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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. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Social Realism
Grisaille
Barabara Krugel
three point perspective
2. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Georgian Style
I.M. Pei
Rough paper
Isocephaly
3. 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.
African masks
Frida Kahlo
dry - brushing
Rodin
4. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Romanesque
Forms of Charcoal
Abstract Expressionist Artists
best resolution in a digital photo?
5. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Meyer Schapiro
Neoclassical
Rabbit Skin Glue
6. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Equipment used in oil painting
Gel medium
Gothic Cathedrals
intaglio
7. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
dry - brushing
wedging the clay
Paint Extender
Wood and bronze
8. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Ceramic glaze
Pop artists
Facing forward and stiff
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
9. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
slip
Parchment
Design Elements
Frottage
10. The tallest and thinnest of the three types of Greek columns. They tend to have scrolls at the tops.
Linseed oil
film speed
Depth of Field
Ionic columns
11. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?
Facing forward and stiff
film speed
Rice paper
Japanese art and buildings
12. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
Column of Trajan
nave
Scoring
stain glass in a cathedral
13. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Motif
frisket
Pumice
Assemblage
14. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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15. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
Parchment
Grisaille
Rotunda
16. A ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both. Ancient Ea ratio between two portions of a line in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the su
constructed the Spiral Jetty
the golden section (architecture)
Mayan
Meyer Schapiro
17. Symmetrical balance
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18. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Hagia Sophia
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Design Elements
Film Speed
19. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Corinthian columns
vehicle
Gel medium
'fat over lean'
20. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
dry - brushing
Tapestry
The Renaissance
Cement
21. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Motif
kinds of stones for stone carving
Grisaille
Mississippian
22. Huge stones
Photorealism
Parchment
Ceramic - Sgraffito
megalith
23. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Esquisse
Equipment used in oil painting
Parchment
24. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
aquatint
Meyer Schapiro
Neoclassical
Designed the Barcelona chair
25. Seen as meditative art. The use of ONE COLOR
Pointillism
Monochrome printing
Batik
Hardbrick
26. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)
Value
Enameling
Rodin
Cast concrete - modeling
27. Cyan - Magenta - Yellow - Key (blacK). This ystem is used for printing. For mixing of pigments - it is better to use the secondary colours - since they mix subtractively instead of additively.
Appropriation Art
three point perspective
CMYK
Aperture
28. Fix
Used to protect pastel artwork
'fat over lean'
Artists associated with Pointillism
Tenebrism
29. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Embroidery
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Cement
warp
30. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
CMYK
The post - and - lintel system
Designed the Barcelona chair
I.M. Pei
31. 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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32. 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.
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
balance
Known Rodin prints
Monochrome printing
33. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough
Kinetic art
Rough paper
chromatic gray
34. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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35. 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.
Aperture
The Renaissance
slip
Cement
36. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
frisket
Doric columns
Titan's key works
Chiaroscuro
37. 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?
value
Principle of Art
film speed
38. Gray made by mixing complements
chromatic gray
Frida Kahlo
Kinetic art
Column of Trajan
39. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
A black line
frisket
Color field painting artists
Color field painting
40. AP on an art product means what
Another term used for buddhist temple
Artist Proof
Rotunda
Enameling
41. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Islam art
A black line
Rice paper
Tapestry
42. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Rembrandt
Artists associated with Pointillism
Romanesque Cathedrals
Linear perspective
43. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge
Describe the process of fresco
The post - and - lintel system
Value
Charcoal pen
44. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Trompe - l'oil
Gouache
Safety glasses
the golden section (architecture)
45. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Depth of Field
dry - brushing
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Wedging
46. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Isocephaly
Stoneware
Emphasis
I.M. Pei
47. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
Rotunda
Water
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Turpentine
48. What city had the first skyscraper?
gouache
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Rococo
Column of Trajan
49. Robert Smithson
Design Elements
Romantic Era
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Environmental Art
50. Who said ' less is more'?
Jewelry tools
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Lotus postition
Doric columns