Visual Arts Licensure Test 2025
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
3D projects for young students - ✔✔cutting and pasting paper, mask making, puppet
making, weaving
Aboriginal Art - ✔✔dot paintings, paint-from plants, create art to preserve and
celebrate memory of dreamtime
Abstract Expressionism - ✔✔American art movement of the 1940s that emphasized
form and color within a nonrepresentational framework.
Abstract Expressionism (artists) - ✔✔Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Arshile
Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Mark Rothko
Acrylic Mediums and Gels - ✔✔Range in consistency and thickness, Used to
manipulate acrylic paint
Actual texture - ✔✔something that is actually rough or bumpy to the touch
Additive - ✔✔The process of adding or joining parts and/or visual elements together to
create a painting, collage or sculpture (as opposed to subtractive).
Advertising designers - ✔✔create logos, or symbols or trademarks that are immediately
recognizable
aesthetic theories - ✔✔realistic, hedonist, formalist, and expressive
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,aesthetics - ✔✔explores the definitions and meaning of art and beauty, helps students
identify the types of art and design that please people
aesthetics in younger grades - ✔✔focus on students' personal experiences and cultural
contexts, 3rd grade, students have more vocabulary to discuss art, introduce aesthetic
theories
Alla Prima - ✔✔Wet-on-wet oil painting, pochade small preparatory oil sketch before
actual painting
analogous colors - ✔✔colors next to each other on the color wheel
analysis of artwork - ✔✔entails discerning and describing how the piece is organized,
students investigate principles of art such as emphasis, repetition, or contrast, consider
relationship between the piece and the viewer, how it affects the viewer, comparing
piece with other works of art
Animator - ✔✔creates multiple images, that give an illusion of movement called
animation when displayed in rapid sequence
applique - ✔✔a decorative design made of one material sewn over another
aquatint - ✔✔A printmaking technique that allows the artist to achieve a large variety
of values by exposing the plate to acid. Resin is applied to protect the plate in parts.
Arabesque design - ✔✔a kind of decoration intertwining flowers
Archaic Art (Greece) - ✔✔600-480 BC, Kuoros stone figures, Vase painting
Architect/Architecture - ✔✔A trained professional who designs buildings, homes, and
various structures in which people live and interact with.
art - ✔✔a tool for elementary students to learn about themselves and the world around
them
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, Art criticism - ✔✔The discussion or evaluation of visual art.
Art Deco - ✔✔A 1920s style characterized by setbacks, zigzag forms, and the use of
chrome and plastic ornamentation.
Art Deco (artists) - ✔✔Tamara de Lempicka, Joseph Csaky, Antoine Bourdelle, John
Wagner, Gheorghe Leonida
art history - ✔✔students gain understanding of how artists and art made contributions
to culture and society
Art Nouveau (artists) - ✔✔Théophile Steinlen, Aubrey Beardsley, Alphonse Mucha,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Cheret
Art Nouveau - ✔✔This art was characterized by its use of asymmetrical lines. Flowers,
vines, and leaves were commonly characterized with this style, as these forms took
advantage of the sinuous curves.
Assemblage - ✔✔Forms of modern sculpture and painting utilizing readymades, found
objects, and pasted fragments to form an abstract composition.
Assemblage (artists) - ✔✔Robert Rauschenberg, Wallace Berman , Joseph Cornell,
Edward Kienholz , André Breton
Aztec Art - ✔✔Capital was Mexico City, Massive statues of gods - regular human
sacrifice, Skilled in gold work, Came after the Mayans
Balance - ✔✔A condition in which different elements are equal or in the correct
proportions. There are three types of visual balance: symmetry, asymmetry, and radial.
Baldacchino - ✔✔Ornamental canopy over an altar (church)
Barbizon - ✔✔A group of 19th-century French painters who rejected idealized
landscape painting and sought a more informal, realistic portrayal of nature.
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
3D projects for young students - ✔✔cutting and pasting paper, mask making, puppet
making, weaving
Aboriginal Art - ✔✔dot paintings, paint-from plants, create art to preserve and
celebrate memory of dreamtime
Abstract Expressionism - ✔✔American art movement of the 1940s that emphasized
form and color within a nonrepresentational framework.
Abstract Expressionism (artists) - ✔✔Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Arshile
Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Mark Rothko
Acrylic Mediums and Gels - ✔✔Range in consistency and thickness, Used to
manipulate acrylic paint
Actual texture - ✔✔something that is actually rough or bumpy to the touch
Additive - ✔✔The process of adding or joining parts and/or visual elements together to
create a painting, collage or sculpture (as opposed to subtractive).
Advertising designers - ✔✔create logos, or symbols or trademarks that are immediately
recognizable
aesthetic theories - ✔✔realistic, hedonist, formalist, and expressive
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,aesthetics - ✔✔explores the definitions and meaning of art and beauty, helps students
identify the types of art and design that please people
aesthetics in younger grades - ✔✔focus on students' personal experiences and cultural
contexts, 3rd grade, students have more vocabulary to discuss art, introduce aesthetic
theories
Alla Prima - ✔✔Wet-on-wet oil painting, pochade small preparatory oil sketch before
actual painting
analogous colors - ✔✔colors next to each other on the color wheel
analysis of artwork - ✔✔entails discerning and describing how the piece is organized,
students investigate principles of art such as emphasis, repetition, or contrast, consider
relationship between the piece and the viewer, how it affects the viewer, comparing
piece with other works of art
Animator - ✔✔creates multiple images, that give an illusion of movement called
animation when displayed in rapid sequence
applique - ✔✔a decorative design made of one material sewn over another
aquatint - ✔✔A printmaking technique that allows the artist to achieve a large variety
of values by exposing the plate to acid. Resin is applied to protect the plate in parts.
Arabesque design - ✔✔a kind of decoration intertwining flowers
Archaic Art (Greece) - ✔✔600-480 BC, Kuoros stone figures, Vase painting
Architect/Architecture - ✔✔A trained professional who designs buildings, homes, and
various structures in which people live and interact with.
art - ✔✔a tool for elementary students to learn about themselves and the world around
them
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, Art criticism - ✔✔The discussion or evaluation of visual art.
Art Deco - ✔✔A 1920s style characterized by setbacks, zigzag forms, and the use of
chrome and plastic ornamentation.
Art Deco (artists) - ✔✔Tamara de Lempicka, Joseph Csaky, Antoine Bourdelle, John
Wagner, Gheorghe Leonida
art history - ✔✔students gain understanding of how artists and art made contributions
to culture and society
Art Nouveau (artists) - ✔✔Théophile Steinlen, Aubrey Beardsley, Alphonse Mucha,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Cheret
Art Nouveau - ✔✔This art was characterized by its use of asymmetrical lines. Flowers,
vines, and leaves were commonly characterized with this style, as these forms took
advantage of the sinuous curves.
Assemblage - ✔✔Forms of modern sculpture and painting utilizing readymades, found
objects, and pasted fragments to form an abstract composition.
Assemblage (artists) - ✔✔Robert Rauschenberg, Wallace Berman , Joseph Cornell,
Edward Kienholz , André Breton
Aztec Art - ✔✔Capital was Mexico City, Massive statues of gods - regular human
sacrifice, Skilled in gold work, Came after the Mayans
Balance - ✔✔A condition in which different elements are equal or in the correct
proportions. There are three types of visual balance: symmetry, asymmetry, and radial.
Baldacchino - ✔✔Ornamental canopy over an altar (church)
Barbizon - ✔✔A group of 19th-century French painters who rejected idealized
landscape painting and sought a more informal, realistic portrayal of nature.
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