Visual Arts Final Exam
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A planographic form of printing where limestone is written on with a special greasy crayon and
combined with water?
Give an example of a Relief print?
3. What artist made silkscreen famous?
4. A process of printing in which the image to be printed is cut or etched into a surface?
5. What artist was known for woodcuts and engraving?
6. A surface onto or into which the image is carved?
7. A method of printmaking in which the image to be printed is raised from a backgrouind?
8. Name the four characteristics of good composition?
9. Name the two types of drawing?
10. The act of organizing the elements of an artwork into a harmoniously unified whole?
11. A tightly stretched cloth surface on which to paint?
12. The process of creating functional and nonfunctional art forms made of clay?
13. Name the three types of printmaking?
14. Pigments pressed into sticks and used as a dry medium on paper?
15. Any visual expression (original art, functional graphics, scientific illustrations) created with a
computer?
16. Artwork made by pasting pieces of paper or other materials to a flat surface?
17. The process of transferring an inked image from a prepared surface to another?
18. A roller with a handle?
19. A process of printmaking where the image is put on the plate and then transferred to a cloth of
paper by pressing or by hand-rubbing?
20. A drawing or painting stylizing or simplifying a real image, picture-writing, thus the basis of
hieroglyphics and ideographs?
21. A rectangular engaged column, sometimes decorative, but at other times used to buttress a
wall?
22. A round building or interior hall, topped by a dome?
23. A warm dark-brown color?
24. An Islamic temple or place of worship?
25. The color of an object seen in white or natural light and free from reflected colors and
shadow?
26. Any reclining female figure used as the subject from a painting or sculpture, from the French
for “harem slave”?
27. Any of several printmaking techniques where the image printed is unique and not able to be
reproduced?
28. Describing an artwork based on an identifiable subject but with few or no details, and whose
visual elements are simplified or rearranged?
29. A flowing intricate pattern of stylized organic motifs arranged in symmetrical designs?
30. A 20th century style in which feelings and emotions are emphasized where accident and chance
are stressed rather than accurate representation of subject matter?
31. A person who designs and directs construction of buildings and environmental areas?
32. A semicircular masonry ceiling?
33. The results of the reflection or absorption of light by a surface?
34. The element of art that is an enclosed space determined by other art elements such as line,
color, value and texture?
35. Name the 2 types of shape?
36. Name the two types of texture?
37. Concepts for organizing elements of art into successful art forms?
38. Name the three types of rhythm?
39. The principle of design that is concerned with dominance?
40. The principle of design that combines elements to produce the look of action or to cause the
viewer’s eye to sweep over the work in a certain manner?
41. The principle of design that deals with the relationship in size of one component of a work of
art to another?
42. The particular arrangement of a painting or drawing surface that determines the way you turn
your paper?
43. Why would an artist overlap objects in his/her drawing in order to show good composition?