The Artist'S Mother Is A Work By Which Artist

Question: When did artists in the Western world first have ready access to paper?

Answer: In Italy in the early Renaissance

Question: The word paper is derived from

Answer: Egyptian papyrus

Question: By the end of the fifteenth century, artists and collectors such as Vasari had come to recognize that drawings could

Answer: Embody the artist's creative genius

Question: Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing, Madonna and Child with St. Anne and Infant St. John the Baptist, as a preparatory guide for a fresco or painting of the same title. This type of drawing is called

Answer: A Cartoon

Question: Dry drawing media consists of coloring agents, which are mixed with what to hold them together?

Answer: Binders

Question: A popular drawing medium during the Renaissance consisted of a stylus of gold, silver, or other metal that was dragged across a prepared ground of lead white, bone, and water. This process was called

Answer: Metalpoint

Question: Who drew Banana Flower?

Answer: Georgia O'Keeffe

Question: In Käthe Kollwitz's Self-Portrait, Drawing, the artist has revealed the expressive capabilities of which medium?

Answer: Charcoal

Question: Which of the following is a form of soft carbon discovered in England in 1564?

Answer: Graphite

Question: The Artist's Mother is a work by which artist?

Answer: Georges Seurat

Question: Viia Celmin's Untitled (Ocean) is an example of

Answer: A photorealist graphite drawing

Question: Name the artist who is thought to have been the most proficient and inventive pastel artist

Answer: Edgar Degas

Question: The chief advantage of oilstick over pastels is that they

Answer: offer more gestural freedom

Question: When ink is diluted with water and applied in broad flat areas, the result is called a

Answer: wash

Question: What is the narrative related by Marjane Satrapi in the graphic novel Persepolis?

Answer: It is the author's story of growing up in Iran and the difficulties she faced as Western and Eastern cultures collided