What are the advantages of using wet drawing media over using dry media?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Liquid media flow more easily onto the surface than media such as chalk or metalpoint, allowing more expressive spontaneity. Compared to using some dry media, such as metalpoint, using wet media can be a quicker process. By diluting the wet media, the artist can create washes to achieve more subtle shading effects.

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This composer's music is characterized by extreme brevity and textures so disjunct that melodic lines sometimes dissolve into a succession of minute splotches of color; his work has been compared to the painting technique called pointillism

A) Gustav Mahler B) Erik Satie C) Dimitri Shostakovich D) Anton Webern

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Much Greek music was ________, or invented and performed simultaneously, and thus never written in musical notation.

A. compromised B. transposed C. composed D. improvised

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A ___________________ , often used with architecture as wall decorations, grows out of a flat, two-dimensional background, and its projection into three-dimensional space is relatively shallow

a. installations b. kinetic sculpture c. relief sculpture d. sculpture in the round e. earth art

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Where is the focal point in the Baroque painting Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de La Tour?

a) in the child's (Jesus') face b) Joseph's left foot c) Joseph's right hand d) the upper left part of the composition

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