Praxis 5135 Art: Content & Analysis
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Relief - correct answer...✔✔A projecting design carved or modeled on a flat
background
Perspective - correct answer...✔✔A technique for representing space and 3-
dimensional objects on a flat, 2-dimensional surface by suggesting depth or distance
Figurative - correct answer...✔✔Style that accurately represents figures, animals, or
other recognizable objects
Graphic - correct answer...✔✔Art on a flat surface based on drawing and use of line;
especially applied to printmaking
Plane - correct answer...✔✔A flat, 2-dimensional surface with a defined boundary; An
element with 2 dimensions-length and width
Static - correct answer...✔✔Arrangement of shapes, lines, colors that reduce visual
movement when looking at a picture
Flat - correct answer...✔✔Without illusion of volume or depth; also pure color lacking
gradations of tone
Complementary - correct answer...✔✔Opposite colors on the color wheel (green/red;
orange/blue)
Values - correct answer...✔✔Degree of light or dark in a color
Monumental - correct answer...✔✔Pertaining to monuments; heroic scale
Drypoint - correct 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 - correct answer...✔✔Indentations on a plate are submerged in an acid bath so
that only the lines appear in the print
Lithograph - correct 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
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,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) - correct 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 - correct answer...✔✔The use of distorted, exaggerated forms and
colors for emotional impact
L'Art Brut - correct answer...✔✔Raw or crude art; coined by Dubuffet
Haniwa - correct 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 - correct 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
Trinity at Horyu-ji and the early T'ang style - correct 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 - correct answer...✔✔An architectural model constructed of wood which is
meant to enclose an image such as a painting.
The Bauhaus Art School - correct 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 - correct 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.
The art primarily consists of masks, fabrics, vessels and similar artifacts that often
depict animal and human forms. Snakes, condors and jaguars were frequent subjects
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,and surviving renditions indicate that the artisans had a superior understanding of these
creatures.
The Origin and Style of Indian Pallava sculpture - correct answer...✔✔Pallava has its
origins in the Buddhist sculptures and stupas at Amaravati and was the predominant
style of early medieval art in Southern India.
Pallava figures exhibit a roundedness or curvaceous fluidity and are often depicted in
exaggerated poses accentuating movement.
Brief Historical summary of Chinese painting - correct answer...✔✔The Chinese began
painting as we know it in a modern sense more than 3000 years ago.
Western museums have commonly preserved portable paintings, including screens,
hanging scrolls, fans and albums.
The most commonly used materials were pigments or colors, silk, paper, ink and brush.
A substantial amount of Chinese art is a combination of painting and line drawing.
Subject matter was quite often landscapes.
Rivers, trees, animals, mountains, air and sky frequently possessed life-like qualities of
movement.
The Shang Dynasty - correct answer...✔✔Developed a written language as well as
hunting and agricultural techniques. Religion or at least certainly spirituality played a
part in their society as well.
The Shang expressed themselves artistically on practical objects such as axes,
weapons, urns, kettles and other forms of pottery. They were prolific and accomplished
Bronze artisans.
The use of Jade in Chinese Art - correct answer...✔✔No other culture is known to have
worked jade for artistic purposed in such a consistent and unbroken tradition as the
Chinese.
The earliest jade objects recovered from China are tools and disks with central circular
orifices but over the first 1000 years of carving the general artistic styles of the Shang
and Chou dynasties effected an increased sophistication in style and subject matter.
Encaustic - correct answer...✔✔A mixture of powered pigment and hot wax; used in
painting and sculpture.
Contrapposto - correct answer...✔✔The principle of weight shift in which the weight of
the body rests on one leg.
What is the Parthenon made of? - correct answer...✔✔Marble
What are 3 types of Columns used in Ancient Greek Culture? - correct answer...✔✔1.
Doric
2. Corinthian
3. Ionic
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, Geometric Art (Greek Art Style) - correct answer...✔✔Pottery ornamented with
geometric banding and friezes of simplified animals and humans
Archaic Art (Greek Art Style) - correct answer...✔✔Includes Kouros stone figures and
vase painting
Kouros (Greek Art Style) - correct answer...✔✔(Nude male youth) Free-standing
statues of human figures; frontal stance, left foot forward, clenched fists, and grimace
know as "Archiac smile"
Kore (Greek Art Style) - correct answer...✔✔(Clorhed maiden) Free-standing statues of
human figures; frontal stance, left foot forward, clenched fists, and grimace know as
"Archiac smile"
Severe Style (Greek Art Style) - correct answer...✔✔Early phase of Classical sculpture
characterized by reserved, remote expressions
Classical Art (Greek Art Style) - correct answer...✔✔Peak of Greek art and
architecture, idealized figures exemplify order and harmony
Hellenistic Art (Greek Art Style) - correct answer...✔✔Greek-derived style, found in
Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt; more melodramatic than Classical style
Basilica - correct answer...✔✔An oblong building with semicircular aspes on either end
and high clerestory windows. Used as a meeting place in Roman times and widely
imitated in Medieval Churches
Tromp L'oeil - correct answer...✔✔A style of painting which gives the appearance of 3-
D or photographic realism
Aspe - correct answer...✔✔A large semicircular or polygonal recess in a church,
arched or with a domed roof, typically at the eastern end and usually containing an alter.
Barrel Vault - correct answer...✔✔Deep arch forming a half-cylindrical roof
Groin Vault - correct answer...✔✔Two intersecting barrel vaults at the same height that
form a right angle.
Arch - correct answer...✔✔A curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening and
typically supporting the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it
Vault - correct answer...✔✔AN arched structure, usually made of stones, concrete, or
bricks forming a ceiling or roof over a hall, room, sewer, or other wholly or partially
enclosed construction; arched ceiling
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