MTTC Visual Arts Practice Test|12
Questions and Answers
camaïeu - -Camaïeu is a technique that employs two or three tints of a
single color, other than gray, to create a monochromatic image without
regard to local or realistic color. When a picture is monochromatically
rendered in gray, it is called grisaille.
- Frottis - -Thin transparent or semi-transparent glazes rubbed into the
ground in the intitial phases of an oil painting/watercolor. From the French
term 'frotter', meaning 'to rub'.
- Scala Regia is a corridor of steps that connect the papal apartments to the
portico and narthex of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome. - -Pope Alexander VII
commissioned Gianlorenzo Bernini to design a new stairway connecting the
papal apartments to the portico and narthex of St. Peter's Cathedral. He
created a highly sophisticated design, both dynamic and dramatic, that
repeats on a smaller scale the processional sequence found inside St.
Peter's.
- During the Great Depression, artists like Ben Shahn and Reginald Marsh
used art to highlight injustice and motivate reform. This style of art was
which of the following? - -With one quarter of the labor force out of work,
banks bankrupt, and the Midwest Bread Basket turned into a Dust Bowl,
artists like Ben Shahn and Reginald Marsh used art to highlight injustice and
motivate reform. This was Social Realism.
- Ben Shahn (1898 -1969) - -The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti Social
Realism
- Reginald Marsh (1898 - 1954) - -Swing Time Social Realism
- The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is a type of - -Inverted catenary
- Inverted catenary - -The funicular shape for an arch carrying a vertical
load uniformly distributed along the length of the arch axis.
- bell curve - -Bell-shaped curve; typically results from graphing frequency
versus distribution for a trait that varies continuously.
- Corbel arch - -a vault formed by layers of stone that gradually grow closer
together as they rise until they eventually meet
- Parabola - -The shape of the graph of a quadratic function
Questions and Answers
camaïeu - -Camaïeu is a technique that employs two or three tints of a
single color, other than gray, to create a monochromatic image without
regard to local or realistic color. When a picture is monochromatically
rendered in gray, it is called grisaille.
- Frottis - -Thin transparent or semi-transparent glazes rubbed into the
ground in the intitial phases of an oil painting/watercolor. From the French
term 'frotter', meaning 'to rub'.
- Scala Regia is a corridor of steps that connect the papal apartments to the
portico and narthex of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome. - -Pope Alexander VII
commissioned Gianlorenzo Bernini to design a new stairway connecting the
papal apartments to the portico and narthex of St. Peter's Cathedral. He
created a highly sophisticated design, both dynamic and dramatic, that
repeats on a smaller scale the processional sequence found inside St.
Peter's.
- During the Great Depression, artists like Ben Shahn and Reginald Marsh
used art to highlight injustice and motivate reform. This style of art was
which of the following? - -With one quarter of the labor force out of work,
banks bankrupt, and the Midwest Bread Basket turned into a Dust Bowl,
artists like Ben Shahn and Reginald Marsh used art to highlight injustice and
motivate reform. This was Social Realism.
- Ben Shahn (1898 -1969) - -The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti Social
Realism
- Reginald Marsh (1898 - 1954) - -Swing Time Social Realism
- The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is a type of - -Inverted catenary
- Inverted catenary - -The funicular shape for an arch carrying a vertical
load uniformly distributed along the length of the arch axis.
- bell curve - -Bell-shaped curve; typically results from graphing frequency
versus distribution for a trait that varies continuously.
- Corbel arch - -a vault formed by layers of stone that gradually grow closer
together as they rise until they eventually meet
- Parabola - -The shape of the graph of a quadratic function
