Visual Arts CST Exam 2025
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Geometric Art (Greece) - ✔✔9th - 8th Century B.C.
Pottery ornamented with geometric banding, friezes of simple animals, humans
Hellenistic Art (Greece) - ✔✔323 - 31 B.C.
Greek derived style found in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt
More melodramatic than Classical style
Japanese woodblock printing - ✔✔Flat, bright colored prints
Contrast, linear patterns
Cropped compositions, single point perspective
ukiyo-e prints - floating world (brothels, red light district)
Waste Molding - ✔✔Can only be used once
Plaster mold
Best for large scale sculpture
Steps: (1) coat original in vaseline or resist, section off with lines
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, (2) Coat with plaster mix in several layers
(3) Mother mold, cut based on sections
(4) Original is destroyed, fill mold with material
Baroque - ✔✔"The Ornate Age" - mid 16th - 18th century (1600 - 1750)
Sensitivity/Mastery of light for emotional impact
Roman Catholic Church - dramatic style - power and control
Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, Velazquez
Cubism - ✔✔Analytic (1st phase) to Synthetic (2nd - collage)
Natural forms changed by geometrical reduction
Early 20th century
Many views of one subject
Picasso, Braque, Leger
Art Nouveau - ✔✔1890s
Decorative style - forms based on objects found in nature
Gaudi (Barcelona, Spain)
Aubrey Beardsley - erotic illustration, based on Japanese prints
Baldacchino - ✔✔Ornamental canopy over an altar (church)
S Curve - ✔✔Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture
Extension of contrapposto
Contrapposto - ✔✔Italian "counterpose"
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Geometric Art (Greece) - ✔✔9th - 8th Century B.C.
Pottery ornamented with geometric banding, friezes of simple animals, humans
Hellenistic Art (Greece) - ✔✔323 - 31 B.C.
Greek derived style found in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt
More melodramatic than Classical style
Japanese woodblock printing - ✔✔Flat, bright colored prints
Contrast, linear patterns
Cropped compositions, single point perspective
ukiyo-e prints - floating world (brothels, red light district)
Waste Molding - ✔✔Can only be used once
Plaster mold
Best for large scale sculpture
Steps: (1) coat original in vaseline or resist, section off with lines
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY GRACE AMELIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
, (2) Coat with plaster mix in several layers
(3) Mother mold, cut based on sections
(4) Original is destroyed, fill mold with material
Baroque - ✔✔"The Ornate Age" - mid 16th - 18th century (1600 - 1750)
Sensitivity/Mastery of light for emotional impact
Roman Catholic Church - dramatic style - power and control
Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, Velazquez
Cubism - ✔✔Analytic (1st phase) to Synthetic (2nd - collage)
Natural forms changed by geometrical reduction
Early 20th century
Many views of one subject
Picasso, Braque, Leger
Art Nouveau - ✔✔1890s
Decorative style - forms based on objects found in nature
Gaudi (Barcelona, Spain)
Aubrey Beardsley - erotic illustration, based on Japanese prints
Baldacchino - ✔✔Ornamental canopy over an altar (church)
S Curve - ✔✔Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture
Extension of contrapposto
Contrapposto - ✔✔Italian "counterpose"
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