PRAXIS 5135 ART CORRECT QUESTIONS AND
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✔✔Aspe - ✔✔A large semicircular or polygonal recess in a church, arched or with a
domed roof, typically at the eastern end and usually containing an alter.
✔✔Barrel Vault - ✔✔Deep arch forming a half-cylindrical roof
✔✔Groin Vault - ✔✔Two intersecting barrel vaults at the same height that form a right
angle.
✔✔Arch - ✔✔A curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening and typically
supporting the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it
✔✔Vault - ✔✔AN arched structure, usually made of stones, concrete, or bricks forming
a ceiling or roof over a hall, room, sewer, or other wholly or partially enclosed
construction; arched ceiling
✔✔Dome - ✔✔A vault having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a
sphere
✔✔Tesserae - ✔✔Mosaics made of bits of colored stone, glass, or shell
✔✔What were the 3 styles of Art that emerged during the Middle Ages? - ✔✔1)
Byzantine
2)Romanesque
3) Gothic
✔✔Nave - ✔✔Main part of church interior
✔✔Flying Buttresses - ✔✔Exterior masonry bridges supporting walls; External supports
,✔✔Ribbed Vault - ✔✔Molded stone ribs covering seams of groin vaults
✔✔Clerestory - ✔✔Nave wall lit by windows
✔✔Rose Window - ✔✔Circular window filled with stained glass
✔✔Tracery - ✔✔Stone armature decorating windows
✔✔What were the chief forms of decoration in Gothic Cathedrals? - ✔✔Sculpture,
Stained Glass and Tapestries
✔✔Warp - ✔✔Lengthwise threads; weaving
✔✔What were the "breakthroughs" of the Renaissance? - ✔✔The use of oil paint,
perspective, Chiaroscuro, and pyramid configuration
✔✔Linear Perspective - ✔✔Created the optical effect of objects receding in the distance
through lines that appear to converge at a single point in the picture known as the
vanishing point
✔✔Chiaroscuro - ✔✔The distribution of light and shade in an artwork; "light/dark"
✔✔Pyramid Configuration - ✔✔A symmetrical composition that builds to a climax at the
center
✔✔Who was the founder of Early Renaissance Painting? - ✔✔Masaccio
✔✔Who laid the groundwork for 3-D realism during the Renaissance? - ✔✔Donatello
and Masaccio
✔✔The Sistine Chapel was.. - ✔✔Created in less than 4 years with 340 Human figures
incorporated by Michelangelo from 1508-1512
✔✔What medium is used in the Sistine Chapel? - ✔✔Fresco Painting
✔✔Who helped establish oil on canvas as an acceptable medium during the
Renaissance? - ✔✔Titian
✔✔Atmospheric Perspective - ✔✔The increasingly hazy appearance of objects farthest
from the viewer
✔✔Italian Renaissance Art - ✔✔Specialty: Ideal Beauty
Style: Simplified forms, measured proportions
Subjects: Religious and mythological scenes
,Figures: Heroic male nudes
Portraits: Formal, reserved
Technique: Fresco, Tempera, and Oil paintings
Emphasis: Underlying anatomical Structure
Basis of Art: Theory
Composition: Static, balanced
✔✔Northern Renaissance Art - ✔✔Specialty: Intense Realism
Style: Lifelike features, unflattering honesty
Subjects: Religious and domestic scenes
Figures: Prosperous citizens, peasants
Portraits: Reveal individual personality
Technique: Oil paintings on wood panels
Emphasis: Visible appearance
Basis of Art: Observation
Composition: Complex, irregular
✔✔Who invented Oil Painting? - ✔✔Hubert Van Eyck
✔✔What artist from the Renaissance helped influence the work of Surrealist Artists
during the 20th Century? - ✔✔Dutch painter, Hieronymous Bosch
✔✔Who was the first to use Printmaking as a medium during the Renaissance? -
✔✔Albrecht Durer
✔✔Juxtaposition - ✔✔The act or an instance of placing close together or side-by-side,
especially for comparison or contrast
✔✔How would the Baroque style be described? - ✔✔Theatrical, dramatic and emotional
✔✔During what Art Period did the "Still-Life" painting genre begin? - ✔✔Baroque
(Dutch)
✔✔Who established landscapes as an acceptable subject matter? - ✔✔The Dutch
during the Baroque Art Period
✔✔Alla Prima - ✔✔At first attempt; wet-on-wet
✔✔Impasto - ✔✔A thick application of paint that makes no attempt to look smooth
✔✔Camera Obscura - ✔✔A dark box with a pinhole opening that could project an
image of an object or scene to be traced on a sheet of paper
, ✔✔Renaissance and Baroque Artists - ✔✔Bellini, Bosch, Botticelli, Bruegel, Canaletto,
Caravaggio, Carracci, Claude, Correggio, Durer, El Greco, Giorgione, Hals, Holbein, La
Tour, Leonardo, Masaccio, Michelangelo, Poussin, Raphael, Rembrandt, Reni, Rubens,
Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Titian, Van Dyck, Van Eyck, Velazquez, Vermeer, Veronese,
Zurbardn
✔✔Motif - ✔✔A distinctive and reoccurring form, shape, figure, subject, theme, idea etc.
in a literary, artistic, or musical work
✔✔Frieze - ✔✔A sculptured or richly ornamented band ( as on a building or piece of
furniture)
✔✔David, "Oath of the Horatii", 1784 - ✔✔
✔✔Propaganda - ✔✔Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or
harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
✔✔What artist from the Neoclassical Art Period influenced the work of Picasso,
Matisse, and Degas? - ✔✔Auguste Dominique Ingres
✔✔Odalisque - ✔✔The reclining, or recumbent, female nude; Harem girl
✔✔Neoclassicism - ✔✔"Age of Reason"
Values: Order, solemnity
Tone: Calm, rational
Subjects: Greek and Roman History, mythology
Technique: Stressed drawing with lines, not color; no trace of brushstrokes
Role of Art: Morally uplifting, inspirational
Founder: David
✔✔Romanticism - ✔✔"Age of Sensibility"
Values: Intuition, emotion, imagination
Inspiration: Medieval and Baroque Eras, Middle and Far East
Tone: Subjective, spontaneous, nonconformist
Color: Unrestrained; deep, rich shades
Subjects: Legends, exotica, nature, violence
Genres: Narratives of heroic struggle, landscapes, wild animals
Technique: Quick brushstrokes, strong light and shade contrasts
Composition: Use of diagonal
✔✔Manifesto - ✔✔A public declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of an artist or
artistic movement
✔✔Rotunda - ✔✔Any building with a circular ground plain, and sometimes covered by a
dome or a round room within a building
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✔✔Aspe - ✔✔A large semicircular or polygonal recess in a church, arched or with a
domed roof, typically at the eastern end and usually containing an alter.
✔✔Barrel Vault - ✔✔Deep arch forming a half-cylindrical roof
✔✔Groin Vault - ✔✔Two intersecting barrel vaults at the same height that form a right
angle.
✔✔Arch - ✔✔A curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening and typically
supporting the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it
✔✔Vault - ✔✔AN arched structure, usually made of stones, concrete, or bricks forming
a ceiling or roof over a hall, room, sewer, or other wholly or partially enclosed
construction; arched ceiling
✔✔Dome - ✔✔A vault having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a
sphere
✔✔Tesserae - ✔✔Mosaics made of bits of colored stone, glass, or shell
✔✔What were the 3 styles of Art that emerged during the Middle Ages? - ✔✔1)
Byzantine
2)Romanesque
3) Gothic
✔✔Nave - ✔✔Main part of church interior
✔✔Flying Buttresses - ✔✔Exterior masonry bridges supporting walls; External supports
,✔✔Ribbed Vault - ✔✔Molded stone ribs covering seams of groin vaults
✔✔Clerestory - ✔✔Nave wall lit by windows
✔✔Rose Window - ✔✔Circular window filled with stained glass
✔✔Tracery - ✔✔Stone armature decorating windows
✔✔What were the chief forms of decoration in Gothic Cathedrals? - ✔✔Sculpture,
Stained Glass and Tapestries
✔✔Warp - ✔✔Lengthwise threads; weaving
✔✔What were the "breakthroughs" of the Renaissance? - ✔✔The use of oil paint,
perspective, Chiaroscuro, and pyramid configuration
✔✔Linear Perspective - ✔✔Created the optical effect of objects receding in the distance
through lines that appear to converge at a single point in the picture known as the
vanishing point
✔✔Chiaroscuro - ✔✔The distribution of light and shade in an artwork; "light/dark"
✔✔Pyramid Configuration - ✔✔A symmetrical composition that builds to a climax at the
center
✔✔Who was the founder of Early Renaissance Painting? - ✔✔Masaccio
✔✔Who laid the groundwork for 3-D realism during the Renaissance? - ✔✔Donatello
and Masaccio
✔✔The Sistine Chapel was.. - ✔✔Created in less than 4 years with 340 Human figures
incorporated by Michelangelo from 1508-1512
✔✔What medium is used in the Sistine Chapel? - ✔✔Fresco Painting
✔✔Who helped establish oil on canvas as an acceptable medium during the
Renaissance? - ✔✔Titian
✔✔Atmospheric Perspective - ✔✔The increasingly hazy appearance of objects farthest
from the viewer
✔✔Italian Renaissance Art - ✔✔Specialty: Ideal Beauty
Style: Simplified forms, measured proportions
Subjects: Religious and mythological scenes
,Figures: Heroic male nudes
Portraits: Formal, reserved
Technique: Fresco, Tempera, and Oil paintings
Emphasis: Underlying anatomical Structure
Basis of Art: Theory
Composition: Static, balanced
✔✔Northern Renaissance Art - ✔✔Specialty: Intense Realism
Style: Lifelike features, unflattering honesty
Subjects: Religious and domestic scenes
Figures: Prosperous citizens, peasants
Portraits: Reveal individual personality
Technique: Oil paintings on wood panels
Emphasis: Visible appearance
Basis of Art: Observation
Composition: Complex, irregular
✔✔Who invented Oil Painting? - ✔✔Hubert Van Eyck
✔✔What artist from the Renaissance helped influence the work of Surrealist Artists
during the 20th Century? - ✔✔Dutch painter, Hieronymous Bosch
✔✔Who was the first to use Printmaking as a medium during the Renaissance? -
✔✔Albrecht Durer
✔✔Juxtaposition - ✔✔The act or an instance of placing close together or side-by-side,
especially for comparison or contrast
✔✔How would the Baroque style be described? - ✔✔Theatrical, dramatic and emotional
✔✔During what Art Period did the "Still-Life" painting genre begin? - ✔✔Baroque
(Dutch)
✔✔Who established landscapes as an acceptable subject matter? - ✔✔The Dutch
during the Baroque Art Period
✔✔Alla Prima - ✔✔At first attempt; wet-on-wet
✔✔Impasto - ✔✔A thick application of paint that makes no attempt to look smooth
✔✔Camera Obscura - ✔✔A dark box with a pinhole opening that could project an
image of an object or scene to be traced on a sheet of paper
, ✔✔Renaissance and Baroque Artists - ✔✔Bellini, Bosch, Botticelli, Bruegel, Canaletto,
Caravaggio, Carracci, Claude, Correggio, Durer, El Greco, Giorgione, Hals, Holbein, La
Tour, Leonardo, Masaccio, Michelangelo, Poussin, Raphael, Rembrandt, Reni, Rubens,
Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Titian, Van Dyck, Van Eyck, Velazquez, Vermeer, Veronese,
Zurbardn
✔✔Motif - ✔✔A distinctive and reoccurring form, shape, figure, subject, theme, idea etc.
in a literary, artistic, or musical work
✔✔Frieze - ✔✔A sculptured or richly ornamented band ( as on a building or piece of
furniture)
✔✔David, "Oath of the Horatii", 1784 - ✔✔
✔✔Propaganda - ✔✔Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or
harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
✔✔What artist from the Neoclassical Art Period influenced the work of Picasso,
Matisse, and Degas? - ✔✔Auguste Dominique Ingres
✔✔Odalisque - ✔✔The reclining, or recumbent, female nude; Harem girl
✔✔Neoclassicism - ✔✔"Age of Reason"
Values: Order, solemnity
Tone: Calm, rational
Subjects: Greek and Roman History, mythology
Technique: Stressed drawing with lines, not color; no trace of brushstrokes
Role of Art: Morally uplifting, inspirational
Founder: David
✔✔Romanticism - ✔✔"Age of Sensibility"
Values: Intuition, emotion, imagination
Inspiration: Medieval and Baroque Eras, Middle and Far East
Tone: Subjective, spontaneous, nonconformist
Color: Unrestrained; deep, rich shades
Subjects: Legends, exotica, nature, violence
Genres: Narratives of heroic struggle, landscapes, wild animals
Technique: Quick brushstrokes, strong light and shade contrasts
Composition: Use of diagonal
✔✔Manifesto - ✔✔A public declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of an artist or
artistic movement
✔✔Rotunda - ✔✔Any building with a circular ground plain, and sometimes covered by a
dome or a round room within a building
