Anthony Abbot Tempted by a Heap of Gold while
giving consideration to the historical period and the practice of using this medium. Give
examples of the technique the artist used in this painting and how the technique informed the
subject matter.
Ans: The artist, Master of the Obsservanza, used tempera paint as his medium, illustrating
episodes from the life of Saint Anthony. Tempera was a popular medium in the early
Renaissance, and the artist built up the forms of his work slowly, through layers of precise
brushwork, resulting in a charming vision of what the artist perceived a desert must look like.
Bloom's Level: Apply, Analyze

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