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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. The combination of printed art and literature has traditionally been thought of as a style for which audience?
2. Which of the following creators is often regarded as a pioneer or revolutionary whose art became the purpose?
3. In the time after the printing press, which art form was obsessed with resemblance, light and color?
4. What combination has pictures that illustrate but don't significantly add to a largely complete text?
5. The mixing of words and pictures is more _______ than _______.
Short Essay Questions
1. What problem results from people believing that comics is a new form of media?
2. Describe the typical artist who finds idea/purpose after creating art.
3. What are the disadvantages of color in comics?
4. In Chapter 7, how does McCloud see, or define, art?
5. What was one result of the color printing used for superheroes?
6. Describe the difference between the additive primaries and the subtractive primaries.
7. How can backgrounds indicate invisible ideas such as emotions?
8. How can words and pictures together create a more meaningful message than each individually?
9. How can a word balloon vary?
10. What three aspects of art benefit humans from an evolutionary standpoint?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Eastern and Western approaches to art differ. In graphic arts, for example, Western art often focuses attention to foreground objects only while Eastern art emphasizes both the foreground and the background of negative space. Argue the merits of shortcomings of each approach.
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
The author notes that comics are not the hybrid of graphics and words. What do you think of this statement? Are comics their own entity? Or do they tend to fall into one category more than the other? Explain your answer
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