Exam 11: Drawing

To transfer the design of The School of Athens to the wall,Raphael ________ a large drawing,then used powdered charcoal dust to leave an impression of the original image.

Erasers can be used by artists as drawing tools.In 1953 Robert Rauschenberg created a work by erasing a drawing by this famous Abstract Expressionist painter.

Robert Rauschenberg made his own artwork by erasing parts of another artist's creation.Do you think that the eraser is a valid artistic medium when used in this way? Which of the two artists do you think deserves more credit for this work? What factors affect your decision?

In which country was paper invented by Cai Lun,who made it out of macerated plant fibers suspended in water?

In the drawing Mutter und Kind,the artist uses only contour lines because it is impossible to create areas of value using black Conté crayon.

This type of drawing aims to identify and react to the main visual and expressive characteristics of a form.

Artists draw for many reasons,including:

When creating his silverpoint drawing Heads of the Virgin and Child,Raphael employed ________,a process in which the artist uses closely arranged parallel lines to create value.

Match the artwork with its drawing medium: -Edgar Degas,The Tub

Leonardo da Vinci's sketched studies of a foetus in the womb,c.1510-13,were commissioned by the Catholic Church.

Both Kollwitz's Self-portrait and Lhermitte's An Elderly Peasant Woman are portraits of elderly women,were created using charcoal,and were completed within fifty years of each other.Yet they are visually very different.In what ways do these works differ from each other? How does this affect how the works are viewed?

Artists,such as Vincent van Gogh,vary the width of a reed pen stroke by ________.

This contemporary version of carbon ink is a favorite of comic book artists.

In her self-portrait,the artist Ilka Gedö used pencil and varied the ________ in order to suggest texture,create emphasis,and to produce darker values.

In Leonardo da Vinci's design for a flying machine he used a ________ as his inspiration.

This drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder.

In the ink brush painting of bamboo by Wu Zhen,the work is created in a way that expresses the central beliefs of balanced opposites from this religion.

The album of ink brush paintings of bamboo by the Chinese artist Wu Zhen was created as an instructional model to help this person learn the art of brushwork.

Artists' chalk is powdered calcium carbonate combined with this binder.

Pastels are limited to black and white because color cannot be added to a pastel binder.