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Praxis Art Content Knowledge Exam
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Batik - ✔✔Traditional textile art form in Indonesia. Wax design applied to
white cotton fabric. Artist paints with hot melted wax on dry fabric using a
tjanting. Fabrics are placed in progressively darker dyes with new
applications of wax between dye baths.
Shipping a charcoal drawing - ✔✔Mount on museum board, spray with
fixative, tape same size paper on top. DO NOT roll.
Josiah Wedgewood - ✔✔Neoclassical potter. Pastels and whites.
Contemporary of architect, Robert Adam. Their styles influenced each
other.
Robert Adam - ✔✔Neoclassical architect. Frescoed ceilings similar to
contemporary, Josiah Wedgewood's pottery.
Chac Mool - ✔✔Mesoamerican Mayan sculptures of reclining males with
bowls in their laps. Unearthed in modern times. Pre-Columbian. Ex: Temple
of Warriors, Chichen, Itza, Mexico.
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Kwakiutl - ✔✔Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest. Known for their
totem poles, masks, and canoes.
Olmec - ✔✔Mesoamerican civilization known for enormous stone
representations of the human head carved. Heads are up to 9 feet tall,
carved from basalt boulders, and weigh nearly 8 tons. Individualistic facial
features lead experts to believe they were portraits of their rulers.
Taj Mahal - ✔✔Commissioned by the Maghal emperor Shah Jahan as a
memorial and tomb for his wife, Mamtaz Mahal.
Iconographic Analysis - ✔✔Analysis which concerns itself with symbols,
themes, and subject matter of works of art in order to establish the meaning
an artwork had at the time of its creation.
Cobalt - ✔✔Toxic pigment. Ex of non toxic pigments: mars black, burnt
sienna, and ultramarine violet.
Imari - ✔✔Japanese porcelain made in the town of Arita. Named for the
port from which it was exported extensively during the 1600's and 1700's.
Best known kind by Westerners is Kinrande. Still made today.
Jade - ✔✔Green stone traditionally used for carvings and jewelry in China.
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Celadon - ✔✔Ceramic wares glazed in the jade-green color of the same
name. This color is classically produced by firing a glaze containing a small
amount of iron oxide in a reducing kiln. Originated in China - also made in
Japan, Korea, and Thailand.
Tessarae - ✔✔Glass tile, usually in the shape of a cube. Used to make
mosaics. Also known as abaciscus or abaculus. Used a lot in Byzantine
and Roman mosaics.
Chinoiserie - ✔✔Western art or architecture with motifs and techniques
which mimic those or Chinese art. Prevalent in the 18th century.
Sfumato - ✔✔Technique of gradually allowing tones and colors to fade into
each other. Softened outlines. Hazy figures. Ex: the Mona Lisa.
Contraposto - ✔✔Asymmetrical arrangement of a figure where the weight
is positioned onto one hip, naturalistically.
Cast paper sculpture - ✔✔Casting paper pulp into a mold to create a relief
or around an armature.
Papier mache - ✔✔French for chewed up paper.
Mixture of paper and glue used as a sculpture medium.
Reticulation - ✔✔Resembling net or network.
Praxis Art Content Knowledge Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Solved
Batik - ✔✔Traditional textile art form in Indonesia. Wax design applied to
white cotton fabric. Artist paints with hot melted wax on dry fabric using a
tjanting. Fabrics are placed in progressively darker dyes with new
applications of wax between dye baths.
Shipping a charcoal drawing - ✔✔Mount on museum board, spray with
fixative, tape same size paper on top. DO NOT roll.
Josiah Wedgewood - ✔✔Neoclassical potter. Pastels and whites.
Contemporary of architect, Robert Adam. Their styles influenced each
other.
Robert Adam - ✔✔Neoclassical architect. Frescoed ceilings similar to
contemporary, Josiah Wedgewood's pottery.
Chac Mool - ✔✔Mesoamerican Mayan sculptures of reclining males with
bowls in their laps. Unearthed in modern times. Pre-Columbian. Ex: Temple
of Warriors, Chichen, Itza, Mexico.
,©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025 YEAR PUBLISHED, 2024
Kwakiutl - ✔✔Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest. Known for their
totem poles, masks, and canoes.
Olmec - ✔✔Mesoamerican civilization known for enormous stone
representations of the human head carved. Heads are up to 9 feet tall,
carved from basalt boulders, and weigh nearly 8 tons. Individualistic facial
features lead experts to believe they were portraits of their rulers.
Taj Mahal - ✔✔Commissioned by the Maghal emperor Shah Jahan as a
memorial and tomb for his wife, Mamtaz Mahal.
Iconographic Analysis - ✔✔Analysis which concerns itself with symbols,
themes, and subject matter of works of art in order to establish the meaning
an artwork had at the time of its creation.
Cobalt - ✔✔Toxic pigment. Ex of non toxic pigments: mars black, burnt
sienna, and ultramarine violet.
Imari - ✔✔Japanese porcelain made in the town of Arita. Named for the
port from which it was exported extensively during the 1600's and 1700's.
Best known kind by Westerners is Kinrande. Still made today.
Jade - ✔✔Green stone traditionally used for carvings and jewelry in China.
, ©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025 YEAR PUBLISHED, 2024
Celadon - ✔✔Ceramic wares glazed in the jade-green color of the same
name. This color is classically produced by firing a glaze containing a small
amount of iron oxide in a reducing kiln. Originated in China - also made in
Japan, Korea, and Thailand.
Tessarae - ✔✔Glass tile, usually in the shape of a cube. Used to make
mosaics. Also known as abaciscus or abaculus. Used a lot in Byzantine
and Roman mosaics.
Chinoiserie - ✔✔Western art or architecture with motifs and techniques
which mimic those or Chinese art. Prevalent in the 18th century.
Sfumato - ✔✔Technique of gradually allowing tones and colors to fade into
each other. Softened outlines. Hazy figures. Ex: the Mona Lisa.
Contraposto - ✔✔Asymmetrical arrangement of a figure where the weight
is positioned onto one hip, naturalistically.
Cast paper sculpture - ✔✔Casting paper pulp into a mold to create a relief
or around an armature.
Papier mache - ✔✔French for chewed up paper.
Mixture of paper and glue used as a sculpture medium.
Reticulation - ✔✔Resembling net or network.
