GACE Test for Art Education Review

Slip

Clay suspended in water.

Pushing and pinching with ones fingers

Digging parallel channels with a comb

Using a slip to press on scored pieces of moist clay.

Appropriate ways to produce a textured surface on a moist clay project that is going to be fired.

The wrap

In textile manufacture, is a term for the threads of a loom that supports the weave and thus serve as the framework for woven cloth.

Indigo

A natural colorant traditionally used to dye cotton fibers in deep blue.

Cloisonné

In jewelery, the process in which fine metal wire is used to organize colors that are fused into hard enamel-like surface.

Welded seems

A directly fabricated metal sculpture can be distinguished from a cast metal sculpture because the fabricated sculpture has...

Making paper

Electric mixers, window screens, lint from clothes dryer, deckless, and couch sheets are typically used for

Thikness

The guage of a wire refers to the wire's...

Extruder

Piece of equipment that can be used in a ceramics studio to create desired forms.

Lost wax

A technique of casting metal in a plaster mold.

True porcelain

Requires the highest firing temperature.

Paper mache

Is a medium that involves gluing multiple layers of paper onto an armature.

Exact shapes of letters

A designer who carefully selects a particular typeface to use in a design is likely to be most concerned with

Bitmaps

In digital imaging, series of pixels that can be used to compose images.

Polarizing

Foreshortening

Is the representation of any object on a two-dimensional surface in such a way that the object appears to advance or recede.

Juxtaposition

Refers to the use of unrelated images, materials, etcetera.

Shapes will appear flat

When bold, heavy outlines around shapes are maintained in a composition.

Western Art

A traditional way to enhance a viewer's perception of space and distance in a landscape image is to make background colors cooler and lighter in value.

Sense of equilibrium

Artist's use of balance

Reading the product's labels and proceeding according to directions

Is the most reasonable action to take for an artist whose work requires to use a specific hazardous product.

Gesture drawing

Generally characterized by an emphasis on movement.

Hard-edge paintings

an even, solid application

Impasto

Refers to the process of using thick applications of paint.

Proof print

Is used in printmaking to check whether the image for a print needs more work.

JPEG format (.jpg)

Compresses file size by selectively discarding data.

White balance

Keep colors accurate under a variety of light conditions.

Greenware

Refers to pottery that has not been bisque fired.

Kouroi

Refers to Archaic Greek statues whose poses- rigidly frontal with clenched fists- recall the stance of Ancient Egyptian statues.

Georges Seurat's paintings

Are more notable for containing static figures and a sense of optical surface movement.

"Genre painting"

is an art historical term that specifically refers to painted depictions of everyday life that shows ordinary people doing ordinary things.

The layout and design of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China

are intended mainly as a symbolic expression of the connection between imperial and cosmic orders.

Typical decorative motif of Islamic architectural mosaics

Art that focuses on the painting of every subjects and individuals

Cindy Sherman

Best known for her work in photography.

Bill Viola

contemporary installation artist who uses image projection and video.

Conceptual artists

abandoned the intention of making traditional, saleable art objects.

Humanism

The Renaissance concept that the artist should be a scholar as well as a craftsman

After scientifically studying the sky Leonardo Da Vinci Systematically developed

Aerial perspective

The Arts and Crafts movement

Grew in England out of the concern that machine-made objects were replacing handmade objects.

Institusionalism

The aesthetic philosophy that claims that the value of work of art is determined by museums and galleries

Stylization

Refers to an artist's application of an exterior order or design to visual image

Eugène Delacroix

focused on exotic places, political freedom, and violent struggle.

Tense and watchful

Is the best way to characterize Michelangelo's sculpture.

" I want to work with the land and not dominate it. I had an impulse to cut open the earth...an initial violence that time would heal. The grass would grow back, but the cut would remain.

Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Repetition

is the visual key that ties Eva Hesses' installation piece together, unifies it, and controls the viewers' eye

Overlapping shapes

In a nonrepresentational work of art, is most likely to contribute to a sense of spatial depth.

Asymetrical balance

The way the elements of David Smith's sculpture is organized.

Volume

Can be best depicted using a line drawing of a cube without shading.

Issamu Noguchi

used balance to contribute most to the sense of tension embodied in "Red Cube".

Using similar texture throughout the work is most likely to contribute to

unity in a piece of artwork

Dark, dull blue

would make orange appear brighter and lighter when surrounding it.

The Red Model by Renè Magritte

Disimilar elements are juxtaposed to create unsetting contrast.

The focal point in Lilly Martin Spencer's "Benjamin Rush Spencer" (portrait drawing) is created primarily through the use of

Value

Foreshorten perspective

"Lamentation Over the Dead Chris"t by Andrea Mantenga

Tactile quality of a surface

Refers to its actual texture

Chiaroscuro

The technique that artists use to depict forms through gradations of pronounced light and dark value

Piet Mondrian's " The Red Tree"

Dynamic balance around a vertical axis

Shapes and colors are repeated to create a visual rythym

Jacob Lawrence's "The Barber Shop"

An uneven treatment of the surface texture is closely tied to the sculpture's expressive quality

Portarit of a head by Auguste Rodin

Tertiary color

the result of the mix between a primary color with a secondary color next to it on the color wheel.

The principle of appropriation

Refers to reusing found imagery

The composition is balanced with near symmetry around a focus on the game board

Most accurately characterizes the composition on the vessel

Varying the size and color of each rectangle

would be likely to provide the most visual interest when employed in the design of a composition that consists entirely of rectangles.

The use of flat color and dark outlines

Limit the depth of space in a two-dimensional artwork

Diagonal placement

contributes to the dynamic nature of the shapes in Kazimir Malevich's "Dynamic Suprematism"

Abstraction

refers to an art-making approach that an artist can use to transform subject matter by reducing the composition to basic lines, shapes, and colors

In her painting "Judith & Holofernes", Shown, Artemisa Gentieschi drew attention to the painting's focal point, the beheading of Holofernes, primarily through

the use of lines created by the figures' limbs

Three-point perspective

In a two-dimensional work of art, a bird's eye or worm's eye view of an object can best be achived by using

The rule of thirds

is a technique used to improve asymetrical balance in a photographic composition.

Hierachy of scale

is used in Benin sculpture

Size and color

is most used to create an illusion of deep space in a figure-ground relationship

A grid

For millennia, artists working in two-dimensions have transfered small compositions to larger surfaces through the use of it.

In addition to the shape created by the internal red lines on the illuminated manuscript page, the distinction between figure and ground is created through...

shifts in color relationship

Mary Cassat and Edgar Degas

compose work so that the subject appears cropped due to exposure to photography

Artist must transform the three-dimensional forms into two-dimensional shape relationships

when composing a realistic drawing of three-dimensional forms on a flat surface such as paper.

The composition includes strong diagonals and pyramidal shapes. Extreme contrast of light and dark adds drama. The human figures are used as design composition elements.

Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault

Juxtaposition of images to subvert the status quo

is the photomontage technique pioneered by Dada artists such as Hannah Hôch

The contrast between the contemporary figure and the traditional decorative motifs creates visual interest. The classical modeling of the background patterns overlapping the figure compress the spatial depth in the painting.

Kehinde Willey's "Alios Itzhak" (The World Stage: Israel)

Slip

In ceramics, this term described a clay suspended in water.

Papier-Mâché

is a medium that involves gluying multiple layers of paper onto an armature.

A designer who carefully selects a typeface to use in a design is likely to be concerned with

the exact shapes of the letters

Bitmaps

In digital imaging, series of pixels that can be used to compose images.

Polarizing filter

Can be used to reduce or remove reflections.

Megapixel

one million pixels

The quality of a digital image printed on paper is most closely tied to

dots per inch (dpi) of in or toner on the paper

CMYK

Cyan, magenta, yellow and black

USB cables

Provides the most common interface between a computer and a printer.

The shtutter speed

Controls the length of time during which light can enter the camera.

Laquer and enamel

are often used to produce a hard, glossy finish.

Monoprinting

does not limit the artist to ither water-based or oil-based ink and it is well suited to the creation of loose and expressive images.

Collagraphy

is and additive printmaking process

A dry-brush painting application

would most likely to appear as obvious bristle marks, scratchy.

Tooth

Refers to the surface texture of paper.

Uderpainting

Can be described as establishing a toned ground on which to develop the painting.

Using oil pastels over gouache in drawing

Illustrates the principle of "fat over lean"

Baren and squeegee

is a pair of tools that are commonly used in printmaking.

Ansel Adam's "Marion Lake, King's County National Park, California"

Demostrates Adams use of a deep depth of field created by a small aperture.

Lithography

The process includes drawing on a plate with a greasy crayon and applying ink wich adheres to the crayon.

Vehicle

Refers to the liquid that holds pigment in suspension.

A linocut

Elizabeth Catlett's "Sharecropper"