Domain I: Foundations of art: elements and principles 6
A painter mixes white into a blue to make it lighter and black to make it darker. Which element of art is being changed?Wikipedia, "Elements of art". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0001
A print places one large dark figure near the left edge and balances it with several small bright shapes spread across the right. Which principle is at work?J. Paul Getty Museum, Education, "Principles of Design". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0002
A row of arches repeats down a long wall at regular intervals and seems to beat like music. Which principle of design is this?J. Paul Getty Museum, Education, "Principles of Design". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0002
A square drawn on paper has height and width. A cube modeled in clay adds depth. Which element of art names the cube?Wikipedia, "Elements of art". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0001
An artist sets an orange boat on a blue sea so that each color looks brighter. Which color relationship produces this effect?Tate, Art Terms, "Complementary colours". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0001
In a still life, every object is gray except one red apple, and the eye goes to the apple first. Which principle of design does the artist use?J. Paul Getty Museum, Education, "Principles of Design". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0002
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Domain II: Media, tools, technologies, techniques and processes 18
A canvas carries paint so thick that the strokes of the palette knife stand up from the surface. Which term names this handling?Tate, Art Terms, "Impasto". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0004
A class pulls ink across a mesh stretched on a frame with a squeegee. Paper under the open areas takes the ink. Which process is this?Tate, Art Terms, "Screenprint". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0005
A jeweler sifts powdered glass onto a copper pendant and fires it in a small kiln until the powder melts into a smooth colored coat. Which technique is this?Wikipedia, "Vitreous enamel". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0008
A panel painter binds her pigments in an emulsion of water and egg yolk. What is this medium called?Tate, Art Terms, "Tempera". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0004
A photographer changes the lens opening from f/16 to f/2.8 and keeps the same focus point. What happens to the picture?Wikipedia, "Depth of field". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0007
A sculptor starts with a block of limestone and cuts material away until the figure remains. Which process is this?Wikipedia, "Carving". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0006
A student has finished a soft pastel drawing. What is the purpose of spraying it with fixative?Wikipedia, "Fixative (drawing)". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0003
A student joins a handle to a leather-hard mug by scoring both surfaces and coating them with liquid clay. What is the liquid clay called?Wikipedia, "Slip (ceramics)". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0008
A student must design a logo that will be printed on a business card and on a billboard. Which file type scales to both sizes without losing sharpness?Wikipedia, "Vector graphics". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0007
A weaver strings a loom with threads held lengthwise under tension, then passes another thread over and under them. What are the lengthwise threads called?Wikipedia, "Warp and weft". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0008
An artist builds a dark tone in a pen drawing by laying one set of close parallel lines over another at an angle. What is this technique called?Wikipedia, "Hatching". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0003
Engraving and etching belong to the same family of printmaking. Where does the ink sit when such a plate is printed?Tate, Art Terms, "Intaglio". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0005
In a black-and-white darkroom, which bath turns the latent image on exposed paper into a visible one?Wikipedia, "Photographic developer". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0007
In fresco, why is the water-based paint applied while the plaster is still wet?Tate, Art Terms, "Fresco". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0004
In lost-wax casting of bronze, what happens to the wax model?Wikipedia, "Lost-wax casting". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0006
Lithography prints from a flat stone or plate. Which fact about materials makes the process work?Tate, Art Terms, "Lithography". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0005
On a temple wall, carved figures project from a flat background and stay attached to it. What is this kind of sculpture called?Tate, Art Terms, "Relief". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0006
Which drawing material is made by heating sticks of wood such as willow or vine in a kiln without air?Wikipedia, "Charcoal (art)". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0003
Domain III: Visual arts in historical and cultural contexts 18
A disc of light surrounds the head of a saint in a Byzantine icon and of a Buddha in a Gandharan carving. What does the sign mean in both works?Wikipedia, "Halo (religious iconography)". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0013
After the forced reopening of trade with Japan in 1858, which imported art inspired many Western painters?Wikipedia, "Japonisme". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0011
Early Buddha figures from Gandhara, in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, have curly hair and a wavy robe like a toga. Which tradition does this show the influence of?Wikipedia, "Greco-Buddhist art". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0011
Gothic builders opened cathedral walls to large stained glass windows. Which structural feature carried the thrust of the vault away from the wall so that this was possible?Wikipedia, "Gothic architecture". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0010
Goya's painting The Third of May 1808 shows a firing squad aiming at a kneeling man in a white shirt with his arms flung wide. What does it commemorate?Wikipedia, "The Third of May 1808". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0010
In 1936 Dorothea Lange, working for a federal agency, photographed a worried mother with her children at a pea pickers' camp in California. What has the picture come to stand for?Wikipedia, "Migrant Mother". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0014
In an ancient Egyptian tomb painting of a standing official, how is the body usually shown?Wikipedia, "Art of ancient Egypt". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0012
In the 1920s the government of Mexico paid painters such as Diego Rivera to cover the walls of public buildings. What was the aim of the program?Wikipedia, "Mexican muralism". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0010
Pop art arose in the 1950s and flourished in America and Britain in the 1960s. Where did its artists take their imagery from?Tate, Art Terms, "Pop art". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0014
The pyramids of Giza and the stepped pyramids of the Maya look alike from far away. How did their main uses differ?Wikipedia, "Pyramid" and "Egyptian pyramids". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0013
Since 1985 the Guerrilla Girls, who appear in gorilla masks, have put up posters and billboards about museums and galleries. What is the group using visual images to do?Wikipedia, "Guerrilla Girls". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0014
The Terracotta Army was buried with the first emperor of China in 210 to 209 BCE. To which category of art does it belong?Wikipedia, "Terracotta Army". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0009
Two figures at the right of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) have faces unlike the others. Which art do their features recall?Wikipedia, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0011
What did the carved figures on a totem pole of the Pacific Northwest Coast chiefly do for the family that raised it?Wikipedia, "Totem pole". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0009
What was the original function of the metal plaques and sculptures known as the Benin Bronzes?Wikipedia, "Benin Bronzes". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0009
Which set of decoration most clearly marks the interior of a historic mosque?Wikipedia, "Islamic art". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0012
Which working habit most clearly sets the French Impressionists apart from the academic painters of their day?Tate, Art Terms, "Impressionism". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0012
Why does oil paint let a painter blend subtle variations of color and build details of light and shadow?Tate, Art Terms, "Oil paint". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0013
Domain IV: Aesthetics and art criticism 6
A critic argues that a painting should be judged only by its line, shape and color, and that its subject does not matter. Which aesthetic position is this?Tate, Art Terms, "Formalism". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0015
A critic reads the skull, the burned-down candle and the hourglass in a Dutch still life as reminders of death. What is this study of a work's symbols called?Tate, Art Terms, "Iconography". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0016
A Romantic painting of a ship dwarfed by a storm is meant to fill the viewer with awe touched by fear. Which aesthetic concept names this response?Tate, Art Terms, "Sublime". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0015
A student begins a critique: "Three figures sit at a table. A window is at the left. The colors are mostly brown and gold." Which critical process is this?OAE Art (006) assessment framework, competency 0016
Plato and Aristotle both described painting and poetry as mimesis. What does the term mean?Wikipedia, "Mimesis". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0015
The same student writes: "The diagonal of the table leads the eye to the bright face, which becomes the focal point." Which critical process is this?OAE Art (006) assessment framework, competency 0016
Domain V: Connecting the visual arts to other disciplines 6
A painter draws the edges of a tiled floor so that they meet at one point on the horizon. Which idea from geometry does linear perspective use?Tate, Art Terms, "Perspective". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0017
A painting has a flaking surface and a yellowed varnish. Which specialist examines it, documents its condition and treats it?Wikipedia, "Conservation and restoration of cultural property". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0018
Georges Seurat and Paul Signac painted with tiny adjacent dabs of primary color to create the effect of light. Which field inspired the method?Tate, Art Terms, "Neo-impressionism". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0017
Which career uses drawing and animation to explain subjects of medicine and biology that are hard to put into words alone?Wikipedia, "Medical illustration". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0018
Which German term, tied to the composer Richard Wagner, names a work that uses all or many of the art forms?Wikipedia, "Gesamtkunstwerk". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0017
Which museum professional chooses the works for an exhibition and writes the texts that interpret them for visitors?Wikipedia, "Curator". Written to OAE Art (006) framework, competency 0018
How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the assessment framework for Ohio Assessments for Educators field 006, Art, read 2026-10-12 on the program's site (https://www.oh.nesinc.com/CONTENT/STUDYGUIDE/OH_SG_OBJ_006.htm; test page https://www.oh.nesinc.com/TestView.aspx?f=HTML_FRAG/OH006_TestPage.html): 150 multiple-choice questions in 180 minutes, passing score 220; Foundations of Art: Elements and Principles (competencies 0001 to 0002, 11%), Art Media, Tools, Technologies, Techniques, and Processes (0003 to 0008, 33%), Visual Arts in Historical and Cultural Contexts (0009 to 0014, 33%), Aesthetics and Art Criticism (0015 to 0016, 12%) and Connecting the Visual Arts to Other Disciplines (0017 to 0018, 11%). The bank holds 3 questions for each of the 18 competencies. Every fact was read on 2026-10-12 in the public page the question names: Tate's Art Terms (tate.org.uk), the J. Paul Getty Museum's teaching sheet on the principles of design and the named Wikipedia article. Two questions on the steps of art criticism rest on the framework's own list of the four critical processes. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.
How it works
This free OAE Art practice test has 54 questions of our own, three for each of the 18 competencies of assessment 006. It is unofficial and not affiliated with the Ohio State Board of Education or Evaluation Systems, Pearson.
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What the OAE 006 Art exam covers
The framework at oh.nesinc.com, read October 12, 2026, weighs Foundations of Art: Elements and Principles 11%, Art Media, Tools, Technologies, Techniques and Processes 33%, Visual Arts in Historical and Cultural Contexts 33%, Aesthetics and Art Criticism 12%, and Connecting the Visual Arts to Other Disciplines 11%. Studio media and art history are two thirds of the score, and 36 of these 54 questions.
Timing
The real exam allows 3 hours after a 15-minute tutorial, 1.2 minutes a question. Exam mode gives 65 minutes for the 54 here, the same pace.
Which license needs it
The program's table of license types lists Art (006) for the Multi-Age (PK–12) Visual Arts license, together with the Assessment of Professional Knowledge: Multi-Age (PK–12), test 004.
These questions describe each work in words. The test page does not say how many real questions show an image, so look the works up.
Questions and answers
Is this OAE 006 Art exam practice test free?
Yes, with no account and no fee. All 54 questions are ours, written from the published framework. Each explanation names where to check it: a Tate art term, a Getty teaching sheet or Wikipedia. None comes from the real assessment or its sample questions.
How many questions are on the OAE Art test?
150 multiple-choice questions, with no written assignment. The test page notes that some questions may be under evaluation for future use and do not affect the score.
What score do you need to pass OAE Art?
220. The State Board of Education sets the minimum passing score, and the total, on a 100 to 300 scale, comes from the multiple-choice questions answered correctly.
Can I take the OAE Art test online?
Yes. Art (006) is given at test centers by appointment year round and with an online proctor during one-week windows each month. Online, no breaks are allowed. The test page lists no reference materials.