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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy
Frottage
Paint Extender
Pumice
Thomas Gainsborough
2. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Pumice
vehicle
Ionic columns
Acrylic paint
3. 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
Stoneware properties
Rococo
Color field painting artists
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
4. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid.
Tapestry
slip
Frottage
Dry Point
5. Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross - hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.
David Hockney
film speed
value
Scoring
6. A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water - soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color - poster paint.
Tempera paint
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Scoring
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
7. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Mayan
Tessera
Forms of Charcoal
A black line
8. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
A black line
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Camera Obscura
Armature
9. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Dagyuerrotype
Rabbit Skin Glue
gesso
Wood and bronze
10. 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
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Appropriation Art
Ceramic glaze
constructed the Spiral Jetty
11. 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
Depth of Field
Georgian Style
Hagia Sophia
Pointillism
12. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
Turpentine
Tapestry
Palace of Versaille
Stepped Pyramid Temples
13. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
CMYK
Crenellation
Carving Tools
Women artist of the 19th century
14. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Ceramic glaze
The Renaissance
Esquisse
Batik
15. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Safety glasses
Van Der Zee
Tenebrism
Julio Gonzalez
16. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral
three point perspective
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Gothic Cathedrals
Van Der Zee
17. Who is created with the first bronze statue since roman times?
18. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Linseed oil
Safety glasses
Color field painting
Photorealism
19. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Water
Color field painting
Column of Trajan
slip
20. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Joseph Beuys
Principle of Art
Loom
Ceramic - Sgraffito
21. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
Principle of Art
Greenware
I.M. Pei
22. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum
gouache
A black line
Loom
Tint
23. Rene Magritte
Social Realism
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Ionic columns
Brushed used in oil painting
24. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Cement
Michelangelo
Isocephaly
Parchment
25. What area was characterized by these words - Heroic - Turbulent - and poetic?
Mississippian
Romantic Era
Tapestry
Hardbrick
26. What would not be seen in a typical western water color?
Romantic Era
A black line
Principle of Art
Social Murals
27. Is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.
28. To loosen clay and circulate the moisture throughout. To remove the air
wedging the clay
Grisaille
Neoclassical
frisket
29. Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint.
Scoring
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Brown
Shade
30. A mosque.Famous in particular for its massive dome - it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Has pendentives.
Known Rodin prints
Rotunda
chromatic gray
Hagia Sophia
31. The activity of drawing a graphical representation of a design
Ionic columns
wedging the clay
Grisaille
modeling
32. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness
Tint
gouache
Camera Obscura
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
33. A steel needle for engraving on a bare copper plate without acid
Monochrome printing
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
intaglio
Tapestry
34. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Meyer Schapiro
Sulfur
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
35. 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
Basquiat
Shutter Speed
Depression era Artists
best resolution in a digital photo?
36. What do you mix with acrylic paint to make glaze?
Gel medium
Facing forward and stiff
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
Romanesque Cathedrals
37. Kandinksky - Gorky - Hoffman - Graham - Pollock - Willem de Kooning - Philip Guston
Used to protect pastel artwork
Depression era Artists
Abstract Expressionist Artists
best resolution in a digital photo?
38. Relative darkness or lightness of a color
Forms of Charcoal
value
Grisaille
Aperture
39. Chinese architect - designed Pyramide du Lourve
Designed the Barcelona chair
Social Murals
Social Realism
I.M. Pei
40. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Gel medium
Chiaroscuro
African masks
Color field painting artists
41. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
modeling
Collage
Tapestry
David Hockney
42. Soapstone - slate - sandstone - marble - limestone - granite
Environmental Art
Linseed oil
kinds of stones for stone carving
Basquiat
43. 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.
Describe the process of fresco
Film Speed
Artist Proof
Rembrandt
44. 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
Tapestry
Color field painting artists
Ceramic glaze
45. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Isocephaly
dry - brushing
Wedging
46. AP on an art product means what
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Hardbrick
Artist Proof
wedging the clay
47. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Tapestry
Acrylic paint
Japanese art and buildings
Impasto
48. Gerorges Seurat - Paul Signac - Henri Edmond Cross
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
CMYK
Artists associated with Pointillism
Impasto
49. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Printmaking Techniques
Neoclassical
Photogravure
Appropriation Art
50. Mexican murals painted in what theme?
Color field painting artists
Pointillism
Social Realism
'fat over lean'