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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Rough paper
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Islam art
Corinthian columns
2. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Isocephaly
The post - and - lintel system
warp
nave
3. A dominant idea or central theme
chromatic gray
Value
Motif
frisket
4. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Romantic Era
Van Der Zee
Julio Gonzalez
Design Principles
5. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Georgian Style
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Camera Obscura
slip
6. What is another work for low relief?
Sulfur
Bas
Designed the Barcelona chair
Assemblage
7. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Pop artists
Isocephaly
Social Murals
Equipment used in oil painting
8. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Safety glasses
Value
Dry Point
Jewelry tools
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.
dry - brushing
aquatint
The Renaissance
Kinetic art
10. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Used to protect pastel artwork
Collage
Environmental Art
Depression art
11. 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.
best resolution in a digital photo?
Islam art
Rococo
Film Speed
12. The genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information - creating a painting that appears to be very realistic like a photograph.
Sulfur
vehicle
Meyer Schapiro
Photorealism
13. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Enameling
kinds of stones for stone carving
14. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Palace of Versaille
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Armature
15. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
intaglio
A black line
nave
Water
16. Symmetrical balance
17. 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
Joseph Beuys
Used to protect pastel artwork
Rodin
Pumice
18. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Palace of Versaille
Georgian Style
Neoclassical
Paint Extender
19. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Turpentine
Principle of Art
Assemblage
Another term used for buddhist temple
20. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Armature
Fire clay
Used to protect pastel artwork
Designed the Barcelona chair
21. 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
stain glass in a cathedral
Carving Tools
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Joseph Beuys
22. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
Sulfur
rhythm
Artist Proof
Cast concrete - modeling
23. The laying of paint thickly
dry - brushing
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
best resolution in a digital photo?
Impasto
24. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Dagyuerrotype
Color field painting
binder
25. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
modeling
intermediate colors
Social Murals
Pastel
26. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Meyer Schapiro
gouache
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Dry Point
27. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Printmaking Techniques
chromatic gray
Photogravure
Sulfur
28. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Greenware
Social Murals
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Column of Trajan
29. Air - dry unfired clay
Collage
aquatint
kinds of stones for stone carving
Greenware
30. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Bas
Michelangelo
Color field painting
Sulfur
31. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
aquatint
Social Realism
Van Der Zee
Ionic columns
32. 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
Hagia Sophia
Van Der Zee
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
33. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Used to protect pastel artwork
stain glass in a cathedral
frisket
Cast concrete - modeling
34. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Mississippian
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Albert Durer
Design Principles
35. ...
Rotunda
Rodin
Photorealism
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
36. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Rough paper
Wedging
Depression art
Romanesque Cathedrals
37. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Aperture
Pastel
Chiaroscuro
warp
38. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
Color field painting artists
binder
Rough paper
39. Origin is Mayan
best resolution in a digital photo?
Depth of Field
CMYK
Stepped Pyramid Temples
40. 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.
Julio Gonzalez
Frottage
vehicle
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
41. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Environmental Art
Palace of Versaille
Michelangelo
Gouache
42. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
aquatint
Greenware
Rococo
Basic Elements of Sculpture
43. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Corinthian columns
Crenellation
Film Speed
Parchment
44. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Rodin
Basic Elements of Sculpture
warp
Shade
45. What color do two secondary colors make?
Impasto
scumbling
Georgian Style
Brown
46. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
vehicle
intaglio
dry - brushing
Parchment
47. Considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time. Working with both woodcuts and copper engravings - he attained a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed.
CMYK
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Albert Durer
warp
48. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Loom
Grisaille
the golden section (architecture)
Social Realism
49. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Rotunda
Romanesque Cathedrals
Ionic columns
Embroidery
50. Woven wall hangings.
Tapestry
Cement
Dagyuerrotype
Describe the process of fresco