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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Liquid in which pigments are suspended to form paint
Parchment
vehicle
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Shade
2. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Ionic columns
Pop artists
Turpentine
Loom
3. What is another work for low relief?
Bas
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Impasto
Tapestry
4. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Tint
Appropriation Art
intermediate colors
The Renaissance
5. 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
Mississippian
Julio Gonzalez
Rococo
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
6. Girl with a Flower Hat by Rodin - is what type of sculpture?
Cast concrete - modeling
Shutter Speed
intaglio
Water
7. Helen Frankenthaler - Mark Rothko - Clyford Still - Sam Gilliam
Color field painting artists
Hardbrick
Fire clay
Parchment
8. What color do two secondary colors make?
Emphasis
Brown
Chiaroscuro
Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
9. 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).
Principle of Art
Japanese art and buildings
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Hardbrick
10. Continuous frieze
Used to protect pastel artwork
Japanese art and buildings
Elements of Art
Column of Trajan
11. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Japanese art and buildings
Croquis
Masaccio's Holy Trinity shows what type of symmetry?
Brown
12. Watercolors are transparent - ________ is opaque
Tapestry
Gouache
Known Rodin prints
vehicle
13. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
slip
gesso
Emphasis
Gel medium
14. Made of Willow branches - which are fired.
balance
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Charcoal pen
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
15. A print resembling a watercolor - produced from a copper plate etched with nitric
Brown
aquatint
wedging the clay
Titan's key works
16. Air - dry unfired clay
Meyer Schapiro
Column of Trajan
Pointillism
Greenware
17. What invention allowed the Romans to build large space?
Social Realism
Cement
I.M. Pei
Palace of Versaille
18. 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
Albert Durer
African Benin Sculputure
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
19. A 2 dimensional art that has string - photos - and others is what?
Chiaroscuro
best resolution in a digital photo?
Linear perspective
Collage
20. The central area of a church
dry - brushing
rhythm
Enameling
nave
21. Known by its massive quality - its thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms and they are frequently of very regular - symmetrical plan so that the overall
Romanesque Cathedrals
Social Realism
Lotus postition
Meyer Schapiro
22. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
the golden section (architecture)
Frottage
Pastel
Linear perspective
23. 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.
Women artist of the 19th century
Film Speed
Rough paper
Meyer Schapiro
24. Pyramids found around Cancun would be whose?
Design Principles
nave
Mayan
Women artist of the 19th century
25. Is the medium to which paint pigment is suspended
intermediate colors
binder
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Social Murals
26. 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
Degas and Cassett
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Joseph Beuys
27. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
film speed
Esquisse
Corinthian columns
Principle of Art
28. A dominant idea or central theme
Emphasis
Motif
Turpentine
Photorealism
29. Polystyrene -Polyurethane
Environmental Art
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
Color field painting artists
Principle of Art
30. 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
Frida Kahlo
Grisaille
Shutter Speed
Design Elements
31. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Loom
Tint
Islam art
Basic Elements of Sculpture
32. Rene Magritte
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Gouache
Donatello's 'David' - a free standing statue
The post - and - lintel system
33. Line - shape - form - color - value - texture - and space
I.M. Pei
Acrylic paint
Cast concrete - modeling
Design Elements
34. Art - as sculptural constructions - having movable parts activated by motor - wind - hand pressure - or other direct means.
Doric columns
Loom
Tint
Kinetic art
35. Is an optical device used - for example - in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography.
Camera Obscura
slip
Brown
Safety glasses
36. (mid 1800s) As a reactionagainst the mass - produced goods of the Industrial Revolution
David Hockney
analogous Colors
Parchment
Why arts and crafts movement started in English education
37. Robert Smithson
Gothic Cathedrals
Basquiat
Collage
constructed the Spiral Jetty
38. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Tapestry
Stoneware
Fire clay
best resolution in a digital photo?
39. What can be added to a plaster Paris to reduce density?
Pumice
Baroque painting
dry - brushing
Environmental Art
40. A style of abstract painting in which dominates form and texture.
Batik
Sulfur
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Color field painting
41. Who made large portraits of friends?
three point perspective
Stepped Pyramid Temples
Chiaroscuro
David Hockney
42. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
stain glass in a cathedral
The post - and - lintel system
I.M. Pei
Tapestry
43. Head sculpture - use of metal and negative space
chromatic gray
Julio Gonzalez
Impasto
Tessera
44. One of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
Tapestry
Loom
Tessera
Corinthian columns
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
William Blake
the golden section (architecture)
Artist Proof
Pointillism
46. 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.
Sfumato
Film Speed
Abstract Expressionist Artists
Jewelry tools
47. In weaving - the thin threads that are actually woven
Meyer Schapiro
I.M. Pei
weft
Islam art
48. Among the more prominent characteristics of his work are his use of chiaroscuro - the theatrical employment of light and shadow derived from Caravaggio
slip
Linseed oil
Pastel
Rembrandt
49. Is the traditional size for fabric support on panels. It seals porous fabric and isolates it from ground or oil paints.
Printmaking Techniques
Rabbit Skin Glue
'fat over lean'
Tapestry
50. 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.
Tenebrism
CMYK
Design Elements
Hardbrick