SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Praxis 2 Art
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
praxis
,
fine-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Used in water printing
Tempera paint
Facing forward and stiff
Rembrandt
Acrylic paint
2. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Tapestry
aquatint
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Abstract Expressionist Artists
3. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Wood and bronze
Pastel
Gel medium
film speed
4. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man
Baroque painting
Joseph Beuys
Michelangelo
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
5. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Romanesque Cathedrals
Adena Indian habitats
Monochrome printing
Rembrandt
6. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
warp
Camera Obscura
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
three point perspective
7. Most common oil in oil paints
Charcoal pen
Linseed oil
Wedging
Chiaroscuro
8. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Shutter Speed
Tint
Thomas Gainsborough
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
9. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Value
Loom
African masks
Acrylic paint
10. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Value
Acrylic paint
intaglio
gouache
11. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
12. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Doric columns
Scoring
Encaustic
Embroidery
13. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Linseed oil
analogous Colors
Armature
Motif
14. Sculptor. Major Work: The Thinker - a naturalist - less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition - he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks - and the decorative beauty of the Ba
film speed
Known Rodin prints
Rodin
Ionic columns
15. Symmetrical balance
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
16. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Georgian Style
CMYK
Rabbit Skin Glue
Sulfur
17. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Gel medium
The post - and - lintel system
Linear perspective
Printmaking Techniques
18. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Pastel
slip
megalith
Shade
19. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Gouache
Women artist of the 19th century
Van Der Zee
Encaustic
20. Air - dry unfired clay
Greenware
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Monochrome printing
21. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Appropriation Art
Rice paper
Tempera paint
analogous Colors
22. Focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy - rather than on figures - because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God - forbidden in the Qur'an.
Islam art
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Hagia Sophia
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
23. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Yarn
Women artist of the 19th century
Jewelry tools
Describe the process of fresco
24. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Designed the Barcelona chair
dry - brushing
Corinthian columns
value
25. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Design Principles
analogous Colors
Depression art
intermediate colors
26. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Value
Isocephaly
Encaustic
Pointillism
27. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.
Tempera paint
Equipment used in oil painting
William Blake
Parchment
28. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Film Speed
Designed the Barcelona chair
Enameling
value
29. Gray made by mixing complements
vehicle
chromatic gray
Batik
Fire clay
30. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
intaglio
Depression art
Color field painting
Enameling
31. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days
William Blake
Used to protect pastel artwork
Social Murals
the golden section (architecture)
32. Neo expressionist artist - Jean - Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s - and was the first African - American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally - charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the
Rotunda
Color field painting artists
Basquiat
stain glass in a cathedral
33. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Albert Durer
Shutter Speed
Isocephaly
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
34. Example of baroque architecture
Parchment
Hardbrick
Palace of Versaille
Shade
35. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Social Realism
Value
Cement
36. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Esquisse
Color field painting artists
Rococo
37. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Armature
Doric columns
Brushed used in oil painting
Acrylic paint
38. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Film Speed
Neoclassical
David Hockney
Used to protect pastel artwork
39. 3X 5300 pixels
stain glass in a cathedral
best resolution in a digital photo?
Monochrome printing
Design Elements
40. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Color field painting
Shade
Acrylic paint
Chiaroscuro
41. To make a quick sketch
Romanesque Cathedrals
Croquis
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Social Realism
42. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.
Islam art
Greenware
Color field painting
CMYK
43. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
best resolution in a digital photo?
Islam art
Wedging
Meyer Schapiro
44. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Trompe - l'oil
Joseph Beuys
Rotunda
African masks
45. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Collage
Shutter Speed
Barabara Krugel
Romanesque Cathedrals
46. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Wood and bronze
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Shade
Dome
47. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
48. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Paint Extender
Dome
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Pumice
49. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Artists associated with Pointillism
50. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Gothic Cathedrals
Hagia Sophia
Environmental Art
Depression art