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Praxis 2 Art
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1. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome
Safety glasses
weft
Known Rodin prints
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
2. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.
Isocephaly
scumbling
Film Speed
Lotus postition
3. An art and design principle concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (even) or asymmetrical (uneven) in design and proportion.
Romanesque
intaglio
balance
modeling
4. A dominant idea or central theme
Encaustic
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Motif
Mayan
5. The central area of a church
The Renaissance
Gouache
Esquisse
nave
6. 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.
scumbling
Kinetic art
Photorealism
Meyer Schapiro
7. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Parchment
Impasto
Frottage
'fat over lean'
8. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
analogous Colors
Frida Kahlo
aquatint
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
9. 3X 5300 pixels
Kinetic art
best resolution in a digital photo?
Hardbrick
Tempera paint
10. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Dry Point
Tempera paint
Rembrandt
Rococo
11. Robert Smithson
Corinthian columns
Ceramic glaze
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Tempera paint
12. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
I.M. Pei
Artist Proof
Shade
Baroque painting
13. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Assemblage
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Women artist of the 19th century
Crenellation
14. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
Ionic columns
Women artist of the 19th century
gouache
wedging the clay
15. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Basic Elements of Sculpture
A black line
Chiaroscuro
vehicle
16. 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
Color field painting artists
Gothic Cathedrals
Rice paper
17. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Romanesque
binder
Pumice
18. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Barabara Krugel
Isocephaly
Frottage
Julio Gonzalez
19. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Joseph Beuys
Trompe - l'oil
Rice paper
20. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Artists associated with Pointillism
frisket
Abstract Expressionist Artists
scumbling
21. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
scumbling
Croquis
The post - and - lintel system
gesso
22. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Pop artists
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Assemblage
Monochrome printing
23. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush
Tenebrism
Stoneware properties
Chiaroscuro
Brushed used in oil painting
24. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Frottage
Encaustic
modeling
Design Elements
25. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Titan's key works
Facing forward and stiff
Rococo
Pointillism
26. A form of painting in which tiny dots of primary - colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism - except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory - Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of b
Pointillism
Linear perspective
Cast concrete - modeling
Thomas Gainsborough
27. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Shutter Speed
Elements of Art
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Describe the process of fresco
28. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Assemblage
Ionic columns
Titan's key works
Georgian Style
29. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Japanese art and buildings
value
three point perspective
30. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Cast concrete - modeling
I.M. Pei
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
31. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
Egg Tempera
film speed
value
Dome
32. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Kinetic art
Home Insurance Building in NYC
weft
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
33. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Islam art
Grisaille
three point perspective
34. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Tenebrism
warp
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
35. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Wood and bronze
Neoclassical
Loom
Croquis
36. Gray made by mixing complements
Fire clay
Acrylic paint
chromatic gray
Basquiat
37. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Pumice
Gouache
Basquiat
Abstract Expressionist Artists
38. 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.
Tapestry
three point perspective
Tempera paint
Social Murals
39. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Rodin
Tessera
Islam art
Cement
40. 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
slip
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Baroque painting
modeling
41. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Artists associated with Pointillism
Lotus postition
the golden section (architecture)
Principle of Art
42. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Corinthian columns
Cast concrete - modeling
Yarn
Linseed oil
43. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
Adena Indian habitats
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Principle of Art
CMYK
44. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.
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45. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Adena Indian habitats
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Film Speed
Chiaroscuro
46. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Rough paper
Rococo
Hagia Sophia
Bas
47. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Photogravure
Bas
Rotunda
48. 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
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
William Blake
the golden section (architecture)
Basquiat
49. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Joseph Beuys
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Wood and bronze
Mayan
50. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Shade
Esquisse
frisket
Julio Gonzalez