Art Vocabulary Quiz
Mrs. Coughlin
Directions: Match the word with it’s proper definition by writing the word in the correct
blank.
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Acrylic
Airbrush
Brushes
Collage
Drawing
Easel
Fresco
Impressionism
Oil
Palette
Paper
Pencil
Pigment
Prehistoric
Scroll
Sizing
Sentences:
1. An artwork is called a _____________ when an artist chooses to
use several different types of materials together in order to make a
work of art. Materials used by an artist range from subway tickets
to silverware!
2. A _____________ is made of graphite and used for sketching and
drawing.
3. ______________ is made from rags, plants, wood or other fibrous
materials. The first forms of ____________s were manufactured
by the Chinese around 100 A.D.
4. When _______ is put into paint it allows the paint to dry slower so
an artist may work on a painting slowly over a longer period of
time.
5. A _________ is a technique that is very old where walls of palaces
and churches in Europe were painted over a plaster coating on the
walls so that the artwork may last forever.
6. ___________ is a material used to coat a surface in order to
prepare it for painting by making it smooth.
7. This style of painting focused on showing how natural light
changes how something looks. Claude Monet was an artist who
popularized this technique.
8. ____________s are colored powders extracted from plants,
animals, or minerals. To form paint __________ is mixed with a
liquid – water, oil, wax, or egg – which acts as a binder.
9. ____________s are used to apply paint to a surface.
10. A ____________ is used in painting to mix the paints. They are
usually made from wood, plastic or glass.
11. In many parts of the world – Egypt, China, Mexico, Ethiopia, and
others - people have created papyrus, parchment, silk, paper, or
other materials. What are these called? __________________
12. An ____________ is used to hold a canvas so an artist may paint
outdoors.
13. A compressed-air gun, the ____________ sprays paint in a fine
mist. A trigger controls the varying intensity of the stream of paint
released.
14. __________ is a synthetic paint that comes from science and
chemistry. It dries quickly, its colors are brilliant, and it will not
crack over time the way oil paint does.
15. ___________ artists drew on cave walls with mud, clay and plants.
They were credited with the first ever forms of drawings.
16. ____________s are images by artists who transfer an object by
means of tools such as: pens and pencils. A __________ can be the
first stage of a painting or a monument (an architect’s drawing), a
sculpture, a piece of furniture, or an automobile (an industrial
_______).