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Chapter 9 – Drawing
Multiple Choice Questions
1. (Slide: Raphael’s Saint Paul Rending his Garments) (fig. 224; p. 176)
Raphael’s Saint Paul Rending his Garments illustrates the skill and patience required of
which dry medium?
a) conte crayon
b) pastel
c) pencil
d) metalpoint
2. Famous for paintings of flowers, the artist of Banana Flower is:
a) Edgar Degas.
b) Georgia O’Keeffe.
c) Piet Mondrian.
d) Henri Matisse.
3. In Käthe Kollwitz’s Self-Portrait, Drawing, the artist has revealed the expressive
capabilities of _______ as a medium.
a) fresco
b) pen and ink
c) charcoal
d) the computer
4. Café Concert is a work by the artist:
a) Georgia O’Keeffe.
b) Georges Seurat.
c) Jennifer Bartlett.
d) Walter De Maria.
5. According to Sayre, Jean Dubuffet’s Corps de Dame can be read as:
a) an attack on academic figure drawing.
b) an appreciation of the female nude.
c) a depiction of a femme fatale.
d) None of the above.
6. Which of these best describes the Australian Mimis and kangaroo rock art?
a) they were done by Paleolithic hunter-gatherers, probably to amuse and entertain
themselves and each other
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b) they are layered images, done many years apart, with the kangaroos on the top
layer executed in the X-ray style.
c) they are images of ancestral spirits that were drawn over 9000 years ago and
kangaroos that were probably done within the last couple of hundred years
d) b & c
7. Whitfield Lovell’s Whispers from the Walls is an example of ___________.
a) traditional painting
b) traditional sculpture
c) printmaking
d) installation art
8. What is the narrative related by Marjane Satrapi in the graphic novel Persepolis?
a) it recounts the story of the rise of the Persian empire under Darius
b) it tells of the fall of the Persians to the Athenians and Spartans in the 5th century
BCE
c) it is the author’s story of growing up in Iran and the difficulties she faced as
Western and Eastern cultures collided
d) it is the story of a girl who turns into a super-hero after being attacked by bats
9. Where did Marjane Satrapi draw the title of her graphic novel Persepolis?
a) from the present-day capital of Iran
b) from the ceremonial capital of ancient Persia under Cyrus and Darius
c) from the comic book name for New York City
d) from her imagination
10. How did David Hammons “draw” his piece, Out of Bounds?
a) with charcoal
b) by bouncing a dirty basketball on the paper
c) with a pencil
d) with human ashes
11. What was David Hammons trying to communicate with his sculptures Higher Goals?
a) that basketball would be really difficult if we were much shorter
b) that basketball offers most inner-city African-American kids a legitimate future
c) they are “anti–basketball” sculptures, meant to remind us that the sport only
rewards, financially, a very few elite players and that education should take priority
over basketball for most kids
12. Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing, Madonna and Child with St. Anne and Infant St.
John the Baptist, for a fresco of the same title (p. 172). This type of drawing is called:
a) a wash.
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b) a cartoon.
c) dry media.
d) an edition.
13. Vija Celmin’s drawing of the ocean (p. 179) is an example of a highly developed
photorealist _______ drawing on paper.
a) conte crayon
b) pastel
c) ink
d) pencil
14. By the end of the 15th century, artists and collectors such as Vasari had come to
recognize that drawings could:
a) be made just as quickly as prints.
b) replace fresco painting.
c) sell for as much as paintings.
d) embody the artist’s creative genius.
15. Dry drawing media consists of coloring agents, which are mixed with _______ that
hold them together (p. 176).
a) binders
b) pigments
c) grouts
d) media
16. 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 (p. 176). This process was called:
a) conte crayon.
b) terazzii.
c) graphite drawing.
d) metalpoint.
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17. The artist who felt that a cut line made with scissors could acquire more feeling than a
pencil or charcoal was:
a) Vincent van Gogh.
b) Henri Matisse.
c) Paul Cézanne.
d) Paul Gauguin.
18. When ink is diluted with water and applied in broad flat areas, the result is called a:
a) sketch.
b) cartoon.
c) wash.
d) sinopie.
19. _______ is a form of soft carbon discovered in England in 1564 (p. 178); it became
the medium in one of the most common drawing tools—the pencil.
a) Metalpoint
b) Charcoal
c) Conte
d) Graphite
20. Beverly Buchanan’s drawings and sculptures (pp. 184-185) were inspired by:
a) the desert of the Southwest.
b) hand-built shacks of the rural South.
c) the New York skyline.
d) ocean waves.
21. The longest continuously practiced (from 40,000 years ago to present) artistic
tradition in the world comes from _____________.
a) Australian Aborigines
b) African Yoruban-speaking peoples
c) Mesoamerica
d) Ancient Egypt
22. When did artists in the Western world first have ready access to paper?
a) in the time of Caesar Augustus in Rome
b) in Italy in the early Renaissance
c) 5000 years ago in Egypt
d) 200 years ago in Philadelphia
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23. The word paper is derived from ____________.
a) Egyptian papyrus
b) Spanish papel
c) German papier
d) Greek xapti
24. What was early paper in the West made of?
a) hemp
b) cotton
c) papyrus
d) cloth rags
25. What is the chief advantage of oilstick over pastels?
a) they are water soluble
b) oilsticks allow the artist more gestural freedom and a sense of direct engagement
c) they are non-toxic
d) they are easier to erase
26. Installation art is different from traditional media like painting and sculpture in
that______.
a) it activates all the senses and allows an artist to manipulate whole spaces
b) it always includes the use of found objects
c) it is much more technologically advanced
d) a & b
27. Which of these statements about drawing is NOT true?
a) It was historically used as a preliminary study for paintings or sculptures.
b) It is now, and always has been, exclusively, a means of pure representation.
c) In the late 15th/early 16th century, drawings began to be preserved by artists and
collected by connoisseurs.
d) Because of its directness and accessibility, drawing is a quick means of expression.
28. The earliest paper, made from the papyrus plant, was developed when and where?
a) 5000 years ago in China
b) 5000 years ago in Egypt
c) 25,000 years ago in Egypt
d) 500 years ago in Italy
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29. Which artist in this chapter is thought to have been the most proficient and inventive
pastel artist?
30. Drawing materials are divided into what two categories? Name one medium from
31. What are the advantages of wet drawing media over dry media?
32. What do artists apply to charcoal drawings to keep them from smudging?
33. Which artist created a drawing by completely erasing another artist’s work?
Essay Questions
34. Discuss the Chinese tradition of drawing with a brush.
35. Discuss the significance of drawing as an art medium during the Renaissance.
36. Identify the purposes of drawing throughout history.
37. Explain how Henri Matisse and William Kentridge extended the boundaries of
traditional drawing media.