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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. Made out of Metal
African Benin Sculputure
Rodin
Meyer Schapiro
stain glass in a cathedral
2. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Aperture
Rotunda
Hagia Sophia
value
3. Woven wall hangings.
value
Palace of Versaille
Rough paper
Tapestry
4. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
kinds of stones for stone carving
Known Rodin prints
Photorealism
Depth of Field
5. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Gouache
Elements of Art
Linear perspective
Parchment
6. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Adena Indian habitats
stain glass in a cathedral
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
modeling
7. The central area of a church
nave
Tapestry
Color field painting
Assemblage
8. 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
Ceramic glaze
kinds of stones for stone carving
analogous Colors
9. 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.
Forms of Charcoal
Photogravure
Depression art
dry - brushing
10. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Impasto
Ceramic glaze
Ionic columns
Social Murals
11. AP on an art product means what
chromatic gray
Chiaroscuro
Designed the Barcelona chair
Artist Proof
12. Produced by mixing a primary and secondary color ex. blue - green - red violet
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
intermediate colors
Depression art
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
13. Controls the duration of an exposure - the faster the Shutter speed - the shorter the exposure time.
Pointillism
Shutter Speed
Meyer Schapiro
Impasto
14. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Printmaking Techniques
Dome
Linear perspective
Tessera
15. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Lotus postition
Color field painting artists
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
16. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Neoclassical
Thomas Gainsborough
rhythm
Linear perspective
17. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Monochrome printing
Rotunda
Tapestry
Embroidery
18. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Depth of Field
Tapestry
Tempera paint
Egg Tempera
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'.
Frida Kahlo
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
20. A dominant idea or central theme
Motif
Aperture
African Benin Sculputure
Design Principles
21. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
The post - and - lintel system
Women artist of the 19th century
Tessera
Mississippian
22. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
modeling
Social Realism
Emphasis
Photorealism
23. 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
Tempera paint
Joseph Beuys
Charcoal pen
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
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.
Brown
Elements of Art
Barabara Krugel
Film Speed
25. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Stoneware properties
binder
Color field painting
Tempera paint
26. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Dome
value
Romanesque Cathedrals
Batik
27. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Describe the process of fresco
Charcoal pen
Scoring
28. 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
balance
Romanesque Cathedrals
intermediate colors
Greenware
29. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Degas and Cassett
gouache
Lotus postition
Basic Elements of Sculpture
30. 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.
A black line
Frottage
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
frisket
31. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
analogous Colors
Rembrandt
Loom
best resolution in a digital photo?
32. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
rhythm
Scoring
intaglio
Croquis
33. Gouge and chisel
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Carving Tools
34. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
David Hockney
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Collage
35. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Palace of Versaille
Hardbrick
Social Realism
chromatic gray
36. 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
Fire clay
Van Der Zee
Pointillism
William Blake
37. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Printmaking Techniques
Mayan
megalith
Frottage
38. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
value
Frida Kahlo
best resolution in a digital photo?
Water
39. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Design Elements
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Brushed used in oil painting
binder
40. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Printmaking Techniques
Photogravure
Enameling
slip
41. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
Camera Obscura
Depression era Artists
Stoneware properties
Hardbrick
42. 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.
Islam art
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Gothic Cathedrals
Shade
43. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
weft
Gel medium
Paint Extender
Scoring
44. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
slip
binder
Scoring
Adena Indian habitats
45. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Design Elements
Shade
film speed
Dagyuerrotype
46. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Rabbit Skin Glue
Isocephaly
Rotunda
Enameling
47. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Principle of Art
Safety glasses
Romantic Era
Linseed oil
48. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Michelangelo
Assemblage
Tapestry
49. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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50. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Dagyuerrotype
scumbling
Design Elements
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common