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Praxis 2 Art
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praxis
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fine-arts
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1. The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
balance
Depression era Artists
Esquisse
Two main types of of foam plastics for sculpture
2. What art historian/collector was responsible for their success of Pollock/Kandinksy?
Frottage
A black line
Ceramic - Sgraffito
Meyer Schapiro
3. 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.
Embroidery
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
scumbling
Rice paper
4. 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.
Equipment used in oil painting
Aperture
Safety glasses
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
5. When using a hand saw what safety should you use?
Rococo
Safety glasses
Dagyuerrotype
Monochrome printing
6. What city had the first skyscraper?
Neoclassical
I.M. Pei
Home Insurance Building in NYC
the golden section (architecture)
7. Mass - Space - Plane - Line - Movement - Scale - Texture - Color
Egg Tempera
Rabbit Skin Glue
Basic Elements of Sculpture
Pastel
8. Appropriation art borrows common images from advertising - the mass media and elsewhere - places them in new contexts Example: Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans
Appropriation Art
Artist Proof
Fire clay
Georgian Style
9. Huge stones
Motif
gouache
megalith
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
10. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie house was influenced by what style?
Depression era Artists
Gothic Cathedrals
Japanese art and buildings
Gel medium
11. Only a single point of a volume is closest to the viewer - and all planes seem to recede to one of three vanishing points
Romanesque
three point perspective
Pointillism
Rembrandt
12. Fix
Jewelry tools
Photorealism
Pumice
Used to protect pastel artwork
13. Painter and printmaker of Romantism.Held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity - and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Works: The Song of Los - The Lovers Whirlwind - Ancient of Days
William Blake
Scoring
Thomas Gainsborough
balance
14. A dominant idea or central theme
CMYK
Motif
Albert Durer
Tenebrism
15. What color do two secondary colors make?
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Brown
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Depth of Field
16. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
Collage
Tapestry
Safety glasses
Design Principles
17. Paint thinner and brush cleaner
African Benin Sculputure
Turpentine
Tapestry
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
18. Gouge and chisel
three point perspective
Depth of Field
Carving Tools
megalith
19. Rothko - Warhol and Litchenstein
Lotus postition
Pop artists
Artist Proof
Fire clay
20. AP on an art product means what
Artist Proof
Tapestry
Ionic columns
Color field painting artists
21. A skeletal framework built as a support on which a clay - wax - or plaster figure is constructed.
Gel medium
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
vehicle
Armature
22. 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
Ceramic glaze
chromatic gray
Romanesque Cathedrals
Film Speed
23. 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.
Embroidery
The Renaissance
Egg Tempera
Stoneware properties
24. Is used to stop paper from absorbing paint in water based painting
Fire clay
Color field painting
frisket
slip
25. Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
Van Der Zee
Michelangelo
Insulating firebrick;IFB; Softbrick
Rococo
26. Considers the impact of the work: movement - unity - variety - balance - emphasis - contrast - proportion - and pattern.
Linseed oil
Principle of Art
Depression era Artists
Esquisse
27. Known for stone. The term was invented by 19th century art historians - especially for Romanesque architecture - which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style - most notably round - headed arches - but also barrel vaults - apses - a
Value
Romanesque
weft
Islam art
28. Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork
Romanesque
Emphasis
Photogravure
Baroque painting
29. An image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in.
Ceramic glaze
Photogravure
Romanesque Cathedrals
Armature
30. 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
A black line
Rococo
Georgian Style
Film Speed
31. Product that extends the drying time - and paint.
Paint Extender
warp
frisket
Designed the Barcelona chair
32. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
gouache
Loom
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Corinthian columns
33. Air - dry unfired clay
Greenware
African Baule Spirit Spouse Figures
Van Der Zee
Hagia Sophia
34. Mies Van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich)
Rembrandt
Designed the Barcelona chair
Islam art
A black line
35. Art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world
Environmental Art
Van Der Zee
Chiaroscuro
Photorealism
36. What kind of paper is used in the Book of Kells?
Parchment
Tempera paint
chromatic gray
Pastel
37. 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.
Barabara Krugel
Georgian Style
Albert Durer
Linear perspective
38. What kind of harmful stubstance does Printmaking Plastalina have?
analogous Colors
Water
African masks
Sulfur
39. Woven wall hangings.
Fire clay
Elements of Art
aquatint
Tapestry
40. Rocks - pebbles etc - 'a hole can it self have as much shape meaning as a solid mass. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other - making it immediately more three - dimensional. A hole can i
Crenellation
Known Rodin prints
Gel medium
Henry Moore (Sculptor) used this for inspiratio?
41. What is another work for low relief?
Corinthian columns
Printmaking Techniques
Bas
Ceramic glaze
42. Pagoda
Aperture
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
Ceramic glaze
Another term used for buddhist temple
43. Rene Magritte
slip
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
constructed the Spiral Jetty
Surrealist known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale
44. 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
Romantic Era
Atmospheric/Aerial perspective
Van Der Zee
45. Jan Vermeer - Canaletto - Guardi - and Paul Sandby
Artists who used Vamera Obscura
Hardbrick
Pointillism
Brushed used in oil painting
46. Highly refractory secondary clays with minimal fluxes and usually fairly coarse particle size - Low shrinkage - buff - color - often non - plastic.
rhythm
What Eiffel Tower and the Statue of liberty have in common
Water
Fire clay
47. A school - style - or method of painting - adopted chiefly by 17th - century Spanish and Neapolitan painters - esp Caravaggio - characterized by large areas of dark colours - usually relieved with a shaft of ligh
Tenebrism
weft
Forms of Charcoal
binder
48. 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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49. A luxury item - and used by the Early Christian artist for allegorical purposes.
weft
Pop artists
stain glass in a cathedral
warp
50. A slip is a suspension in water of clay and/or other materials used in the production of ceramic ware
Motif
slip
Home Insurance Building in NYC
Artist Proof