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C h a p t e r O n e : Two-Dimensional Art
Multiple-Choice Questions
1) Which medium is considered the foundation of two-dimensional art?
a) Drawing
b) Painting
c) Sculpture
d) Printmaking
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
2) Chalk, charcoal, pastel, and graphite are examples of _______ media.
a) wet
b) soft
c) dry
d) hard
Answer: c
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
3) Pen and ink, and wash and brush are what kind of materials?
a) Dry media
b) Wet media
c) Soft media
d) Hard media
Answer: b
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
4) What accounts for the popularity of oil paints as a medium?
a) They are inexpensive and can be easily purchased.
b) They have a long lifespan.
c) They are fast drying.
d) They offer a wide range of color possibilities and can be reworked.
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Analyze
5) Which painting media traditionally refers to a transparent paint usually applied to paper?
a) Watercolor
, b) Acrylic
c) Tempera
d) Fresco
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
6) Diego Rivera’s mural Sugar Cane is an example of which type of painting medium?
a) Tempera
b) Oil
c) Fresco
d) Mixed media
Answer: c
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
7) Which printing technique includes etching, drypoint, and aquatint?
a) Intaglio
b) Relief
c) Lithography
d) Planography
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
8) Albrecht Dürer’s Lamentation is an example of which type of printmaking technique?
a) Lithography
b) Woodcut
c) Silkscreen
d) Intaglio
Answer: b
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
9) Compared to others, which stencil process is the most common?
a) Monotype
b) Aquatint
c) Silkscreen
d) Etching
Answer: c
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
10) Which artist is considered the principal force behind the recognition of photography as a fine art?
, a) Ansel Adams
b) Man Ray
c) Dorothea Lange
d) Alfred Stieglitz
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Evaluate
11) Dorothea Lange’s Dust Bowl Farm in Texas is an example of which type of photography?
a) Straight
b) Photogram
c) Documentary
d) Camera obscura
Answer: c
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
12) To copy nature accurately, artists of the sixteenth century used which photographic technique?
a) Daguerreotype
b) Camera obscura
c) Photogenesis
d) Calotype
Answer: b
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
13) Which photographic technology has rendered film obsolete?
a) Digital
b) Photogenesis
c) Calotype
d) Wet-plate collodion
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand
14) What is the basic building block of any visual design?
a) Shape
b) Space
c) Color
d) Line
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand
,15) Hung Liu utilized which types of lines in her painting Relic 12?
a) Expressive and straight
b) Contour and dominant
c) Classical and curved
d) Implied and outline
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
16) The wavelength of light is related to our perception of ________.
a) tint
b) shade
c) hue
d) value
Answer: c
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze
17) Adding white to any color results in a ________.
a) shade
b) tint
c) value
d) hue
Answer: b
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand
18) The hues red, yellow, and blue are examples of ________ colors.
a) secondary
b) primary
c) tertiary
d) complementary
Answer: b
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand
19) Which shade results when complementary colors are mixed together in equal proportions?
a) Gray
b) Black
c) White
d) Brown
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply
,20) Which dimension correctly describes the relationship of blacks to whites and gray?
a) Complementary colors
b) Tertiary colors
c) Shading
d) Value
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Understand
21) Which quality of visual arts distinguishes high-gloss, semi-gloss, flat, and luminescent paints?
a) Hue
b) Texture
c) Surface reflectance
d) Saturation
Answer: c
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand
22) Which term describes the application of thick paint with a palette knife?
a) Impasto
b) Mass
c) Palette
d) Intensity
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: The Fundamentals of Composition
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
23) Which design principle incorporates the dimensions of rhythm, harmony, and variation?
a) Repetition
b) Pattern
c) Texture
d) Unity
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: The Fundamentals of Composition
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
24) What are the four fundamental principles of art?
a) Unity, harmony, texture, perspective
b) Repetition, line, value, illusion
c) Balance, line, shape, perspective
d) Repetition, unity, balance, focal areas
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: The Fundamentals of Composition
Difficulty Level: Difficult
, Skill Level: Analyze It
25) Linear, atmospheric, and shifting are types of _______.
a) design elements
b) perspective
c) design principles
d) verisimilitude
Answer: b
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
26) Which term refers to the suggestion of three-dimensional forms via the use of “light and shade?”
a) Chiaroscuro
b) Shifting perspective
c) Atmospheric perspective
d) Verisimilitude
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
27) Compared to the others, which form might a visual artist use to convey a sense of action,
movement, and instability in a static object?
a) A square depicted on a level surface
b) A rectangle longer in its horizontal than vertical axis
c) A cube colored pure black
d) A triangle balanced on its apex
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
28) Which technique represents a form of illusionistic painting?
a) Verisimilitude
b) Trompe l’oeil
c) Juxtaposition
d) Perspective
Answer: b
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
29) Giovanni wanted to create a nice shade of violet for the painting they were working on. Which
primary colors should they mix to get that result?
a) Red and green
b) Red and yellow
c) Red and blue
d) Blue and green
, Answer: c
Topic/Concept: The Fundamentals of Composition
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
30) As Thurston stands between the railroad tracks, the rails appear to converge in the distance. This
cue to inferring depth and distance is called __________.
a) interposition
b) saturation
c) texture gradient
d) linear perspective
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Short Answer Questions
1) Provide an example of dry media and wet media. What distinguishes the two media?
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
2) Contrast the qualities of fresco, acrylic, oil, and tempera paints.
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
3) Distinguish the hue, value, and intensity of a color.
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
4) Does abstract art incorporate the principle of verisimilitude? Why or why not? Please explain.
Topic/Concept: The Fundamentals of Composition
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
5) Can variation and balance be used successfully in the same visual artwork? Please explain using an
example you generate yourself.
Topic/Concept: The Fundamentals of Composition
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Evaluate It
6) Describe the use of line to convey two different types of dynamics.
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
, Essay Questions
1) Explain the differences between these printmaking processes: intaglio, relief, and planography.
Include specific artworks for each technique.
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
2) Compare and contrast the use of line in Joan Miró’s Composition and Vincent van Gogh’s The
Starry Night. Describe the physical characteristics utilized in each painting.
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Evaluate It
3) Explain linear perspective, atmospheric perspective, and shifting perspective.
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
4) Describe the arrangement of colors on the color wheel. Explain primary, secondary, and tertiary
colors.
Topic/Concept: The Fundamentals of Composition
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
5) How do artists use focus to control our physical attention and sensory response?
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Analyze It
Provide an example of how juxtaposition might be used in a visual medium to highlight a societal
issue. Be creative in your response and example.
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
edition Sporre
Notes
1- The file is chapter after chapter.
2- We have shown you few pages sample.
3- The file contains all Appendix and Excel sheet
if it exists.
4- We have all what you need, we make update
at every time. There are many new editions
waiting you.
5- If you think you purchased the wrong file You
can contact us at every time, we can replace it
with true one.
Our email:
, Reality Through the Arts
C h a p t e r O n e : Two-Dimensional Art
Multiple-Choice Questions
1) Which medium is considered the foundation of two-dimensional art?
a) Drawing
b) Painting
c) Sculpture
d) Printmaking
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
2) Chalk, charcoal, pastel, and graphite are examples of _______ media.
a) wet
b) soft
c) dry
d) hard
Answer: c
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
3) Pen and ink, and wash and brush are what kind of materials?
a) Dry media
b) Wet media
c) Soft media
d) Hard media
Answer: b
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
4) What accounts for the popularity of oil paints as a medium?
a) They are inexpensive and can be easily purchased.
b) They have a long lifespan.
c) They are fast drying.
d) They offer a wide range of color possibilities and can be reworked.
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Analyze
5) Which painting media traditionally refers to a transparent paint usually applied to paper?
a) Watercolor
, b) Acrylic
c) Tempera
d) Fresco
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
6) Diego Rivera’s mural Sugar Cane is an example of which type of painting medium?
a) Tempera
b) Oil
c) Fresco
d) Mixed media
Answer: c
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
7) Which printing technique includes etching, drypoint, and aquatint?
a) Intaglio
b) Relief
c) Lithography
d) Planography
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
8) Albrecht Dürer’s Lamentation is an example of which type of printmaking technique?
a) Lithography
b) Woodcut
c) Silkscreen
d) Intaglio
Answer: b
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
9) Compared to others, which stencil process is the most common?
a) Monotype
b) Aquatint
c) Silkscreen
d) Etching
Answer: c
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
10) Which artist is considered the principal force behind the recognition of photography as a fine art?
, a) Ansel Adams
b) Man Ray
c) Dorothea Lange
d) Alfred Stieglitz
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Evaluate
11) Dorothea Lange’s Dust Bowl Farm in Texas is an example of which type of photography?
a) Straight
b) Photogram
c) Documentary
d) Camera obscura
Answer: c
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
12) To copy nature accurately, artists of the sixteenth century used which photographic technique?
a) Daguerreotype
b) Camera obscura
c) Photogenesis
d) Calotype
Answer: b
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
13) Which photographic technology has rendered film obsolete?
a) Digital
b) Photogenesis
c) Calotype
d) Wet-plate collodion
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand
14) What is the basic building block of any visual design?
a) Shape
b) Space
c) Color
d) Line
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand
,15) Hung Liu utilized which types of lines in her painting Relic 12?
a) Expressive and straight
b) Contour and dominant
c) Classical and curved
d) Implied and outline
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
16) The wavelength of light is related to our perception of ________.
a) tint
b) shade
c) hue
d) value
Answer: c
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze
17) Adding white to any color results in a ________.
a) shade
b) tint
c) value
d) hue
Answer: b
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand
18) The hues red, yellow, and blue are examples of ________ colors.
a) secondary
b) primary
c) tertiary
d) complementary
Answer: b
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand
19) Which shade results when complementary colors are mixed together in equal proportions?
a) Gray
b) Black
c) White
d) Brown
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply
,20) Which dimension correctly describes the relationship of blacks to whites and gray?
a) Complementary colors
b) Tertiary colors
c) Shading
d) Value
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Understand
21) Which quality of visual arts distinguishes high-gloss, semi-gloss, flat, and luminescent paints?
a) Hue
b) Texture
c) Surface reflectance
d) Saturation
Answer: c
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand
22) Which term describes the application of thick paint with a palette knife?
a) Impasto
b) Mass
c) Palette
d) Intensity
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: The Fundamentals of Composition
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
23) Which design principle incorporates the dimensions of rhythm, harmony, and variation?
a) Repetition
b) Pattern
c) Texture
d) Unity
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: The Fundamentals of Composition
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
24) What are the four fundamental principles of art?
a) Unity, harmony, texture, perspective
b) Repetition, line, value, illusion
c) Balance, line, shape, perspective
d) Repetition, unity, balance, focal areas
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: The Fundamentals of Composition
Difficulty Level: Difficult
, Skill Level: Analyze It
25) Linear, atmospheric, and shifting are types of _______.
a) design elements
b) perspective
c) design principles
d) verisimilitude
Answer: b
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
26) Which term refers to the suggestion of three-dimensional forms via the use of “light and shade?”
a) Chiaroscuro
b) Shifting perspective
c) Atmospheric perspective
d) Verisimilitude
Answer: a
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
27) Compared to the others, which form might a visual artist use to convey a sense of action,
movement, and instability in a static object?
a) A square depicted on a level surface
b) A rectangle longer in its horizontal than vertical axis
c) A cube colored pure black
d) A triangle balanced on its apex
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
28) Which technique represents a form of illusionistic painting?
a) Verisimilitude
b) Trompe l’oeil
c) Juxtaposition
d) Perspective
Answer: b
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
29) Giovanni wanted to create a nice shade of violet for the painting they were working on. Which
primary colors should they mix to get that result?
a) Red and green
b) Red and yellow
c) Red and blue
d) Blue and green
, Answer: c
Topic/Concept: The Fundamentals of Composition
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
30) As Thurston stands between the railroad tracks, the rails appear to converge in the distance. This
cue to inferring depth and distance is called __________.
a) interposition
b) saturation
c) texture gradient
d) linear perspective
Answer: d
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Short Answer Questions
1) Provide an example of dry media and wet media. What distinguishes the two media?
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
2) Contrast the qualities of fresco, acrylic, oil, and tempera paints.
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
3) Distinguish the hue, value, and intensity of a color.
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
4) Does abstract art incorporate the principle of verisimilitude? Why or why not? Please explain.
Topic/Concept: The Fundamentals of Composition
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
5) Can variation and balance be used successfully in the same visual artwork? Please explain using an
example you generate yourself.
Topic/Concept: The Fundamentals of Composition
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Evaluate It
6) Describe the use of line to convey two different types of dynamics.
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
, Essay Questions
1) Explain the differences between these printmaking processes: intaglio, relief, and planography.
Include specific artworks for each technique.
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
2) Compare and contrast the use of line in Joan Miró’s Composition and Vincent van Gogh’s The
Starry Night. Describe the physical characteristics utilized in each painting.
Topic/Concept: Formal and Technical Qualities
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Evaluate It
3) Explain linear perspective, atmospheric perspective, and shifting perspective.
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
4) Describe the arrangement of colors on the color wheel. Explain primary, secondary, and tertiary
colors.
Topic/Concept: The Fundamentals of Composition
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
5) How do artists use focus to control our physical attention and sensory response?
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Analyze It
Provide an example of how juxtaposition might be used in a visual medium to highlight a societal
issue. Be creative in your response and example.
Topic/Concept: Perceptual Experience
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
