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NYSTCE Multi-subject Teachers of Childhood (grades 1-6) – 245 – 41 Q/A (Fine Arts portion)
NYSTCE Multi-subject Teachers of Childhood (grades 1-6) – 245 – 41 Q/A (Fine Arts portion)
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NYSTCE Multi-subject Teachers of Childhood(grades 1-6) – 245 – 41 Q/A (Fine Arts portion)
Abstract - -Image that reduces a subject to its essential visual elements
(lines, shapes, colors)
-Background - -Portions or areas of composition that are behind the primary
subject matter
-Balance - -A condition in which different elements are equal or in the
correct proportions (symmetrical). There are three types of visual balance:
symmetry, asymmetry, and radial.
-Contrast - -Juxtaposing one or more elements in opposition (to show their
differences)
-Emphasis - -Makes one part of a work dominant over the other parts
-Texture - -The feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface, substance, or
fabric.
-Unity - -The arrangement of parts in an artistic piece such that all of them
work together to make up one whole and/or serve one primary purpose.
-Prehistoric Arts - -1,000,000-8,000 BCE
Religious fertility rites and sympathetic magic (pregnant animals/faceless
pregnant women)
-Mesopotamian Art - -8,000-400 BCE
Prayer statues and cult deities (gods/goddesses)
(theme of polytheism in worship)
-Egyptian Art - -3,000-100 BCE
Funerary art (theme of afterlife) and divinity of the pharaohs
-Greek Art - -800-100 BCE
Mostly nude and draped human figures (athletes, gods, goddesses)
Theme: the ideal human
Genres: vase painting, classical sculpture
, -Roman Art - -480 BCE-476 CE
Realistic depiction of humans
Genres: frescoes - murals done in fresh plaster to affix the paint
Classical sculptures, funerary art, state propaganda art
-Middle Ages Art - -300-1400 CE
Religious in nature (Catholic church is the primary patron of the arts)
Purpose is to educate
Illustration of Bible stories, lives of the saints, consequences of good and evil,
Holy Family
Genres: cathedral sculptures, altarpieces, fresco paintings
-Renaissance Art - -1400-1630 CE
An art of line and edges, figures from the bible, (Christian religious
depiction), classical history, and mythology
Humanism: individuality and human reason
Northern oil painting, printmaking, High Renaissance painting/sculpture
-Baroque Art - -1630-1700 CE
Dramatic climaxes of well-known stories, legends, and battles
Dutch portraiture, Spanish and Italian Baroque, Mannerism
-18th Century Art - -1700-1800 CE
Focused on religion, portraiture of aristocrats, satire, pleasure and escapism
Romantic painting, Neoclassic painting and sculpture
-19th Century Art - -1800-1900 CE
Romantic themes: human freedom, equality, civil rights, love for nature (the
most important discoveries are made within the self)
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