Trivia Quiz on Art Techniques

1. Tempera uses water and what to paint with

A) Milk

B) Egg White

C) Egg Yoke

D) Gum Arabic

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2. What is the more common name for serigraphy

A) Silk screen printing

B) Screen printing

C) Stencil printing

D) Lithography

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3. The art of tracing designs and taking impressions of them is ___________.

A) Engraving

B) Etching

C) Lithography

D) Screen printing

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4. In art, what is impasto

A) Laying paint on thickly

B) Applying a glaze to create depth

C) Mixing colors on the palette

D) Using thin transparent washes

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5. What colour is the artist's pigment celandine?

A) Green

B) Blue

C) Yellow

D) Orange

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6. Water-soluble paint made from pigments and a plastic binder…?

A) Watercolor

B) Gouache

C) Acrylic

D) Tempera

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7. What is the art of tracing designs and making impressions of them called?

A) Engraving

B) Etching

C) Relief printing

D) Lithography

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8. A soft, subdued color; a drawing stick made of ground pigments, chalk, and gum water.

A) Charcoal

B) Crayon

C) Pastel

D) Ink

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9. The rendering of light and shade in painting; the subtle graduations and marked variations of light and shade for dramatic effect.

A) Sfumato

B) Tenebrism

C) Hatching

D) Chiaroscuro

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10. What DoYou Call A Picture That Is Made Of Various Materials Stuck Together

A) A Collage

B) Mosaic

C) Montage

D) Assemblage

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11. Reducing or distorting in order to represent three-dimensional space as perceived by the eye, according to the rules of perspective.

A) Isometric projection

B) Foreshortening

C) Linear perspective

D) Aerial perspective

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12. In sculpture, the building up of form using a soft medium such as clay or wax, as distinguished from carving. In painting and drawing, using color and lighting variations to produce a three-dimensional effect.

A) Modeling

B) Carving

C) Casting

D) Chiaroscuro

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13. A technique of engraving, using a sharp-pointed needle, that produces a furrowed edge resulting in a print with soft, velvety lines.

A) Etching

B) Mezzotint

C) Line engraving

D) Drypoint

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14. A printing process in which ink impressions are taken from a flat stone or metal plate prepared with a greasy substance, such as an oily crayon.

A) Engraving

B) Woodcut

C) Litography

D) Screen printing

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