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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Michelangelo
Monochrome printing
The Renaissance
Shade
2. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Meyer Schapiro
Yarn
Pumice
Artists associated with Pointillism
3. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Adena Indian habitats
Tapestry
Neoclassical
Dagyuerrotype
4. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Baroque painting
three point perspective
Ionic columns
5. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Rodin
Design Elements
Camera Obscura
Embroidery
6. Air - dry unfired clay
kinds of stones for stone carving
Stoneware
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Greenware
7. 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.
Hardbrick
Brushed used in oil painting
Embroidery
Islam art
8. What is another work for low relief?
Michelangelo
Bas
scumbling
Dry Point
9. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Armature
Grisaille
Crenellation
Gouache
10. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Elements of Art
Brushed used in oil painting
African Benin Sculputure
Barabara Krugel
11. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
aquatint
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Mayan
Elements of Art
12. Continuous frieze
Pop artists
gesso
Column of Trajan
Assemblage
13. ...
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Camera Obscura
Yarn
The Renaissance
14. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
scumbling
Armature
Appropriation Art
15. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Camera Obscura
Tessera
Adena Indian habitats
Acrylic paint
16. 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
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Artists associated with Pointillism
William Blake
rhythm
17. Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.
three point perspective
Printmaking Techniques
Palace of Versaille
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
18. Rene Magritte
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
three point perspective
19. 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'.
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Another term used for buddhist temple
20. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Color field painting artists
Depression era Artists
Isocephaly
Assemblage
21. Huge stones
Depression era Artists
megalith
Depression art
Social Realism
22. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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23. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Kinetic art
Appropriation Art
Joseph Beuys
Encaustic
24. 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.
scumbling
Equipment used in oil painting
Frottage
Tint
25. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Cement
Rotunda
Parchment
Forms of Charcoal
26. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
African Benin Sculputure
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Tempera paint
Social Realism
27. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Mississippian
Islam art
Stoneware properties
rhythm
28. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Batik
Environmental Art
Frottage
Value
29. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Social Murals
Cast concrete - modeling
Ionic columns
30. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
wedging the clay
Carving Tools
Meyer Schapiro
Dry Point
31. AP on an art product means what
I.M. Pei
Embroidery
Titan's key works
Artist Proof
32. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Romantic Era
Georgian Style
Another term used for buddhist temple
Carving Tools
33. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
binder
Emphasis
Fire clay
Embroidery
34. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Principle of Art
Motif
Linear perspective
Film Speed
35. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
I.M. Pei
Film Speed
Lotus postition
Romanesque
36. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Printmaking Techniques
three point perspective
Stoneware
37. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Fire clay
Titan's key works
Ionic columns
Facing forward and stiff
38. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Yarn
Aperture
gesso
39. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
African masks
Esquisse
Turpentine
Linseed oil
40. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Another term used for buddhist temple
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Ionic columns
'fat over lean'
41. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Camera Obscura
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Stoneware
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
42. Symmetrical balance
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43. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Equipment used in oil painting
Loom
Known Rodin prints
Jewelry tools
44. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
nave
Albert Durer
intermediate colors
Color field painting
45. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
scumbling
Ionic columns
Islam art
Mississippian
46. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Japanese art and buildings
Gel medium
Van Der Zee
Monochrome printing
47. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Islam art
frisket
Batik
48. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Baroque painting
Dagyuerrotype
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Collage
49. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Romanesque
'fat over lean'
Neoclassical
Dome
50. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
African Benin Sculputure
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
analogous Colors
Thomas Gainsborough