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Praxis 2 Art
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1. 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
weft
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Carving Tools
Ceramic glaze
2. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Design Principles
Pastel
megalith
Appropriation Art
3. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Barabara Krugel
Neoclassical
Scoring
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
4. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Tempera paint
Rotunda
Scoring
Used to protect pastel artwork
5. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Women artist of the 19th century
Photogravure
Rococo
Facing forward and stiff
6. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
I.M. Pei
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Paint Extender
Wood and bronze
7. 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
Brushed used in oil painting
William Blake
Linear perspective
Basquiat
8. Statuettes were mostly used for two purposes: to incarnate a spirit of the bush - and the second was to represent a spouse from the other world 'Blolo Bla' or 'Blolo Bian'.
Palace of Versaille
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
best resolution in a digital photo?
rhythm
9. 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).
Hardbrick
Ceramic glaze
Rotunda
Mayan
10. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Appropriation Art
Meyer Schapiro
Dagyuerrotype
Julio Gonzalez
11. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Stoneware
Isocephaly
Crenellation
Encaustic
12. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Albert Durer
Brushed used in oil painting
Jewelry tools
I.M. Pei
13. Made out of Metal
chromatic gray
Monochrome printing
African Benin Sculputure
frisket
14. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Depth of Field
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Monochrome printing
vehicle
15. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Pastel
Photogravure
Facing forward and stiff
Shutter Speed
16. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Sfumato
Shutter Speed
Degas and Cassett
Principle of Art
17. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Wood and bronze
Fire clay
Dome
Armature
18. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light. More sensitive (faster) films have higher ISO numbers and require less exposure in order to make a properly - exposed picture.
Dome
Film Speed
Women artist of the 19th century
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
19. 3X 5300 pixels
best resolution in a digital photo?
Hardbrick
Social Murals
Scoring
20. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Esquisse
Depth of Field
Jewelry tools
Environmental Art
21. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Depression era Artists
Parchment
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Dry Point
22. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Van Der Zee
Meyer Schapiro
Hagia Sophia
analogous Colors
23. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Charcoal pen
gouache
dry - brushing
Known Rodin prints
24. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Turpentine
wedging the clay
Collage
Basic Elements of Sculpture
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
Romanesque Cathedrals
Frottage
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Julio Gonzalez
26. 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
Titan's key works
Degas and Cassett
Lotus postition
Baroque painting
27. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Ceramic glaze
Linseed oil
Van Der Zee
Ionic columns
28. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Shade
Egg Tempera
Hagia Sophia
Gothic Cathedrals
29. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
African masks
megalith
'fat over lean'
Environmental Art
30. 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.
warp
Tempera paint
Rodin
Thomas Gainsborough
31. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Gothic Cathedrals
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Design Principles
Batik
32. ...
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Linseed oil
Tenebrism
Color field painting artists
33. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Cast concrete - modeling
Gothic Cathedrals
frisket
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
34. 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.
Shutter Speed
Another term used for buddhist temple
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Islam art
35. Gray made by mixing complements
Frida Kahlo
Albert Durer
chromatic gray
Emphasis
36. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
stain glass in a cathedral
Julio Gonzalez
Another term used for buddhist temple
Grisaille
37. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man
CMYK
rhythm
frisket
Michelangelo
38. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Basic Elements of Sculpture
scumbling
Wedging
CMYK
39. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
African Benin Sculputure
Dagyuerrotype
Aperture
Embroidery
40. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Greenware
Artists associated with Pointillism
binder
stain glass in a cathedral
41. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Monochrome printing
Value
Loom
Social Murals
42. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Forms of Charcoal
Monochrome printing
Paint Extender
Tapestry
43. A dominant idea or central theme
Albert Durer
three point perspective
Motif
Tessera
44. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Julio Gonzalez
Shutter Speed
Baroque painting
intaglio
45. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
chromatic gray
Encaustic
film speed
46. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Shutter Speed
Shade
CMYK
Rodin
47. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Value
Romanesque
Scoring
Abstract Expressionist Artists
48. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
Forms of Charcoal
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Isocephaly
Tempera paint
49. Robert Smithson
Safety glasses
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Baroque painting
gesso
50. 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.
Frottage
Shade
wedging the clay
frisket
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