Praxis Art: Content and Analysis (5135)
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10 sample questions for the Praxis Art: Content and Analysis (5135), with the correct answer and an explanation for each. No account needed. Try each one before you open the answer.
Sections covered on the exam: Art Making, The Western Tradition in Art History, Global Art and Responding to Art.
Question 1 · Art Making
Answer: D. Blue and violet
The complement of yellow-orange is blue-violet, so a split-complementary scheme uses the two hues on either side of it: blue and violet. Red-violet and blue-green would complete a triad with yellow-orange, and yellow and red-orange are analogous neighbors.
Question 2 · Art Making
Answer: D. found to contain nothing in amounts toxic to people
The ACMI AP seal certifies that a product contains no materials in sufficient quantities to be toxic or injurious, even to children. Products requiring precautions such as gloves or ventilation carry the CL (Cautionary Labeling) seal instead, and lightfastness is a separate rating.
Question 3 · Art Making
Answer: D. In pencil below the image, number at left, signature at right
By convention, fine art prints are signed in pencil, which is permanent and hard to forge, in the margin just below the image, with the edition number at the lower left, the title (if any) at center, and the signature at the lower right. Ink inside the image area or markings on the mat are not standard because the mat can be separated from the print.
Question 4 · Art Making
Answer: C. A removable frame that confines pulp on the screen
The deckle is the open, removable frame that sits on top of the mould and contains the pulp, defining the edges of the sheet; the irregular edge it leaves is called a deckle edge. The mould is the screened frame that drains water, the felt receives the sheet during couching, and a beater such as a Hollander processes fiber into pulp.
Question 5 · The Western Tradition in Art History
Answer: D. Jacques-Louis David
The Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David uses crisp contours, a shallow frieze-like space, and a clear contrast between the rigid men and the yielding women to teach civic virtue, all hallmarks of Neoclassicism. Ingres was David's pupil, Delacroix led French Romanticism, and Boucher painted the decorative Rococo style that Neoclassicism rejected.
Question 6 · Art Making
Answer: B. Orange, green, and violet
A triad uses three hues equally spaced around the wheel; orange, green, and violet are the secondary triad. Red, red-orange, and orange are analogous, and red and green are complements on the painter's wheel, so red, green, and blue is not evenly spaced there.
Question 7 · Art Making
Answer: D. Add the acid slowly to the water
Acid is always added to water, slowly and with eye and skin protection, because the reaction releases heat; adding water to concentrated acid can make it boil and spatter. Many schools now replace nitric acid with ferric chloride or other less hazardous mordants.
Question 8 · Art Making
Answer: B. A monoprint has a repeatable matrix; a monotype has none
A monotype is made by painting or drawing on a smooth, unworked plate such as glass or plexiglass, so it yields one primary impression and no fixed image to reprint. A monoprint begins with a matrix that has repeatable elements, such as an etched plate or carved block, but each impression is varied by hand inking or additions; both result in unique prints and can be printed by hand or press in any number of colors.
Question 9 · Art Making
Answer: B. Cloisonné
In cloisonné, wires soldered or fused to a metal base form cells (cloisons) that hold the enamel colors. Champlevé holds enamel in recesses carved or etched into the metal, plique-à-jour suspends translucent enamel in open cells with no backing, and repoussé shapes metal by hammering from the reverse side rather than enameling.
Question 10 · The Western Tradition in Art History
Answer: C. Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Winckelmann's writings on Greek art and his history of ancient art made him the leading theorist of Neoclassicism, promoting calm, idealized forms as a moral and aesthetic model. Lessing wrote Laocoön on the limits of painting and poetry, Diderot was a French encyclopedist and Salon critic, and Ruskin was a nineteenth-century English critic.
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