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Praxis 2 Art
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1. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Women artist of the 19th century
Photogravure
gesso
Rotunda
2. Made out of Metal
Armature
'fat over lean'
African Benin Sculputure
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
3. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Meyer Schapiro
Tessera
African masks
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
4. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Describe the process of fresco
Enameling
Scoring
Barabara Krugel
5. Gray made by mixing complements
Turpentine
the golden section (architecture)
chromatic gray
analogous Colors
6. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Meyer Schapiro
Gothic Cathedrals
Photorealism
Acrylic paint
7. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Neoclassical
chromatic gray
value
Cement
8. Used in water printing
frisket
Impasto
Women artist of the 19th century
Acrylic paint
9. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
nave
Collage
Degas and Cassett
Sfumato
10. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Principle of Art
Japanese art and buildings
Pop artists
Emphasis
11. 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.
Michelangelo
Croquis
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Frottage
12. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Value
Carving Tools
Charcoal pen
Corinthian columns
13. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Basquiat
three point perspective
Rice paper
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
14. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
weft
Home Insurance Building in NYC
dry - brushing
Brushed used in oil painting
15. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
weft
stain glass in a cathedral
kinds of stones for stone carving
Enameling
16. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Dry Point
Pointillism
Scoring
frisket
17. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Photorealism
Designed the Barcelona chair
Rodin
Sfumato
18. 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.
warp
Gel medium
Enameling
CMYK
19. Pagoda
Gothic Cathedrals
Romanesque Cathedrals
Another term used for buddhist temple
dry - brushing
20. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Mayan
Japanese art and buildings
Baroque painting
Palace of Versaille
21. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
nave
Thomas Gainsborough
gesso
Trompe - l'oil
22. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Dry Point
stain glass in a cathedral
Gouache
Pumice
23. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
weft
Rococo
Aperture
24. 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.
Aperture
Embroidery
Shade
Describe the process of fresco
25. 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
Impasto
Van Der Zee
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Romanesque Cathedrals
26. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Wedging
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Chiaroscuro
Social Murals
27. rayons resistant to what?
Water
Known Rodin prints
Sulfur
Impasto
28. The laying of paint thickly
Impasto
Tapestry
Equipment used in oil painting
Julio Gonzalez
29. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
stain glass in a cathedral
Grisaille
Chiaroscuro
Principle of Art
30. 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.
Adena Indian habitats
Sfumato
balance
analogous Colors
31. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit
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32. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Tint
Adena Indian habitats
Batik
I.M. Pei
33. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Sfumato
Titan's key works
African Benin Sculputure
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
34. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
slip
Parchment
Tapestry
Ceramic glaze
35. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Water
Color field painting artists
warp
wedging the clay
36. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Frida Kahlo
Designed the Barcelona chair
Collage
Mayan
37. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
A black line
Degas and Cassett
the golden section (architecture)
Rembrandt
38. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tapestry
Design Elements
Van Der Zee
The post - and - lintel system
39. Origin is Mayan
Safety glasses
dry - brushing
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Rabbit Skin Glue
40. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Mississippian
Brushed used in oil painting
Impasto
Ceramic glaze
41. Rene Magritte
Assemblage
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
42. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Printmaking Techniques
Loom
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Romanesque Cathedrals
43. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su
dry - brushing
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Neoclassical
the golden section (architecture)
44. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Ionic columns
Adena Indian habitats
Social Realism
Pop artists
45. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Water
Enameling
megalith
Rough paper
46. Continuous frieze
Depth of Field
Column of Trajan
Egg Tempera
best resolution in a digital photo?
47. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Stoneware
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
I.M. Pei
Assemblage
48. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
intaglio
Value
Social Murals
Islam art
49. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Acrylic paint
analogous Colors
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Rodin
50. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
gesso
Rice paper
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Home Insurance Building in NYC