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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the time after printing was invented, when words and pictures appeared together, how were they combined?

2. Who said, "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible?"

3. What combination has pictures that illustrate but don't significantly add to a largely complete text?

4. After impressionism, art experienced a shift away from _______ and toward _______.

5. What fruit is used to illustrate the path of creating art?

Short Essay Questions

1. What three aspects of art benefit humans from an evolutionary standpoint?

2. Describe the origin of words.

3. Describe the typical artist who starts with an idea/purpose and then creates art.

4. Describe the typical artist who finds idea/purpose after creating art.

5. In Chapter 7, how does McCloud see, or define, art?

6. How can an artist depict emotion in a comic?

7. What problem results from people believing that comics is a new form of media?

8. How can words and pictures together create a more meaningful message than each individually?

9. What are the disadvantages of color in comics?

10. Describe the difference between the additive primaries and the subtractive primaries.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

McCloud notes that in Eastern art, elements omitted from a work of art are just as important was the work that has been explicitly included. Do you think that missing elements, such as negative space in an image, or silence in a melody, are an important part of art? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

McCloud notes that diagrams are comics, but they do not label themselves as such. How important are labels? Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? How does the context that diagrams are presented in make them different from other comics?

Essay Topic 3

Many symbols are used in comics to convey the invisible, such as emotions and feelings. What is required for the creation of a symbol, such as wavy lines representing smell? What is required for this symbol to be sustained over time?

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