TAMU ARTS 150 EXAM ONE WITH QUESTIONS
AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS NEWLY
UPDATED 2025.
What is a Vault?
ANSWER ✔✔ Roof in the form of an arch or a series of arches. (Vaulted Ceilings)
What is Humanism?
ANSWER ✔✔ Outlook attaching prime importance to the human rather than a divine or
spiritual being. Sees the goodness in people and seeks rational ways to solve human problems.
What is the Hieratic Scale?
ANSWER ✔✔ More important figures are drawn more largely than less important ones.
What is an Allegorical Figure?
ANSWER ✔✔ Conveys emotional and political meanings through symbols, images, and events.
What is Contrapposto?
ANSWER ✔✔ Asymmetrical arrangement of the human figure in which lines of arms/shoulders
contrast with the line of hips/legs. (Contra - Against, like those Roman statues casually leaning
on one leg).
What is Iconography?
ANSWER ✔✔ The visual images and symbols used in a work of art, a collection of portraits.
What are Diptych, Triptych, Polyptych?
ANSWER ✔✔ Multiple paneled altarpieces. The prefix refers to how many panels there are.
, What is Modeling in art?
ANSWER ✔✔ Art in three dimensions, adding depth and perception.
What is Shading?
ANSWER ✔✔ Darkening or coloring of an illustration with parallel lines/blocks of color.
What is Chiaroscuro?
ANSWER ✔✔ The effect of contrasted light/light falling unevenly on a surface (cobblestone
streets).
What is Sfumato?
ANSWER ✔✔ The technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another
(softens the transition).
What is Patronage?
ANSWER ✔✔ The support or commissioning of art/projects. (Paying for people to make stuff).
What is T-Tempera?
ANSWER ✔✔ Method of painting with pigments, from the 12th to the 15th century mainly.
Typically applied to wood paneling. MATTE - NO DEEP COLOR SATURATION.
What is T-Fresco?
ANSWER ✔✔ Italian for fresh, water-based pigments are applied to fresh plaster. Can only do a
little bit at a time. Ideal for making murals. MATTE SURFACE.
What is T-Oil on Panel?
ANSWER ✔✔ Oil on wood paneling.
AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS NEWLY
UPDATED 2025.
What is a Vault?
ANSWER ✔✔ Roof in the form of an arch or a series of arches. (Vaulted Ceilings)
What is Humanism?
ANSWER ✔✔ Outlook attaching prime importance to the human rather than a divine or
spiritual being. Sees the goodness in people and seeks rational ways to solve human problems.
What is the Hieratic Scale?
ANSWER ✔✔ More important figures are drawn more largely than less important ones.
What is an Allegorical Figure?
ANSWER ✔✔ Conveys emotional and political meanings through symbols, images, and events.
What is Contrapposto?
ANSWER ✔✔ Asymmetrical arrangement of the human figure in which lines of arms/shoulders
contrast with the line of hips/legs. (Contra - Against, like those Roman statues casually leaning
on one leg).
What is Iconography?
ANSWER ✔✔ The visual images and symbols used in a work of art, a collection of portraits.
What are Diptych, Triptych, Polyptych?
ANSWER ✔✔ Multiple paneled altarpieces. The prefix refers to how many panels there are.
, What is Modeling in art?
ANSWER ✔✔ Art in three dimensions, adding depth and perception.
What is Shading?
ANSWER ✔✔ Darkening or coloring of an illustration with parallel lines/blocks of color.
What is Chiaroscuro?
ANSWER ✔✔ The effect of contrasted light/light falling unevenly on a surface (cobblestone
streets).
What is Sfumato?
ANSWER ✔✔ The technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another
(softens the transition).
What is Patronage?
ANSWER ✔✔ The support or commissioning of art/projects. (Paying for people to make stuff).
What is T-Tempera?
ANSWER ✔✔ Method of painting with pigments, from the 12th to the 15th century mainly.
Typically applied to wood paneling. MATTE - NO DEEP COLOR SATURATION.
What is T-Fresco?
ANSWER ✔✔ Italian for fresh, water-based pigments are applied to fresh plaster. Can only do a
little bit at a time. Ideal for making murals. MATTE SURFACE.
What is T-Oil on Panel?
ANSWER ✔✔ Oil on wood paneling.
