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Praxis 2 Art
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1. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.
Romanesque Cathedrals
Acrylic paint
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Tempera paint
2. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Photogravure
Isocephaly
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Tenebrism
3. Meaning to rub a crayon or other tool onto paper or other material - which is placed onto a textured surface - in order to create the texture of that surface on the paper.
Frottage
Shade
Another term used for buddhist temple
Tapestry
4. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Basquiat
Another term used for buddhist temple
Facing forward and stiff
Color field painting artists
5. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Shade
Grisaille
Cast concrete - modeling
Value
6. Symmetrical balance
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7. The second oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100 years of the old Byzantine Empire (400 AD-1202 AD).
Ceramic glaze
Wedging
Egg Tempera
Yarn
8. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
balance
Degas and Cassett
Pumice
Social Realism
9. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Photorealism
Hagia Sophia
stain glass in a cathedral
Frida Kahlo
10. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Dome
balance
African masks
Lotus postition
11. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Tessera
Barabara Krugel
William Blake
Chiaroscuro
12. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Rice paper
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Stoneware properties
binder
13. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Artists associated with Pointillism
Basquiat
Gel medium
warp
14. Came in response to the darkness and heaviness of Baroque art - but did continue many of the ideals specified during the 17th century. Rococo related much more to decorative shapes as well as the natural and organic. Swirling shapes and asymmetrical
'fat over lean'
Rococo
Van Der Zee
Esquisse
15. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Designed the Barcelona chair
three point perspective
Turpentine
Rembrandt
16. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
vehicle
film speed
aquatint
binder
17. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Encaustic
Rabbit Skin Glue
Albert Durer
Thomas Gainsborough
18. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Linseed oil
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Scoring
19. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.
Fire clay
'fat over lean'
Scoring
scumbling
20. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
gouache
Environmental Art
Encaustic
21. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Linseed oil
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Cast concrete - modeling
Esquisse
22. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.
Hardbrick
Embroidery
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
23. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Shutter Speed
Motif
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Pointillism
24. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.
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25. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Linear perspective
Turpentine
gouache
Motif
26. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Artists associated with Pointillism
stain glass in a cathedral
Georgian Style
Mississippian
27. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
rhythm
Croquis
Gouache
Rough paper
28. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
frisket
Shade
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Design Principles
29. Gouge and chisel
Photogravure
Carving Tools
Trompe - l'oil
Egg Tempera
30. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Color field painting
Emphasis
wedging the clay
the golden section (architecture)
31. Used in water printing
David Hockney
chromatic gray
Social Murals
Acrylic paint
32. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Frottage
Baroque painting
Charcoal pen
Basquiat
33. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
CMYK
Degas and Cassett
Monochrome printing
Ionic columns
34. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Camera Obscura
binder
Batik
nave
35. Harlem Renaissance artist known for etchings - was a German painter - printmaker - and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate
Shade
Baroque painting
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
36. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Albert Durer
Women artist of the 19th century
Collage
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
37. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Enameling
intermediate colors
Paint Extender
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
38. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Joseph Beuys
Pumice
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
39. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
intermediate colors
Social Realism
slip
The post - and - lintel system
40. A dominant idea or central theme
Hagia Sophia
Motif
Barabara Krugel
Dagyuerrotype
41. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Known Rodin prints
Julio Gonzalez
The post - and - lintel system
African masks
42. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Pastel
Frida Kahlo
Tint
43. Robert Smithson
frisket
Hardbrick
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Corinthian columns
44. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Georgian Style
Chiaroscuro
Parchment
45. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Islam art
Doric columns
Trompe - l'oil
binder
46. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Chiaroscuro
Known Rodin prints
Rabbit Skin Glue
Sulfur
47. Example of baroque architecture
Basquiat
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
CMYK
Palace of Versaille
48. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Cast concrete - modeling
Rococo
Facing forward and stiff
Fire clay
49. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
film speed
Design Elements
Adena Indian habitats
Stoneware
50. What city had the first skyscraper?
the golden section (architecture)
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Kinetic art
Photorealism