M6-Practice Test

Module 6 - Two Dimensional Media

PRACTICE TEST

Directions: Use the content from the course, web searches, and your journal writings to test you knowledge on the following questions. Write as much information as you can. Check your answers with the next page of information.

1. True or false: Drawing only uses dry media.
2. Drawing was traditionally used for what purpose?
3. What is the physical difference between vine and compressed charcoal? How do they differ in their effects?
4. Why would drawing be important to a sculptor?
5. What would you include in the list of drawing media that contains color?
6. What does painting offer that drawing can’t?
7. Define the three basic components found in paint. What does each one do?
8. List and describe the components and the specific characteristics of the following paints: • Encaustic• Tempera• Oil• Fresco• Acrylic• Transparent watercolor• Gouache
9. What is impasto? What is a glaze?
10. What is a ground, and how is it traditionally prepared for painting?
11. What are the three basic processes in printmaking? How do they differ from each other?
12. True or false: Woodcut prints afford lots of detail.
    A) True
    B) False
13. What one characteristic is shared by all forms of printmaking? Hint: a mechanical function.
14.  
    Which form of printmaking offers the most detail? Why?
15. Define “collage”.
16. Explain how collage had a significant role in the development of modern art.
17. Transparent watercolor relies on what for its color resonance?