Visual Arts CST UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Geometric Art (Greece) - CORRECT ANSWER - 9th - 8th Century B.C.
Pottery ornamented with geometric banding, friezes of simple animals, humans
Hellenistic Art (Greece) - CORRECT ANSWER - 323 - 31 B.C.
Greek derived style found in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt
More melodramatic than Classical style
Japanese woodblock printing - CORRECT ANSWER - Flat, bright colored prints
Contrast, linear patterns
Cropped compositions, single point perspective
ukiyo-e prints - floating world (brothels, red light district)
Waste Molding - CORRECT ANSWER - Can only be used once
Plaster mold
Best for large scale sculpture
Steps: (1) coat original in vaseline or resist, section off with lines
(2) Coat with plaster mix in several layers
(3) Mother mold, cut based on sections
(4) Original is destroyed, fill mold with material
Baroque - CORRECT ANSWER - "The Ornate Age" - mid 16th - 18th century (1600 -
1750)
Sensitivity/Mastery of light for emotional impact
Roman Catholic Church - dramatic style - power and control
, Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, Velazquez
Cubism - CORRECT ANSWER - Analytic (1st phase) to Synthetic (2nd - collage)
Natural forms changed by geometrical reduction
Early 20th century
Many views of one subject
Picasso, Braque, Leger
Art Nouveau - CORRECT ANSWER - 1890s
Decorative style - forms based on objects found in nature
Gaudi (Barcelona, Spain)
Aubrey Beardsley - erotic illustration, based on Japanese prints
Baldacchino - CORRECT ANSWER - Ornamental canopy over an altar (church)
S Curve - CORRECT ANSWER - Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture
Extension of contrapposto
Contrapposto - CORRECT ANSWER - Italian "counterpose"
Weight shift on one foot
Bauhaus - CORRECT ANSWER - Walter Gropius
Functional and aesthetically pleasing
Mass produced for society
20th century
Abstract Expressionism - CORRECT ANSWER - New York 1940s painting movement
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Geometric Art (Greece) - CORRECT ANSWER - 9th - 8th Century B.C.
Pottery ornamented with geometric banding, friezes of simple animals, humans
Hellenistic Art (Greece) - CORRECT ANSWER - 323 - 31 B.C.
Greek derived style found in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt
More melodramatic than Classical style
Japanese woodblock printing - CORRECT ANSWER - Flat, bright colored prints
Contrast, linear patterns
Cropped compositions, single point perspective
ukiyo-e prints - floating world (brothels, red light district)
Waste Molding - CORRECT ANSWER - Can only be used once
Plaster mold
Best for large scale sculpture
Steps: (1) coat original in vaseline or resist, section off with lines
(2) Coat with plaster mix in several layers
(3) Mother mold, cut based on sections
(4) Original is destroyed, fill mold with material
Baroque - CORRECT ANSWER - "The Ornate Age" - mid 16th - 18th century (1600 -
1750)
Sensitivity/Mastery of light for emotional impact
Roman Catholic Church - dramatic style - power and control
, Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, Velazquez
Cubism - CORRECT ANSWER - Analytic (1st phase) to Synthetic (2nd - collage)
Natural forms changed by geometrical reduction
Early 20th century
Many views of one subject
Picasso, Braque, Leger
Art Nouveau - CORRECT ANSWER - 1890s
Decorative style - forms based on objects found in nature
Gaudi (Barcelona, Spain)
Aubrey Beardsley - erotic illustration, based on Japanese prints
Baldacchino - CORRECT ANSWER - Ornamental canopy over an altar (church)
S Curve - CORRECT ANSWER - Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture
Extension of contrapposto
Contrapposto - CORRECT ANSWER - Italian "counterpose"
Weight shift on one foot
Bauhaus - CORRECT ANSWER - Walter Gropius
Functional and aesthetically pleasing
Mass produced for society
20th century
Abstract Expressionism - CORRECT ANSWER - New York 1940s painting movement
