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Praxis 2 Art
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1. What is another work for low relief?
Romantic Era
Palace of Versaille
David Hockney
Bas
2. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
Kinetic art
Safety glasses
Ceramic glaze
Crenellation
3. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Tint
Trompe - l'oil
Kinetic art
analogous Colors
4. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Lotus postition
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Camera Obscura
Paint Extender
5. Came in response to the darkness and heaviness of Baroque art - but did continue many of the ideals specified during the 17th century. Rococo related much more to decorative shapes as well as the natural and organic. Swirling shapes and asymmetrical
Albert Durer
Rococo
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Film Speed
6. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
gouache
Design Principles
The Renaissance
Trompe - l'oil
7. What type of structure is the Taj Mahal?
Baroque painting
Brown
Lotus postition
Dome
8. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
I.M. Pei
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Monochrome printing
Mayan
9. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
aquatint
Frottage
Romantic Era
Another term used for buddhist temple
10. What color do two secondary colors make?
Mayan
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
analogous Colors
Brown
11. 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.
Forms of Charcoal
Croquis
Frottage
Chiaroscuro
12. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Trompe - l'oil
Rough paper
Dagyuerrotype
Facing forward and stiff
13. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Cast concrete - modeling
Known Rodin prints
Fire clay
Artist Proof
14. Possin was a French painter in the classical style.Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego - a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right) - exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composit
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15. To make a quick sketch
Batik
Croquis
Dome
vehicle
16. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
'fat over lean'
Safety glasses
African Benin Sculputure
Hagia Sophia
17. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Tapestry
Meyer Schapiro
Assemblage
Pumice
18. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
film speed
Color field painting artists
modeling
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
19. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Rococo
Depression art
Value
Forms of Charcoal
20. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Hagia Sophia
Van Der Zee
Pointillism
value
21. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Parchment
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Value
Adena Indian habitats
22. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Design Principles
Depression art
Describe the process of fresco
Sulfur
23. Made by Gustav Eiffel - Eiffel - marks the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Liberty - iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States. French gave the US - statue of liberty
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Known Rodin prints
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Joseph Beuys
24. Anvils - Blocks - fine pliers - burnisher - files - saw - mandrels
Embroidery
Jewelry tools
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
William Blake
25. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Mayan
Tessera
The Renaissance
Corinthian columns
26. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Frida Kahlo
Meyer Schapiro
Islam art
stain glass in a cathedral
27. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
aquatint
dry - brushing
rhythm
Chiaroscuro
28. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
The Renaissance
Linseed oil
Trompe - l'oil
Dagyuerrotype
29. A dominant idea or central theme
Scoring
aquatint
Turpentine
Motif
30. 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
Tenebrism
Motif
Pointillism
Baroque painting
31. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Trompe - l'oil
Photogravure
Dagyuerrotype
Joseph Beuys
32. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Artists associated with Pointillism
Wood and bronze
Crenellation
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
33. 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.
scumbling
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Rodin
Encaustic
34. 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).
Kinetic art
Croquis
wedging the clay
Egg Tempera
35. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Equipment used in oil painting
Embroidery
Rough paper
Loom
36. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Ceramic glaze
Yarn
Romantic Era
Sulfur
37. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
kinds of stones for stone carving
chromatic gray
Degas and Cassett
Parchment
38. Pagoda
Another term used for buddhist temple
Charcoal pen
Printmaking Techniques
Gouache
39. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Principle of Art
Tessera
Egg Tempera
Rice paper
40. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Depression art
Describe the process of fresco
Paint Extender
Fire clay
41. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
chromatic gray
Pumice
Turpentine
slip
42. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Isocephaly
aquatint
Japanese art and buildings
43. Most common oil in oil paints
Mississippian
Greenware
Aperture
Linseed oil
44. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Appropriation Art
Michelangelo
Romantic Era
warp
45. 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
Enameling
Column of Trajan
Emphasis
Romanesque
46. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Design Principles
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The post - and - lintel system
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
47. 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
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Jewelry tools
Principle of Art
slip
48. A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color.
gesso
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Forms of Charcoal
Ceramic glaze
49. 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
Rococo
Tempera paint
Printmaking Techniques
50. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Shutter Speed
Aperture
Julio Gonzalez