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Re: Recap of the New York Test
Posted by paulybrooklyn on 4/19/07

    I'm in new york, and didn't find the lists here very helpful-- maybe we have very
    different tests. ours was fairly easy, and there weren't many identification
    questions-- usually the artist was named for you, and you were asked subjective,
    interpretive questions. most of them were related to the aesthetic and cultural
    purposes of various pieces, and very few examples of western art were used. there
    wasn't any way to prepare for this, other than having a good general background
    in art.
    basically, you had to second-guess the morons that wrote the test and figure out
    what they had in mind.

    the most difficult questions for me were some technical ceramics questions. I
    didn't understand the point of this-- how many public school teachers have access
    to a kiln?!!! but I would advise brushing up on that if it's not your specialty.
    the questions i remember are--

    the purpose of "cones" in firing
    what clay requires the highest firing temperature (I think it's porcelain)
    something about vents or fans inside the kiln... what their purpose is

    there was a question about why they hold up a color chart when making videos. I'm
    pretty sure it's to keep color consistent in different stages of post-production.

    the purpose of gel medium in acrylic painting... the idiots didn't even have the
    correct answer for that one, which is to make the paint transparent! i think
    their answer was to add "body" to the paint... if you want to add "body", you
    just use more paint- bah!

    for the essay, they had a washed-out black and white reproduction of a japanese
    print, and asked you to rap about it in a very general way. for 88 bucks, they
    could at least have come up with a color print to work with--I could barely see
    the damned thing. the odd thing is that there was one nice color reproduction in
    another part of the test for a simple multiple choice question.

    there were 90 multiple-choice and 1 essay. good luck all!

     
     

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