Deck 6: Printmaking

Question 1

Mary Cassatt was influenced by _________ prints in her work The Letter.

A)German
B)American
C)Japanese
D)Egyptian
E)Chinese

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Burins are______.

A)what rolls the ink onto the surface of the plate
B)instruments for cutting into metal
C)used to transfer the ink from the plate onto the paper to create a print
D)the metal plates used in intaglio
E)acid resistant coatings

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Intaglio printmaking _________.

A)is the opposite of relief printmaking
B)consists of etching, engraving, and aquatint
C)uses metal plates
D)needs to be run through a printing press to transfer the image
E)all of these are correct

Answer 3

E

Question 4

In Japanese printmaking, the characters at the sides of a print _______.

A)introduce the title of the work
B)are marks of the people who worked on the print
C)signify a poem that correlates to the subject matter
D)identify the figures within the composition
E)all of these are correct

Question 5

Wood engraving is different than wood cut in that wood engraving_________.

A)is an intaglio process
B)is the opposite of a relief print
C)uses resin to cut out the unwanted material
D)uses the hard endgrain of the wood block
E)uses a waxy ground and a metal stylus to scratch the surface of the block

Question 6

A single test print made by the artist to see what the image will look like when printed is called a ___.

A)proof
B)etching
C)monotype
D)limited edition
E)lithograph

Question 7

The first and simplest printmaking form is _____.

A)the woodcut
B)intaglio
C)engraving
D)monotype
E)screen print

Question 8

The nineteenth century artist that helped to elevate color lithography to a fine art status was _______.

A)William Hogarth
B)Bonnie Maclean
C)Barbara Kruger
D)Mary Cassatt
E)Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Question 9

Lithography was first invented _________.

A)for lush landscape drawings
B)to distribute political cartoons
C)to make newspapers widely available to the public
D)to reproduce sheets of music cheaply
E)for advertising purposes

Question 10

The two printmaking processes that use acid to remove lines in metal plates are _______.

A)wood engraving and linocut
B)engraving and etching
C)etching and aquatint
D)aquatint and lithography
E)screen printing and monotype

Question 11

The traditional material used as a printing plate in lithography is _____________.

A)Indiana limestone
B)Bavarian limestone
C)Italian marble
D)plastic
E)copper

Question 12

The number of prints that an artist limits in one printing in called a(n) _______.

A)illuminated manuscript
B)monotype
C)end plate
D)edition
E)theses

Question 13

The dark field method is __________.

A)the use of dark metal plates
B)based upon the color field painters of the mid-twentieth century
C)the ground that covers a metal plate in an etching before being placed in an acid bath
D)when ink covers the entire plate before being removed to create the desired image in monotype
E)the glue that forms a stencil in silkscreen

Question 14

Registration in printmaking means _________.

A)the artist needs to be licensed
B)the print is entered into a contest
C)the block is sanded down before printing
D)one block is used and cut down to size for each color used
E)separate blocks are used to print each color and are aligned when printing

Question 15

What is the earliest form of intaglio printmaking?

A)silkscreen
B)etching
C)woodcut
D)lithography
E)engraving

Question 16

In a relief print, what prints is the area that was ________.

A)left uncut
B)incised
C)drawn with a crayon
D)stenciled over
E)etched away

Question 17

In contemporary art, to "appropriate" means that an image _________.

A)is not a controversial one
B)is meaningful to the situation
C)has been borrowed from another source
D)is drawn with a greasy crayon
E)has been abstracted and simplified

Question 18

What social issue of the time was Barbara Kruger commenting on with her work Untitled (We don't need another hero)?

A)mass consumerism
B)printmaking as a fine art
C)military involvement abroad
D)macho tendencies in men
E)technological progress

Question 19

What is one technique that Gustave Doré used to recreate the atmosphere from the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in his illustrations for it?

A)very small short stabs
B)long, thick vertical incisions
C)adding color to the wood block
D)using multiple blocks for one print
E)stenciling designs onto the block

Question 20

Paper was first invented in ________.

A)China
B)Germany
C)Africa
D)Japan
E)Italy

Question 21

Compare and contrast the three intaglio printmaking processes as described in the text, incorporating an example of each into your discussion.

Question 22

What effect did the invention of the printing press have upon education?

Question 23

Describe how Gustave Doré created his illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Marnier.

Question 24

The processes of printmaking produce a variety of effects, which is then explored by the artist using those processes.Which printmaking process did you find most intriguing or appealing? Why did you select that particular process?

Question 25

Why is Bavarian limestone rarely used today in lithography?

Question 26

Why is printmaking considered a democratic medium?

Question 27

List three examples of what makes a relief print.

Question 28

What is the silkscreen process based upon?

Question 29

How did Albrecht Dürer elevate printmaking to a fine art status?

Question 30

Discuss the differences between a poster and a fine-art print.