Testlet 314: Elements of art and principles of design 10
A printmaker repeats a wave shape across a page at regular intervals so that the eye seems to move in beats. Which principle creates this feeling of organized movement?Answer: Rhythm. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum, Education, student handout "Principles of Design". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 314, objective 0002
A student wants a yellow moon to stand out as strongly as possible against its sky. In the traditional RYB color model, which color is the complement of yellow?Answer: Purple. Source: Wikipedia, "Complementary colors". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 314, objective 0001
A student's collage uses many materials, yet a shared palette makes every part feel as if it belongs to one complete whole. Which principle of design names that feeling of harmony?Answer: Unity. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum, Education, student handout "Principles of Design". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 314, objective 0002
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Testlet 314: Elements of art and principles of design, continued
A wreath of gold leaves and berries imitates plants, while a cabinet is inlaid with squares and circles. What does the Getty call shapes and forms that are typically irregular or asymmetrical and often found in nature?Answer: Organic. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum, Education, "Elements of Art". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 314, objective 0001
In a drawing, a lone figure sits in a wide field of blank paper. What is the area around the figure called?Answer: Negative space. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum, Education, "Elements of Art". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 314, objective 0001
In a figure drawing lesson, students compare the size of the head with the rest of the body. Which principle of design are they studying?Answer: Proportion. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum, Education, student handout "Principles of Design". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 314, objective 0002
In a painting of a storm, the tilted masts of a ship and the slanting rocks on shore give a sense of speed. According to the Getty's Elements of Art, which kind of line conveys a feeling of movement?Answer: Diagonal lines. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum, Education, "Elements of Art". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 314, objective 0001
In a still life, one large vase on the left is answered by three small lemons on the right. The two sides are different, yet the picture does not feel lopsided. Which kind of balance is this?Answer: Asymmetrical balance. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum, Education, student handout "Principles of Design". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 314, objective 0002
On a concert poster, one word is set five times larger than every other and in the only bright color. Which principle of design has the designer used to make that area stand out?Answer: Emphasis. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum, Education, student handout "Principles of Design". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 314, objective 0002
Which of the three main characteristics of color describes how bright or dull a color is?Answer: Intensity. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum, Education, "Elements of Art". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 314, objective 0001
Testlet 315: Art media, tools, techniques and processes 20
A ceramics student scores the rim of a leather-hard cup and brushes on liquefied clay before pressing the handle into place. What is the liquefied clay called?Answer: Slip. Source: Wikipedia, "Slip (ceramics)". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0003
A fiber arts class draws hot wax on cloth so that the waxed areas take up no color in the dye bath. Which technique is this?Answer: Batik. Source: Wikipedia, "Batik". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0003
A filmmaking unit starts with a graphic organizer: simple illustrations displayed in sequence so that the crew can pre-visualize the film. What is it called?Answer: A storyboard. Source: Wikipedia, "Storyboard". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0004
A graphic design class sends a poster to a commercial printer. Which color model, a subtractive one, is used in color printing?Answer: CMYK. Source: Wikipedia, "CMYK color model". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0004
A painter grinds pigment and binds it with water and egg yolk. Which painting technique is she using?Answer: Tempera. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Tempera". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0001
A photography student wants a portrait with a sharp face and a blurred background, which calls for a shallow depth of field. What should she do with the aperture?Answer: Increase its size, which lowers the f-number. Source: Wikipedia, "Depth of field". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0002
A printmaker coats a metal plate with an acid-resistant ground, draws through the ground to expose the metal, and lowers the plate into acid, which bites the lines. Which technique is this?Answer: Etching. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Etching". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0002
A student builds the shadow side of a pencil portrait with closely spaced parallel lines that all run the same way. What is this technique called, before any second set of lines is laid across the first?Answer: Hatching. Source: Wikipedia, "Hatching". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0001
A student cuts a design into a block of linoleum, inks the raised surface that is left, and prints it. Which kind of print is a linocut?Answer: A relief print. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Linocut". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0002
A student designs a logo that must print on a business card and on a billboard. Which kind of computer graphic builds the image from geometric shapes such as points, lines and curves?Answer: Vector graphics. Source: Wikipedia, "Vector graphics". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0004
A student lays oil paint on with a palette knife so thickly that the ridges stand up from the canvas. What is such an area of thick paint called?Answer: Impasto. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Impasto". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0001
A student models a clay tile so that the figures stand up from a flat background, and the finished tile is hung on a wall. What kind of sculpture is this?Answer: A relief. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Relief". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0003
After repeated hammering, a copper bracelet blank has become hard and difficult to bend. Which heat treatment makes the metal more workable again?Answer: Annealing. Source: Wikipedia, "Annealing (materials science)". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0003
An animator nudges a paper cutout, takes one photograph, nudges it again and takes another, hundreds of times. Played back, the cutout seems to walk without help. Which filmmaking technique is this?Answer: Stop motion. Source: Wikipedia, "Stop motion". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0004
An industrial design class studies a chair whose shape comes entirely from how it is used. Which design principle, coined by the architect Louis Sullivan, does the chair illustrate?Answer: Form follows function. Source: Wikipedia, "Form follows function". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0004
At a track meet a student wants to freeze a sprinter in mid-stride with no blur. Which camera setting does that?Answer: A very short shutter speed. Source: Wikipedia, "Shutter speed". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0002
How does gouache differ from watercolor, according to Tate?Answer: Gouache is opaque, so the white of the paper does not show through. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Gouache". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0001
In fashion design, what is a sloper, also called a block pattern?Answer: A custom-fitted basic pattern from which many styles can be developed. Source: Wikipedia, "Pattern (sewing)". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0003
In which mural technique is water-based paint applied directly onto wet plaster, so that the paint becomes part of the wall?Answer: Fresco. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Fresco". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0001
Which printing process uses a flat stone or metal plate, on which the image areas are worked in a greasy substance so that ink adheres to them?Answer: Lithography. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Lithography". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 315, objective 0002
Testlet 316: Visual arts in historical and cultural context 10
After the Mexican Revolution of 1910 to 1920, the walls of many public buildings in Mexico were painted with scenes of the nation's past, present and future. Who first funded this art project?Answer: The Mexican government. Source: Wikipedia, "Mexican muralism". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 316, objective 0002
Around 1907–08 two artists began to bring different views of a subject together in one picture, so that it looks fragmented and abstracted. Which movement did Picasso and Braque invent?Answer: Cubism. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Cubism". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 316, objective 0002
Contrapposto, in which a figure rests most of its weight on one foot, is counted a crucial development in Western art. In which culture did it first appear, in the early 5th century BCE?Answer: Ancient Greece. Source: Wikipedia, "Contrapposto". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 316, objective 0001
Dada artists made satirical and nonsensical art, poetry and performance and set out to destroy traditional values in art. Where and when did the movement form?Answer: In Zurich, during the First World War. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Dada". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 316, objective 0002
The Federal Art Project of 1935 to 1943, a New Deal program, sustained some 10,000 artists and craft workers. What did it establish in more than 100 places around the country?Answer: Community art centers. Source: Wikipedia, "Federal Art Project". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 316, objective 0002
In an ancient Egyptian relief the pharaoh is carved several times larger than the servants beside him. Which convention uses unnatural scale to show the relative importance of figures?Answer: Hierarchical proportion. Source: Wikipedia, "Hierarchical proportion". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 316, objective 0001
On a medieval cathedral, a ramping arch runs from the upper part of a wall out to a massive pier. What does this flying buttress do?Answer: It conveys to the ground the lateral forces that push the wall outwards. Source: Wikipedia, "Flying buttress". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 316, objective 0001
Which description fits what has typically characterized religious Islamic art?Answer: An absence of figures and wide use of calligraphic, geometric and abstract floral patterns. Source: Wikipedia, "Islamic art". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 316, objective 0001
Which genre of Japanese art, whose name translates as "pictures of the floating world", flourished from the 17th through the 19th centuries and is known for its woodblock prints?Answer: Ukiyo-e. Source: Wikipedia, "Ukiyo-e". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 316, objective 0001
Which nineteenth-century French movement was based on painting out of doors, on the spot, to capture the momentary effects of sunlight?Answer: Impressionism. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Impressionism". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 316, objective 0002
Testlet 317: Aesthetics, art criticism and connections 10
A high school student finishes an original painting and wonders when it is protected by copyright. What does the U.S. Copyright Office say?Answer: From the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form. Source: U.S. Copyright Office, "Copyright in General" (FAQ). Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 317, objective 0002
A student argues that the best art is the art that most faithfully represents the real world. Which classical concept, discussed by Plato and Aristotle, names the representation of aspects of the real world in art?Answer: Mimesis. Source: Wikipedia, "Mimesis". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 317, objective 0001
A viewer values a painting because its distorted color and shape convey the artist's subjective emotions and inner experiences, not a realistic scene. Which term does Tate use for such art?Answer: Expressionism. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Expressionism". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 317, objective 0001
According to Tate, what does a formalist critic hold to be the most important aspect of a work of art?Answer: Its form: the way it is made and its purely visual aspects. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Formalism". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 317, objective 0001
An art teacher checks the labels of new paints before ordering them. Which statement shows that an art material has been labeled under the standard that 16 CFR 1500.14(b)(8) applies to art materials?Answer: "Conforms to ASTM D-4236". Source: 16 CFR 1500.14(b)(8) (Federal Hazardous Substances Act regulations, eCFR). Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 317, objective 0002
In a class critique, students work out why a lamb and a dove appear in a religious painting and what each stands for. Which term names the imagery within an artwork and the system of meanings it carries?Answer: Iconography. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Iconography". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 317, objective 0001
On a career day, a museum worker explains that she preserves paintings so that each keeps its integrity, including its historical significance and its look. Which profession is hers?Answer: Conservator-restorer. Source: Wikipedia, "Conservator-restorer". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 317, objective 0002
One student complains that a classmate "stole her idea" of painting city rooftops at dusk, though the two paintings look nothing alike. What does the U.S. Copyright Office say about ideas?Answer: Copyright does not protect ideas, though it may protect the way they are expressed. Source: U.S. Copyright Office, "Copyright in General" (FAQ). Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 317, objective 0002
What is aesthetics, as Tate defines the term?Answer: The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and taste. Source: Tate, Art Terms, "Aesthetics". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 317, objective 0001
Which of these is among the requirements the Georgia Department of Education lists for the Fine Arts Diploma Seal?Answer: A capstone project. Source: Georgia Department of Education, "Fine Arts Diploma Seal". Written to GACE Art (726) testlet 317, objective 0002
How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the objectives of the GACE Art (P–12) assessment, test code 726, as its Assessment Design and Framework prints them on the GACE website of the Georgia Professional Standards Commission and Evaluation Systems, Pearson (https://www.gace.es.pearson.com/studyguide/framework/726 and https://www.gace.es.pearson.com/test/726, read 2026-10-15): testlet 314 Elements of Art and Principles of Design, about 20 selected-response questions; testlet 315 Art Media, Tools, Technologies, Techniques, Terminology, and Processes, about 40; testlet 316 Visual Arts in Historical and Cultural Context, about 20; testlet 317 Aesthetics, Art Criticism, and Connections, about 20; the objectives inside each testlet carry equal shares. This bank holds 10, 20, 10 and 10, five for each of the ten objectives. Every fact was read on 2026-10-15 on the page named under its question: the J. Paul Getty Museum's education pages and handout on the elements of art and principles of design, Tate's glossary of art terms, Wikipedia articles, the U.S. Copyright Office, 16 CFR 1500.14 (ecfr.gov) and the Georgia Department of Education. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.
How it works
This GACE Art Education study guide is a free practice test: 50 questions of our own on the four testlets of Art (P–12), test 726. It is unofficial and not affiliated with the Georgia Professional Standards Commission or Pearson.
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What GACE Art covers
Testlet 315, on media, tools, techniques and processes, is the largest: about 40 questions across drawing and painting, printmaking and photography, sculpture, ceramics and fiber, and graphic, digital and film work. Testlets 314 (elements and principles), 316 (historical and cultural context) and 317 (aesthetics, criticism and connections) have about 20 each, by the framework at gace.es.pearson.com, read October 15, 2026.
Timing
The real testlets allow 30, 60, 30 and 30 minutes. At that pace the 50 questions here take 75 minutes.
Where the answers come from
Each explanation names its source: the Getty's pages on the elements of art and principles of design, Tate's glossary of art terms, Wikipedia, the U.S. Copyright Office, the federal labeling rule for art materials or the Georgia Department of Education.
Two questions in five come from testlet 315, so know each medium's tools and the order of its process.
Questions and answers
Is there a GACE fine art study guide?
Yes, under the name Art (P–12), test 726. The GACE website publishes a study guide for it, with a sample item for each objective. This page adds 50 practice questions of our own, grouped by the same four testlets.
How many questions are on the GACE Art test?
There are 100, all selected-response, across testlets 314 to 317. The testlets take 2 hours 30 minutes together, plus 15 minutes a session for a tutorial and a nondisclosure agreement.
What is a passing score on the GACE Art test?
You need an assessment-level score of 220 or higher from the four testlets together, and you must reach the floor on each one. The scale runs from 100 to 300; this page reports the number right only.
Does the GACE Art test require a portfolio?
The GACE site lists test 726 as 100 selected-response questions and names no portfolio, drawing task or other constructed-response assignment for it, as read on October 15, 2026.