PRAXIS 5134 ART COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔England's first rock group (Astronomical Calendar) - ✔✔Stonehenge
✔✔Rock Shaped Doorways - ✔✔Trilithons
✔✔Man's arrogance in trying to reach heaven can be see in... - ✔✔The Tower of Babel
✔✔Predominant art form of Mesopotamia? - ✔✔Bas-relief sculpture
✔✔Art of Immortality (Mummy Art/Embalming) - ✔✔Egyptian Art
✔✔Man is the measure of all things - ✔✔Greek Philosophy
✔✔The statue of David by Michelangelo is from Greece or Rome? They invented the
nude in art... - ✔✔Greece
✔✔Post and Lintel came from Greece or Rome? They also had pediments. - ✔✔Greece
✔✔They introduced arches, vaults and domes to the already created post and lintel -
✔✔Rome
✔✔The largest stone structure in the world? - ✔✔Great Pyramid of Cheops
✔✔The triangular upper part of the front of a building in Greece style architecture -
✔✔Pediment
✔✔A building used for entertainment and combat between gladiators; resulted in killings
between games daily. - ✔✔The Colusseum
, ✔✔Heroic, Turbulent, and Poetic describe what era? - ✔✔Romantic Era
✔✔What style of work is Orchards of Lightning, the lined drawing/painting by Agnes
Martin? - ✔✔Minimilist
✔✔What makes Agnes Martin's piece not completely mechanical? - ✔✔The use of
subtle colors
✔✔What is the most typical architectural component of an Egyptian Hypostyle Hall? -
✔✔Post and Lintel
✔✔The actual hue of a thing, independent of the ways in which colors might be mixed
or how different conditions of light and atmosphere might affect it. - ✔✔Local Color
✔✔A movement in painting typified by the work of Matisse and characterized by vivid
colors, free treatment of form, and a resulting vibrant and decorative effect -
✔✔Fauvism
✔✔A method of fabric production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are
interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. - ✔✔Weaving
✔✔A hand roller used in printmaking techniques to spread ink in the process of
offsetting an image from a plate to paper. - ✔✔Brayer
✔✔Isamu Noguchi's red cube sculpture uses what element of design most effectively? -
✔✔Contrast/Color - in relation to the white, brown and black of the building
✔✔A Neo Expressionist artist who reflects on current social structures with graffiti. -
✔✔Jean Michel Basquiat
✔✔A national museum of contemporary art and architecture in Rome, Italy. -
✔✔MAXXI, Zaha Hadid's National Museum of 21st Art
✔✔A Dada Assemblage artwork by Raoul Hausmann - ✔✔The Mechanical Head
✔✔A painted, drawn, or sculptured free form or design suggestive in shape of a living
organism - ✔✔Biomorphic Shapes
✔✔A modernist artist from Harlem who oil painted "Sowing" - - ✔✔William H. Johnson
✔✔He was at the forefront of the American Regionalism art movement. His fluid,
sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔England's first rock group (Astronomical Calendar) - ✔✔Stonehenge
✔✔Rock Shaped Doorways - ✔✔Trilithons
✔✔Man's arrogance in trying to reach heaven can be see in... - ✔✔The Tower of Babel
✔✔Predominant art form of Mesopotamia? - ✔✔Bas-relief sculpture
✔✔Art of Immortality (Mummy Art/Embalming) - ✔✔Egyptian Art
✔✔Man is the measure of all things - ✔✔Greek Philosophy
✔✔The statue of David by Michelangelo is from Greece or Rome? They invented the
nude in art... - ✔✔Greece
✔✔Post and Lintel came from Greece or Rome? They also had pediments. - ✔✔Greece
✔✔They introduced arches, vaults and domes to the already created post and lintel -
✔✔Rome
✔✔The largest stone structure in the world? - ✔✔Great Pyramid of Cheops
✔✔The triangular upper part of the front of a building in Greece style architecture -
✔✔Pediment
✔✔A building used for entertainment and combat between gladiators; resulted in killings
between games daily. - ✔✔The Colusseum
, ✔✔Heroic, Turbulent, and Poetic describe what era? - ✔✔Romantic Era
✔✔What style of work is Orchards of Lightning, the lined drawing/painting by Agnes
Martin? - ✔✔Minimilist
✔✔What makes Agnes Martin's piece not completely mechanical? - ✔✔The use of
subtle colors
✔✔What is the most typical architectural component of an Egyptian Hypostyle Hall? -
✔✔Post and Lintel
✔✔The actual hue of a thing, independent of the ways in which colors might be mixed
or how different conditions of light and atmosphere might affect it. - ✔✔Local Color
✔✔A movement in painting typified by the work of Matisse and characterized by vivid
colors, free treatment of form, and a resulting vibrant and decorative effect -
✔✔Fauvism
✔✔A method of fabric production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are
interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. - ✔✔Weaving
✔✔A hand roller used in printmaking techniques to spread ink in the process of
offsetting an image from a plate to paper. - ✔✔Brayer
✔✔Isamu Noguchi's red cube sculpture uses what element of design most effectively? -
✔✔Contrast/Color - in relation to the white, brown and black of the building
✔✔A Neo Expressionist artist who reflects on current social structures with graffiti. -
✔✔Jean Michel Basquiat
✔✔A national museum of contemporary art and architecture in Rome, Italy. -
✔✔MAXXI, Zaha Hadid's National Museum of 21st Art
✔✔A Dada Assemblage artwork by Raoul Hausmann - ✔✔The Mechanical Head
✔✔A painted, drawn, or sculptured free form or design suggestive in shape of a living
organism - ✔✔Biomorphic Shapes
✔✔A modernist artist from Harlem who oil painted "Sowing" - - ✔✔William H. Johnson
✔✔He was at the forefront of the American Regionalism art movement. His fluid,
sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United
