PRAXIS 2 ART CORRECT COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Coil - ✔✔A piece of clay rolled like a rope, used in making pottery.
✔✔Compress - ✔✔Pushing the clay down and together, forcing the particles of clay
closer.
✔✔Earthenware - ✔✔A low fired clay body. Glazed pottery is fired to a temperature of
1,830 - 2,010 degrees Fahrenheit. Available in red or also white.
✔✔Firebrick - ✔✔An insulation brick used to hold the heat in the kiln and withstand high
temperatures.
✔✔Glaze Firing - ✔✔The final firing, with glaze
✔✔Leather Hard - ✔✔Stage of the clay between plastic and bone dry. Clay is still damp
enough to join it to other pieces using slip. For example, this is the stage handles are
applied to mugs.
✔✔Porcelain - ✔✔White stoneware, made from clay prepared from feldspar, china clay,
flint and whiting.
✔✔Potter's Wheel - ✔✔A device with either a manual (foot powered) or an electric
rotating wheel head used to sit at and make pottery forms.
✔✔Slab - ✔✔Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.
✔✔Slip - ✔✔Clay mixed with water with a mayonnaise consistency. Used in casting and
decoration.
✔✔Guache - ✔✔An opaque watercolor paint; a painting produced with such paint.
, ✔✔Motif - ✔✔A distinctive and often recurring feature in a composition.
✔✔Pointillism - ✔✔A technique of painting developed by French painters Georges-
Pierre Seurat and Paul Signac, in which small, distinct points of unmixed color are
applied in patterns to form an image.
✔✔Pop Art - ✔✔A movement composed of initially British, then American artists in the
1950s and 1960s, which was characterized by references to imagery and products from
popular culture, media, and advertising.
✔✔Readymade - ✔✔A term coined by Marcel Duchamp in 1915 to describe
prefabricated, often mass-produced objects isolated from their functional context and
elevated to the status of art by the mere act of an artist's selection and designation.
✔✔Screenprinting - ✔✔A printing technique in which areas of a silkscreen, comprised of
woven mesh stretched on a frame, are selectively blocked off with a non-permeable
material (typically a photo-emulsion, paper, or plastic film) to form a stencil, which is a
negative of the image to be printed. Ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing
surface with a squeegee, creating a positive image.
✔✔Triptych - ✔✔A work of art consisting of three parts, usually hinged together.
✔✔Vantage Point - ✔✔A position or place that affords an advantageous perspective; in
photography, the position from which a photographer has taken a photograph.
✔✔Ziggurat - ✔✔A terraced pyramid form comprising successively receding stories.
✔✔Aerial Shot - ✔✔a camera shot filmed in an exterior location from far overhead (from
a bird's eye view), as from a helicopter
✔✔Tilt Shot - ✔✔The camera tilts up or down, rotating around the axis that runs from
left to right through the camera head.
✔✔Pan - ✔✔Movement of the camera from left to right or right to left around the
imaginary vertical axis that runs through the camera.
✔✔Bat - ✔✔A flat disk of plaster or wood to form pottery on. One should be used when
throwing a bowl or a plate.
✔✔Terracotta - ✔✔unglazed, typically brownish-red earthenware, used chiefly as an
ornamental building material and in modeling.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Coil - ✔✔A piece of clay rolled like a rope, used in making pottery.
✔✔Compress - ✔✔Pushing the clay down and together, forcing the particles of clay
closer.
✔✔Earthenware - ✔✔A low fired clay body. Glazed pottery is fired to a temperature of
1,830 - 2,010 degrees Fahrenheit. Available in red or also white.
✔✔Firebrick - ✔✔An insulation brick used to hold the heat in the kiln and withstand high
temperatures.
✔✔Glaze Firing - ✔✔The final firing, with glaze
✔✔Leather Hard - ✔✔Stage of the clay between plastic and bone dry. Clay is still damp
enough to join it to other pieces using slip. For example, this is the stage handles are
applied to mugs.
✔✔Porcelain - ✔✔White stoneware, made from clay prepared from feldspar, china clay,
flint and whiting.
✔✔Potter's Wheel - ✔✔A device with either a manual (foot powered) or an electric
rotating wheel head used to sit at and make pottery forms.
✔✔Slab - ✔✔Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.
✔✔Slip - ✔✔Clay mixed with water with a mayonnaise consistency. Used in casting and
decoration.
✔✔Guache - ✔✔An opaque watercolor paint; a painting produced with such paint.
, ✔✔Motif - ✔✔A distinctive and often recurring feature in a composition.
✔✔Pointillism - ✔✔A technique of painting developed by French painters Georges-
Pierre Seurat and Paul Signac, in which small, distinct points of unmixed color are
applied in patterns to form an image.
✔✔Pop Art - ✔✔A movement composed of initially British, then American artists in the
1950s and 1960s, which was characterized by references to imagery and products from
popular culture, media, and advertising.
✔✔Readymade - ✔✔A term coined by Marcel Duchamp in 1915 to describe
prefabricated, often mass-produced objects isolated from their functional context and
elevated to the status of art by the mere act of an artist's selection and designation.
✔✔Screenprinting - ✔✔A printing technique in which areas of a silkscreen, comprised of
woven mesh stretched on a frame, are selectively blocked off with a non-permeable
material (typically a photo-emulsion, paper, or plastic film) to form a stencil, which is a
negative of the image to be printed. Ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing
surface with a squeegee, creating a positive image.
✔✔Triptych - ✔✔A work of art consisting of three parts, usually hinged together.
✔✔Vantage Point - ✔✔A position or place that affords an advantageous perspective; in
photography, the position from which a photographer has taken a photograph.
✔✔Ziggurat - ✔✔A terraced pyramid form comprising successively receding stories.
✔✔Aerial Shot - ✔✔a camera shot filmed in an exterior location from far overhead (from
a bird's eye view), as from a helicopter
✔✔Tilt Shot - ✔✔The camera tilts up or down, rotating around the axis that runs from
left to right through the camera head.
✔✔Pan - ✔✔Movement of the camera from left to right or right to left around the
imaginary vertical axis that runs through the camera.
✔✔Bat - ✔✔A flat disk of plaster or wood to form pottery on. One should be used when
throwing a bowl or a plate.
✔✔Terracotta - ✔✔unglazed, typically brownish-red earthenware, used chiefly as an
ornamental building material and in modeling.
