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MTEL Visual Art Test Answer Key
1. A: Aesthetic perception is the ability to appreciate and understand the nature, beauty and validity of the fine arts including music, painting, sculpture, theater, drama, comedy and literature. The English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead observed, “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” (Dialogues, June 10, 1943.)
2. D: Being creative means the ability to bring into existence a work of art that is original and imaginative. A person with creative expression has the burning need to bring forth a unique manifestation of his or her understanding and interpretation of mankind’s primal desires.
3. B: Sir Isaac Newton discovered the color spectrum and developed the color wheel. Colors opposite each other are complimentary colors and provide the greatest contrast. Red, yellow and blue are the primary colors from which all others are made. Mixing two primary colors produces orange, green and purple also known as the secondary colors.
4. C: Light and shadow on sculpture and architecture define the form. As the contour fades, the light grows dimmer causing changes in contrast and tonal value on the surface, which makes the object seem to swell and recede while enhancing the drama of its structural composition.
5. B: An art movement is a conceptual system of principles and methods developed by a group of artists using their intuition and talent to depict Mother Nature in all her beauty and complexity to create works of human endeavor. It reflects the events and activities of the era in which it developed. It can also be a reaction to a previous style.