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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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1. 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.
Croquis
Aperture
rhythm
Barabara Krugel
2. 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
scumbling
Designed the Barcelona chair
Dome
William Blake
3. 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.
Albert Durer
scumbling
Stoneware
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
4. What color do two secondary colors make?
Safety glasses
Camera Obscura
binder
Brown
5. 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).
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Facing forward and stiff
Hardbrick
Film Speed
6. 3X 5300 pixels
Shutter Speed
Georgian Style
Bas
best resolution in a digital photo?
7. 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
The Renaissance
Neoclassical
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
8. 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
stain glass in a cathedral
Romanesque
Pumice
Hardbrick
9. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
scumbling
gouache
Camera Obscura
Rice paper
10. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Sulfur
The post - and - lintel system
Artists associated with Pointillism
dry - brushing
11. Huge stones
Used to protect pastel artwork
Mississippian
megalith
Abstract Expressionist Artists
12. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Tenebrism
Baroque painting
Van Der Zee
Depth of Field
13. 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.
CMYK
Titan's key works
The post - and - lintel system
Degas and Cassett
14. 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.
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Film Speed
Photorealism
The post - and - lintel system
15. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Gel medium
Assemblage
Facing forward and stiff
Grisaille
16. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.
Meyer Schapiro
best resolution in a digital photo?
Doric columns
Monochrome printing
17. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?
Depression era Artists
Enameling
Lotus postition
Stepped Pyramid Temples
18. 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
Rococo
Neoclassical
megalith
Pumice
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
Joseph Beuys
Linear perspective
Tapestry
balance
20. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Basic Elements of Sculpture
analogous Colors
Column of Trajan
Tapestry
21. Italian term meaning smoke - describing a very delicate gradation of light and shade in the modeling of figures; often ascribed to Da Vinci's work.
Tapestry
Sfumato
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Linear perspective
22. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
The Renaissance
Wood and bronze
Romantic Era
Chiaroscuro
23. Rene Magritte
Romanesque Cathedrals
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
intermediate colors
Romantic Era
24. Robert Smithson
Motif
Mayan
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Pop artists
25. Sturdier then earthenware - stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed.
Stoneware
Georgian Style
Tenebrism
Rotunda
26. White coating made of substances such as chalk - plaster - and size that is spread over a surface to make it more receptive to paint
Rough paper
best resolution in a digital photo?
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
gesso
27. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
intaglio
Column of Trajan
Value
Ceramic glaze
28. What goes horizontal across a loom?
Brown
Tapestry
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Yarn
29. Even heat distribution. super - durable - soakproof - cut resistant.
nave
Stoneware properties
Gel medium
Stoneware
30. Woodblock - Relief Printing - Lithography - Screenprinting - Intaglio - Etching - Dry Point - Photograuv
Depression art
Printmaking Techniques
Croquis
Crenellation
31. Monticello was build in what architectual style?
Neoclassical
intermediate colors
Acrylic paint
analogous Colors
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
Georgian Style
Egg Tempera
Collage
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
33. 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
Frida Kahlo
the golden section (architecture)
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Value
34. The distance between the nearest and furthest objects in a photograph that are considered to be acceptably sharp.
Greenware
Depth of Field
gouache
Gothic Cathedrals
35. 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
Monochrome printing
Appropriation Art
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Romantic Era
36. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
megalith
Water
Tapestry
Artists associated with Pointillism
37. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Paint Extender
Brown
Trompe - l'oil
Gel medium
38. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?
Column of Trajan
Pastel
Charcoal pen
Isocephaly
39. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
Adena Indian habitats
weft
Barabara Krugel
Gothic Cathedrals
40. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Georgian Style
Tessera
Armature
Albert Durer
41. AP on an art product means what
Jewelry tools
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Facing forward and stiff
Artist Proof
42. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?
Pop artists
Pastel
Color field painting artists
Mississippian
43. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Kinetic art
Hardbrick
Photogravure
A black line
44. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Meyer Schapiro
analogous Colors
Tessera
Artists associated with Pointillism
45. 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.
balance
gouache
Julio Gonzalez
Fire clay
46. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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47. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Tint
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
wedging the clay
48. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
kinds of stones for stone carving
Rough paper
Yarn
Egg Tempera
49. 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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50. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
intaglio
Women artist of the 19th century
Safety glasses
Linear perspective