Praxis II (Art Content Knowledge) Study Guide – Flashcards
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What is Picture Plane?
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2D surface that you create artwork on
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Matisse Blue Nude-What is the visual focus of this artwork?
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Positive & Negative Shape
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What is Aesthetics?
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The study of the mind and emotions in relation to the sense of beauty...Something that is visually pleasing
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The Great Wave (Hokusai) What is the most visual effect used in this artwork?
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Use of solid color and bold lines.
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Mary Cassatt - What is the technique used to create variation in this artwork?
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Aquatint - a process imitating the broad flat tints of ink or wash drawings by etching a microscopic crackle on the copperplate intended for printing.
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What is it called when figures appear multiple times in the same composition?
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Continuous narration
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Iconography?
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symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
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Anomaly
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When an element is irregular in a regular pattern, a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form.
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Triad on a color wheel can be described as?
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3 colors equally spaced apart
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Which is the most characteristic of contour line drawing?
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Outside and interior description
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Which is the most characteristic of gesture drawing?
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Action and movement
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A pen and ink drawing is visually the most similar to what technique?
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Etching
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What is a local color?
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The value and color of the surface of an object.
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Which shows the most change in value?
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Cast shadow
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Which pencil lead is the softest?
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6B
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Which is a synthetic paint with transparent qualities and tints easily?
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Day Glo Orange
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What painting technique uses no layering in its appearance?
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Alla prima - a painting technique, used mostly in oil painting, in which layers of wet paint are applied to previous layers of wet paint.
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Wet-into-wet technique results in what appearance?
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Wet into Wet has been used for centuries by oil painters. So much so that new art collectors see the wet into wet technique as "real" oil painting, not understanding it is a technique -not a definition. As painters know, works in oil can take on all sorts of appearances.
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Why does watercolor paper contain sizing?
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To slow down the absorption of water into the paper.
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A hard-edge painting is most likely to be characterized by?
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An even, solid paint application
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What technique results in a singular print?
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Monoprint
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What is an under glaze used for?
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To change or add color to, the surface color of your clay, under glazes can also be used to change the texture of the body.
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What is used in ceramics?
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Caliper
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What removes air bubbles from clay?
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Wedging and kneading
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Which clay type used the smallest particles?
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porcelain
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Which of the following terms refers to pottery that has NOT been fired?
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Greenware
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African metal sculpture of a head, areas have been pushed out to show detail - What technique is used on this sculpture?
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Repousse (Rodin - Young Girl in a Flowered Hat)
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What is Marquette?
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Small model of a sculpture
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What is bas-relief?
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Sculpture technique that projects from the wall
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Assemblage
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A sculpture technique
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Fragile works of sculpture can be displayed most securely by placing the works....?
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In glass paneled cases
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What is it called when you move from one side of the scene and then move across the setting?
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Pan
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What is a pixel?
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Smallest unit in digital artwork
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Why should you compress and image?
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To transfer a file
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Which technique produces high quality prints?
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Giclee - a neologism coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne for fine art digital prints made on inkjet printers.
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What is stop-action animation?
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Clay and objects that are photographed and moved
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What describes a JPEG compressed digital photograph?
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The JPEG format compresses file size by selectively discarding data
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The term that best describes an artwork incorporates theatrical elements such as body movement, audience participation, music, and projected images is?
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Performance art
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What situation is the most ideal to use a tripod?
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A dark street at night
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What is used to obtain clarity in the distance?
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Optical zoom
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The nineteenth-century photographic process used to create a daguerreotype was not able to?
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capture sharp detail
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What is used inside quilts?
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Batting
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What is used in jewelry making to smooth out areas?
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Burnishing
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In weaving, the vertical and horizontal threads in a loom are called the?
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Warp and weft
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Which is the safest paint?
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Ultramarine Blue
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What is the safest way to melt wax?
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In a double boiler
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What is the safest way to clean a ceramics studio?
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Use a wet sponge and mop down the surfaces
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What is the best way to dispose of turpentine?
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Put into sealed container and bring it to a disposal location
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What does it mean when an Art and Creative Materials Institute Seal appears on art materials?
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Non-Toxic
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The most common solvent used in studio processes?
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Water
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What is the most reasonable action to take for an artist whose work requires the use of a specific hazardous product?
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Reading the product's label and proceeding according to the label directions
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In storing printmaking supplies, it is important to store _______ separately from others.
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Nitric Acid
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Who is the 13th century Italian painter whose work contains Byzantine characteristics?
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Cimabue
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What sculptor first utilized contrapasto in their work?
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Donatello
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What is the most typical architectural component of an Egyptian Hypostyle Hall?
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Post & Lintel
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Which architectural feature is NOT found in the Mosque of Cordoba?
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Flying buttress
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What style of work is the lined drawing/painting by Agnes Martin?
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Minimalist
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What makes Agnes Martin's piece not completely mechanical?
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Subtle use of color
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What style is Andre Derains use of color similar to?
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Fauvist
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Juxtaposition
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The placement of two things (usually abstract concepts, though it can refer to physical objects) near each other
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The painting Cultivating the Peas is of what style?
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American Regionalism
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What is Diego Rivera most known for?
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Muralist
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What characteristic makes this artwork Impressionist?
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Everyday subject matter
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What is the purpose of the terra cotta army in China?
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Protection after death. To protect the emperor in his afterlife, and to make sure that he had people to rule over.
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Who painted Judith Beheading Holofernes?
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Artemesia Gentileschi
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Abraham Mignon's Still Life of Flowers. What is the message of this painting.
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Fleeting nature of life
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What artwork has been described as a shingle factory explosion?
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Nude Descending a Staircase - Duchamp
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What is this building?
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Taj Majal
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The use of decorative calligraphy is tied to which religion?
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Islamic
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Which group often used Greek examples in their artwork?
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Romans
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Which artist used Smufato?
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DaVinci
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What region is the Book of Kelts and the Lindisfame from?
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Celtic
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What technique was first used in the Renaissance to achieve linear perspective?
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Camera Obscura
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Thomas Jefferson's architecture, Monticello, is designed in what style?
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Neo Classical
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Max Ernst anticipated and manipulated which of the following postmodern design as a means of conveying a sense of the irrational and the illogical?
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Juxtaposition
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A term that refers to Archaic Greek statues whose poses-rigidly frontal with clenched fists-recall the stance of ancient Egyptian statues.
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Kouroi
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Architecture of an Asian courtyard with a temple- The layout of design of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China, are intended mainly as a symbolic expression of the?
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Connection between imperial and cosmic orders
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In Michelangelo's sculpture, above, David's expression is best characterized as?
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Tense and watchful
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The contemporary artist Cindy Sherman is best known for her work in which of the following media?
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Photography
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The aesthetic philosophy that claims that the value of a work of art is determined by museums and galleries are known as?
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Institutionalism
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What style of artwork is Faberge known for?
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Jewelry Maya Lin is a famous artist, architect, and sculptor
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What work is Maya Lin best known for?
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Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.
