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Praxis 2 Art

Subjects : praxis, fine-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The least decorated of the three types of Greek columns - are 'sturdier' than Ionic - they're thicker and shorter.






2. The action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows






3. Gouge and chisel






4. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio






5. In oil painting - the technique of brushing one layer of paint on top of another in a way that reveals some of the under color.






6. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.






7. Early Greece statues had what characteristics?






8. Benin sculpture is in what medium?






9. The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase - The Knight - The Death and the devil - Melencholia - St. Jerome






10. Having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.






11. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans






12. A dominant idea or central theme






13. Method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax






14. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint






15. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?






16. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam






17. ...






18. 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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19. A large earth mound found on the Ohio river would be form what culture?






20. The principle in oil painting that suggests each layer of paint should contain more oil than the one beneath. Awareness of this concept helps ensure permanence.

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21. What Architect style was copied for American colonial architecture?






22. A measurement of film's sensitivity to light.






23. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended






24. Glass fused over metal using high tempeture (don't use nickle)






25. Opposite of shade - is the mixture of a color with white - which increases lightness






26. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?






27. What type of art/painting needs to be covered in glass or sprayed?






28. Made from oxides held in a glass matrix (silica)






29. 3X 5300 pixels






30. The art or technique of painting on a moist - plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.






31. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?






32. Salome - Punishment of Tythus - Venus of Urbino

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33. An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.






34. Describe the art is being presented: form - value - texture - line - shape - color - form.






35. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?






36. A British portrait and landscape painter.Works: The Blue Boy






37. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






38. An obsolete photographic process in which a picture made on a silver surface is sensitized with iodine; and developed by exposure to mercury vapor.






39. Palette knives - palettes - dippers - to hold turpentine/oil - easel






40. Common characteristics: flying buttress - copious amounts of stained glass windows - vast amounts of statuary - and many vaulted roofs - Rose Window - Ex. Chartres Cathedral






41. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color






42. What does the Buddha look like most of the time?






43. Analogous colors are colors next to one another on the color wheel






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.






45. AP on an art product means what






46. 4000 B.C. People used what type of architecture to build? Ex. Stonehenge






47. 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.






48. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?






49. Bright - round - flat and filbert - can be cleaned with turpentine - ferrule - metal part of brush






50. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world