PRAXIS 5135 ART ACTUAL TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What concept did The International Style Architects borrow from Frank Lloyd
Wright? - ✔✔The concept of flowing space along with clean-cut rectangular shapes
radiating from a central core
✔✔Automatism - ✔✔A form of creating without conscious control
✔✔What are the two forms of Surrealism? - ✔✔1) Improvised Art (Distance from
Conscious Control)
2) Realistic Techniques to present hallucinatory scenes defying common sense
✔✔Frottage - ✔✔A new method for generating surprising imagery which consisted of
rubbing with graphite over wood or similar surfaces; invented by Max Ernst
✔✔Critical Paranoia Technique - ✔✔Based on exploiting his own neuroses; used by
Salvador Dali
✔✔Modernist Photographers focused on what? - ✔✔Taut compositions and pure form
✔✔Modernist Photographers - ✔✔Man Ray ( Dadaism/Surrealism), Eugene Atget,
Edward Weston, Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson
✔✔Myographs - ✔✔Method where objects are placed on photo-sensitive paper, then
exposed to light; Created by Man Ray
✔✔Who is the "Father of Modern Photography"? - ✔✔Eugene Atget
✔✔Ashcan School Artists - ✔✔George Luks, John Sloan, William Glackens, Everett
Shin, George Bellows
,✔✔What did Dynamtic Energy do for the Ashcan School? - ✔✔It marked both the
subject and the style of the school
✔✔What two forms of Realism emerged during the Depression? - ✔✔The American
Scene School (Regionalism) and Social Realism
✔✔What did The American Scene School and Social Realism portray? - ✔✔Simple-folk,
reacted against the growing of Abstract Art and tried to stir up either pride or protest
✔✔American Scene Painters - ✔✔Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, Grant
Wood
✔✔WPA - ✔✔The Works Progress Administration; Employed millions to carry out public
work projects, including public buildings and road construction
✔✔Social Realist Artists - ✔✔Ben Shahn, Reginald Marsh, Jacob Lawrence, Jose
Orozco, David Siqueiros, Diego Rivera
✔✔Social Realism - ✔✔Artists were deeply committed to social shange. Attacked
Capitalism in a semi-realistic style that exaggerated features, color and scale for
emotional impact
✔✔Happening - ✔✔Art as the active process of creating it
✔✔What else is Abstract Expressionism referred to as? - ✔✔Action painting or the New
York School
✔✔Abstract Expressionism Theory - ✔✔Image not a result of a preconceived idea, but
of the creative process
✔✔Configuration - ✔✔The arrangement of parts or elements in a pattern or form
✔✔Action Painting - ✔✔A style of Abstract Expressionism painting in which paint is
randomly splashed, thrown, or poured onto the canvas
✔✔Drip Paintings - ✔✔A dense network of fluid, interlacing lines; Jackson Pollock
✔✔What did Jackson Pollock contribute to the Art world? - ✔✔Emotional expression
through Abstraction
✔✔Which of William De Kooning's series was compared to the Venus of Willendorf? -
✔✔"Woman" Series
✔✔Push/Pull Theory - ✔✔Repulsion/attraction of certain colors; Hans Hofmann
,✔✔Monochromatic - ✔✔All the colors of a single hue (tints, tones, and shades)
✔✔Outsider Art - ✔✔Work outside the mainstream of professional Art, produced by self-
taught, inwardly driven artists
✔✔Outsider Artists - ✔✔Simon Rodia, Adolf Wolfli, Jimmie Lee Suddath
✔✔Mobiles - ✔✔Sculpture in motion; Alexander Calder
✔✔What influenced the work of Post-War Sculptor Henry Moore? - ✔✔Anglo-Saxon,
sumerian and Pre-Colombian artifacts
✔✔Stabiles - ✔✔Non-moving steel structures whose intersecting planes spring from the
ground on tiny points; Alexander Calder
✔✔Color Field Painting - ✔✔Method where vast expanses or "fields" of color become
the focal point
✔✔Veil Painting - ✔✔The overlapping fans of color produced by pouring pigment down
vertically placed canvases
✔✔Stain Painting - ✔✔A method allowing oil or acrylic paint that has been thinned with
Turpentine to be poured over the canvas and absorbed into the fabric
✔✔Black Mountain College - ✔✔Liberal Arts Experimental College located near
Asheville, NC, the College was open from 1933-1957
✔✔What materials do Hard-Edge Painters use? - ✔✔Fast-drying acrylic paint and
masking tape
✔✔Who is considered one of the most original contemporary artists? - ✔✔Frank Stella,
born 1936
✔✔Combines - ✔✔Half painting, half sculpture; created by Robert Rauschenberg
✔✔Appropriation - ✔✔The use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no
transformation applied to them; the intentional borrowing, copying and alteration of pre-
existing images or objects
✔✔ROCI - ✔✔Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange;
A self-funded crusade by Rauschenberg to promote peace through art
, ✔✔Pop Art - ✔✔Movement during the 1960's in which artists create works
based/influenced by popular culture
✔✔How did Andy Warhol make art available to the masses? - ✔✔By making art out of
daily life
✔✔Minimalist Artist - ✔✔Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Sol Lewitt, Robert
Morris, Richard Serra
✔✔Minimalism - ✔✔Locale: U.S., 1960-1970's
Form: Abstract, geometric modules
Look: Clean, Bare, Simple
Technique: Macbine-mode
Meaning: You be the judge
✔✔Conceptual Art - ✔✔The idea rather than the final product is considered art
✔✔What did Post-Modernism revive in Contemporary Architecture? - ✔✔Color,
ornament and historical touches (dome, arch, vault)
✔✔Contemporary Architects - ✔✔I. M. Pei, Philip Johnson, John Burgee, Michael
Graves, Frank O. Gehry, Robert Venturi, John Rausch
✔✔Stoa - ✔✔Columned pavilion
✔✔Agora - ✔✔Open meeting area
✔✔What is the most important trait of contemporary photography? - ✔✔Diversity
✔✔Contemporary Photographers - ✔✔(Late Modernism-Post-Modernism)
Bernice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Robert Capa, Ansel
Adams, Jerry Uelsmann
✔✔Straight Photography - ✔✔Refers to the attempt to depict a scene/subject in sharp
focus and detail
✔✔Street Photographers - ✔✔Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Bruce Davidson, Gary
Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Joel Meverowitz
✔✔Photo-Realism Photographers - ✔✔Richard Estes, Don Eddy, Audrey Flack, Chuck
Close
✔✔Magnum Opus - ✔✔A large and important work of art, music, or literature, especially
one regarded as the most important work of an artist or writer
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What concept did The International Style Architects borrow from Frank Lloyd
Wright? - ✔✔The concept of flowing space along with clean-cut rectangular shapes
radiating from a central core
✔✔Automatism - ✔✔A form of creating without conscious control
✔✔What are the two forms of Surrealism? - ✔✔1) Improvised Art (Distance from
Conscious Control)
2) Realistic Techniques to present hallucinatory scenes defying common sense
✔✔Frottage - ✔✔A new method for generating surprising imagery which consisted of
rubbing with graphite over wood or similar surfaces; invented by Max Ernst
✔✔Critical Paranoia Technique - ✔✔Based on exploiting his own neuroses; used by
Salvador Dali
✔✔Modernist Photographers focused on what? - ✔✔Taut compositions and pure form
✔✔Modernist Photographers - ✔✔Man Ray ( Dadaism/Surrealism), Eugene Atget,
Edward Weston, Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson
✔✔Myographs - ✔✔Method where objects are placed on photo-sensitive paper, then
exposed to light; Created by Man Ray
✔✔Who is the "Father of Modern Photography"? - ✔✔Eugene Atget
✔✔Ashcan School Artists - ✔✔George Luks, John Sloan, William Glackens, Everett
Shin, George Bellows
,✔✔What did Dynamtic Energy do for the Ashcan School? - ✔✔It marked both the
subject and the style of the school
✔✔What two forms of Realism emerged during the Depression? - ✔✔The American
Scene School (Regionalism) and Social Realism
✔✔What did The American Scene School and Social Realism portray? - ✔✔Simple-folk,
reacted against the growing of Abstract Art and tried to stir up either pride or protest
✔✔American Scene Painters - ✔✔Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, Grant
Wood
✔✔WPA - ✔✔The Works Progress Administration; Employed millions to carry out public
work projects, including public buildings and road construction
✔✔Social Realist Artists - ✔✔Ben Shahn, Reginald Marsh, Jacob Lawrence, Jose
Orozco, David Siqueiros, Diego Rivera
✔✔Social Realism - ✔✔Artists were deeply committed to social shange. Attacked
Capitalism in a semi-realistic style that exaggerated features, color and scale for
emotional impact
✔✔Happening - ✔✔Art as the active process of creating it
✔✔What else is Abstract Expressionism referred to as? - ✔✔Action painting or the New
York School
✔✔Abstract Expressionism Theory - ✔✔Image not a result of a preconceived idea, but
of the creative process
✔✔Configuration - ✔✔The arrangement of parts or elements in a pattern or form
✔✔Action Painting - ✔✔A style of Abstract Expressionism painting in which paint is
randomly splashed, thrown, or poured onto the canvas
✔✔Drip Paintings - ✔✔A dense network of fluid, interlacing lines; Jackson Pollock
✔✔What did Jackson Pollock contribute to the Art world? - ✔✔Emotional expression
through Abstraction
✔✔Which of William De Kooning's series was compared to the Venus of Willendorf? -
✔✔"Woman" Series
✔✔Push/Pull Theory - ✔✔Repulsion/attraction of certain colors; Hans Hofmann
,✔✔Monochromatic - ✔✔All the colors of a single hue (tints, tones, and shades)
✔✔Outsider Art - ✔✔Work outside the mainstream of professional Art, produced by self-
taught, inwardly driven artists
✔✔Outsider Artists - ✔✔Simon Rodia, Adolf Wolfli, Jimmie Lee Suddath
✔✔Mobiles - ✔✔Sculpture in motion; Alexander Calder
✔✔What influenced the work of Post-War Sculptor Henry Moore? - ✔✔Anglo-Saxon,
sumerian and Pre-Colombian artifacts
✔✔Stabiles - ✔✔Non-moving steel structures whose intersecting planes spring from the
ground on tiny points; Alexander Calder
✔✔Color Field Painting - ✔✔Method where vast expanses or "fields" of color become
the focal point
✔✔Veil Painting - ✔✔The overlapping fans of color produced by pouring pigment down
vertically placed canvases
✔✔Stain Painting - ✔✔A method allowing oil or acrylic paint that has been thinned with
Turpentine to be poured over the canvas and absorbed into the fabric
✔✔Black Mountain College - ✔✔Liberal Arts Experimental College located near
Asheville, NC, the College was open from 1933-1957
✔✔What materials do Hard-Edge Painters use? - ✔✔Fast-drying acrylic paint and
masking tape
✔✔Who is considered one of the most original contemporary artists? - ✔✔Frank Stella,
born 1936
✔✔Combines - ✔✔Half painting, half sculpture; created by Robert Rauschenberg
✔✔Appropriation - ✔✔The use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no
transformation applied to them; the intentional borrowing, copying and alteration of pre-
existing images or objects
✔✔ROCI - ✔✔Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange;
A self-funded crusade by Rauschenberg to promote peace through art
, ✔✔Pop Art - ✔✔Movement during the 1960's in which artists create works
based/influenced by popular culture
✔✔How did Andy Warhol make art available to the masses? - ✔✔By making art out of
daily life
✔✔Minimalist Artist - ✔✔Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Sol Lewitt, Robert
Morris, Richard Serra
✔✔Minimalism - ✔✔Locale: U.S., 1960-1970's
Form: Abstract, geometric modules
Look: Clean, Bare, Simple
Technique: Macbine-mode
Meaning: You be the judge
✔✔Conceptual Art - ✔✔The idea rather than the final product is considered art
✔✔What did Post-Modernism revive in Contemporary Architecture? - ✔✔Color,
ornament and historical touches (dome, arch, vault)
✔✔Contemporary Architects - ✔✔I. M. Pei, Philip Johnson, John Burgee, Michael
Graves, Frank O. Gehry, Robert Venturi, John Rausch
✔✔Stoa - ✔✔Columned pavilion
✔✔Agora - ✔✔Open meeting area
✔✔What is the most important trait of contemporary photography? - ✔✔Diversity
✔✔Contemporary Photographers - ✔✔(Late Modernism-Post-Modernism)
Bernice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Robert Capa, Ansel
Adams, Jerry Uelsmann
✔✔Straight Photography - ✔✔Refers to the attempt to depict a scene/subject in sharp
focus and detail
✔✔Street Photographers - ✔✔Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Bruce Davidson, Gary
Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Joel Meverowitz
✔✔Photo-Realism Photographers - ✔✔Richard Estes, Don Eddy, Audrey Flack, Chuck
Close
✔✔Magnum Opus - ✔✔A large and important work of art, music, or literature, especially
one regarded as the most important work of an artist or writer
