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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. 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
kinds of stones for stone carving
Esquisse
Joseph Beuys
Frottage
2. The central area of a church
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
nave
Used to protect pastel artwork
Tessera
3. Robert Smithson
Adena Indian habitats
Barabara Krugel
Meyer Schapiro
constructed the Spiral Jetty
4. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Pastel
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Sfumato
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
5. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Column of Trajan
Lotus postition
Cast concrete - modeling
Rice paper
6. Sculptor. Major Work: The Thinker - a naturalist - less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition - he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks - and the decorative beauty of the Ba
Hagia Sophia
Gothic Cathedrals
Rodin
Julio Gonzalez
7. An art and design principle concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (even) or asymmetrical (uneven) in design and proportion.
balance
A black line
Gothic Cathedrals
Artists associated with Pointillism
8. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
balance
Shade
Stoneware
warp
9. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Romanesque
Describe the process of fresco
Social Realism
Linseed oil
10. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Shade
Value
weft
Stepped Pyramid Temples
11. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Turpentine
Value
Designed the Barcelona chair
Used to protect pastel artwork
12. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Degas and Cassett
Mayan
Describe the process of fresco
Photogravure
13. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Rice paper
Principle of Art
kinds of stones for stone carving
Ceramic glaze
14. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Crenellation
Depression art
Fire clay
vehicle
15. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Facing forward and stiff
gouache
Thomas Gainsborough
Hardbrick
16. 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
The Renaissance
Encaustic
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Romanesque Cathedrals
17. 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
Artist Proof
Sfumato
Basquiat
gouache
18. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Japanese art and buildings
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Design Principles
Armature
19. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
three point perspective
aquatint
Scoring
Stepped Pyramid Temples
20. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Jewelry tools
slip
Sfumato
Adena Indian habitats
21. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Elements of Art
Wood and bronze
Women artist of the 19th century
three point perspective
22. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Rococo
Color field painting
The Renaissance
Jewelry tools
23. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Rembrandt
Barabara Krugel
Thomas Gainsborough
warp
24. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Rough paper
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Lotus postition
Photorealism
25. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
David Hockney
Describe the process of fresco
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Jewelry tools
26. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel
Equipment used in oil painting
Column of Trajan
Romanesque
Stoneware
27. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Film Speed
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Impasto
Yarn
28. Fix
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
modeling
Used to protect pastel artwork
Tapestry
29. 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
Rococo
Stoneware
analogous Colors
Linear perspective
30. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.
Stepped Pyramid Temples
CMYK
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Georgian Style
31. 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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32. What city had the first skyscraper?
Neoclassical
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Artists associated with Pointillism
Meyer Schapiro
33. A dominant idea or central theme
Esquisse
Enameling
slip
Motif
34. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Fire clay
Carving Tools
weft
Ceramic glaze
35. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Safety glasses
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Georgian Style
Tint
36. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
vehicle
Cement
Japanese art and buildings
megalith
37. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Van Der Zee
Islam art
Gouache
Enameling
38. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Forms of Charcoal
Another term used for buddhist temple
Romantic Era
Corinthian columns
39. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Artists associated with Pointillism
Shade
Hardbrick
Photogravure
40. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
weft
Meyer Schapiro
film speed
Motif
41. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Equipment used in oil painting
Gel medium
balance
slip
42. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Batik
Dry Point
Romanesque
analogous Colors
43. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
CMYK
Parchment
Gothic Cathedrals
Ionic columns
44. 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).
Cement
Tempera paint
Hardbrick
three point perspective
45. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Romanesque Cathedrals
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
intaglio
46. ...
Depression era Artists
scumbling
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Joseph Beuys
47. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Depression era Artists
Rembrandt
Shade
Cast concrete - modeling
48. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Armature
Adena Indian habitats
Julio Gonzalez
Enameling
49. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Depression art
Brushed used in oil painting
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Paint Extender
50. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
African Benin Sculputure
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
William Blake
Artists who used Vamera Obscura