PRAXIS 2 ART CONTENT KNOWLEDGE LATEST
EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Macrame - ✔✔Process of knotting cords together to form a pattern.
✔✔Tusche - ✔✔A greasy black ink used for lithographs.
✔✔Glazing - ✔✔Use of transparent oil paint to build up a painting.
✔✔Horizon Line - ✔✔The line where the earth meets the sky.
✔✔Pendentives - ✔✔Curving triangular sections that form a support system for a
circular dome.
✔✔Isocephaly - ✔✔Having the heads of all figures the same level. Greek art.
✔✔Hybridity - ✔✔A movement where artists work with emerging technologies and
sciences.
✔✔Hard Edge Painting - ✔✔A painting technique with an even solid application.
✔✔Warp and Weft - ✔✔Vertical and horizontal threads in a weaving loom.
✔✔Perspective - ✔✔Creates the feeling of depth through use of lines that make the
image appear to be 3 dimensional.
✔✔Fugitive Pigment - ✔✔The tendency for pigment to change color under natural
influences (light, heat, water)
✔✔Film Speed - ✔✔Measurement of films sensitivity to light.
,✔✔Rayograph - ✔✔Also called photograph, image created by placing objects on light
sensitive paper and exposing it to light.
✔✔Depth of Field - ✔✔The distance between the nearest and farthest object in an
image.
✔✔Paint Extender - ✔✔product that extends the drying time, and paint.
✔✔Shutter Speed - ✔✔Duration of the exposure.
✔✔Aleatoric Composition - ✔✔Composition which is completely dependent on chance,
being in the right place at the right time.
✔✔Analogous Colors - ✔✔Colors next to each other on the color wheel.
✔✔Arcade - ✔✔Series of arched columns in a row.
✔✔Asymmetrical Balance - ✔✔Two sides of a composition are not the same.
✔✔Balloon Frame - ✔✔Building method where heaving timbers are replaced by thin
studs held together by nails.
✔✔Appropriation - ✔✔The use of pre-existing objects with little or no transformation
applied to them.
✔✔Binder - ✔✔Holds pigment partials together without dissolving them, helps attach
pigment to surface.
✔✔Painterly - ✔✔Use of paint in a loose gestural way.
✔✔Collagraph - ✔✔An image built up from glue and other materials, like a collage.
✔✔Hatching - ✔✔Shading by building up parallel lines.
✔✔Pinnate - ✔✔refers to anything that is feather-shaped.
✔✔Bitmaps - ✔✔In computer-art paint programs, images are stored as pixels, a series
of tiny dots are called...
✔✔Keystone - ✔✔The final stone set in place at the top of an arch.
*locks all the stones into position.
, ✔✔Brazing - ✔✔Joining 2 metals like soldering, but the filler metal has a higher melting
point.
✔✔Complimentary Colors - ✔✔Opposites on the color wheel.
✔✔Lithography - ✔✔A type of printmaking based on the resistance of grease and
water, done on limestone.
✔✔Low Relief - ✔✔Sculpture where the plane is barely scratched and the uncut area is
barely protruding.
✔✔Daguerrotype - ✔✔An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a
silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
✔✔Local Color - ✔✔True color of an object rather than how it is documented by the
artist.
✔✔Egg Tempera - ✔✔The 2nd oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the
ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100
years of the of Byzantine Empire.
a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a
water-soluble binder medium (usually a glutinous material such as egg yolk or some
other size)
✔✔En Plein Air - ✔✔Painting outside. French.
✔✔Beveling - ✔✔Cutting the edge of something at an angle.
✔✔Insulating Fire Brick - ✔✔Porous firebrick with higher insulating values than soft
brick.
✔✔Scoring - ✔✔Incising shallow lines into the surface of clay before joining the pieces
of clay.
✔✔Wedging - ✔✔Similar to kneading dough, process to remove air bubbles from clay.
✔✔CL Label - ✔✔Stands for Cautionary label and means not recommended for use
with children under 12.
✔✔Jacob Lawrence - ✔✔Painting use flattened figured shapes and bright contrasting
colors.
✔✔Gesso - ✔✔A mix of chalk or plaster and glue.
EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Macrame - ✔✔Process of knotting cords together to form a pattern.
✔✔Tusche - ✔✔A greasy black ink used for lithographs.
✔✔Glazing - ✔✔Use of transparent oil paint to build up a painting.
✔✔Horizon Line - ✔✔The line where the earth meets the sky.
✔✔Pendentives - ✔✔Curving triangular sections that form a support system for a
circular dome.
✔✔Isocephaly - ✔✔Having the heads of all figures the same level. Greek art.
✔✔Hybridity - ✔✔A movement where artists work with emerging technologies and
sciences.
✔✔Hard Edge Painting - ✔✔A painting technique with an even solid application.
✔✔Warp and Weft - ✔✔Vertical and horizontal threads in a weaving loom.
✔✔Perspective - ✔✔Creates the feeling of depth through use of lines that make the
image appear to be 3 dimensional.
✔✔Fugitive Pigment - ✔✔The tendency for pigment to change color under natural
influences (light, heat, water)
✔✔Film Speed - ✔✔Measurement of films sensitivity to light.
,✔✔Rayograph - ✔✔Also called photograph, image created by placing objects on light
sensitive paper and exposing it to light.
✔✔Depth of Field - ✔✔The distance between the nearest and farthest object in an
image.
✔✔Paint Extender - ✔✔product that extends the drying time, and paint.
✔✔Shutter Speed - ✔✔Duration of the exposure.
✔✔Aleatoric Composition - ✔✔Composition which is completely dependent on chance,
being in the right place at the right time.
✔✔Analogous Colors - ✔✔Colors next to each other on the color wheel.
✔✔Arcade - ✔✔Series of arched columns in a row.
✔✔Asymmetrical Balance - ✔✔Two sides of a composition are not the same.
✔✔Balloon Frame - ✔✔Building method where heaving timbers are replaced by thin
studs held together by nails.
✔✔Appropriation - ✔✔The use of pre-existing objects with little or no transformation
applied to them.
✔✔Binder - ✔✔Holds pigment partials together without dissolving them, helps attach
pigment to surface.
✔✔Painterly - ✔✔Use of paint in a loose gestural way.
✔✔Collagraph - ✔✔An image built up from glue and other materials, like a collage.
✔✔Hatching - ✔✔Shading by building up parallel lines.
✔✔Pinnate - ✔✔refers to anything that is feather-shaped.
✔✔Bitmaps - ✔✔In computer-art paint programs, images are stored as pixels, a series
of tiny dots are called...
✔✔Keystone - ✔✔The final stone set in place at the top of an arch.
*locks all the stones into position.
, ✔✔Brazing - ✔✔Joining 2 metals like soldering, but the filler metal has a higher melting
point.
✔✔Complimentary Colors - ✔✔Opposites on the color wheel.
✔✔Lithography - ✔✔A type of printmaking based on the resistance of grease and
water, done on limestone.
✔✔Low Relief - ✔✔Sculpture where the plane is barely scratched and the uncut area is
barely protruding.
✔✔Daguerrotype - ✔✔An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a
silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
✔✔Local Color - ✔✔True color of an object rather than how it is documented by the
artist.
✔✔Egg Tempera - ✔✔The 2nd oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the
ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100
years of the of Byzantine Empire.
a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a
water-soluble binder medium (usually a glutinous material such as egg yolk or some
other size)
✔✔En Plein Air - ✔✔Painting outside. French.
✔✔Beveling - ✔✔Cutting the edge of something at an angle.
✔✔Insulating Fire Brick - ✔✔Porous firebrick with higher insulating values than soft
brick.
✔✔Scoring - ✔✔Incising shallow lines into the surface of clay before joining the pieces
of clay.
✔✔Wedging - ✔✔Similar to kneading dough, process to remove air bubbles from clay.
✔✔CL Label - ✔✔Stands for Cautionary label and means not recommended for use
with children under 12.
✔✔Jacob Lawrence - ✔✔Painting use flattened figured shapes and bright contrasting
colors.
✔✔Gesso - ✔✔A mix of chalk or plaster and glue.
