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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. What color do two secondary colors make?
Tint
Forms of Charcoal
Corinthian columns
Brown
2. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
scumbling
Linear perspective
Design Principles
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
3. Air - dry unfired clay
Aperture
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Pop artists
Greenware
4. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Julio Gonzalez
Romantic Era
Lotus postition
Wood and bronze
5. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)
Abstract Expressionist Artists
African masks
Charcoal pen
Ceramic glaze
6. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
Batik
Palace of Versaille
Safety glasses
Equipment used in oil painting
7. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
Fire clay
Assemblage
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Linseed oil
8. 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.
Film Speed
Impasto
Yarn
value
9. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Brown
Depression art
Tapestry
Principle of Art
10. 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
Social Murals
nave
Stoneware properties
11. Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
Kinetic art
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
Barabara Krugel
Cement
12. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Photogravure
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
dry - brushing
Facing forward and stiff
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
Corinthian columns
Hardbrick
Hagia Sophia
14. What is another work for low relief?
Bas
Collage
African Benin Sculputure
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
15. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Turpentine
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
value
Social Murals
16. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Scoring
Van Der Zee
Appropriation Art
Julio Gonzalez
17. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Used to protect pastel artwork
aquatint
Sulfur
Hagia Sophia
18. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Thomas Gainsborough
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
19. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Tapestry
Describe the process of fresco
Designed the Barcelona chair
Gothic Cathedrals
20. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Rembrandt
slip
Design Principles
A black line
21. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Cast concrete - modeling
Depression era Artists
'fat over lean'
kinds of stones for stone carving
22. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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23. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
Pop artists
Degas and Cassett
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Romanesque
24. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Linseed oil
Safety glasses
Ionic columns
CMYK
25. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
aquatint
Turpentine
Sulfur
Elements of Art
26. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.
film speed
Mississippian
Sfumato
Adena Indian habitats
27. 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
Enameling
Tenebrism
modeling
Rococo
28. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
vehicle
wedging the clay
A black line
Adena Indian habitats
29. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?
Frida Kahlo
dry - brushing
Georgian Style
Printmaking Techniques
30. Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
Lotus postition
Social Murals
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Japanese art and buildings
31. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
aquatint
Social Realism
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Impasto
32. Statuettes were mostly used for two purposes: to incarnate a spirit of the bush - and the second was to represent a spouse from the other world 'Blolo Bla' or 'Blolo Bian'.
Romanesque Cathedrals
Croquis
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Adena Indian habitats
33. Which tribe created the Great Serpent Mound?
Jewelry tools
Adena Indian habitats
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Another term used for buddhist temple
34. Focused on religious Mannerism - which consisted of flattened forms and complex compositions.
Photogravure
Armature
The Renaissance
wedging the clay
35. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
aquatint
Design Principles
Linear perspective
Gouache
36. Gouge and chisel
Carving Tools
Social Realism
value
Women artist of the 19th century
37. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Neoclassical
Paint Extender
Dome
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
38. In art - the perception of depth in nature as enhanced by haze in the atmosphere; how the appearance of objects is altered over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object
Lotus postition
Linear perspective
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Albert Durer
39. 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
Islam art
Wood and bronze
Equipment used in oil painting
the golden section (architecture)
40. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Van Der Zee
analogous Colors
Michelangelo
41. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Equipment used in oil painting
Tessera
Parchment
42. AP on an art product means what
Motif
gesso
binder
Artist Proof
43. Neo expressionist artist - Jean - Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s - and was the first African - American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally - charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the
Stoneware
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Basquiat
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
44. When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art - that work is said to have ______. It suggests motion.
rhythm
Social Realism
Rembrandt
Rodin
45. 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
Frottage
Stoneware properties
Pointillism
scumbling
46. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
Charcoal pen
Rabbit Skin Glue
Dagyuerrotype
Stoneware
47. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Dome
Mississippian
Collage
Column of Trajan
48. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Artist Proof
Sulfur
Grisaille
Thomas Gainsborough
49. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Linseed oil
Social Murals
Armature
Isocephaly
50. Most common oil in oil paints
Embroidery
Joseph Beuys
Design Elements
Linseed oil