Chapter 5: Drawing

Test Bank

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A drawing implement that came into use in the 1500s and largely replaced silverpoint was
A. silverpoint B. pencil* C. charcoal D. chalk E. pastel F. wax crayon

2. With this drawing implement, the artist draws by dragging a silver-tipped implement over a surface that coated with a ground of bone dust or chalk mixed with gum, water, and pigment.
A. silverpoint* B. pencil C. charcoal D. chalk E. pastel F. wax crayon

3. This drawing device is composed of a thin rod of graphite encased within wood or paper.
A. silverpoint B. pencil* C. charcoal D. chalk E. pastel F. wax crayon

4. With this drawing implement, lines are barely visible when first made, but become darker as the drawing ages.
A. silverpoint* B. pencil C. charcoal D. chalk E. pastel F. wax crayon

5. This drawing material moves easily over a support to form lines that have sheen.
A. silverpoint B. pencil C. charcoal D. chalk E. pastel F. wax crayon*

6. The relative hardness or softness of this tool depends on the quantity of clay mixed with the pigment material.
A. silverpoint B. pencil* C. charcoal D. chalk E. pastel F. wax crayon

7. This drawing material is formed by the controlled charring of special hard woods.
A. silverpoint B. pencil C. charcoal* D. chalk E. pastel F. wax crayon

8. Ground chalk mixed with powdered pigments and a binder creates this drawing material.
A. silverpoint B. pencil C. charcoal D. chalk E. pastel* F. crayon

9. Conté is one of the most popular forms of this material.
A. silverpoint B. pencil C. charcoal D. chalk E. pastel F. crayon*

10. This medium is capable of combining the gestural vitality of the pen line with a watery quality.
A. silverpoint and wash B. pastel and wash C. pen and wash*

11. Today the word "cartoon" usually means a humorous or satirical picture; originally the word referred to
A. full-scale preliminary drawings for larger scale works such as fresco paintings* B. small sketches kept in a diary for later reference C. songs about automobiles

12. While this medium can duplicate the linearity of brush and ink drawings, it can also be used to create images solely through tonal contrasts.
A. brush and wash* B. pen and ink C. pen and wash

13. The masters of brush and ink are artists of
A. the United States B. Japan* C. India

14. The oldest known type of ink is India or China ink. It is a solution of
A. carbon black and water* B. dyes of squid and octopus C. dyes from galls of oak trees

15. A kind of pen that became popular during the Middle Ages was
A. a hollow reed B. a metal nib in a stylus C. a quill*

16. Which of the following best describes an ink wash?
A. a way to dye cloth B. diluted ink that is usually applied with a brush* C. a pen and ink drawing dipped in water

17. This drawing tool comes in a wide variety of materials, textures, and shapes and affords many effects.
A. silverpoint B. brush* C. quill

18. In addition to the characteristics of the drawing implement, the characteristics of the ____________ influence the character of the completed drawing.
A. support* B. light falling on the drawing C. time of day

19. Artists capitalize on the idiosyncratic characteristics of the ____________ and support to capture a desired expression in drawing.
A. studio B. buying public C. implement*

20. In most cases, drawing is the most direct way of bringing what is in the artist's ____________ to the artist's surface.
A. mind* B. toolbox C. assignment

Completion/Fill-in-the-Blank Questions

21. In its broadest definition, drawing is the result of an implement running over a surface and leaving some trace of the ____________.
{{gesture}}

22. The surface on which a drawing is done is often called a _______________________
{{support}}

23. The quality of line or shading in a drawing is affected not only by the drawing implement but also by the texture of the ______________________
{{support}}

24. The nineteenth-century Head of a Man by Alphonse Legros illustrates the way in which the artist must use techniques of cross-____________ and clusters of small lines to model form with the silverpoint medium.
{{hatching}}

25. Drawing materials can be divided into two major groups: dry media and _______________ media
{{fluid}}

26. Chirico's Condottiero has a precision communicated through the fine lines of a hard ____________.
{{pencil}}

27. A silverpoint "mark" is made by small flecks of ____________ left on the surface of the support
{{silver}}

28. Claudio Bravo's Package bears almost no indication of the "dusty" quality of the media—primarily ____________ and pastel.
{{charcoal}}

29. ____________ allows for little or no correction.
{{Silverpoint}}

30. Pencil is capable of producing a _______________ range of effects.
{{wide}}

31. Chalk and pastel consist of pigment and a ____________ such as gum arabic, shaped into workable sticks.
{{binder}}

32. Chalks are available in a number of colors, some of which occur in ____________.
{{nature}}

33. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's The Environment: Be a Shepherd is an effective ____________ of drawing media.
{{combination}}

34. The effects of ____________ on paper are similar to those of chalk and pastel, although its harder texture makes possible a greater clarity.
{{conté crayon}}

35. The primary fluid medium used in drawing is ink, and the instruments used to carry the medium are pen and _____________.
{{brush}}

36. Wash drawing provides a ____________ emphasis absent in pen-and-ink drawings.
{{tonal}}

37. Pens have been used since ____________ times.
{{ancient}}

38. ____________ and ink are used to create drawings that are essentially linear, although the nature of the line can vary considerably according to the type of instrument used.
{{Pen}}

39. Camille Pisarro said, "It is only by much drawing, drawing everything, drawing unceasingly that one fine day one is very surprised to find it possible to ____________ something in its true spirit."
{{express}}

40. Drawings show surprising versatility in terms of their intended purposes, their media, and their ____________ of execution.
{{techniques}}

Discussion Questions

41. Describe how Käthe Kollwitz's Self-Portrait reveals the range of character available in charcoal.

42. Why does Claude Lorrain's Tiber above Rome have such a "watery" quality about it?

43. Why did Adrian Piper choose pencil rather than another medium to analyze and record her visage in Self-Portrait Exaggerating my Negroid Features?

44. Describe how Degas's Woman at Her Toilette shows how pastels can be manipulated in countless ways to create a host of different effects.

45. In reference to Leonardo's Study of Drapery and Claude's Tiber above Rome, explain, "Claude used brush and wash to define space; Leonardo used it to reveal form."

46. Relate your early experiences of drawing with the way Understanding Art suggests that drawing became a human activity.

47. Explain how Beverly Buchanan used oil pastel strokes as "building blocks" of the shack image in Henriette's Yard.

48. It has been said that drawing is the way artists think. Explain what this means.

49. Explain why an artist might choose to carry a drawing pad rather than a camera to record things seen.

50. Even drawings that were intended by the artist as preliminary studies can be appreciated as works of art unto themselves. Look through the drawings in this chapter. Forgetting monetary value, if you could possess one of them, which would it be and why?