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Praxis 2 Art
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1. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Brushed used in oil painting
aquatint
Yarn
Monochrome printing
2. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Carving Tools
Corinthian columns
Monochrome printing
rhythm
3. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
aquatint
CMYK
A black line
Color field painting artists
4. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
balance
Loom
Romanesque Cathedrals
Artists associated with Pointillism
5. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
warp
Rembrandt
Thomas Gainsborough
Shade
6. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
nave
Water
African masks
Grisaille
7. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Safety glasses
Stoneware
Shutter Speed
Mayan
8. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Cement
Photorealism
Wedging
Hagia Sophia
9. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Georgian Style
Linear perspective
Elements of Art
Social Murals
10. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Rough paper
Pastel
Mayan
11. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Lotus postition
'fat over lean'
nave
Adena Indian habitats
12. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
three point perspective
Bas
Elements of Art
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
13. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Sfumato
Principle of Art
Elements of Art
intermediate colors
14. 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.
Abstract Expressionist Artists
chromatic gray
scumbling
Batik
15. Italian term meaning smoke - describing a very delicate gradation of light and shade in the modeling of figures; often ascribed to Da Vinci's work.
Romanesque Cathedrals
Shutter Speed
Sfumato
modeling
16. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Dome
modeling
Forms of Charcoal
Barabara Krugel
17. 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
Turpentine
Jewelry tools
Pointillism
Known Rodin prints
18. The central area of a church
nave
Enameling
Women artist of the 19th century
Grisaille
19. 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
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Ionic columns
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Turpentine
20. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Hardbrick
Mississippian
gouache
Describe the process of fresco
21. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Principle of Art
Known Rodin prints
Van Der Zee
Social Realism
22. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Film Speed
Emphasis
Camera Obscura
intaglio
23. Air - dry unfired clay
Rabbit Skin Glue
Describe the process of fresco
Greenware
Frottage
24. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Gothic Cathedrals
Aperture
Neoclassical
Rice paper
25. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Charcoal pen
Mayan
Van Der Zee
Romanesque Cathedrals
26. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty
Pop artists
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
gouache
Chiaroscuro
27. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Batik
Facing forward and stiff
A black line
Cast concrete - modeling
28. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Embroidery
African Benin Sculputure
rhythm
vehicle
29. 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
Batik
Another term used for buddhist temple
William Blake
Wood and bronze
30. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Titan's key works
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Crenellation
Rough paper
31. Robert Smithson
Forms of Charcoal
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
constructed the Spiral Jetty
32. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
wedging the clay
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Van Der Zee
Charcoal pen
33. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Gothic Cathedrals
Palace of Versaille
frisket
CMYK
34. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Acrylic paint
The post - and - lintel system
Tapestry
Depth of Field
35. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.
Safety glasses
Brown
Depression art
David Hockney
36. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Degas and Cassett
vehicle
Albert Durer
Forms of Charcoal
37. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Albert Durer
Chiaroscuro
Titan's key works
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
38. 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
Monochrome printing
Japanese art and buildings
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Cement
39. Pagoda
Another term used for buddhist temple
Greenware
best resolution in a digital photo?
Trompe - l'oil
40. Restricted to the subject matter of family or confines of their particular society
Women artist of the 19th century
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Rough paper
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
41. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Acrylic paint
Monochrome printing
Lotus postition
Degas and Cassett
42. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Forms of Charcoal
Islam art
Fire clay
nave
43. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Women artist of the 19th century
megalith
Pastel
Wedging
44. To make a quick sketch
Tapestry
Doric columns
Croquis
CMYK
45. What city had the first skyscraper?
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Bas
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
William Blake
46. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Tapestry
Film Speed
CMYK
47. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Barabara Krugel
Dome
Gel medium
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
48. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Julio Gonzalez
Design Elements
Islam art
binder
49. AP on an art product means what
Pointillism
David Hockney
Impasto
Artist Proof
50. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Brown
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Kinetic art
Film Speed
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