NYSTCE Visual Arts 2025/2026 Exam Questions Marking Scheme New Update | A+ Rated

NYSTCE Visual Arts 2025/2026 Exam
Questions Marking Scheme New Update
| A+ Rated



Drawing in the Middle Ages - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Mostly used as preparation

for paintings

-Done on animal skin, wood, wax, or slate

-Some artists used drawings as a record instead of working from a live

model

-Some artists would complete finished drawings as illuminations for

manuscripts


Drawing during Pre-history - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Used on cave walls as early

as 10,000 BCE

-Cave paintings used to express ideas and scenes


Drawing during the Renaissance - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Drawing became more

widely used due to the increase in the availability of paper

-Students were taught how to draw before painting or sculpting

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,-Used to study nature, record anatomy

-Drawing materials used: pen and ink, black and red charcoal


Drawing in Baroque period - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔More expressive and less

exact than Renaissance drawings


Pencils - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-First manufactured in the 1800's, became a

widely used drawing tool

-Range in hardness from 10H to 10B

-Greater detail than charcoal


Origins of Drawing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Prehistory: used on cave walls as

early as 10,000 B.C., expressed ideas and scenes

- Middle Ages: used to prepare for paintings; completed on animal skins,

wood, wax, or stone; kept as a record; come were completed as

illuminations for manuscripts

- Renaissance: became a more widely used art form as paper become

more readily available; artists would learn to draw before other media;

considered a preliminary step; used to study and record nature and

anatomy; used pen and ink, black and red charcoal



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,- 1500-1600s: artists began creating drawings as finished works; Dürer,

Holbein the Younger, Rembrandt; drawing became an accepted medium


Charcoal - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Drawing material made from slowly burned

wood

- Used for cave drawings

- Lightweight

- Found in stick or pencil form

- Compressed - hard

- Vine- soft, delicate

- Often used for large gesture drawings or as underdrawing


Red Chalk - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Drawing material made from iron oxide

pigment and refined clay

- Popular in the 16th and 17th century

- Used by Da Vinci in the Renaissance


Black Chalk - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Drawing material made of carbonaceous

shale

- Softer than red chalk

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, - Used in 15th century Italy for underdrawings for ink and metalpoint

- Used by Dürer and van Dyck


White Chalk - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Made of calcium carbonate or soapstone


- Used to make highlights


Conté Crayons - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Developed in the 1800's


- Traditionally made in red, black, and white

- Harder than chalk and produce smoother lines


Graphite - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Form of carbon


- Discovered in the 1500s

- Later encased in wood to make pencils


Ink - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Liquid pigment


- Used with a pen or brush

- Commonly used for writing


Pen - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- First made from bird feathers and reeds; quills


- Later created with metal tips



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