MTTC Visual Arts Practice Test Latest Update

MTTC Visual Arts Practice Test Latest Update

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bell curve - CORRECT ANSWER:

bell curve - CORRECT ANSWER: Bell-shaped curve; typically results from graphing

frequency versus distribution for a trait that varies continuously.

Ben Shahn (1898 -1969) - CORRECT ANSWER: The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti

Social Realism

camaïeu - CORRECT ANSWER: 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.

Corbel arch - CORRECT ANSWER: a vault formed by layers of stone that gradually

grow closer together as they rise until they eventually meet

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? - CORRECT ANSWER: 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.

Frottis - CORRECT ANSWER: 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'.

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Inverted catenary - CORRECT ANSWER: The funicular shape for an arch carrying a

vertical load uniformly distributed along the length of the arch axis.

Parabola - CORRECT ANSWER: The shape of the graph of a quadratic function

Reginald Marsh (1898 - 1954) - CORRECT ANSWER: Swing Time Social Realism

Scala Regia is a corridor of steps that connect the papal apartments to the portico and

narthex of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome. - CORRECT ANSWER: 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.

The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is a type of - CORRECT ANSWER: Inverted catenary

300 dpi - CORRECT ANSWER: The ideal and standard resolution for printing a digital image.

Aboriginal Dot Painting - CORRECT ANSWER: 1970's Papunya, Australia painting that may also include stripes, lines, and other geometric patterns.

Abstract Expressionism - CORRECT ANSWER: 1940's/1950's movement that sought

total freedom of expression, and was also called "New York School" because it centered there.

Alfred Stieglitz's "The Steerage" - CORRECT ANSWER: 1907 photograph that depicts families on the lower deck of a boat leaving America headed for Germany.

Apse or Chancel - CORRECT ANSWER: The vaulted semi-circle structure at the end of the center aisle in a basilica.

Art Deco - CORRECT ANSWER: Architecture popular in Paris in 1903, and was applied to apartments and public buildings, was rectangular with block-like forms. (Gatsby)

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