PRAXIS 2 ART CONTENT KNOWLEDGE CORRECT
FINALS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Sulfur - ✔✔harmful substance printmaking plastalina contains.
✔✔Pastels - ✔✔pigment and a binder usually cellulose based, pressed into sticks.
✔✔Encaustic - ✔✔Greek word meaning "to heat or burn in". Heat is used throughout
the process. The medium is melted and applied with a brush or any tool. Each layer is
then reheated to fuse it to the previous layer.
Use of colored wax for painting, often done on walls.
✔✔Neoclassical - ✔✔Moticello (primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, on the nickel)
was built in what architectural style?
✔✔Formalism - ✔✔The study of art by analyzing and comparing form and style.
*the way objects are made and their purely visual aspects.
✔✔Bisque - ✔✔Clay that has been fired once, halfway, but NOT glazed.
✔✔Classical Art - ✔✔peak of Greek art and architecture, idealized figures exemplify
order and harmony.
✔✔Fibula - ✔✔pin or broach
✔✔Hierarchical Scale - ✔✔Use of unnatural proportions to show importance of figures.
✔✔Representationalism - ✔✔The doctrine that the immediate object of knowledge is an
idea in the mind from external object which is the occasion of perception.
,✔✔Soldering - ✔✔A process where 2 pieces of metal are joined by melting and flowing
a filler metal into the joint.
✔✔Cloisonne' - ✔✔Metalwork where fine metal wire separates colors on an enamel
surface.
*A style of enamel decoration in which the enamel is applied and fired in raised cells.
✔✔Expressionism - ✔✔An artistic style that departs from the conventions of realism and
naturalism and seeks to convey inner experience by distorting rather than directly
representing natural images.
✔✔Recto and Verso - ✔✔in terms of manuscript, the front and rear sides of paper.
✔✔Dry Masonry - ✔✔Patterning with stones, but with NO mortar.
✔✔Isometric perspective - ✔✔The use of parallel lines to draw
*all dimensions parallel to the three principal spatial axes are shown in their TRUE
proportions.
✔✔Deconstructivsim - ✔✔an architectural movement or style influenced by
deconstruction that encourages radical freedom of form and the open manifestation of
complexity in a building rather than the strict attention to functional concerns and
conventional design elements.
✔✔Crazing - ✔✔surface cracks on oil paintings due to unequal drying times.
✔✔Iconography - ✔✔The symbolic meaning of assigns, subjects, and images.
✔✔High Relief - ✔✔Sculpture where more than 50% of depth is shown and there are
some undercut areas.
✔✔Cantilever - ✔✔Architectural technique where a beam or slab is extended far
beyond a support column or wall.
✔✔Camera Obscura - ✔✔A box device which projects an image onto a screen, came
before the camera.
✔✔Frisket - ✔✔A material used to stop paper from absorbing in water based painting.
✔✔Minaret - ✔✔A tower outside a mosque where changers stand calling people to
prayer.
, ✔✔Marquetry - ✔✔Technique of forming geometric patterns out of wood.
✔✔Imitationalism - ✔✔Art theory which emphasizes literal qualities of the word.
✔✔Intaglio - ✔✔Printmaking method where incised lines are printed.
*the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or "sunken area" holds the ink,
opposite of a relief print.
✔✔Iconoscope - ✔✔Used in early video cameras to convert light into electric waves,
projecting an image.
✔✔Lost Wax - ✔✔A technique of casting metal in a plastic mold.
✔✔Chiaroscuro - ✔✔Light to dark- use of exaggerated contrast to create the illusion of
volume.
✔✔Levigation - ✔✔Process of turning a substance into a fine powder or smooth paste.
✔✔Croquis - ✔✔to make a quick sketch.
✔✔Kouroi - ✔✔Archaic Greek statues whose poses, rigid with clenched fists, recall the
stance of Egyptian statues.
*statues of standing male youths, primarily made from marble, life-size, advancing left
foot.
✔✔Principals of Art - ✔✔Movement
Unity
Harmony
Variety
Balance
Contrast
Proportion
Pattern
✔✔Tessera - ✔✔one of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
*individual tile.
✔✔Assembling - ✔✔method of putting found objects together to create a sculpture.
✔✔Filippo Brunellschi - ✔✔The formulation of a one-point perspective in drawing and
painting during the Renaissance credited to...
FINALS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Sulfur - ✔✔harmful substance printmaking plastalina contains.
✔✔Pastels - ✔✔pigment and a binder usually cellulose based, pressed into sticks.
✔✔Encaustic - ✔✔Greek word meaning "to heat or burn in". Heat is used throughout
the process. The medium is melted and applied with a brush or any tool. Each layer is
then reheated to fuse it to the previous layer.
Use of colored wax for painting, often done on walls.
✔✔Neoclassical - ✔✔Moticello (primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, on the nickel)
was built in what architectural style?
✔✔Formalism - ✔✔The study of art by analyzing and comparing form and style.
*the way objects are made and their purely visual aspects.
✔✔Bisque - ✔✔Clay that has been fired once, halfway, but NOT glazed.
✔✔Classical Art - ✔✔peak of Greek art and architecture, idealized figures exemplify
order and harmony.
✔✔Fibula - ✔✔pin or broach
✔✔Hierarchical Scale - ✔✔Use of unnatural proportions to show importance of figures.
✔✔Representationalism - ✔✔The doctrine that the immediate object of knowledge is an
idea in the mind from external object which is the occasion of perception.
,✔✔Soldering - ✔✔A process where 2 pieces of metal are joined by melting and flowing
a filler metal into the joint.
✔✔Cloisonne' - ✔✔Metalwork where fine metal wire separates colors on an enamel
surface.
*A style of enamel decoration in which the enamel is applied and fired in raised cells.
✔✔Expressionism - ✔✔An artistic style that departs from the conventions of realism and
naturalism and seeks to convey inner experience by distorting rather than directly
representing natural images.
✔✔Recto and Verso - ✔✔in terms of manuscript, the front and rear sides of paper.
✔✔Dry Masonry - ✔✔Patterning with stones, but with NO mortar.
✔✔Isometric perspective - ✔✔The use of parallel lines to draw
*all dimensions parallel to the three principal spatial axes are shown in their TRUE
proportions.
✔✔Deconstructivsim - ✔✔an architectural movement or style influenced by
deconstruction that encourages radical freedom of form and the open manifestation of
complexity in a building rather than the strict attention to functional concerns and
conventional design elements.
✔✔Crazing - ✔✔surface cracks on oil paintings due to unequal drying times.
✔✔Iconography - ✔✔The symbolic meaning of assigns, subjects, and images.
✔✔High Relief - ✔✔Sculpture where more than 50% of depth is shown and there are
some undercut areas.
✔✔Cantilever - ✔✔Architectural technique where a beam or slab is extended far
beyond a support column or wall.
✔✔Camera Obscura - ✔✔A box device which projects an image onto a screen, came
before the camera.
✔✔Frisket - ✔✔A material used to stop paper from absorbing in water based painting.
✔✔Minaret - ✔✔A tower outside a mosque where changers stand calling people to
prayer.
, ✔✔Marquetry - ✔✔Technique of forming geometric patterns out of wood.
✔✔Imitationalism - ✔✔Art theory which emphasizes literal qualities of the word.
✔✔Intaglio - ✔✔Printmaking method where incised lines are printed.
*the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or "sunken area" holds the ink,
opposite of a relief print.
✔✔Iconoscope - ✔✔Used in early video cameras to convert light into electric waves,
projecting an image.
✔✔Lost Wax - ✔✔A technique of casting metal in a plastic mold.
✔✔Chiaroscuro - ✔✔Light to dark- use of exaggerated contrast to create the illusion of
volume.
✔✔Levigation - ✔✔Process of turning a substance into a fine powder or smooth paste.
✔✔Croquis - ✔✔to make a quick sketch.
✔✔Kouroi - ✔✔Archaic Greek statues whose poses, rigid with clenched fists, recall the
stance of Egyptian statues.
*statues of standing male youths, primarily made from marble, life-size, advancing left
foot.
✔✔Principals of Art - ✔✔Movement
Unity
Harmony
Variety
Balance
Contrast
Proportion
Pattern
✔✔Tessera - ✔✔one of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
*individual tile.
✔✔Assembling - ✔✔method of putting found objects together to create a sculpture.
✔✔Filippo Brunellschi - ✔✔The formulation of a one-point perspective in drawing and
painting during the Renaissance credited to...
