Art: Content Knowledge Praxis Test

Dark, dull blue

An artist who wants an orange area in a work to appear brighter and lighter would most likely surround the orange with which of the following colors?

Cubism

a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907-08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Avant-grade art movement.

Henri Matisse

a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship, fundamentally altered the course of modern art, expressionism.

Fauvism

style of painting that flourished in France around the turn of the 20th century. used pure, brilliant colour aggressively applied straight from the paint tubes to create a sense of an explosion on the canvas.

The areas that are not occupied by objects

The negative areas in a work of art are best defined as which of the following?

Organic Shapes

Shapes found in nature such as leaves, flowers, seashells. These shapes are free flowing and irregular.

Geometric Shapes

Standard shapes used in geometry---e.g., circle, square, and rectangle

cross contour line

A line that crosses a surface and defines changes in the surface of the form is known as a

Compose work so that subject matter appears cropped

Exposure to photography led artists such as Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas to

Tying back long hair to keep it from being caught in the machine

Which of the following strategies would contribute most to safe practice for an artist who is machine buffing a piece of metal jewelry?

Using a wet mop to remove clay dust along with a HEPA-filtered vacuum cleaner

Which of the following actions is a safe studio practice?

cobalt blue

Which of the following colors is toxic when used as pigment?

a downdraft ventilation system

When a kiln is being used indoors, the best way to keep the room it is in safely ventilated is to have

in a spray booth

The safest way to use aerosol propellants such as fixative is to apply them

Rubber cement

Which of the following is labeled as a hazardous material?

Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)

Manufacturers' information about the toxicity and safety of art supplies they produce can be found in

deposited in an approved container

To dispose of oil-based painting and printmaking products safely, all such materials should be

Claude Monet

a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.

Pablo Picasso

Associated most of all with pioneering Cubism, alongside Georges Braque, he also invented collage and made major contributions to Symbolism and Surrealism.

Piet Mondrian

Dutch Painter, cofounded the De Stijl movement, which rejected visually perceived reality as subject matter and restricted form to the most basic elements. Such works as Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow.

Salvador Dali

a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.

Gouche

A painting medium similar to watercolor, but opaque instead of transparent.

the outside of the kiln is cool to the touch and the pieces can be easily touched by hand

It is safe to unload bisqueware from the kiln when

Turpentine

Which of the following presents a significant health risk for absorption through healthy, unbroken skin?

acid bath for etching

Work with which of the following requires good ventilation?

Watercolor

Which of the following art materials can be used safely in any room, regardless of its ventilation?

Wear safety glasses when using power tools

Which of the following is most important for an artist to do to ensure safety in the studio?

Linocut

s a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum is used for a relief surface.

Engraving

an intaglio printmaking process in which lines are cut into a metal plate in order to hold the ink.

Serigraph

is a rendition of an original artwork created by the silk-screen printing process.

Lithograph

a planographic printmaking process in which a design is drawn onto a flat stone (or prepared metal plate, usually zinc or aluminum) and affixed by means of a chemical reaction.

Tooth

Which of the following terms refers to the surface texture of paper?

Lacquer and enamel

Which of the following media are often used to produce a hard, glossy finish?

impasto

An artist who creates a painting that has a thick texture with ridges and defined marks from the application of the paint is using the technique known as

Modeling

Which of the following is a drawing process that uses changes in value to represent a three-dimensional surface?

refers to the use of changes in value to represent a three-dimensional surface.

What is Modeling in the context of drawing?

Mono-printing

a single impression of an image made from a reprintable block. Materials such as metal plates, litho stones or wood blocks are used for etching upon. Rather than printing multiple copies of a single image, only one impression may be produced, either by painting or making a collage on the block.

Both water-based and oil-based inks can be used to produce monoprints. Monoprinting is well suited to the creation of loose and expressive images

Which of the following are accurate statements about monoprinting?

Establishing a toned ground on which to develop the painting

Which of the following best describes underpainting?

in a loose, gestural way

When a painting is described as "painterly," it indicates that the artist has used the paint

Drawing on a plate with a greasy crayon and applying ink, which adheres to the crayon

The process of making a lithographic print may include which of the following?

Using oil pastels over a layer of gouache in a drawing

Which of the following processes illustrates the principle of "fat over lean"?

Baren and squeegee

Which of the following is a pair of tools commonly used in printmaking?

vehicle

Which of the following terms refers to the liquid that holds pigment in suspension?

bitmaps

In digital imaging, series of pixels that can be used to compose images are known as

Resolution

In digital photography, image sharpness is determined by

one million pixels

A megapixel is composed of

reduce or remove reflections

In photography, a polarizing filter can be used to

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

The quality of a digital image printed on paper is most closely tied to which of the following factors?

exact shapes of the letters

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

Typeface

is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight, slope, width, and so on.

RGB (red, green, blue)

Which of the following color models is used in most computer monitors?

shutter speed

Which of the following digital camera settings controls the length of time during which light can enter the camera?

USB

Which of the following cables provides the most common interface between a computer and a printer?

DV

Which of the following acronyms refers to a file format that can be used with moving images?

Final Cut Pro

Professional digital film editing is most often done using

Interactive

Immersive virtual reality art that uses sensors within an installation can best be described as

installation

In which of the following kinds of art do both time and space directly contribute to a viewer's experience?

clay suspended in water

In ceramics, "slip" is a term used to describe

Ceramics

Pug mills, slab rollers, and wedging tables are used in

light and motion

To convey mood in a time-based medium, an artist would most likely manipulate

forging

All of the following terms refer to ways of joining two pieces of metal EXCEPT

Soldering

Welding

a fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by using high heat to melt the parts together and allowing them to cool, causing fusion.

Riveting

join or fasten (plates of metal)

Extrude

to shape a material by forcing it through an opening. A clay extruder is used in this way to create desired clay forms.

extruder

Which of the following pieces of equipment can be used in a ceramics studio to create desired forms?

wood pieces inlaid into a contrasting wooden surface

A traditional way to create patterns on the surface of a three-dimensional object is to use

a technique of casting metal in a plaster mold

The term "lost wax" refers to

thickness

The gauge of a wire refers to the wire's

Pushing and pinching with one's fingers, Digging parallel channels with a comb, Using slip to press on scored pieces of moist clay

Which of the following are appropriate ways to produce a textured surface on a moist clay project that is going to be fired?

Gluing multiple layers of paper onto an armature

Papier-mâché is a medium that involves which of the following processes?

true porcelain

Of the following, the type of ceramic product that requires the highest firing temperature is

They work with progressively darker dye colors

To create intricately patterned batiks, Javanese artists work in stages using which of the following techniques?

Embroidery

Which of the following is an ancient Chinese form of silk decoration?

indigo

A natural colorant traditionally used to dye cotton fibers a deep blue is

Cloisonné

In jewelry making, which of the following is a process in which fine metal wire is used to organize colors that are fused into hard enamel-like surfaces?

making paper

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

warping the loom

The process of preparing or threading a frame for weaving is referred to as

wheat paste

Which of the following adhesives is archival and safest to use when hinging a two-dimensional artwork to museum board?

carefully rolling the drawing into a mailing tube

All of the following actions are appropriate steps to take when preparing a charcoal drawing for shipping EXCEPT

displayed at a comfortable eye level

In general, two-dimensional art that is being exhibited in a gallery should be

pastel

Which of the following media produces a work with such a delicate surface that it is necessary to protect it by mounting it under glass or spraying it with a fixative?

Hang the matted and framed two-dimensional works on the wall and place the three-dimensional works on bases.

Which of the following is the most professional way to display two- and three-dimensional artwork groupings?

Tempera

a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk.

Marcel Duchamp

French artist who broke down the boundaries between works of art and everyday objects.

Use of overlapping and interacting areas of thin washes of flat color and Huge canvases that treat the surface as a field of vision

Which of the following accurately characterize Color-Field painting?

Photograph

Daguerreotypes are a type of

the basis for form inspired by free association

When painting Europe After the Rain II, Max Ernst created the foreground by placing a piece of paper on the painted surface and then pulling the paper away, creating accidental patterns and textures that provided the Surrealist artist with which of the following?

Trompe l'oeil

an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions. Forced perspective is a comparable illusion in architecture.

Foreshortening

the technique of depicting an object or human body in a picture so as to produce an illusion of projection or extension in space.

Radial symmetry

Symmetry about a central axis.

record fine detail, mix colors freely, portray minute gradations of light

The development of oil paints in the fifteenth century gave artists greater ability to do which of the following?

Wedgwood pottery

Of the following, the decorative motifs of the eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam are most similar to those found on

Glass tesserae

In Ravenna's church of San Vitale, the richly colored Empress Theodora and Her Attendants was created in which of the following media?

To revitalize the arts with a unifying style of flowing organic forms and To create art suited to the realities of the industrial age

Which of the following describe the goals of the artists associated with the Art Nouveau movement?

Dramatic use of light and Gritty naturalism

Which of the following qualities best characterize the work of the painter Caravaggio?

Baroque

The Cornaro Chapel by Bernini is characteristic of which of the following art-historical styles?

mannerist

The style of El Greco's paintings can best be described as

What is Mannerist

a sixteenth century style of art and design characterised by artificiality, elegance and sensuous distortion of the human figure.