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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Principle of Art
Rough paper
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Social Murals
2. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Degas and Cassett
megalith
kinds of stones for stone carving
gouache
3. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Pumice
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Photorealism
Home Insurance Building in NYC
4. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Jewelry tools
Shade
Linear perspective
Monochrome printing
5. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Value
film speed
Social Murals
6. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Pointillism
Doric columns
stain glass in a cathedral
aquatint
7. The genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information - creating a painting that appears to be very realistic like a photograph.
Depth of Field
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Cement
Photorealism
8. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Environmental Art
Rabbit Skin Glue
Doric columns
Trompe - l'oil
9. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su
the golden section (architecture)
kinds of stones for stone carving
The Renaissance
Ionic columns
10. Used in water printing
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Acrylic paint
Cement
Wedging
11. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Degas and Cassett
Gothic Cathedrals
Enameling
Thomas Gainsborough
12. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Gothic Cathedrals
Georgian Style
Michelangelo
Palace of Versaille
13. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Rodin
Photorealism
Paint Extender
warp
14. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Hagia Sophia
Color field painting
Charcoal pen
Dagyuerrotype
15. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Depth of Field
A black line
Tapestry
16. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Isocephaly
intaglio
Loom
Stepped Pyramid Temples
17. Statuettes were mostly used for two purposes: to incarnate a spirit of the bush - and the second was to represent a spouse from the other world 'Blolo Bla' or 'Blolo Bian'.
Brushed used in oil painting
Depression art
Appropriation Art
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
18. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
constructed the Spiral Jetty
chromatic gray
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Tapestry
19. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit
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20. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Water
Depression art
Collage
Facing forward and stiff
21. Fix
Tessera
I.M. Pei
Tempera paint
Used to protect pastel artwork
22. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Photorealism
Wedging
A black line
Titan's key works
23. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Brown
Wedging
three point perspective
gouache
24. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Julio Gonzalez
Women artist of the 19th century
25. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Depression era Artists
Pop artists
nave
The post - and - lintel system
26. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Adena Indian habitats
William Blake
Gothic Cathedrals
Crenellation
27. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
vehicle
Water
Gothic Cathedrals
Encaustic
28. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
Chiaroscuro
Color field painting
rhythm
29. 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.
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Depth of Field
gesso
Frottage
30. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Tapestry
Frottage
Julio Gonzalez
Assemblage
31. Example of baroque architecture
gouache
William Blake
The post - and - lintel system
Palace of Versaille
32. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Wedging
Mayan
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
intermediate colors
33. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Pastel
value
Hagia Sophia
The Renaissance
34. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Tapestry
Aperture
Design Elements
chromatic gray
35. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Rice paper
Wood and bronze
Encaustic
warp
36. 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.
I.M. Pei
Tempera paint
film speed
Esquisse
37. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Cement
A black line
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Assemblage
38. 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.
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Egg Tempera
Principle of Art
scumbling
39. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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40. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Corinthian columns
Croquis
Esquisse
Printmaking Techniques
41. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Islam art
Brushed used in oil painting
Printmaking Techniques
Tessera
42. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Meyer Schapiro
analogous Colors
Thomas Gainsborough
Stepped Pyramid Temples
43. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Brushed used in oil painting
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Romanesque
44. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
chromatic gray
Hardbrick
film speed
balance
45. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
wedging the clay
Designed the Barcelona chair
Romanesque Cathedrals
Grisaille
46. Hard - dense firebrick generally used only in high - stress areas of kiln (floor - burner ports - flues - bagwall) and for corrosive firing processes (salt - soda - wood).
Pastel
Loom
Gouache
Hardbrick
47. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Turpentine
weft
gouache
Acrylic paint
48. What goes horizontal across a loom?
dry - brushing
African masks
Yarn
Dry Point
49. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Stoneware
Enameling
binder
Water
50. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Titan's key works
Dome
Rice paper
Esquisse