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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.






2. What goes horizontal across a loom?






3. Symmetrical balance

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4. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?






5. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv






6. 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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7. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






8. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.






9. Sculptor. Major Work: The Thinker - a naturalist - less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion. Departing with centuries of tradition - he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks - and the decorative beauty of the Ba






10. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.






11. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.






12. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.






13. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i






14. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.






15. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.






16. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.






17. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.






18. The capital building was built in what architectual style?






19. Works of art and programs - funded by the US Treasury Dept - created to help provide economic relief to the citizens.






20. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)






21. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.






22. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel






23. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?






24. 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.






25. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware






26. 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).






27. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






28. A German performance artist - sculptor - installation artist - graphic artist - art theorist and pedagogue of art. Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare






29. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)






30. Known for stone. The term was invented by 19th century art historians - especially for Romanesque architecture - which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style - most notably round - headed arches - but also barrel vaults - apses - a






31. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting






32. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.






33. The laying of paint thickly






34. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.






35. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet






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






37. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile






38. AP on an art product means what






39. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?






40. The second oldest medium after encaustic. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and perfected by the icon painters during the last 100 years of the old Byzantine Empire (400 AD-1202 AD).






41. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.






42. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?






43. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.






44. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque






45. To make a quick sketch






46. A painting technique in which - as the name suggests - a little bit of paint is put on a dry brush. When applied - it produces a broken - scratchy effect.






47. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome






48. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?

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49. Woven wall hangings.






50. Is a circle - shaped opening in a lens (a hole - really) through which light passes to strike the film. The size of the aperture is expressed as an f - number - like f/8 or f/11.