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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. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Fire clay
Safety glasses
Photogravure
Frottage
2. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Egg Tempera
Ceramic glaze
Rotunda
Ceramic - Sgraffito
3. Who said ' less is more'?
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Tessera
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Fire clay
4. What is another work for low relief?
Design Elements
Bas
Principle of Art
Dry Point
5. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Rabbit Skin Glue
Linear perspective
Degas and Cassett
6. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
film speed
Rabbit Skin Glue
African masks
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
7. Huge stones
megalith
Islam art
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
warp
8. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Frida Kahlo
Pastel
Shutter Speed
modeling
9. 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.
Photorealism
Social Murals
wedging the clay
Yarn
10. Who made large portraits of friends?
Ceramic - Sgraffito
David Hockney
Depth of Field
African masks
11. Example of baroque architecture
Palace of Versaille
Gouache
intaglio
slip
12. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Environmental Art
film speed
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Depth of Field
13. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
aquatint
Photogravure
Hagia Sophia
Croquis
14. The central area of a church
Design Principles
nave
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Mayan
15. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Cement
best resolution in a digital photo?
Paint Extender
Social Realism
16. Made out of Metal
Stepped Pyramid Temples
weft
African Benin Sculputure
Abstract Expressionist Artists
17. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Parchment
Yarn
Elements of Art
Bas
18. Came in response to Renaissance Art - ominous - otherworldly - and dark in subject. _________ art was heavily influenced by the Counter - reformation and thus more interested in dramatic scenes of saints and history paintings.Art from the Baroque per
Baroque painting
Greenware
Julio Gonzalez
Thomas Gainsborough
19. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Wood and bronze
Romantic Era
Principle of Art
Depression art
20. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Artists associated with Pointillism
Design Principles
21. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Tapestry
Julio Gonzalez
Gouache
Egg Tempera
22. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Tint
A black line
Photorealism
vehicle
23. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Design Principles
African masks
binder
24. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Wood and bronze
Fire clay
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Photogravure
25. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Greenware
Pop artists
Thomas Gainsborough
Emphasis
26. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Rice paper
Design Principles
A black line
Cement
27. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
I.M. Pei
Collage
rhythm
Doric columns
28. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Collage
Neoclassical
intaglio
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
29. Focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy - rather than on figures - because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God - forbidden in the Qur'an.
wedging the clay
Batik
Islam art
David Hockney
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.
Rabbit Skin Glue
warp
Social Realism
CMYK
31. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Forms of Charcoal
Photogravure
three point perspective
Frottage
32. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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33. 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
Barabara Krugel
Romanesque Cathedrals
Collage
Michelangelo
34. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Stoneware properties
Another term used for buddhist temple
Thomas Gainsborough
African masks
35. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Neoclassical
the golden section (architecture)
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Color field painting
36. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Tempera paint
Acrylic paint
Kinetic art
analogous Colors
37. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Depth of Field
Frottage
Esquisse
Facing forward and stiff
38. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
intermediate colors
Kinetic art
vehicle
Social Murals
39. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Designed the Barcelona chair
Grisaille
Trompe - l'oil
Yarn
40. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Neoclassical
Trompe - l'oil
scumbling
Loom
41. 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
Cast concrete - modeling
scumbling
Ionic columns
42. 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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43. The laying of paint thickly
Photogravure
Gothic Cathedrals
Isocephaly
Impasto
44. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Film Speed
Van Der Zee
Gel medium
Baroque painting
45. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
Croquis
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
46. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
kinds of stones for stone carving
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Meyer Schapiro
Dagyuerrotype
47. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Armature
Describe the process of fresco
three point perspective
Degas and Cassett
48. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
gouache
Charcoal pen
Motif
49. 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.
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
balance
Charcoal pen
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
50. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Tint
Doric columns
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Michelangelo