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This Japanese artist exploited the rich, dark value of ink painting to capture the character of a river by moonlight.


A) Hung Liu
B) Suzuki Shōnen
C) Roger Shimomura Spray Paint and Wall Art
D) Melchor Peredo
E) Albrecht Dürer

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This painting medium is opaque, applied to a paper surface, and uses a gum arabic binder.


A) soot ink
B) gouache
C) tempera
D) oil
E) acrylic

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This is not a traditional paint binder.


A) beeswax
B) lye
C) egg yolk Encaustic
D) gum arabic
E) walnut oil

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The transparency of oil paint allows a painter to use a process called glazing in order to add a high degree of ________ to a painting.


A) sgraffito
B) saturation
C) value
D) luminosity
E) impasto

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Californian artist Joan Brown used this painting technique, created by applying thick layers of paint to a surface.


A) sgraffito
B) glazing
C) impasto
D) scumbling
E) broken stroke

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Artists used oil paint on cave walls thousands of years ago.

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The earliest examples of fresco, found at the Palace of Knossos on the Mediterranean island of ________, date to c. 1600-1500 bce.


A) Crete
B) Malta
C) Elba
D) Rhodes
E) Sicily

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This tag artist started out creating graffiti art in New York City subway cars, before producing museum works like Aeroplane 1.


A) Crash
B) Melchor Peredo
C) Hung Liu
D) Joan Brown
E) Roger Shimomura

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The Renaissance artist and writer Giorgio Vasari credited this Flemish painter with the invention of oil paint.


A) Robert Campin
B) Pieter Bruegel
C) Jan van Eyck
D) Peter Paul Rubens
E) Rembrandt van Rijn

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________ can create many different effects, depending on how it is applied. Chinese-born artist Hung Liu utilized these qualities to separate reality and the ideal in her work Interregnum.


A) oil paint
B) tempera
C) fresco
Gateway to Art:
Gentileschi, Judith Decapitating Holofernes:
Paintings as Personal Statements
D) encaustic
E) all of the other answers

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An artist paints the U.S. flag using the medium of watercolor, but forgets to do the white stars. To add them to the painting, the artist just needs to use the white watercolor pigment.

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This component of paint has traditionally been extracted from minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal by-products.


A) glaze
B) solvent
C) polymers
D) pigment
E) impasto

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We have discovered paintings at Lascaux in France that have been made by artists dating back ________ years.


A) 18
B) 1800
C) 180
D) 18,000
E) 180,000

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D

If an artist wanted to create an artwork that they could easily alter, and in which they could quickly fix any mistakes, buon fresco would be a good method to use.

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This painting tool can be used to apply thick encaustic paint.


A) arrezzo
B) airbrush
C) impasto
D) intonaco
E) palette knife

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If an artist wanted to work on a painting over a number of days, blending and making changes, acrylic paint would be a good medium to use.

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Sonia Delaunay used this medium for her lively illustrations accompanying Blaise Cendrars's poetry in their "simultaneous" artist's book.


A) oil
B) ink
C) acrylic Ink Painting
D) watercolor
E) fresco

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This painting technique was used by the prehistoric cave painters of Lascaux, France, and is still used by contemporary graffiti artists.


A) broken stroke
B) scumbling
C) spray paint
D) glazing
E) impasto

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This contemporary painting medium uses a polymer resin as a binder.


A) acrylic
B) oil
C) encaustic
D) tempera
E) ink

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Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder.


A) pigment
B) glaze
C) impasto
D) beeswax
E) tempera

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