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Praxis 2 Art
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1. What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
Cement
Van Der Zee
Lotus postition
Degas and Cassett
2. The art of working raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk - cotton - gold - silver - or other material - upon any woven fabric - leather - paper - etc. - with a needle.
Michelangelo
Bas
Embroidery
Joseph Beuys
3. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Greenware
Kinetic art
African Benin Sculputure
Stoneware
4. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
CMYK
Mayan
Romantic Era
The post - and - lintel system
5. A type of modern sculpture consisting of combining multiple objects or forms - often 'found' objects.
Stoneware
Assemblage
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Tenebrism
6. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Aperture
Turpentine
megalith
William Blake
7. The capital building was built in what architectual style?
gouache
Corinthian columns
Rotunda
The Renaissance
8. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Used to protect pastel artwork
binder
Rabbit Skin Glue
Basic Elements of Sculpture
9. Emphasis - contrast - balance - harmony - rhythm - proportion - unity - and variety
Cement
Appropriation Art
Parchment
Design Principles
10. A method of painting - which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Scoring
Encaustic
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Parchment
11. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Lotus postition
Scoring
Elements of Art
12. Air - dry unfired clay
Greenware
Pumice
Esquisse
aquatint
13. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
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14. Used her life experiences into her artwork - including her marriage - her miscarriages - and her numerous operations - works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain - combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with
Gel medium
Gouache
warp
Frida Kahlo
15. Who made large portraits of friends?
scumbling
Turpentine
Croquis
David Hockney
16. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
analogous Colors
Social Realism
Van Der Zee
Julio Gonzalez
17. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
vehicle
Mississippian
Hardbrick
value
18. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Batik
slip
The post - and - lintel system
Stoneware properties
19. 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
Rough paper
Pointillism
Romantic Era
I.M. Pei
20. ...
Rembrandt
Describe the process of fresco
Charcoal pen
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
21. Eli Jacob - Jack Markow and James Turnbull - Diego Rivera - Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
Degas and Cassett
Depression era Artists
Wood and bronze
African masks
22. Similar to Ionic in size - but at the top have elaborate floral designs.
Isocephaly
Corinthian columns
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Impasto
23. What type of paper would have a raised texture?
Women artist of the 19th century
Safety glasses
Rough paper
wedging the clay
24. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Enameling
gouache
Dry Point
A black line
25. 3X 5300 pixels
gouache
modeling
best resolution in a digital photo?
Rembrandt
26. 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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27. 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.
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Frida Kahlo
chromatic gray
Film Speed
28. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
Doric columns
Enameling
Design Elements
Meyer Schapiro
29. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Linseed oil
Photogravure
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Greenware
30. Benin sculpture is in what medium?
Yarn
Wood and bronze
Hardbrick
Meyer Schapiro
31. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Rotunda
A black line
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Pastel
32. 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
the golden section (architecture)
Women artist of the 19th century
best resolution in a digital photo?
Dome
33. Gray made by mixing complements
chromatic gray
analogous Colors
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Color field painting
34. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino
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35. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Color field painting
Design Principles
Column of Trajan
warp
36. To mount a white and black photo - use...
Rice paper
Dome
Depression era Artists
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
37. Woven wall hangings.
Tapestry
Rabbit Skin Glue
Dry Point
Pop artists
38. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Rice paper
Basquiat
aquatint
Neoclassical
39. 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
Dagyuerrotype
Basic Elements of Sculpture
aquatint
40. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
Impasto
Facing forward and stiff
Sulfur
Water
41. Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'is inspired by what?
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
Depression art
African masks
42. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Julio Gonzalez
Dagyuerrotype
Charcoal pen
43. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
Social Realism
Rembrandt
Aperture
Pastel
44. Is a process similar to kneading dough - it loosens the clay circulating its moisture throughout.
Wedging
Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds
Safety glasses
Enameling
45. 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.
Joseph Beuys
Sfumato
Pastel
gesso
46. His versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man
Encaustic
Linear perspective
Michelangelo
Brushed used in oil painting
47. 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.
Printmaking Techniques
Albert Durer
Water
Dagyuerrotype
48. Stick - Compressed - charcoal pencils - powered charchoal - kneaded putty erasers
Forms of Charcoal
Pumice
Doric columns
Chiaroscuro
49. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Kinetic art
Elements of Art
Printmaking Techniques
50. Monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
Sfumato
Grisaille
Rococo
Social Realism
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