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Painting Vocabulary - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 157 times
- The average score is 14 of 30
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| A plain woven cloth of natural fibers usually stretched tightly over a wooden frame before being painted on. | canvas | 70%
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| A three-paneled artwork. | triptych | 70%
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| A stand or resting place for working on or displaying a painting. | easel | 69%
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| A painting in which the subject matter is natural scenery. | landscape | 69%
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| The selection of colors the artist chooses to work with; or, the board on which a painter mixes their colors. | palette | 69%
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| A soft paintbrush often made of sable, nylon, or a mixture of the two. | watercolor brush | 65%
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| An amorphous form of carbon used for drawing and for preliminary sketching on primed canvas for oil painting. | charcoal | 64%
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| Two hues directly opposite each other on a color wheel. | complementary colors | 63%
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| The art of arranging the elements and/or color of an artwork in a manner that pleases the eye. | composition | 62%
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| The area of a painting that seems closest to the viewer. | foreground | 60%
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| Fusing two color planes together so no sharp divisions are apparent. | blending | 58%
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| A rich, reddish-brown pigment, produced from the ink sac of an octopus or cuttlefish, used in watercolor, drawing ink and oil paint. | sepia | 56%
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| A flexible and luminous type of paint in which the pigment is typically held together with a binder of linseed oil. | oil paint | 52%
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| Bold contrast between light and dark, highly developed by Renaissance painters. | chiaroscuro | 51%
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| Any coloring agent (made from natural or artificial substances) used with a binder to make paints. | pigment | 49%
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| A type of paint, characterized by transparency, that uses water-soluble gum as the binder. | watercolor | 46%
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| The medium that holds pigment particles together in paint; for example, linseed oil or acrylic polymer. | binder | 44%
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| A detail, brushstroke, or area of color placed in a painting for emphasis. | accent | 43%
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| A spray used to set charcoal, pencil or pastel images to the paper to protect against smearing, smudging or flaking. | fixative | 43%
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| A two-dimensional presentation that is so naturalistic that it looks three-dimensional. | trompe l’œil | 42%
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| Thick paint applied to a surface in a heavy manner, creating thick, textured layers of paint with obvious brush strokes, and having the appearance and consistency of buttery paste. | impasto | 37%
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| A hue with white added. | tint | 35%
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| Paint made by suspending pigment in a binder. Developed commercially in the 30s and 40s and perfected in the 50s through 70s. | acrylic | 33%
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| A water-based paint that uses egg, egg yolk, glue or casein as a binder. | tempera | 33%
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| A thin, transparent layer of paint. | wash | 33%
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| The rough edges of watercolor and drawing papers. | deckle | 32%
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| The pure state of any color or a pure pigment that has not had white or black added to it. | hue | 23%
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| A watercolor painting technique using white and opaque colors. | gouache | 21%
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| The purity or degree of a color’s saturation; its relative absence of white or gray. | chroma | 19%
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| A hue with gray added. | tone | 17%
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