KS3 Arts and Design Painting quiz

15 Questions

Quiz Description

In this arts and design quiz, we are going to be looking at the study of arts and design painting. Here, you will get to know about some basic types of paintings such as the deep blue paint made by crushing the valuable gemstone lapis lazuli and many others. This is a “must try” quiz for anyone interested in arts. 

Art is an expression or application of human creative skills and imagination in the form of a painting or sculpture. Arts could be divided into several types such as visual arts (paintings, drawings, architecture, etc), literary arts (fiction, poetry, prose, and drama), performing arts (music, dance, and theatre), and culinary arts (cooking, chocolate making, etc). Talking about the design, it is the imagining and planning of the creation of systems, objects, etc.

A painting could be defined as the practice that involves the application of paint, pigment, color, or other media to a solid surface. 

Arts and design are seen in our everyday life, implying that their study is relevant. To get some insights about arts and design painting, answer this quiz and determine your knowledge on this topic. 

1:

During the Renaissance, a particular type of painting was popular. It involved painting directly onto plaster which was wet. What was this called?


Correct
  • 1:
    Freezer painting
  • 2:
    Fresco painting
  • 3:
    Fashion painting
  • 4:
    Fisher painting
2:

What can be found at the Grotte Chauvet in France?


Correct
  • 1:
    Some of the oldest paintings known to man
  • 2:
    The first man-made paintbrush
  • 3:
    The best example of a portrait
  • 4:
    The first use of the colour blue
3:

Which oil was originally mixed with pigment to create oil paint?


Correct
  • 1:
    Olive Oil
  • 2:
    Vegetable Oil
  • 3:
    Linseed Oil
  • 4:
    Baby Oil
4:

A deep blue paint was made by crushing the valuable gemstone lapis lazuli. As it was so expensive, it was usually only used for what?


Correct
  • 1:
    Large expanses of sky
  • 2:
    Seascapes
  • 3:
    Painting the eyes of rich ladies
  • 4:
    The robes of the Virgin Mary
5:

Although Acrylic paints are water-based, what happens to them when they dry?


Correct
  • 1:
    They become waterproof
  • 2:
    Their colour fades
  • 3:
    They change colour dramatically
  • 4:
    They develop a rippled texture
6:

Which colour is the odd one out?


Correct
  • 1:
    Prussian
  • 2:
    Ultramarine
  • 3:
    Magenta
  • 4:
    Cobalt
7:

Painting has a lot to do with colour. What do we call the selection of colours an artist chooses to use?


Correct
  • 1:
    His colour box
  • 2:
    His colour wheel
  • 3:
    His colour palette
  • 4:
    His colour brush
8:

Which are the two usual ways for a canvas orientation to be described?


Correct
  • 1:
    Seascape and photograph
  • 2:
    Skyscraper and underground
  • 3:
    Sideways and longways
  • 4:
    Landscape and portrait
9:

Tempera paint is a pigment commonly mixed with which unusual binding agent?


Correct
  • 1:
    Egg yolk
  • 2:
    Whipped cream
  • 3:
    Animal blood
  • 4:
    Mayonnaise
10:

In which one of the following year, Acrylics paint was invented?


Correct
  • 1:
    1928
  • 2:
    1930
  • 3:
    1934
  • 4:
    1943
11:

Acrylic resin, which was quickly transformed into acrylic paint was discovered by


Correct
  • 1:
    Sir Otto Rohm
  • 2:
    Sir Yi Xing
  • 3:
    Sir Alexander Graham Bell
  • 4:
    Sir Neil Harphan
12:

Process of Insulin was invented by


Correct
  • 1:
    Sir James Collip
  • 2:
    Sir Frederick Banting
  • 3:
    Dr Abraham Gesner
  • 4:
    both A and B
13:

when you mic a little of the complementary color into a color, the new color is 


Correct
  • 1:
    Less bright, more like a color in nature
  • 2:
    Analogous
  • 3:
    Brighter
  • 4:
    Lighter
14:

What is the term for a color that has black added to it?


Correct
  • 1:
    Tint
  • 2:
    Neutral color
  • 3:
    Shade
  • 4:
    Complementary color
15:

Which color is complementary to Yellow?


Correct
  • 1:
    Orange
  • 2:
    Violet
  • 3:
    Red
  • 4:
    Blue

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