PRAXIS ART: CONTENT KNOWLEDGE EXAM AND

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PRAXIS ART: CONTENT KNOWLEDGE (5134) EXAM AND

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Which of the following terms refers to agreeing with a traditional doctrine?

• Heterodox.
• Orthodox.
• Academic.
• Popularizing. - Correct Answer - B. Orthodox.

Orthodox can be used to describe a wide variety of behavior, but in art it generally refers to agreeing with established doctrine and practices.Heterodox is the opposite of orthodox.

The technique that is used most often in watercolor landscape painting, to suggest a range of natural effects, such as sunlight on water or the texture of rock, is which of the following?

• dry brush
• flocculation
• granulation
• wax resist - Correct Answer - A. Dry brush

The dry brush technique is invaluable in watercolor painting, because it can suggest complex textures and details by an economy of means. Dry brush is used most often in landscape painting to suggest a range of natural effects

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pg. 2 A product bearing a "highly flammable" label means that this product has a

flash point of below:

A. 212° F

B. 100° F

C. 98.6° F

• 70° F - Correct Answer - D. 70° F

A product bearing the "highly flammable" label has a flash point of below 70° F. The container should be kept closed when not in use, and it should not be left near sources of heat or ignition.

Which of the following characteristics of a painting would be most important to a formalist critic?

• The artist's life
• The place of the painting in an artistic tradition
• The critical reception of a painting
• The painter's use of line, shadow, and color - Correct Answer - D. The

painter's use of line, shadow, and color Formalist critics are interested in the painting itself, specifically such things as the artist's use of line, shadow, color, and similar characteristics. They are generally not concerned with the painter's life, the place of a painting in an artistic tradition, or the critical reception of a painting.

In painting, to "key out" is the process of doing which of the following?

• Removing the work from a frame.
• Displaying a work before it is finished.
• Scraping paint onto a canvas rather than applying it with a brush.
• Increasing the tautness of the canvas on stretcher bars. - Correct

Answer - D. Increasing the tautness of the canvas on stretcher bars. 2 / 4

pg. 3 In painting, to "key out" refers to the outward stretch of the stretcher bars as a canvas is being prepared. Keys are the small devices found in interlocking corners of wooden stretcher bars used to produce tension.

Many artists prefer to stretch their own canvas. When doing this the materials used to fit into the slots on the inside of each corner of the assembled stretcher are which of the following?

• wedges
• stretcher bars
• stretcher corners
• staples - Correct Answer - A. Wedges

Eight wedges (or keys) are needed to fit into slots on the inside of each corner of the assembled stretcher. If the canvas sags at a later date, the wedges can be driven in further with a hammer to expand the corners and make the canvas taut again.

The use of a waxy drawing medium for making a design over which a colored wash is spread is known as which of the following?

• white-line engraving
• wax resist
• wax painting
• whiting - Correct Answer - B. Wax resist

Wax resist is the use of a waxy drawing medium for making a design over which a colored wash is spread. The wash will be absorbed only where the surface is not coated with wax.

What causes glaze bubbles to form on clay's surface?

• The glaze may have been fired at too high a temperature.
• The glaze may have been fired at too low a temperature. 3 / 4

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• The glaze may have been applied too thinly.
• The glaze may have cooled too quickly. - Correct Answer - A. The glaze

may have been fired at too high a temperature.Firing glaze at too high a temperature, as well as using incompatible clay and glaze, may cause glaze bubbles to form on the clay

In sculpture, the relative degree of projection from a background plane is called

• Relief
• Impasto
• Chiaroscuro
• Marbling - Correct Answer - A. Relief

Relief sculpture is not completely cut away from its original material. There

are three types of relief: high, low, and sunken. These denote the relative

degrees of separation from the background plane.

Many artists prefer to stretch their own canvas. When doing this the materials used to fit into the slots on the inside of each corner of the assembled stretcher are which of the following?

• wedges
• stretcher bars
• stretcher corners
• staples - Correct Answer - A. Wedges

Eight wedges (or keys) are needed to fit into slots on the inside of each corner of the assembled stretcher. If the canvas sags at a later date, the wedges can be driven in further with a hammer to expand the corners and make the canvas taut again.

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