NYSTCE Visual Art CST 167 2025/2026
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7 elements of art - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔line, shape, form, color, value, texture,
space
12 Principles of Design - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Unity, variety, emphasis, rhythm,
movement, balance, pattern, contrast, repetition, hierarchy, white space,
and proportion.
The effects that may result when the art elements are structured to achieve
a successful composition.
Sgraffito - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔scratching through a layer of paint to reveal the
surface underneath
alla prima painting - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔technique entails painting wet oil paint
onto wet oil layers that have not dried yet.
- direct painting or wet on wet
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,trompe l'oeil - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔French for "to deceive the eye"
-visual illusion in art, especially as used to trick the eye into perceiving a
painted detail as a three-dimensional object.
-3D illusion of 2D artwork
Intaglio printmaking - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔opposite of relief print-making
- image is carved into a surface and ink is held in those lines for printing
-carving or etching
Lithography - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the process of printing from a flat surface
(limestone or aluminum) treated so as to repel the ink except where it is
required for printing.
screen printing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ink is forced through stenciled silk with a
squeegee in this printmaking process.
Collography Printmaking - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔materials of various textures are
attached to a surface for printmaking
Frottage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A textural transfer technique; the process of
making rubbings with graphite or crayon on paper laid over a textured
surface
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, mezzotint - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-gradation technique in intaglio printmaking
-picture engraved on copper or steel by polishing (smooth-lighter) or
scraping away (rough-darker) parts of a roughened surface
Aquatint - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔an intaglio printmaking process that uses melted
rosin or spray paint to create an acid-resistant ground
-creates tonal effects, gradation
-watercolor wash effect
earthenware - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or
dried in the sun.
-low fire, terra cotta
Stoneware - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Clay that is gray and becomes white after firing
and is used for working, cooking wares and for decorative pottery
-mid-high fire
porcelain - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a white ceramic made of fine clay baked at very
high temperatures
-originated in China
-high fire 1800 deg. C
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Exam Questions and Detailed Answers |
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7 elements of art - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔line, shape, form, color, value, texture,
space
12 Principles of Design - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Unity, variety, emphasis, rhythm,
movement, balance, pattern, contrast, repetition, hierarchy, white space,
and proportion.
The effects that may result when the art elements are structured to achieve
a successful composition.
Sgraffito - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔scratching through a layer of paint to reveal the
surface underneath
alla prima painting - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔technique entails painting wet oil paint
onto wet oil layers that have not dried yet.
- direct painting or wet on wet
1
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,trompe l'oeil - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔French for "to deceive the eye"
-visual illusion in art, especially as used to trick the eye into perceiving a
painted detail as a three-dimensional object.
-3D illusion of 2D artwork
Intaglio printmaking - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔opposite of relief print-making
- image is carved into a surface and ink is held in those lines for printing
-carving or etching
Lithography - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the process of printing from a flat surface
(limestone or aluminum) treated so as to repel the ink except where it is
required for printing.
screen printing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ink is forced through stenciled silk with a
squeegee in this printmaking process.
Collography Printmaking - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔materials of various textures are
attached to a surface for printmaking
Frottage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A textural transfer technique; the process of
making rubbings with graphite or crayon on paper laid over a textured
surface
2
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, mezzotint - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-gradation technique in intaglio printmaking
-picture engraved on copper or steel by polishing (smooth-lighter) or
scraping away (rough-darker) parts of a roughened surface
Aquatint - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔an intaglio printmaking process that uses melted
rosin or spray paint to create an acid-resistant ground
-creates tonal effects, gradation
-watercolor wash effect
earthenware - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or
dried in the sun.
-low fire, terra cotta
Stoneware - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Clay that is gray and becomes white after firing
and is used for working, cooking wares and for decorative pottery
-mid-high fire
porcelain - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a white ceramic made of fine clay baked at very
high temperatures
-originated in China
-high fire 1800 deg. C
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