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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PRAXIS 5135 EXAM
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Question 1: Body
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The main part of the camera
Question 2: Rasp
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A flat steel tool with a rough surface used to wear away excess stone
Question 3: Enameling
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Fusing powdered glass to a surface by heating it to 750-850 degrees
- Once fired, the glass powder melts and turns into a smooth shiny coating.
Question 4: Digital Art Supplies
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Computers, tablets, video cameras, scanners, and digital cameras
Question 5: Elements of Art
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Line, shape/form, color, value, texture, space
Question 6: De Stijl/Neoplasticism
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Dutch for "the style" this art movement started in 1917 promoted the reduction of artwork into geometric shapes, lines, and primary colors. Artists attempted to turn this style into a universal form of expression, departing from the individual expression.
Question 7: Romanesque Art
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massive churches built with stone arches similar to Roman architecture and frescoes using encaustic on panels
Question 8: materials used to create fiber art
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Fibers such as fabric, yarn, or embroidery thread made from cotton, wool, silk, or synthetic materials.Yarn is made w/ roving (wool run through a mill) Fabric can be utilized through sewing machines or needles by hand, felting methods with roving only
Question 9: Flash
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Adds light to the subject and can be connected to the top of the camera or on a socket of the camera called the hot shoe
Question 10: Stamping
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A type of relief printmaking made from rubber, wax, or other materials. The shape that will produce an image is cut into the material with negative space cut away and can be reused over and over.
Question 11: Tools and supplies used to make jewelry
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Precious metals include gold and silver, other metals include brass and pewter. Soldering iron, pliers, saws, and cutters are used to alter the metals and mandrels shape the metals. Clamps hold the piece, loupe magnifies the piece, and calipers measure it
Question 12: Viewfinder
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Where the photographer looks through the back of the camera to compose the shot
Question 13: Australian art
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Early aboriginal art including rock paintings and carving thought to be decoration or ceremonial, which was largely impacted by European colonization creating a distinct painting style that focused on idealizing landscapes and plein air painting.
Question 14: Street Art
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Began with graffiti and consisted of politically charged protest slogans and graphics illegally painted in public areas. Often tied to hip-hop culture and lower income areas.
Question 15: Flux
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A chemical used to promote soldering
Question 16: Guerrilla Girls
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This group formed in 1985 to speak out against sexism and racism in the art world against powerful institutions. They gained attention with their protest on the amount of nude women and lack of female artists in fine art museums.
Question 17: Mezzotint
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A printmaking technique in which the artist works from dark to light on copper or steel, roughening the parts of the plate for shading and smoothening parts for lighter areas.
Question 18: Mandrel
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Used to size and shape a ring
Question 19: brayer
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A hand tool used for printmaking to smooth out the ink and then roll it onto the surface for a relief print (looks like a paint roller)
Question 20: Thomas Cole
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The founder of the Hudson River School art movement
Question 21: Expressionist Artists
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Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, die Brucke (Erich Heckel, Fritz Bleyl, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Muller, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein), and Wassily Kandinsky
Question 22: Aperture
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The opening in a camera lens measured in f-stops. Moving from one f-stop to the next doubles of halves the size of the opening adjusting the depth of field in a photo. Large=more light more focus on one object small=less light more focus on the whole
Question 23: Mannerism
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This style of art emerged as a reaction to the high renaissance. This focused more on style and technique rather than the meaning. Artist at this time focused on altering proportions and portraying people in strange ways, departing from linear perspective
Question 24: Juxtaposition
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the placement of contrasting elements next to each other to create an effect to draw the viewer's eye, emphasizing the similarities and differences of the contrasted elements
Question 25: Henri Matisse and Andre Derain
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Leaders of the fauvism movement