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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall
Romanesque Cathedrals
frisket
Camera Obscura
Michelangelo
2. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Georgian Style
Emphasis
Mississippian
Meyer Schapiro
3. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days
Assemblage
Wood and bronze
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
William Blake
4. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Artist Proof
chromatic gray
Mayan
Color field painting
5. 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).
Jewelry tools
Egg Tempera
Column of Trajan
Monochrome printing
6. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Meyer Schapiro
weft
value
Hagia Sophia
7. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.
Emphasis
Tempera paint
Aperture
Van Der Zee
8. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
gesso
Tempera paint
Brushed used in oil painting
A black line
9. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
wedging the clay
Sulfur
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
A black line
10. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Rotunda
Tapestry
A black line
Aperture
11. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Meyer Schapiro
Depression era Artists
film speed
Barabara Krugel
12. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Assemblage
Wedging
Rotunda
Forms of Charcoal
13. 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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14. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
film speed
wedging the clay
Gouache
Color field painting
15. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Degas and Cassett
Scoring
Armature
16. 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
Ceramic glaze
Pointillism
Loom
aquatint
17. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Another term used for buddhist temple
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Social Murals
vehicle
18. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Environmental Art
Monochrome printing
Michelangelo
Georgian Style
19. 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'.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
African Benin Sculputure
Column of Trajan
Dome
20. AP on an art product means what
Joseph Beuys
Rabbit Skin Glue
Color field painting artists
Artist Proof
21. 3X 5300 pixels
best resolution in a digital photo?
Tapestry
Embroidery
Color field painting
22. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Thomas Gainsborough
Wood and bronze
Charcoal pen
Gel medium
23. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Brown
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Islam art
Safety glasses
24. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Facing forward and stiff
Fire clay
Rough paper
Rodin
25. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Stoneware
Rotunda
Facing forward and stiff
Encaustic
26. Rene Magritte
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Facing forward and stiff
Social Realism
Tenebrism
27. ...
Greenware
Tenebrism
Tessera
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
28. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
intaglio
Tint
Isocephaly
Scoring
29. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Elements of Art
Wood and bronze
Lotus postition
Another term used for buddhist temple
30. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Design Elements
Tempera paint
Design Principles
CMYK
31. What city had the first skyscraper?
African masks
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Pointillism
value
32. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Impasto
Encaustic
three point perspective
Kinetic art
33. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Trompe - l'oil
Known Rodin prints
Value
Tint
34. rayons resistant to what?
Thomas Gainsborough
Camera Obscura
Water
Gothic Cathedrals
35. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.
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36. 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
Gel medium
Joseph Beuys
Embroidery
Palace of Versaille
37. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Monochrome printing
Degas and Cassett
Tempera paint
Chiaroscuro
38. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Embroidery
scumbling
Doric columns
Wood and bronze
39. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Camera Obscura
Scoring
gouache
David Hockney
40. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Equipment used in oil painting
Crenellation
Joseph Beuys
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
41. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Rodin
analogous Colors
Gel medium
Esquisse
42. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Safety glasses
Designed the Barcelona chair
Pop artists
Depression era Artists
43. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Crenellation
Romanesque
Equipment used in oil painting
Depression era Artists
44. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Dome
Yarn
Hagia Sophia
analogous Colors
45. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Color field painting artists
Tessera
Emphasis
nave
46. A dominant idea or central theme
chromatic gray
Motif
Ceramic glaze
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
47. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Shutter Speed
Encaustic
Artist Proof
Rice paper
48. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Photogravure
Tapestry
Sfumato
Pastel
49. Neo expressionist artist - Jean - Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s - and was the first African - American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally - charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the
Trompe - l'oil
Color field painting
Mississippian
Basquiat
50. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Romanesque
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ceramic - Sgraffito