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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Who made large portraits of friends?
warp
Turpentine
Carving Tools
David Hockney
2. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
scumbling
Wedging
Social Realism
Hagia Sophia
3. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Armature
Value
Stoneware properties
Paint Extender
4. Gray made by mixing complements
Color field painting
Kinetic art
chromatic gray
Islam art
5. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Joseph Beuys
Gothic Cathedrals
dry - brushing
Encaustic
6. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Encaustic
Pumice
Color field painting artists
7. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Design Principles
Color field painting
Linseed oil
Stepped Pyramid Temples
8. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Michelangelo
Rotunda
Sulfur
Stoneware properties
9. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Chiaroscuro
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Film Speed
The Renaissance
10. Used in water printing
Crenellation
The post - and - lintel system
Acrylic paint
Photogravure
11. Symmetrical balance
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12. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Value
Shade
analogous Colors
Isocephaly
13. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Collage
Paint Extender
Albert Durer
Used to protect pastel artwork
14. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Michelangelo
Dry Point
Appropriation Art
15. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Rotunda
Design Elements
Depth of Field
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
16. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
Rodin
The Renaissance
film speed
17. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Yarn
Dome
Depression art
intaglio
18. 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
Hagia Sophia
Motif
Rococo
Linseed oil
19. 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.
Embroidery
Cement
Islam art
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
20. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Frida Kahlo
Dome
Known Rodin prints
Crenellation
21. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Paint Extender
vehicle
Doric columns
Linseed oil
22. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Social Murals
Basquiat
Pop artists
Cement
23. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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24. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
Loom
African Benin Sculputure
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
25. 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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26. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Known Rodin prints
aquatint
Romanesque Cathedrals
Shutter Speed
27. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
binder
frisket
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Gouache
28. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Appropriation Art
Emphasis
balance
Design Elements
29. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
dry - brushing
Artist Proof
Social Realism
Ceramic - Sgraffito
30. The laying of paint thickly
film speed
Impasto
Tapestry
Barabara Krugel
31. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Forms of Charcoal
Women artist of the 19th century
Principle of Art
Stepped Pyramid Temples
32. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Chiaroscuro
Known Rodin prints
Facing forward and stiff
African Benin Sculputure
33. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.
Romantic Era
Elements of Art
Cement
Film Speed
34. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Monochrome printing
Sulfur
rhythm
Titan's key works
35. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Romanesque Cathedrals
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
analogous Colors
Wood and bronze
36. 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).
Barabara Krugel
Palace of Versaille
Egg Tempera
Rodin
37. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
value
slip
Fire clay
gesso
38. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Stoneware properties
Forms of Charcoal
Photogravure
Charcoal pen
39. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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40. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
nave
aquatint
Scoring
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
41. 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.
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
William Blake
Frottage
Acrylic paint
42. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Photorealism
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Lotus postition
Tapestry
43. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
scumbling
Grisaille
Isocephaly
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
44. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Wood and bronze
Pastel
Chiaroscuro
Designed the Barcelona chair
45. 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
frisket
Elements of Art
Turpentine
Romanesque Cathedrals
46. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
warp
Rabbit Skin Glue
Dry Point
balance
47. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Gothic Cathedrals
intermediate colors
Elements of Art
Tint
48. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
stain glass in a cathedral
Designed the Barcelona chair
I.M. Pei
scumbling
49. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Egg Tempera
Frida Kahlo
Japanese art and buildings
Artists associated with Pointillism
50. 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.
Impasto
scumbling
Brushed used in oil painting
Loom