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Praxis Art Content Knowledge Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved Batik - Traditional textile art form in Indonesia. Wax design applied to white cotton fabric. Artist paints with hot melted wax on dry fabric using a tjanting. Fabrics are placed in progressively darker dyes with new applicati...

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Praxis Art Content Knowledge Exam

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Batik - ✔✔Traditional textile art form in Indonesia. Wax design applied to

white cotton fabric. Artist paints with hot melted wax on dry fabric using a

tjanting. Fabrics are placed in progressively darker dyes with new

applications of wax between dye baths.

Shipping a charcoal drawing - ✔✔Mount on museum board, spray with

fixative, tape same size paper on top. DO NOT roll.

Josiah Wedgewood - ✔✔Neoclassical potter. Pastels and whites.

Contemporary of architect, Robert Adam. Their styles influenced each

other.

Robert Adam - ✔✔Neoclassical architect. Frescoed ceilings similar to

contemporary, Josiah Wedgewood's pottery.

Chac Mool - ✔✔Mesoamerican Mayan sculptures of reclining males with

bowls in their laps. Unearthed in modern times. Pre-Columbian. Ex: Temple

of Warriors, Chichen, Itza, Mexico.

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Kwakiutl - ✔✔Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest. Known for their

totem poles, masks, and canoes.

Olmec - ✔✔Mesoamerican civilization known for enormous stone

representations of the human head carved. Heads are up to 9 feet tall,

carved from basalt boulders, and weigh nearly 8 tons. Individualistic facial

features lead experts to believe they were portraits of their rulers.

Taj Mahal - ✔✔Commissioned by the Maghal emperor Shah Jahan as a

memorial and tomb for his wife, Mamtaz Mahal.

Iconographic Analysis - ✔✔Analysis which concerns itself with symbols,

themes, and subject matter of works of art in order to establish the meaning

an artwork had at the time of its creation.

Cobalt - ✔✔Toxic pigment. Ex of non toxic pigments: mars black, burnt

sienna, and ultramarine violet.

Imari - ✔✔Japanese porcelain made in the town of Arita. Named for the

port from which it was exported extensively during the 1600's and 1700's.

Best known kind by Westerners is Kinrande. Still made today.

Jade - ✔✔Green stone traditionally used for carvings and jewelry in China.

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Celadon - ✔✔Ceramic wares glazed in the jade-green color of the same

name. This color is classically produced by firing a glaze containing a small

amount of iron oxide in a reducing kiln. Originated in China - also made in

Japan, Korea, and Thailand.

Tessarae - ✔✔Glass tile, usually in the shape of a cube. Used to make

mosaics. Also known as abaciscus or abaculus. Used a lot in Byzantine

and Roman mosaics.

Chinoiserie - ✔✔Western art or architecture with motifs and techniques

which mimic those or Chinese art. Prevalent in the 18th century.

Sfumato - ✔✔Technique of gradually allowing tones and colors to fade into

each other. Softened outlines. Hazy figures. Ex: the Mona Lisa.

Contraposto - ✔✔Asymmetrical arrangement of a figure where the weight

is positioned onto one hip, naturalistically.

Cast paper sculpture - ✔✔Casting paper pulp into a mold to create a relief

or around an armature.

Papier mache - ✔✔French for chewed up paper.

Mixture of paper and glue used as a sculpture medium.

Reticulation - ✔✔Resembling net or network.

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