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Texas Art Teacher Certification Exam

Subjects : teaching, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Date: 1839-1906 Important: Painted Mount Saint Victoire in Aix en- Provence over 60 times. Each painting is different b/c of angle and light -Trust your own eyes - and fanatic for the truth -Light- vibrations of color-Like an impressionist- heavy han






2. A print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil






3. A style of abstractionism popular in the 1960s - modern technique with which a painter creates optical illusions with the use of dazzling patterns - abstract art athat uses geometric shapes and vivid colors to create optical illusions - such as an il






4. French Painter - who started his career as a caricaturist - then converted to landscape painting by his early mentor Boudin. From 1890 he concentrated on series of pictures in which he painted the same subject at different times of the day in differe






5. A loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads - French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)






6. Processes designed to produce tonal effects






7. Application of potassium sulphide






8. The threads running from side to side across a fabric; wool






9. An Italian movement begun shortly before and during WWI. It depicted dynamic movement and stressed the violence and speed of the Machine Age. They advocated revolution and glorified war.(Balla - Severini - Boccioni)






10. Fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure - Fusing two pieces of material using a heat process; most commonly used with metal and plastics






11. Pottery that has been fired but not yet glazed.






12. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






13. A simple printmaking technique in which ink or paint is appleid to a metal or plastic plate - worked with various tools - and then printed onto paper using a press - roller - or other pressure.






14. French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955) - Influences include hard sharp precision of a machine age






15. Emphasis of this architecture is on the horizontal






16. Technique of shading using dots to control value






17. Material used to imbed rings - bracelets - necklaces -etc when making hand-wrought jewelry






18. Printmaking where the design is scratched into the steel plate with a hard - steel tool






19. A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops






20. A solid screen - covered with icons - at the front of the church - dividing the sanctuary from the body of the building.






21. A plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder - which in turn transfers it to the paper






22. Joining small pieces of metal together using molten metal - bonding metals and alloys that melt at temperatures below 840






23. Produces a red dye - the chemical name for rust






24. A coarse - inexpensive - woven fabric; often used for making grain sacks






25. Enameling technique - used more gold and less color than cloisonne. Starts with thick gold piece - cut tiny troughs wherever want color to be - gold is most prominent in end - rarely has patterns engraved.






26. Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines






27. Printing process in which the printing plate that has raised that is rolled with ink to print.






28. Process of smoothing metal surface witha flat or slightly round-faced hammer






29. Wrought iron - hammered copper - painted tin NOT pewter






30. Creates blue dye






31. Term used to visualize a recreation of audio-video






32. Something that supports a sculpture






33. Known for his glass sculpture






34. Formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back - leaving the impression on the face






35. An enameling technique in which thin wire partitions-cloisons-are filled with enamel. It is an art form practiced in ancient Byzantium






36. Italian 'light-dark'. The gradation of light and dark values in two-dimensional imagery; especially the illusion of rounded - three-dimensional form created through gradations of light and shade rather than line.






37. A philosophical doctrine and literary and dramatic movement that insists on the existence of individuals as basic and important. believes that the world is inhernetly meaningless and individuals must find meaning in their literal - concrete existence






38. Incised engraving - the process of printing from engraved plates - a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate - ex: the plate is smeared with ink and Then wiped clean. The ink left in the recesses is what makes the print.






39. A matted tangle of hair or fiber






40. Network Interface Card; the device that enables a workstation to connect to the network and communicate with other computers.






41. An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing - An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing






42. A coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue - stiff-finished cotton or linen used for linings of garments






43. Watercolor with inert white pigment mixed in. Inert pigment is pigment that becomes colorless or virtually colorless paint. In gouache - it serves to make the color opaque - which means it is used at full length - watercolor mixed with a high concent






44. Where the revolving door was fully developed






45. Embroidery done in cross-stitch on fine single net






46. Spanish founder of cubism; made Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to seek to create a new visual reality and provoke revolutionary upheaval; his figures are broken into large - flat planes with dislocated body parts; used African masks; very non-Western; Gue






47. A plain woven lightweight - extremely sheer - airy - and soft silk fabric - containing highly twisted filament yarns. The fabric - used mainly in evening dresses and scarves - can also be made from rayon and other manufactured fibers






48. In lithography - a waxy substance used to draw or paint images on a lithographic stone or plate






49. A water-base paint made with casein (which is a protein precipitated from milk)






50. Term used to describe the many degrees of shading between black and white