Praxis 5135 Art: Content & Analysis
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Relief - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A projecting design carved or modeled on a flat
background
Perspective - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A technique for representing space and 3-
dimensional objects on a flat, 2-dimensional surface by suggesting depth or
distance
Figurative - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Style that accurately represents figures,
animals, or other recognizable objects
Graphic - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Art on a flat surface based on drawing and use of
line; especially applied to printmaking
Plane - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A flat, 2-dimensional surface with a defined
boundary; An element with 2 dimensions-length and width
,Static - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Arrangement of shapes, lines, colors that reduce
visual movement when looking at a picture
Flat - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Without illusion of volume or depth; also pure color
lacking gradations of tone
Complementary - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Opposite colors on the color wheel
(green/red; orange/blue)
Values - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Degree of light or dark in a color
Monumental - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Pertaining to monuments; heroic scale
Drypoint - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An Intaglio printing process where a design is
scratched into a copper or zinc plate with a fine steel needle or jewel, which
permits soft atmospheric effects
Etching - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Indentations on a plate are submerged in an acid
bath so that only the lines appear in the print
Lithograph - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The artist draws on a limestone slab with a
greasy crayon. Water is applied, which adheres to the stones's non greasy
surface, and then greasy ink is rolled on, which sticks only where there is
,no water. A sheet of paper is then applied to the slab in a lithographic press
to reproduce
Silk Screen Prints (Serigrophy) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Developed by Andy
Warhol; A stencil is attached to a screen of silk stretched on a frame, then
ink is forced through the stencil with a rubber squeegee
Expressionism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The use of distorted, exaggerated forms
and colors for emotional impact
L'Art Brut - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Raw or crude art; coined by Dubuffet
Haniwa - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔"Circle of Clay"; Resembles a cylinder perhaps to
the height of a picket fence around the mound.
Haniwa art tells us much about early life in Japan
Neolithic, Pre-Bronze Age Japanese Art - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Prolific and
accomplished potters;
Early designs were simple cord patterns in relatively low relief;
Figurines of the era depict similar, corded styling and knotting
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, Trinity at Horyu-ji and the early T'ang style - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Located within
the Tachibana Shrine at Nara; Constructed of gilded bronze and housed in
a wooden tabernacle, it consists of three major units-a flat base; a triptych
for a background screen and the three main sculptural images which either
sit or stand on lotuses that rise from a
Tamamushi - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An architectural model constructed of wood
which is meant to enclose an image such as a painting.
The Bauhaus Art School - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Founded by architect Walter
Gropius at Weimer, Germany in 1919.
The basic course at the school consisted of training through art that
A)involved all the sense, B) combined thinking and feeling and C) included
problem solving through direct experience.
The theories and curriculum developed at the school proved influential to
the industrial design of many products including automobiles, tools,
household appliances and furniture.
Pre-Columbian Art - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Art produced by various civilizations
that existed in the Americas prior to Spanish conquest and colonization in
the 16th century. Much existing art was destroyed during this time.
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Correct
Answers | New Update
Relief - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A projecting design carved or modeled on a flat
background
Perspective - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A technique for representing space and 3-
dimensional objects on a flat, 2-dimensional surface by suggesting depth or
distance
Figurative - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Style that accurately represents figures,
animals, or other recognizable objects
Graphic - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Art on a flat surface based on drawing and use of
line; especially applied to printmaking
Plane - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A flat, 2-dimensional surface with a defined
boundary; An element with 2 dimensions-length and width
,Static - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Arrangement of shapes, lines, colors that reduce
visual movement when looking at a picture
Flat - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Without illusion of volume or depth; also pure color
lacking gradations of tone
Complementary - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Opposite colors on the color wheel
(green/red; orange/blue)
Values - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Degree of light or dark in a color
Monumental - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Pertaining to monuments; heroic scale
Drypoint - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An Intaglio printing process where a design is
scratched into a copper or zinc plate with a fine steel needle or jewel, which
permits soft atmospheric effects
Etching - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Indentations on a plate are submerged in an acid
bath so that only the lines appear in the print
Lithograph - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The artist draws on a limestone slab with a
greasy crayon. Water is applied, which adheres to the stones's non greasy
surface, and then greasy ink is rolled on, which sticks only where there is
,no water. A sheet of paper is then applied to the slab in a lithographic press
to reproduce
Silk Screen Prints (Serigrophy) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Developed by Andy
Warhol; A stencil is attached to a screen of silk stretched on a frame, then
ink is forced through the stencil with a rubber squeegee
Expressionism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The use of distorted, exaggerated forms
and colors for emotional impact
L'Art Brut - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Raw or crude art; coined by Dubuffet
Haniwa - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔"Circle of Clay"; Resembles a cylinder perhaps to
the height of a picket fence around the mound.
Haniwa art tells us much about early life in Japan
Neolithic, Pre-Bronze Age Japanese Art - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Prolific and
accomplished potters;
Early designs were simple cord patterns in relatively low relief;
Figurines of the era depict similar, corded styling and knotting
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, Trinity at Horyu-ji and the early T'ang style - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Located within
the Tachibana Shrine at Nara; Constructed of gilded bronze and housed in
a wooden tabernacle, it consists of three major units-a flat base; a triptych
for a background screen and the three main sculptural images which either
sit or stand on lotuses that rise from a
Tamamushi - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An architectural model constructed of wood
which is meant to enclose an image such as a painting.
The Bauhaus Art School - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Founded by architect Walter
Gropius at Weimer, Germany in 1919.
The basic course at the school consisted of training through art that
A)involved all the sense, B) combined thinking and feeling and C) included
problem solving through direct experience.
The theories and curriculum developed at the school proved influential to
the industrial design of many products including automobiles, tools,
household appliances and furniture.
Pre-Columbian Art - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Art produced by various civilizations
that existed in the Americas prior to Spanish conquest and colonization in
the 16th century. Much existing art was destroyed during this time.
