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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Degas and Cassett
gouache
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
intermediate colors
2. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Rotunda
Shade
Barabara Krugel
modeling
3. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Elements of Art
Tapestry
Monochrome printing
rhythm
4. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
The post - and - lintel system
Designed the Barcelona chair
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Barabara Krugel
5. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Sfumato
Dome
Emphasis
Brushed used in oil painting
6. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Pop artists
binder
Japanese art and buildings
7. Pagoda
Meyer Schapiro
Islam art
African Benin Sculputure
Another term used for buddhist temple
8. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Sulfur
Michelangelo
Emphasis
Rembrandt
9. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Tint
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Known Rodin prints
Romantic Era
10. In art - the perception of depth in nature as enhanced by haze in the atmosphere; how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Depression art
wedging the clay
Tenebrism
11. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Esquisse
Social Murals
Value
constructed the Spiral Jetty
12. Continuous frieze
Women artist of the 19th century
Column of Trajan
CMYK
Scoring
13. rayons resistant to what?
African masks
Water
Cement
Yarn
14. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Stoneware properties
Acrylic paint
dry - brushing
scumbling
15. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Dry Point
Adena Indian habitats
Paint Extender
Michelangelo
16. 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.
Monochrome printing
Gel medium
Tempera paint
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
17. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Frottage
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
frisket
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
18. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Lotus postition
Environmental Art
Gothic Cathedrals
the golden section (architecture)
19. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Aperture
Corinthian columns
kinds of stones for stone carving
dry - brushing
20. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
modeling
Albert Durer
Pop artists
Ionic columns
21. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Printmaking Techniques
intaglio
Adena Indian habitats
Scoring
22. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Gouache
Dry Point
binder
Meyer Schapiro
23. A dominant idea or central theme
balance
Collage
Isocephaly
Motif
24. What city had the first skyscraper?
Jewelry tools
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Forms of Charcoal
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
25. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Another term used for buddhist temple
Rembrandt
Facing forward and stiff
Emphasis
26. Gray made by mixing complements
gouache
Barabara Krugel
intermediate colors
chromatic gray
27. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
aquatint
Rice paper
Printmaking Techniques
28. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
analogous Colors
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
slip
Isocephaly
29. 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).
wedging the clay
Hardbrick
Environmental Art
African Benin Sculputure
30. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Basquiat
Color field painting artists
Social Realism
31. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
value
Julio Gonzalez
Forms of Charcoal
A black line
32. ...
The post - and - lintel system
kinds of stones for stone carving
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
33. Origin is Mayan
Rembrandt
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Degas and Cassett
Printmaking Techniques
34. 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
Georgian Style
African Benin Sculputure
Rococo
modeling
35. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
Turpentine
Lotus postition
Islam art
36. 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
Mayan
Rodin
Tessera
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
37. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Brown
Depression era Artists
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
38. Who said ' less is more'?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Equipment used in oil painting
value
Photorealism
39. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Frida Kahlo
Isocephaly
gouache
Fire clay
40. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Van Der Zee
Social Realism
'fat over lean'
nave
41. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
modeling
'fat over lean'
Parchment
42. 3X 5300 pixels
Yarn
gesso
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
best resolution in a digital photo?
43. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Appropriation Art
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Fire clay
Shade
44. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Cement
Appropriation Art
modeling
Pastel
45. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Known Rodin prints
Tempera paint
Thomas Gainsborough
46. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Parchment
Egg Tempera
Michelangelo
Meyer Schapiro
47. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Environmental Art
Jewelry tools
Enameling
Color field painting
48. 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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49. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Cast concrete - modeling
Design Principles
Pop artists
Describe the process of fresco
50. 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.
Tint
Embroidery
Bas
Monochrome printing