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Discussion Questions
1. Explain the visual properties of a medium and trace its development. (TC 2.1)
2. What is the difference between art and documentary photography? (TC 2.2)
3. Outline the elements and principles of composition. (TC 2.3)
4. Explain the properties of color and how artists can use them in creating works of
art. (TC 2.4)
5. Analyze the effects of linear, atmospheric, and shifting perspective. (TC 2.5)
6. Explain the basic characteristics of intaglio, woodcut, serigraphy, and lithography.
(TC 2.1)
7. Define the term “hue,” including its subsidiary characteristics of primary,
secondary, and tertiary. (TC 2.4)
8. Explain the concept of “balance,” including in your answer a definition of the terms
symmetry and asymmetry. (TC 2.3)
9. Define “focal area” and indicate the various techniques that can be utilized to
achieve it. (TC 2.3)
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Multiple Choice Questions
10. Which of the following is a painting medium that is transparent and thinned with
water?
a. Oil
b. Watercolor
c. Gouache
d. Tempera
Answer: b. Watercolor (pg. 30) (TC 2.1)
11. Oils, perhaps the most popular of the painting media, were developed near the
beginning of what century?
a. 12th
b. 14th
c. 15th
d. 16th
Answer: c. 15th (pg. 30) (TC 2.1)
12. Which of the following is responsible for the fact that watercolors produce a delicacy
that cannot be produced by other media?
a. Chiaroscuro
b. Transparency
c. Opaqueness
d. Pigments
Answer: b. Transparency (pp. 30–31) (TC 2.1)
13. Which of the following is a modern, synthetic painting medium?
a. Fresco
b. Watercolor
c. Gouache
d. Acrylic
Answer: d. Acrylic (pg. 32) (TC 2.1)
14. Which of the following is a wall-painting technique in which pigments are applied
to fresh, wet plaster?
a. Fresco
b. Ink
c. Oil
d. Gouache
Answer: a. Fresco (pg. 32) (TC 2.1)
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15. Which of the following is a watercolor medium in which gum is added to ground
opaque colors mixed with water?
a. Gouache
b. Aquatint
c. Intaglio
d. Acrylics
Answer: a. Gouache (pg. 31) (TC 2.1)
16. Because of the process used to produce them, prints and reproductions are always
considered to be _____ works of art.
a. valuable
b. original
c. stable
d. unoriginal
Answer: b. original (pg. 33) (TC 2.1)
17. Which of the following is a planographic process?
a. Lithography
b. Woodcut
c. Etching
d. Collograph
Answer: a. Lithography (pp. 33, 36) (TC 2.1)
18. Which of the following is an example of intaglio?
a. Collage
b. Woodcut
c. Serigraphy
d. Aquatint
Answer: d. Aquatint (pg. 36) (TC 2.1)
19. Woodcut and wood engraving are examples of which of the following?
a. The planographic process
b. Lithography
c. Intaglio
d. Relief printing
Answer: d. Relief printing (pg. 33) (TC 2.1)
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20. Which of the following is a printmaking technique in which the surface of a plate is
scratched with a needle?
a. Aquatint
b. Etching
c. Drypoint
d. Serigraphy
Answer: c. Drypoint (pg. 36) (TC 2.1)
21. A squeegee is used in which printmaking technique?
a. Lithography
b. Aquatint
c. Collage
d. Serigraphy
Answer: d. Serigraphy (pp. 37–38) (TC 2.1)
22. Initially, the photographic medium was presented more like _____.
a. drawing
b. printmaking
c. painting
d. news reporting
Answer: c. painting (pg. 40) (TC 2.2)
23. A type of photography that advocated a more direct, sharply focused,
unmanipulated style called _____ photography developed during the early
twentieth century.
a. zone
b. aligned
c. tonal
d. straight
Answer: d. straight (pg. 40) (TC 2.2)
24. _____ worked to get photography recognized as a fine art.
a. Man Ray
b. Alfred Stieglitz
c. Ansel Adams
d. Thomas Joshua Cooper
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